I was taught, and believe from my own experience, that people who use such words do so because they are too lazy or not sufficiently informed to choose the words which properly express their feelings. If someone hits his thumb with a hammer whilst trying to join something with nails and exclaims 'shit' I don't believe that he has intended to tell the world that he smells bad and has to go and change his pants, nor that he expects his audience to make urgent visits to the bathroom, toilet or comfort station to relieve themselves of solid waste material. Even if the intention in using an expletive is to shock, overuse defeats the object of the exercise.
In a forum where criticism can be expected we cannot be governed by the nursery rule 'if you can't say anything nice don't say anything at all' but surely we should all be able to expect that whatever is said, or written is written nicely in both its senses - polite and accurate.
Michael in Norwich
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Just wondering, too: Why are quite a few on this list so touchy-feely? If one of my comments or pictures sounds or looks like s%$# and someone tells me exactly that? That’s what it is all about. And quotes from artists around the world? If they are long-winded but maybe still interesting for some of us? So? Where’s the beef? If you don’t like them - don’t read them.
Klaus
On Oct 16, 2014, at 10:37 AM, Jan Faul <jan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Far be it for me to tell you how to see photography, but most of us here art trying to make art and art provides a broad spectrum of _expression_. As this forum has recently been hit with waves of emptiness as we ALL know about how to go about making an image on an iPhone or a Samsung device (point & click), from time to time I post articles or collections of articles gleaned from another source at RIT. I wrote none of those articles, and as I see them they are not actually articles at all.
As to obscenities, if you don’t like the way America is going, move to another culture where the obscenities may be in a language you do not comprehend. “Obscenities” are all over US TV now, so perhaps moving to the UK and only watching the children’s channel on BBC is the answer. Barring that, perhaps cutting the cord and getting rid of the internet would be the way to go, as the obscenity-filled porn industry is pervasive.
On Oct 16, 2014, at 5:05 AM, Dan Mitchell <danmdan3842@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:I'm having difficulty in seeing what all this about ART has to do with the PHOTOGRAPHIC purpose of this forum. And we could do without the obscenities, please.
Dan.
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