Cut to the chase, man - did they get to see Hockney, and if so what did he say? I suspect he'd consider it a waste of time.
B > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Doug Brewer > Sent: 24 August 2012 02:13 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: When you can do it by hand ... > > This discussion reminds me of "Waiting for Hockney." I caught it on > Netflix a while back. > > http://www.waitingforhockney.com/ takes you to the site for info. > > Dougbrewer.posterous.com > > On Aug 23, 2012, at 6:56 PM, "Bob W" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > it keeps the sun off my baldy bits, and when Pentax bring out a > proper > > camera I won't have to eat it. > > > > Read some of the reactions to that picture and you'd think the person > > who did it was the risen Leonardo, but being able to copy someone > > else's picture is not much of an achievement in my opinion. It's a > > good copy, and very clever, but it's still only a copy and it has > nothing to say for itself. > > > > This, on the other hand, is The Real Thing: > > <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19349921> > > > > B > > > >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > >> Of Bob Sullivan > >> > >> Got the old curmudgeon hat on again have we Bob? > >> > >> On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > >>>> Behalf Of Collin Brendemuehl > >>>> > >>>> ... who needs a camera! > >>>> > >>> > >>> somebody does, since they're drawings of photographs. > >>> > >>>> http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/stunning-drawing-russian- > girl- > >> no > >>>> t- > >>>> photograph-170243830.html > >>>> > >>> > >>> Studio practice has for centuries included students and apprentices > >>> making faithful copies of master drawings and other works - this is > >> no > >>> different other than the thing they're copying. Any > >>> academically-trained artist could do it. Being a good copyist is a > >> long way from being a good artist. > >>> > >>> B > > > > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above > and follow the directions. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
