On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 11:08:24 -0800, "Mr. Strat" <rag@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
: In article <47d2956b_3@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, The One
: <someone@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
:
: > Wedding photography has become the biggest pile of crap since the
advance of
: > digital. Wherest someone pays big buck for taking a photo, when
someone else
: > is hanging off the shoulder taking the same shot for free, doesn't
make the
: > cost worthwhile.
: >
: > This is why i'd never pay a wedding photographer more than the cost of
an
: > album.
:
: Most wedding photography I see these days is total crap. It's now trendy
: to make your images look like the garbage you see on YouTube, so tilted
: horizons are "in" and mediocrity is the standard.
That has its advantages. If you're trying for a tilted horizon, there's no
"right" amount of tilt, so anything goes. If you try to get it level,
everyone
knows if you fail.
What now p***** for "poetry" is the result of a similar degradation. It
has no
rhyme or meter, and it rarely makes a coherent point. But the lack of an
accepted standard makes anyone a poet if he says he is.
Modern art: same thing. Some jackass set up a switch to turn the lights on
and
off every few seconds in an empty room, and a Boston museum exhibited it
as
art. (Come to think of it, the jackass was the director of the museum, not
the
artist.)
Some years ago, Nebraska had a U.S. Senator, Roman Hruska, whom someone
accused of being mediocre. Sen. Hruska's indignant reply: Don't mediocre
people deserve representation in Congress, just like any other group?
Bob
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