Wiardgroup

>> It takes a great deal of talent, skill and time to create 
a painting of a person that looks like a person, and any defects in 
such a painting will be immediately apparent to all eyes, trained 
or untrained, because we all know what a person is supposed to look 
like.<<

>This is a highly offensive statement.<

What, pray, could possibly be offensive about recognizing the skill 
of a great painter?

>I don't quite know what to say. 
Others with better verbal and English skills have already addressed 
this, so I will make my answer short and radical: this thinking is 
dangerous,<

"Dangerous?"  That's a new one.

>defies communication, and can easily result in fascism.<

Um....sure, if you say so.  Call 'em as you see 'em.

>I'm unfriendly? Yes.<

No.  Confused?  Yes.

>>You say art is a form of communication, and I 
agree, but then you defy that statement with ignorance. Quoting you:<<


>Certainly constants exist, but "universal" is a gross exaggeration 
of benchmarks. For example, you obviusly don't know about the fact 
that folks from different geographic locations see different colours. 
Japanese see blue and green as the same colour!!! <

Really makes you wonder how those Japanese wood block print artists 
managed to create blue skies, green trees, and blue water, doesn't it?
What planet are you from?

>And I have worked 
with so called "handicapped" people who used to eat things you 
LEARNED to abhor at since infancy, but which you used to eat as well 
when you were a baby.<

If you mean mentally handicapped, you can hardly use them as a metric 
for normal eating behavior.

>See my point here? Please be more specific than 
lazily referring to "universal" benchmarks. Even in such a most 
general thing as sexuality there are no universal rules.<

Again, universal constants are built into the species, whether you 
like it or not.  If a skunk sprayed you, you would not like it.  If a 
skunk sprayed a dog, the dog would not like it.  Obviously, there is 
a universal constant of "skunk smell = bad" for dogs, humans and 
other animals, or a skunk could not use odor as a defense!  By the 
same token a hideous demon mask from Bali would look just as hideous 
to a person from Ohio.  

Mull over the applicability of these truths to art and come back to 
me.


>Let's put this clear and honest: I'm sorry and at a loss of words 
for you poor guy if you have never enjoyed masturbation.<

I said *aesthetic* masturbation.  I've found that using an anesthetic 
makes the experience last sooooo much longer. :-)

>On another note: if you already abhor at the concept of decorative 
panel graphics from the start, then why are you concerned with the 
fact that the Wiard graphics aren't symmetric????<

I do not abhor them, I just see them as an odd choice for signal 
generation and processing equipment.  It's just 
so......so.....*Captain Nemo*, you know?

My point about the jacks cutting into the design instead of being 
centered was addressed to Grant.  If the design is as important as he 
says, and if he took as much care in creating the panels as we are to 
believe, then why didn't he find a way to center the jacks?  Trust 
me, it can be done.

>I realize my statements may be offensive to you as well.<
It takes a whole lot more to offend me than that.

>But that's what you get for your gross black and white concept that 
everything that's not made the same way that Beethoven worked is just 
random nonsense. You ignor all inbetwen. At least that's what you 
sound like and I'm allergic to that.<

Take 4 mg of chlorpheniramine maleate and call me in the morning.  :-)

johnm