They also occasionally cover fashion. :-)

Incidentally, at my local Shaw's, a box of ten Machuran beef ramen packets has risen almost a dollar in the last three months (from $2 to $2.85). Still cheap, but not as cheap as I'd gotten used to.

I once made cold sesame ramen noodles. A bit of creamy peanut butter, hot sesame oil, sesame seeds.

You see, the Dutch word for "windows" is "ramen".

Never understood the Shepherd Fairey hate.

certain segment of the population seem to believe that if you use photographs, it's cheating. which should have gone out with... the first artist to use a photograph, in my opinion.

if tracing off a photograph is "just copying," then anyone should be able to get the same results if they have the same source & tools at their disposal. which that page disproves delightfully well.

I haven't been a graduate student for a while now, and yet the 'free food' urge has never left me. Kind of like my student loans....

This is just to say

I have replaced
the hand towels
that were in
the bathroom

and which
you thought were
plush
and washable

Forgive me
I did not notice
I don't
wash my hands

Friends for sixty years and still going strong. Ya gotta love it.

That segment of the population seems to forget that a lot of the great art of the Renaissance was created with techniques like tracing the screen of a camera obscura. It's the result that counts.

I have written all possible
William Carlos Williams poems
that could be in Borges' library,

and which you thought you'd
write when you got around to it.

Forgive me,
He is stone cold
and can't do
anything about it.

(Oops, I just noticed that the link is in the sidebar, not this thread. Forgive the digression.)

I may have picked a bad example, but the point I was trying to make is that all art is a bag of tricks (or several bags), and trying to say one trick is legitimate and another is not isn't either very reasonable or especially useful. What matters is what the art communicates to the viewer, not how the artist created it.

but the point I was trying to make is that all art is a bag of tricks (or several bags), and trying to say one trick is legitimate and another is not isn't either very reasonable or especially useful. What matters is what the art communicates to the viewer, not how the artist created it.

hear, hear.

This Is Just To Say

I have written
the space opera trilogy
that is now
in bookshops

and that
you will
probably
find yourself reading at some point

forgive me
the plot is a little
implausible
but oo the characterisation

This Is Just To Say

I have forgotten
To bring the tin opener
Which I left
On the kitchen table

And which we
Were probably
Relying on
To enable us to eat

Forgive me
I was distracted
By H
(Or, possibly, the dog Montmorency)

The other thing I see is that the many paintings of the "virgin in a room" type almost uniformly exhibit the classic error of beginning one-point perspective. To start with, if a camera was involved, he had to have used the view camera trick of shifting the image plane to achieve parallelism. I don't know that they knew about that back then, but in any case the strictly rectangular shape of the back walls argues for construction rather than tracing. But beyond that, the shape of the room is wrong. I did this sort of painting myself back in high school, and he has done what I did, except not with such exaggeration. The shape of the space has been flattened, so that the walls and floor and ceiling appear to slope away from the viewer a bit. When looking with the eye alone, the tendency is to put more of the periphery into the picture than a camera would actually see; to maintain the perspective, the viewpoint shifts further away, but the sides of the box are then twisted so as to shrink the back wall. A camera clips all this stuff out; or if moved farther away, it shows more of the sides, but tilts the distant portion of them even more. It does seem to me that the patron portraits in these paintings were done separately at some stage and then applied to the painting (a practice supported by the drawing/painting pair). They seem in some sense very "accurate", but they don't fit into the perspective of the room.

I have eaten
the peyote
and pissed on
the dog

and now
I can no longer
return
to Ixtlan.

Believe me
like don Juan I am
become
a warrior.

I have signed
the letters
that were in
my in tray

With the name
"Washington Irving"
(or occasionally
"Irving Washington").

Forgive me
I am not coping
well
with my promotion

--- Major Carlos Major

This is just to say

I have grown tired
of the parodies
of that dratted
little poem,

which you
most probably
thought so refined
and enjoyable.

Forgive me
the were boring me
far past the point
of tears.

which leaves
only another eighty
squatting
on my desk

Forgive me
I am now going
a little bit
bonkers

--- Fragano Carlos Ledgister

Frgv m
ddn't rlz y hd nygthng lft t sy.

Unfortunately, the newspaper moved a couple of articles describing the winning entries, from a public archive to another location requiring a payment to view them. All the links I've found via Google point to the original archive article, and are now broken.

The first link above in the article announcing the competition shows a few examples written by University of Rochester students*; ultimately, the winning entry had been written by a fourth-grader.

*
1) This Is Just To Say

I knew you
were going to
eat the plums
that were in
the icebox.

You always do.

So I took it
as an opportunity
and poisoned them.

2) Everything gets
turned into a poem
with you.

I couldn't
take it anymore.

Try writing
about that.

a cold white
icebox

open with
plum stems

beside a note
"sorry".

Ah, here is a google-cached page for the article describing some of the winning entries.

Hmm, my subconscious seems to be trying to tell me that the poet was really William William Williams III, formerly a meteor miner who was actually a cover identity for Kimball Kinnison. Either that or I've been listening to too many of Rev. Spooner's sermons.