What are you wearing today?

[Sombre]

^Eternal, are you in NY now? That looks like the Grand Street store.

you are right, waywt is fiction. so in this fictional space that people control (ie they put up their uncomfortable / comfortable photo) it is up to the person who chooses to be involved to be able to wrestle with the parameters, unwritten rules, and language of the space.

and the feelings that people get about the subject of a photo are actually very real.

I know the feelings are real, but they're not always accurate. For example, when people analyze fiction, they say the author/artist was trying to achieve X, when the author's/artist's intention may not have been remotely close to that. Reactions to WAYWT photos are the same. Those real feelings are sometimes off the mark. It's a warped form of synecdoche, whereby what can be gleaned from one photo of a person is suddenly taken to be representative of the person's entire character.

EDIT: I re-read my previous post and see how it could have been misleading. I didn't mean that people's feelings are false, just that they're not necessarily based on the truth, and consequently, could be unfairly manifested, which (hopefully) is what the paragraph above says.

[BeauIXI]

^^It's all about instant gratification. You can't buy your personal style. You gotta find it like everyone else....then buy it.

Merz, I'm exactly the same way.. Plus I just can't be bothered.

[philip nod]

^Eternal, are you in NY now? That looks like the Grand Street store.



For example, when people analyze fiction, they say the author/artist was trying to achieve X, when the author's/artist's intention may not have been remotely close to that. Reactions to WAYWT photos are the same. Those real feelings are sometimes off the mark. It's a warped form of synecdoche, whereby what can be gleaned from one photo of a person is suddenly taken to be representative of the person's entire character.

yes, this is how the media functions. and facebook. and art. and everything in the world.
at least we can gleam for eternal's photo that YY is doing well and fine in nyc. looks like a grand renovation is about to happen

[BeauIXI]

The photo's author and subject dies once he or she hotlinks and posts.

[mrbeuys]

...looks like a grand renovation is about to happen

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

[philip nod]

debt and reality are two brothers that survive all wars

[mike]

Sorry to break up the discussion. I had to go back to make a last visit to a momentum of the era I was too young to be a part of, but there is still a lot to be discovered from it, at least for me.

http://i656.photobucket.com/albums/u...m/IMG_1339.jpg

man you have some terrible posture. always spoils the fits.

[diamonds]

he's assymetrical

[Faust]

The photo's author and subject dies once he or she hotlinks and posts.

Preach it, Roland

[Faust]

shit, eternal, beat me to it! anyway, i'm still going to do it.

[BeauIXI]

Preach it, Roland

Caught again! So maybe I'm really into it, okay?

[Sombre]

yes, this is how the media functions. and facebook. and art. and everything in the world.
at least we can gleam for eternal's photo that YY is doing well and fine in nyc. looks like a grand renovation is about to happen

I had left right before you posted this, but I still have to comment. That was hilarious. And the perfect hyperbole.

On a related note, if enough people claim a tree fell in the forest, can that collective claim alone make the tree fall?

[BeauIXI]

I don't know if Nod was joking, man.

On a related note, if enough people claim a tree fell in the forest, can that collective claim alone make the tree fall?

I'd say that it can make the tree's falling a lasting impression on history, but it can't assure that all the tangible effects of said tree actually falling are brought into existence as well.

Good discussion, but this is all very tangental, no?

[philip nod]

at least my humor is still oblique

[nictan]

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