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Ah, okay; the front page! I kept looking at the Clips page, thinking, "What in the world is he talking about?"

I just went to the Clips section and looked around, and I'm left with this: what are you talking about? o.O

That's pretty neat.

It'd be interesting to have one of those depicting American history outside of America; less development, more war, no?

Double-poster.

@Bartoneus:

Cappucino has hit on the core of all of these "is it art" discussions, is that everything depends on your personal definition of the word 'Art'.

Very true, that. I lean more towards the more classic arts, personally. I don't really see a lot of new art / "modern art" as art. Certainly, a lot of the stuff is interesting, but I'm still hesitant to buy into the label of art.

One of the things (or "pieces" in art speak, heh) that we looked at in an art class I'm in is some rows of boulders. Just rocks. The artist lined them up next to a church, on a lawn between the church and the sidewalk. The rows of boulders were progressively shorter, i.e. a row of 6, a row of 5, etc.

People didn't get it. After a lot of grumbling, a local paper interviewed the guy, and he explained it. He was - what was it again? - juxtaposing the timelessness of the rocks with the aging church and its graveyard. Or something to that effect, anyway, just much longer and complicated-sounding. To me, it sounded like a bunch of.. well, art BS. :P

This is called attention seeking.

Hah! Best reply in this thread so far.

It almost begs for a different label than art. Maybe something like "Materials Based Social Commentary"

I actually like that idea. Certainly, I see that what she's doing has some value - it is an interesting message, I admit that. I just have a really hard time calling it "art." I mean, do we really see a spike with junk mail on it on the same level as say, The Birth of Adam in the Sistine Chapel, or Starry Night by van Gogh?

Social comentary, sure. Art? I'm not buying it.

Nah, I don't think it's art. As Tyme said, all she's done is slapped some junk mail on a spike. That's not artistic, it's just putting junk mail on a stick.

I should, however, state that I'm pretty harsh on what I define as art. For example, I think Jackson Pollock's work is.. well, junk. He threw, splattered, etc. paint all over a canvas. Big deal. That doesn't take any skill. And yet someone in Ze Art World deemed it amazing, and now his stuff is worth millions. I'm okay with abstract art as long as producing the abstract art takes some kind of skill or expertise, but throwing paint? No.

Cas, I believe you said you were getting off the computer because of your hand. :P It would appear you've snuck back on! (Not, of course, that I'm complaining.)

gatesofhell: I thought you were serious about Comic Sans for a brief moment. :)

Arial, Verdana, or Tahoma. For headers on webpages, I really like Trebuchet MS.

Through Text Link Ads, I have Post Ads enabled, which lets advertisers place an ad in my posts. However, "in" my post is a bit misleading; it's actually just text at the very bottom of the post, saying Related link: (their ad). Most of them are okay, providing something that someone who found my post through a search might actually be interested in.

I technically have, but currently all I have is a badge; I'd like to at least make my header pink. Something I'll probably get to this weekend.

Like you said, definitely a different theme in comparison to the usual fare, but some really, really cool ideas. I like the different tabs.