Lee > In this case, though, Nick, is it supposed to be > "funny" or is it supposed to be "art"?
You know, now that you mention it, I wanted to ask that very question but was too shy. Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology, Clark University ([email protected]) http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ http://www.cusf.org [City University of Santa Fe] > [Original Message] > From: <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> > Date: 4/9/2010 4:48:30 AM > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Note re Pixel video > > Nick to Vic: > > > 911 still too raw for me to take pancaking > > buildings as any part of funny. > > I never follow up unexplained links to videos, > partly because with my slow connection all videos > load painfully slowly, mostly because I disapprove > of moving pictures in general (1. push media::BAD; > 2. we aren't evolved to resist videos' inevitable extra > baggage, 3. if anything, we're evolved to far too > easily be sucked in by their extra baggage, 4... > I can rant on indefinitely, but won't now). > So I'm always glad when someone, even if not > the original poster, does explain--in words-- > WTF a profferred video link purports to be (other > than, essentially always unstated by the poster > even when smugly admitted by the videomaker [e.g., > in cases of explicit advertisements], some kind > of mindfuck--oops, there I go ranting again). > > In this case, though, Nick, is it supposed to be > "funny" or is it supposed to be "art"? Karl-Heinz > Stockhausen voted "art" for the original show > (specifically, I guess, "performance art"), > remember? (If you don't remember, go look it up, > it will be good for you, even if you didn't spend > far too many hours in the late 1960s listening to > Karl-Heinz's "Gesang Der Junglinge".) ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
