P3D Re: PHOTO-3D digest 3520

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> Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 19:45:48 -0400 (EDT)
> From: markaren@xxxxxxxxx (Karen Obusek)
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> Subject: P3D Bruce is Born To Run
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> Amen brother Bruce Springsteen!! If you don't have to work for it,
> should it hold value? For whom? In the old days a photograph was admired
> with accolades like " he nailed that shot!! What genius!" Nowadays the
> admiration is likely to be directed toward the hardware.." What camera
> took that shot!?" The metering system was right on!" So many expressive
> creations are now interpolated by machines....how sad! The musician who
> uses midi, racks of effects to sound like 3 instruments, develop chords
> from a single note....how sad! Using computers to convert a mundane idea
> into a Monet...how sad! I had to redefine my appreciation for acceptable
> art, and that is, to admire works created innately ( and in real time in
> most cases) from talented people using their equipment as an
> extrapolation of their minds/bodies creation, and whereas the same
> equipment would produce little reward in the hands of other less
> talented individuals. I'm referring to a paint brush and canvas, a
> manual camera, a guitar,delay pedal, and marshall amp ( in that order) A
> football,basketball,frisbee....a tablet,pencil, and theme etc. Show me
> NOW what you can do! I'll stand next to Dr.T as he composes with a
> Realist, put a guitar in your hands, write a short story in one hour,
> paint something...I'll watch. Score a TD with 30 sec. left in the game.
> Do a triple axle on the ice as you spin that petite girl over your head,
> And to prove you are talented.....do it again! Everything else is bull!
> Throw an egg at a window, pul the window out of the frame and hang it in
> a museum and you've got expressionalist art!! You've got to be kidding!!
> Learn a computer program and you're an artist? I don't think so.....
> Mark Dottle

YES! YES! QUITE! HERE, HERE!!  "Rap Music" is an OXYMORON!!!!!!!!!!!!
Appreciatively,
Steven Lederman
Musician, Acoustic Percussionist..