I'm not sure it's fair to be having a flame war without having invited me...
;-} --Doug On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 8:15 AM, Nicholas Thompson < [email protected]> wrote: > 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".) > > > >
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