tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18079333.post113015627862209405..comments2023-10-23T18:44:26.295+00:00Comments on Dr. Kate's Arty Facts: New stuffKatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06598549803413135313noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18079333.post-1130925091779457562005-11-02T09:51:00.000+00:002005-11-02T09:51:00.000+00:00David you have jsut given me so many ideas for pos...David you have jsut given me so many ideas for postings - thank you.<BR/>The really bad news is this.<BR/>I have bought a jacket from Pollyanna by someone called Paul Harnden.<BR/>He is a recluse and lives in Brighton and only shows to three people in dust filled studios in Paris.<BR/>His stuff is unbelievable and hand made and I now am more broke than I have ever been in my life but this is, I think Art.Katehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06598549803413135313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18079333.post-1130849280990370062005-11-01T12:48:00.000+00:002005-11-01T12:48:00.000+00:00I realised I neglected to make any comments on sho...I realised I neglected to make any comments on shopping! I am not sure whether I should congratulate or castigate myself for introducing you to Barnsley and a new shop full of desirable objects.<BR/><BR/>I have to say I find it really quite hard to shop - especially in shoppign centres like Meadowhall. It is such a manipulative environment - do you know that the site was made perfectly flat before they started building but they then put in artificial inclines upstairs and down. Apparently this means that different muscle groups in the leg are used depending on the direction of the incline, so that shoppers can carry on shopping for longer before becoming exhausted!david gilberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06519891434442241758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18079333.post-1130848726728954602005-11-01T12:38:00.000+00:002005-11-01T12:38:00.000+00:00Hello KateWell worth a visit. I wonder what you th...Hello Kate<BR/>Well worth a visit. I wonder what you think of Walter Benjamin's thoughts on photography's influence on the status of the work of art (1936, full text at http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm)? The elimination of distance is an interesting idea; that by photographic reproduction all things - whether they are places, objects, people - become the same category of object, and that as a result the 'aura' of the original is lost.<BR/>The other interesting thing is Baudrillard and hyper-reality (see 'Simulacra and Simulation'). I read a really good story from the fantastic American architect Peter Eisenman (www.eisenmanarchitects.com/)about taking his son to a baseball game. The batter hits a home run and starts to run round, and as he does so everyone in the stadium is watching him on the giant screens - which employ filmic vocabulary and pan, zoom and switch from one viewpoint to another - and nobody is looking at the actual event. Even the batter is watching himself on the screens. The hyperreal is better than the reality, perhaps even more real.david gilberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06519891434442241758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18079333.post-1130245498656027122005-10-25T13:04:00.000+00:002005-10-25T13:04:00.000+00:00Oh No I am not anti fashion, just anti my wife buy...Oh No I am not anti fashion, just anti my wife buying a new blooming coat when the other one was hardly worn, so really although I harped on at Simply Clare for having a coat for 170 years I quite admire that.<BR/><BR/>And with my professional head on, of course clothes are an important part of identity, why else would the Cornish need to create a Cornish Tartan, the Scottish invent them and the chavs go around shoplifting Burberry!Rob Burtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11123336939468248803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18079333.post-1130243623237837782005-10-25T12:33:00.000+00:002005-10-25T12:33:00.000+00:00I think you should be pleased.Are you not on a det...I think you should be pleased.<BR/>Are you not on a detox?<BR/>See this is a very good space and enjoy your new found love of free things eg nice weather, skies, flowers etc.<BR/>Please do not shop!Katehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06598549803413135313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18079333.post-1130239019762113312005-10-25T11:16:00.000+00:002005-10-25T11:16:00.000+00:00I am getting worried as since I was ill a couple o...I am getting worried as since I was ill a couple ofweeks ago I cannot raise any enthusiasm for shopping. DrKate, is there a cure? <BR/>Yours, an anxious bearMary Plainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07705653198645775534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18079333.post-1130172504110066762005-10-24T16:48:00.000+00:002005-10-24T16:48:00.000+00:00WE are all meeting in this new space. Thanks Kate ...WE are all meeting in this new space. Thanks Kate for the shopping post which is very inspired. We all have different types of desire shown in the different shopping places. What can this mean? <BR/>I am looking forward to hearing more about your chapter.<BR/>I Love the way photographs can have a transformative or intensifying effect on artifacts.Joolzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07764771025537899267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18079333.post-1130170645576128942005-10-24T16:17:00.000+00:002005-10-24T16:17:00.000+00:00Hurrah!I have got you onto my blog and also I hope...Hurrah!I have got you onto my blog and also I hope you are not too tired from hill-walking or is it hill running.Katehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06598549803413135313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18079333.post-1130167602023924172005-10-24T15:26:00.000+00:002005-10-24T15:26:00.000+00:00Hello KateSo glad that you purchased the coat and ...Hello Kate<BR/>So glad that you purchased the coat and also have a blog. I will be adding you to my list very shortly. Have loved reading your entries today - and am going to think about lost things. I often lose my confidence - but noone seems to notice (or are too polite to mention it) and it comes back with vigour anyway. I also lost a Miss Saigon CD once... hmmm. BUT I do love a poem about losing: it goes something like this - "The art of losing isn't hard to master... " by Elizabeth someone. I am going to find it now..... and post it on my blog for you.Clarehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18101755683358045963noreply@blogger.com