Friday, May 4, 2007

F art

Art for many years meant a painting on the wall. It took me some time to comprehend that the wall behind the painting was also art.
Now that i've finally got around all my confusion by deciding that all things are art, im faced with a rather artsy problem.
A recent worldwide poll has shown (i've always wanted to say that..) that people who were polled are capable of ranking things from one to ten. It alo proved(the poll), through the use of some rather ingenious graphs that a scene from the movie American beauty was the most beautiful scene ever captured in a movie. By itself, this would not be to hard to agree with. A person who has not watched american beauty would most likely conjure up an american beauty, think of bliss and agree with the poll. A person who has watched it, would recognize at once that the only scenes worthy enough to be the best were the ones he or she could not comprehend. He too would then most likely conjure up Mena Suvari, think of bliss and agree with the poll.
The scene in question involves a plastic bag. That is mostly it. Then there is a wind which moves the plastic bag in random pattern. These make up the main cast. There is also a video camera. Actually we see the packet through a video camera which we cannot really see,but we know that it is a video camera we are seeing the packet through because the packet is fuzzy. Like when we actually see a packet,not in a movie but really genuinely see a packet blowing randomly in the wind through a video camera and it appears just as fuzzy. That's neat.
But it is still a problem.
How does one rank art from one to ten?
And even if Bill, Olga, Sanjay and Li can rank art they can only rank art they have seen. What about my stark, spartanesque, heuristically challenging video of bobo the monkey taking a crap?
We might have a new number one...

1 comment:

Unknown said...

bobo the monkey for president