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Re: The pseudo-intellectual ramblings of a cool-guy wanna-be.
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lugnet.general
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Mon, 6 Jun 2005 18:27:10 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Leonard Hoffman wrote:
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In lugnet.general, Samarth Moray wrote:
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In lugnet.general, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
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Art is in the eye of the beholder. If a piece does the things that art is
supposed to do (instill emotion, make one think, make one wonder) it’s art.
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Actually you can go further from this premise. I have interesting thoughts
going through my mind while sitting in a train for example. Would you count
the scenery I see passing by as art? It’s about as good as implying
EVERYTHING around us is art. (1)
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The original definition of Art is that it is man-made. Specifically, it
seperates the world of human made objects (Art) from non-human made objects
(Nature). I’d say that any definition of art has to include some
manipulation by humans(1) - if even the digitial recording of nature
(photographs).
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I think it’s commonly accepted that good photography requires skill
(composition, framing, choice of speed and exposure) and that the result can be
art.
Just looking out the window at nature isn’t. However I’d say that the trestle
you go across and the train you ride in are, possibly, art. Certainly Raymond
Loewy thought so and the GG1 is widely regarded as a work of art (not just
because it’s mechanically good, but because of how it LOOKS)
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2 - conversely this is why I’m down on 8 wide and on Miniland scale (if
only in fun)... they both lift the limits that others deal with, and in a
sense, are a cheat. (not that it’s wrong, if it feels good, do it...)
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I’ve been increasingly interested in Miniland scale for the possibilities it
opens in terms of detail. However, I’m more drawn towards the figures of
Miniland, like how Felix uses them, or MisaQa’s angels. I feel that using minifigs for human figures is kinda
cheating - making them out of bricks is more difficult, and therefore more
“pure.”
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This is, I believe, what they call “being hoist by one’s own petard”... Good one
Lenny, you got me.
But I disagree anyway, the figures aren’t as important to me (at minifig scale)
as what they are emplaced within.
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