Linkblogging

[telophase]

Linkblogging, since I'm stuck at work on this unfortunately fine day. Why unfortunately, when we escaped the wrath of Rita by, say, 300 miles? Because the area desperately needs rain and pretty much everyone was hoping we'd get some. It clouded up a wee bit ominously last night, but today there's not a cloud in the sky.

The Low Road takes on some of the less-well-thought-out comments in the manga reviews from Manga Life.


The Fourth Plinth Project is a public-art project in London's Trafalgar Square. There is an empty plinth there, which was originally designated in 1841 for an equestrian statue, but the money ran out before it could be done, and so ... empty plinth. The project is commissioning a series of public art projects to be exhibited in turn on the Fourth Plinth (or maybe just two? I couldn't quite tell from the website). At any rate, the first one was unveiled on September 15th, Alison Lapper Pregnant, a nude of a disabled pregnant woman, which encapsulates three groups that rarely get represented in traditional monumental art.

And then ... Art or Crap? I got 10 out of 16. XD

If you guys haven't been reading Tales from the Liberry, then you should be. It's the continuing bizarre real-life adventures of a library employee in a small town, and often rather funny.

Comments

[fourthage.livejournal.com]

I got 11 out of 16, but it doesn't give the answers! What's up with that?

[telophase.livejournal.com]

When you click the button, it should immediately say right next to it whether you got it right or wrong and what it is... hm.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

I also got 10 out of 16. The urinal is a trick question, though-- how are we supposed to know which one it is? (Which I guess is the point.)

[telophase.livejournal.com]

There's a link somewhere on the bottom that pops up a window with images of some of the pieces, and the Art urinal's a different shape. Not that I rememebered - I got that one wrong, too. :)

[rayechu.livejournal.com]

I got an 11/16- I figured there was no way a urinal would be art. I got the brillo box wrong though.

As for the manga page- I feel a bit bad someone is poking fun at their reviews, but I guess if you run a website like that it happens, and there seems to be a severe lack of reviews if you ask me. Anyone notice she mentions Tsubasa in the Othello review- but never covers it?

[artist-luver.livejournal.com]

i'm ashamed... i got 8/16.
sniff sniff... what type of artist am i!?!?!?!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

One who doesn't care that much about modern art? XD