arcaic wrote:"I really like it. Even though it has got lots of problems it's pretty hard to capture a cat on a car in the side mirror. But it can't be enter."
Don't understand the 'But it can't be enter." - What I do wrong?
Andy
arcaic wrote:
Pretty terrible really, out of focus, didn't even clean the wing mirror but it's a start!
Andy
I think you know. But major thanks for entering.
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....I'm the BEST thing that has ever happened to ME............I think therefore I'm a Yam.
Meow often expresses himself oddly (e.g. the infamous "do you think a pooh in a friends house is?"). You grow accustomed to deciphering it through exposure.
I don't think he means by "but it can't be enter" that it's not a perfectly good and valid entry for the competition in any way. He just means that, because of those "lot of problems" he mentioned - slightly out of focus, the dirt on the mirror is distracting, the sky's blown out behind the cat, etc. - he can't, in good conscience, put it on the winners' shortlist for voting.
It's a good entry. If only it wasn't for the few aforementioned problems, which are unfortunately letting it down, then I'd say that - without wanting to, of course, pre-empt the judgement of my fellow voters - in terms of subject matter, you had a potential winner there otherwise. It's the execution, regrettably, that prevents it being a very good entry indeed.
And I think that's exactly why Meow has picked it out there and made those comments. He liked it. He really liked it. As do I.
But it's been unfortunately let down in the execution. Being a bit out of focus and having that dirt on the mirror is, unfortunately, just a bit too distracting to be overlooked (remembering that this is a competition, so you do have to be fair to all the competitors).
But Meow often talks funny, it's true, so he says that like "But it can't be enter". I'm pretty sure, though, that this is what he meant.
Edit - Ah, he replied himself while I was typing this. Okay, never mind. It should all be clear by now, I hope.
"Words ought to be a little wild - for they are assaults of thought on the unthinking."
- John Maynard Keynes
KlaxonCow wrote: But Meow often talks funny, it's true, so he says that like "But it can't be enter". I'm pretty sure, though, that this is what he meant.
Yes. Exactly.
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....I'm the BEST thing that has ever happened to ME............I think therefore I'm a Yam.
I didn't realise that the quoted list from Meow in Riks post was the short list.
I thought Meow meant it couldn't be entered for some reason.
Not making the short list is fine with me, I'd have been embarrassed if it had.
I had just been going to go out in the car when Ziggy jumped up on the roof and peered over the windscreen. I suddenly remembered the comp and fumbled to get my phone out of my jeans, tried to get out of the car without him clearing off and pretty much ended up with one foot in the car, one knee on the ground and a bruise on my elbow. Surprised I got anything at all really.
arcaic wrote:Not making the short list is fine with me, I'd have been embarrassed if it had.
Phhh. Nonsense.
I would have voted for it.
It's a non-ironic work that explores how a shitload of nested golden ratios might not only evoke the cold geometric principles of Aesthetics itself (just try to see them and you'll not be able afterwards to NOT see them anymore) - but at the same time thwarts them by citing the old eastern metaphysics of "dust on a mirror". What a totally obvious, simple and - at the same time - clever thing to do. An then, when everything hovers in entire, perfect ironic/non-ironic tension/balance: a cat. Total dialectics. Uttermost genius.
This here, my dear fellow hobby photographers, is well beyond our own usual amateurish scope.
This is the one fit for the White Cube.
This is art.
"It can't be enter..."
Philistine.
This one has my vote.
>take off sunglasses
Seamen and fishermen alike swear to have heard voices in the rising tide. Inhuman screams, some of them say.
GoatFoam wrote:Next up: Dvoraks review of some vogon poetry.
Ah, you've heard already about my monograph in 12 volumes on this fascinating topic?
In which I link it to current trends in ant-farming, liver donation, and side mirror photography?
Still looking for a publisher, though.
>take off sunglasses
Seamen and fishermen alike swear to have heard voices in the rising tide. Inhuman screams, some of them say.
But major thanks for entering.
