Posts by Lyndon Hood
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There may have been a golden moment where this was not needed, but it is now.
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Apparently Agenda plans to fill the fact-checking void:
In a new segment called "Fact Finder" each week the post-graduate students, under the direction of Senior Lecturer, Dr Jennifer Curtin, will research statements made by politicians during the campaign and investigate their accuracy.
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I understood the press council complaint was about breaches of professional standards.
Rather than, like, being offended.
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So they're basing an actual election ad on a implicit promise to have fewer people leaving the country?
How many terms were they hoping for?
Though as a photochopper I do love how National provides pdfs of their billboards. You don't even have to get the clone tool out to fix up the background for new text.
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Okay how about this:
Some call tragedy as fictionalised human sacrifice; we might suggest that drama and gladiatorial combat share something too. Not that I've seen the latter, but what I'm heading for is that this would also apply to sport.
Of course that doesn't necessarily, logically, mean they're all art. In fact the abstraction involved in art versions mentioned above might be (I could probably think of some exception) a necessary though not sufficient requirement for artness.
But it might help explain why we felt the need to ask the question.
I do tend to be fairly flexible about what is art - perhaps because I'm more of a performing arts guy and when you boil that down all the way there's a sense in which you only need an audience. But while many things can be considered as art, they are often pretty crap art and are better considered in other terms.
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Hi Paul! Fancy seeing you here.
As far academic credentials go, if you have a look you may find the 'performance' field has gotten quite broad. I recall my theatre lecturer remarking that some journals were as likely to include papers on the logistics of stadium events (including sporting) a legitimate theatre.
Going down this path one could argue (I don't) that a sporting event might be art even if the actual sports aren't.
Another crossover I think of is something like the new circus - something like Traces at the arts festival where the show turns on the spectacle of what a human can achieve as much as anything else.
One thing I do think is important is intention. People don't accept as art something that wasn't in some way meant to be such by it creator. Sports people are generally trying to win.
Related to this is what I think of as framing. People might start thinking of something as art if somebody puts it in a good camera shot or make a narrative of it or just calls it art; in such a case I'd say the art arises from the person doing the framing rather than the original thing.
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Speaking of professional wrestling and art: When Keith Johnstone invented Theatresports he was thinking of bringing some of the popular excitement of pro wrestling to a slightly more 'legitimate' stage.
Off the top of my head a lot of what you mention would be mroe closely analagous to 'craft' rather than 'art'. The first being (for msot people) necessary but not sufficient for the second.
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I think my one qualm about the fairness of the whole business is wondering how it would play out if the media demanded every other party prove their anonymous donations went to the right place.
It's annoying because that's interfering with my personal sense of satisfaction.
OTOH, Winston probably wouldn't have ended up here if he'd blustered less (but if he did that, he wouldn't be Winston, so I guess that point is moot).
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No-one is suggesting that he doesn't have a democratic right to stand for Parliament. It's whether he has the right to ignore the provision in the collective employment agreement under which he works
We-ll, firstly he's only announced his intention to run so far AFAIK.
Secondly I heard (Andrew Little?) on the radio saying that given the amount of time involved he would have had to ask permission. And that if it were some more amenable political party said request might have been seen more favourably.
That last bit didn't strike me as a very clever thing to say.
I'm unsure if this is just a side-effect of not having balanced and rational commenters challenge you, or if it was an intentional plan with an upcoming election on the horizon?
I'm fairly sure I/S was calmer at the previous election.
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"protecting children"... from boobs.
I keep thinking of this:
The Onion: U.S. Children Still Traumatized One Year After Seeing Partially Exposed Breast On TV