Re: Bra
On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 04:05:22PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: This counts as art rather than debauchery? On the basis that debauchery is frowned on at social meetings? /me smells a what is art? debate coming on... Marcel -- We are Perl. Your table will be assimilated. Your waiter will adapt to service us. Surrender your beer. Resistance is futile. -- London.pm strategy aka embrace and extend aka mark and sweep
Re: Bra
On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 11:55:39PM +1000, Andrew Savige wrote: Victoria Bra, Secret Tango (2003) = L.A.B. Brocard 1976- This, the third work in Brocard's acclaimed Orange sequence, [deletia] This work is extremely fragile. Please do not touch. Magnificent. Are you for hire as an art critic? :) (Assuming you didn't generate this with some Parse::RecDescent grammar. In which case I'd like a copy of said grammar...) Marcel -- We are Perl. Your table will be assimilated. Your waiter will adapt to service us. Surrender your beer. Resistance is futile. -- London.pm strategy aka embrace and extend aka mark and sweep
Re: Bra
This counts as art rather than debauchery? On the basis that debauchery is frowned on at social meetings? /me smells a what is art? debate coming on... /me farts in order to mask any such smell before things get out of hand. -- Sam Vilain, [EMAIL PROTECTED] A seeming ignorance is often a most necessary part of worldly knowledge. - anon.
Re: Bra
On Friday, August 15, 2003, at 04:42 pm, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote: Nicholas Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] quoth: * *This counts as art rather than debauchery? On the basis that debauchery *is frowned on at social meetings? * *Anyway, this seems unlikely, given Leon's previous insistence that he *won't be wearing it. Gads, given the choice, I'd almost rather have photos of you all wearing it on your head Animal House style just to get it over with :) It'd be a fitting addition to the toilet seat around the neck series Come now, who would be silly enough to do something like that? -Steve
Re: Bra
dha wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 10:26:18AM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote: The goods have indeed arrived. I will not take any photos of it. I may bring[1] it to the next social. It is a black Victoria's Secret bra. And will you be bringing it on tour for those of us not in the london area? I'm sure MoMA would be happy to put in a temporary exhibit. :-) dha, if you can organise a secluded orange-walled room at the museum, Leon can simply walk in, toss the bra in the air and leave in his wake a wonderful contemporary site-specific art exhibit, for which I have prepared the following description. Victoria Bra, Secret Tango (2003) = L.A.B. Brocard 1976- This, the third work in Brocard's acclaimed Orange sequence, explodes the theme of semantic [a]chromatic aspects of visual perception first explored in his highly successful Buffy series, and fully explores the concept of supporting relationships, which were touched on in his earlier works. The site's central artifact is a stark reminder of the lack of support in contemporary relationships, with the jumbled juxtaposition of its two cups, indicative of being discarded in a hurry, symbolizing the excessive rapidity and tautness of modern life. As always with Brocard, it is vital to consider the intertextuality of the title of the work, in order to deconstruct the surface meaning of the work itself and penetrate, as it were, to the kernel of the work's meaning, if such a concept is still relevant in the present context. Consider, for example, the word Victoria: does it express the moniker of the bra's former occupant or merely the state or district in which she was born? And what of Secret Tango? Is it, in the context of the universe that is the present work, merely indicative of the site's location and visual perception, or does it suggest the bra's former resident once furtively enjoyed a rhythmic dance of long gliding steps and sudden pauses with the artist? The viewer will no doubt at this point recall that the word tango rhymes with mango and thereby grasp the semantic thrust of the work's title. However, the installation itself has even more to reveal when the particularly observant viewer speculates on the site's central device being strapped to the bra's current owner. This work is extremely fragile. Please do not touch. /-\ http://search.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Search - Looking for more? Try the new Yahoo! Search
Re: Bra
On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Leon Brocard wrote: The goods have indeed arrived. I will not take any photos of it. I may bring[1] it to the next social. It is a black Victoria's Secret bra. I'd be *more* than happy to take photographs of you modelling the bra, so as to let those who can't make it to the social join in the fun. ;) Marna
Re: Bra
On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 03:57:58PM +0100, Marna Gilligan wrote: On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Leon Brocard wrote: The goods have indeed arrived. I will not take any photos of it. I may bring[1] it to the next social. It is a black Victoria's Secret bra. I'd be *more* than happy to take photographs of you modelling the bra, so as to let those who can't make it to the social join in the fun. ;) This counts as art rather than debauchery? On the basis that debauchery is frowned on at social meetings? Anyway, this seems unlikely, given Leon's previous insistence that he won't be wearing it. Nicholas Clark
Re: Bra
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Nicholas Clark wrote: This counts as art rather than debauchery? On the basis that debauchery is frowned on at social meetings? Anyway, this seems unlikely, given Leon's previous insistence that he won't be wearing it. Count the number of people who pat him on the back at the meeting just to check ;) Jason Clifford -- UKFSN.ORG Finance Free Software while you surf the 'net http://www.ukfsn.org/ ADSL Broadband available now
Re: Bra
Nicholas Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] quoth: * *This counts as art rather than debauchery? On the basis that debauchery *is frowned on at social meetings? * *Anyway, this seems unlikely, given Leon's previous insistence that he *won't be wearing it. Gads, given the choice, I'd almost rather have photos of you all wearing it on your head Animal House style just to get it over with :) It'd be a fitting addition to the toilet seat around the neck series e.
Re: Bra
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Ali Young wrote: and the number of people who try to ping his bra strap [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ ping bra-strap.leon ping: unknown host bra-strap.leon Jason -- UKFSN.ORG Finance Free Software while you surf the 'net http://www.ukfsn.org/ ADSL Broadband available now
Re: Bra
* Elaine -HFB- Ashton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Gads, given the choice, I'd almost rather have photos of you all wearing it on your head Animal House style just to get it over with :) It'd be a fitting addition to the toilet seat around the neck series Last time you made a wise crack like that you ended up auction your bra, be careful what you suggest this time ;-) Greg p.s. also weird science style -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.org.uk/~gem/ jabber://[EMAIL PROTECTED] msn://[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bra
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 10:26:18AM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote: Andrew Savige sent the following bits through the ether: Just wondering if Leon has yet received delivery of the goods he successfully bid for at the YAPC::Europe auction. I'm eager to see any photos of said goods (just for my ascii art collection, you see). The goods have indeed arrived. I will not take any photos of it. I may bring[1] it to the next social. And will you be bringing it on tour for those of us not in the london area? I'm sure MoMA would be happy to put in a temporary exhibit. :-) dha -- David H. Adler - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ Freedom ain't nothing but a word, ain't nothing but a word. Let me see your ID. - Gil Scott-Heron, Johannesburg
Re: Bra
Andrew Savige sent the following bits through the ether: Just wondering if Leon has yet received delivery of the goods he successfully bid for at the YAPC::Europe auction. I'm eager to see any photos of said goods (just for my ascii art collection, you see). The goods have indeed arrived. I will not take any photos of it. I may bring[1] it to the next social. It is a black Victoria's Secret bra. Leon [1] not wear -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ ... With a rubber duck, one's never alone
