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aruba
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response 25 of 41:
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Nov 1 03:36 UTC 2003 |
We had 83 trick-or-treaters tonight.
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scott
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response 26 of 41:
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Nov 1 04:11 UTC 2003 |
I had to go work before it got dark. :(
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mcnally
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response 27 of 41:
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Nov 1 06:07 UTC 2003 |
For about the tenth year in a row I'm living in a place that got
no trick-or-treaters, but that's largely because of the particular
houses or apartments I've been in, not due to any widespread shortage
of children (that I know of, anyway..)
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rcurl
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response 28 of 41:
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Nov 1 06:33 UTC 2003 |
We had many fewer T&Ters than even other years when the weather was
worse. We were wondering if perhaps there were more parties to keep
the kids in.
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keesan
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response 29 of 41:
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Nov 1 09:40 UTC 2003 |
When I was little all the kids on the block (about 30 apartments in
3-families) expected to get candy from all the neighbors on the block. I
recall being very surprised when one elderly woman across the street did not
answer her door, but it turns out she was probably afraid. At some point
after that I was assigned to sleep at her apartment to keep her company. That
was back when people did not move very often and we were a community.
Were there any homemade costumes among the 83 kids, aruba?
We saw lots of little commercially-costumed kids while at the library and
Westgate. Little girls dressed as pink and purple princesses and ballerinas
and really young kids in one piece costumes, brightly colored, with some
cartoon character's head painted on the hood (which they were not wearing,
it dangled). To identify them you had to walk behind and look at the dangling
hood.
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xakep11
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response 30 of 41:
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Nov 1 09:50 UTC 2003 |
az sym e
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aruba
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response 31 of 41:
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Nov 1 22:34 UTC 2003 |
There were a few homemade costumes, but to tell you the truth, none stand
out in my mind.
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keesan
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response 32 of 41:
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Nov 1 23:15 UTC 2003 |
We saw some home-done stuffed shirts while walking around today, headless and
filled with straw. Is this art?
Is cake decorating art? Is it art if you model your pumpkin carving on
something you saw in a magazine?
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gelinas
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response 33 of 41:
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Nov 2 01:21 UTC 2003 |
Using models does not invalidate art. I'd class cake decorations as art.
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keesan
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response 34 of 41:
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Nov 2 12:24 UTC 2003 |
So why is it art if you copy a model by hand, but not if you mass produce it?
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rcurl
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response 35 of 41:
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Nov 2 20:07 UTC 2003 |
It IS art if mass produced. That is known as "mass produced art". It
is values accordingly. In fact, it sells better than individual works
of art.
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keesan
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response 36 of 41:
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Nov 3 00:08 UTC 2003 |
How can it be folk art if you follow a model?
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anderyn
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response 37 of 41:
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Nov 3 03:09 UTC 2003 |
I think our pumpkin at work was folk art. Five of us contributed bits and
pieces to it -- we made a tableau inside the pumpkin of the pit and the
pendulum with a gourd/pumpkin body and some made and some bought elements.
It was quite fun. (I was not the artist, although I did scooping out of
pumpkin duty and did some other scut creative duties.)
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rcurl
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response 38 of 41:
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Nov 3 07:05 UTC 2003 |
Re #36: by not having such a narrow definition of art. Also, by not trying
to lump things into two simplistic categories of art and non-art. Every
copy of an original work of art is art, just not *very* original art (it is,
of course, original art in the sense that no duplication can be perfect).
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polygon
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response 39 of 41:
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Nov 3 15:25 UTC 2003 |
Art is whatever art critics say it is. If you don't agree, they'll
ridicule you.
I carved pumpkins too far in advance of Halloween, so they weren't in
very good shape by October 31. I put them out with the "compostable"
waste this morning.
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tod
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response 40 of 41:
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Nov 3 16:54 UTC 2003 |
This response has been erased.
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willcome
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response 41 of 41:
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Nov 27 08:28 UTC 2003 |
whore.
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