Context really is everything - there's not much that's more dull and common than a dirty puddle - and while wrought-iron fire-escapes do have visual appeal and even artistic significance (from the Ashcan school through Hopper and onward), we really don't often spend a lot of time admiring them in day to day life.
An attempt to promote my small press publishing marque and a series of six books - but timed perfectly for an age when nobody reads anymore!
Bet you'll appreciate this backfire. A friend shared a profound and inspiring quote from me, several months ago, and I recognized it as my own work, and was pleased that it resonated with him and so many of his friends, deeply. But when I went to check and see which of my essays about friendship or compassion, or discussions about art and life it came from, I realized - nope - it was freakin' advertising 'copy' from my second book! (And me, a lifelong hater of all self-promotion and capitalist gamesmanship). ROTFLd myself!
I've got a bad poetry pdf book, and a banned political book, so you're at least 6 ahead of me. You're scenario is hilariously sad, or, as Bender said, "Comedy's a dead art form. Now, tragedy... That's funny!." When I steal, it's "Poetry's a dead art form. Now, comedy... That's tragedy!"
In the beginning, Large Ess was.
An attempt to promote my small press publishing marque and a series of six books - but timed perfectly for an age when nobody reads anymore!
Bet you'll appreciate this backfire. A friend shared a profound and inspiring quote from me, several months ago, and I recognized it as my own work, and was pleased that it resonated with him and so many of his friends, deeply. But when I went to check and see which of my essays about friendship or compassion, or discussions about art and life it came from, I realized - nope - it was freakin' advertising 'copy' from my second book! (And me, a lifelong hater of all self-promotion and capitalist gamesmanship). ROTFLd myself!
I've got a bad poetry pdf book, and a banned political book, so you're at least 6 ahead of me. You're scenario is hilariously sad, or, as Bender said, "Comedy's a dead art form. Now, tragedy... That's funny!." When I steal, it's "Poetry's a dead art form. Now, comedy... That's tragedy!"