X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,5eeaeb40d0c561bf X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-12-14 12:54:37 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!h62n2fls34o1115.telia.COM!not-for-mail From: Veronica Karlsson Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: Paschimottanasana Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 21:04:54 +0000 Lines: 37 Message-ID: <3DFB9CF6.26E10AD2@hotbrev.com> References: <3DF88652.1F600DE5@hotbrev.com> <8dedta.opk.ln@adfpc.amp.uni-hannover.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: h62n2fls34o1115.telia.com (213.64.199.62) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1039899275 36482469 213.64.199.62 (16 [58193]) X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04 (X11; I; Linux 2.2.14-5.0 i586) Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:21086 Andreas Freise wrote: > Why bring up this narrow-minded discussion again? Testing? Um, no, to me the picture looked half-finished (or less) and I felt inspired to diddle. I also don't see why the original poster's initials belong on it and I mentioned that. > b) Photography is commonly thought of being a form of art People go on holiday. Some take pictures with their own cameras, some buy postcards and send home. This guy "bought a postcard and then claimed to be a photographer". > even if the photogrpaher did not build the camera him-/herself. No, but he did "build" the picture with light, angles, making sure no fingers were in front of the lens, making sure not to chop off people's heads, etc. Even point-and-click photography requires some skill if you want acceptable result. > Are we having the full amount-of-work versus idea-concept-intention > discussion again? I don't mind people using different techniques to reach a good result, and I don't mind them doing it fast (e.g. I just *love* Figlet...). This particular conversion required no skill, no work *and* the result sucked. It just looked lazy to me (all that fly shit in the background for example). -- ##### c ^ OO /\\\\ ##### | /|\ `^^^^^^^%-- '||` | \\\\ ####-[.]\ / \ " " \ ha ha ha dd /[.]-\\\| ### _| |_ \\| ### (_ http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/cgi/asciichat/ _)} == \ / A S C I I A R T C H A T # ||\