Comments | luciab: what EVAR.

luciab

what EVAR.

Mar 11, 2007 20:19

I'm working on homework. On a Sunday night, a week and a half ahead of its due date. The world must really be coming to an end. Consider yourselves warned. It's more Humanities Resources questions, but at least this week it's good stuff-- Visual Arts! Yay! Amazing how much easier it is to find answers when you have a clue. I am still amused, ( Read more... )

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lady_guenievre March 12 2007, 01:50:16 UTC

Did you see this - http://nymag.com/news/features/27840/ - when it came out a few weeks ago? It's made me think, a lot... and your comment re: competitions made me think of it.

luciab March 12 2007, 02:11:56 UTC

Yeah, that's a good article. I did some thinking after reading it, too.

margaretc March 12 2007, 03:35:00 UTC

...so much to prove...

I think that some of the difference between us artsy types and the dukes and knights is that the dukes and knights KNOW they have to keep proving it (or at least they think they do) whereas we... well, don't. Or something like that.

dragonazure March 12 2007, 16:21:41 UTC

Proof? Admittedly, I've entered A&S competitions, but more as a mechanism to get feedback than to actually win anything. Otherwise, I am pretty ambivalent about A&S competitions.

The main problem is that they are very subjective. Even though we try to establish very objective criteria, at the end of the day, there is a lot of variation--my version of what constitutes technical skill isn't quite the same concept as any one elses, and what I deem authentic could be based on much more or much less knowledge than the next judge may have. Heck, a judge could love one style of illumination and dislike another.

On the tournament field, it is pretty clear. Barring special scenarios and melees, there are only two contestants at a time. Whoever is still standing at the end of a battle is the victor.

luciab March 12 2007, 20:27:53 UTC

You're talking logic, there. I'm talking gut instinct. I know what you're saying is true; always have. Doesn't necessarily stop my wanting to do something so spectacular it leaves everybody slackjawed. And after it's all over, no matter who "wins" it's not really going to be a problem for me, despite the tone of this entry, because once I get started, the joy of the work will take over and I'll just enjoy doing it. *shrug* As Livia has pointed out in another venue, I'm overthinking it.