RTP-area local music and culture

[Margaret Campbell <margaretc AT gmail.com>]

Having fun being an ass, are we?


On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 12:35:29 -0500, Chris Rossi <rossi AT webslingerz.com> wrote:
> Of course, there's no way you could both be right, since none of us have
> ever experienced an outage on the internet that only affected
> connectivity to certain websites for a certain isp.
> 
> rossi
> 
> 
> grady wrote:
> > Oh, well, if you tried it multiple times and it still didn't work for
> > you, then it must not work. Perhaps I just made up the story I
> > cut-and-pasted into the previous email. Lord knows it wouldn't be the
> > first time.
> >
> >
> > Margaret Campbell wrote:
> >
> >> No, it didn't.  Tried it several times.
> >>
> >> But, being a reader of the papers, I already knew the story.
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 11:58:03 -0500, grady <grady AT ibiblio.org> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Umm, yes it does. But in the interest of actually moving things along,
> >>> here:
> >>>
> >>> Young Prospective Artist Finds Herself in a 'No Sketch' Zone
> >>> Second grader Julia Illana
> >>> By Don Ross
> >>> (01/07/05 - RALEIGH) — It is standard operating procedure for students
> >>> of art to learn by example by sketching masterpieces in an art museum.
> >>>
> >>> A budding artist in Durham found that the time honored tradition was
> >>> challenged while seeking inspiration at the Matisse, Picasso and the
> >>> School of Paris: Masterpieces from the Baltimore Museum of Art exhibit
> >>> in Raleigh.
> >>>
> >>> Over the weekend at the North Carolina Museum of Art there were works by
> >>> Matisse, Picasso, Monet, Degas and some Illanas.
> >>>
> >>> Julia Illana is a second grader who was visiting the popular exhibit
> >>> there with her parents and was sketching the paintings in her notebook.
> >>>
> >>> "I love to draw in my notebook," Illana said.
> >>>
> >>> Her sketch of Picasso's Woman with Bangs, which came out pretty good,
> >>> and Matisse's Large Reclining Nude got the promising artist into trouble
> >>> with museum security.
> >>>
> >>> A museum guard told Julia's parents that sketching was prohibited
> >>> because the great masterpieces are copyright protected, a concept that
> >>> young Julia did not understand until her mother explained the term.
> >>>
> >>> "If you wrote a book and someone saw that book and copied it," Julia's
> >>> mother said. "Then people would think that that person was the one who
> >>> wrote the book when you were the actual one."
> >>>
> >>> Actually, the museum guard was mistaken. There was no copyright issue,
> >>> and the museum apologizes and is telling artists to sketch away as long
> >>> as they do not interrupt the flow of traffic in the always crowded
> >>> gallery.
> >>>
> >>> Julia admits that she's not ready to show her artwork anyway.
> >>>
> >>> "I wouldn't publish my notebook with the sloppy writing," she giggled.
> >>>
> >>> Although her renditions of Hole in Hand and Pink Ghost are pretty
> >>> impressive for a six-year-old.
> >>>
> >>> Assured now that it is OK to sketch, Julia's going back on Sunday to try
> >>> her hand at a CeZanne, and maybe a Matisse or two.
> >>>
> >>> More than 88,000 people have visited the exhibit scheduled to end
> >>> January 16.
> >>>
> >>> Online Producer: Chris J. Nicolini
> >>>
> >>> Margaret Campbell wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Umm, the link doesn't work....
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 11:05:30 -0500, bendy <bendy AT duke.edu> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> And while you're at it, stop humming that song in your head, unless
> >>>>> you've bought a copy!
> >>>>>
> >>>>> http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/news/010705_NW_sketcher.html
> >
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--mjc