Veneration in art museums, chihuahua dumbness, etc.

  • Via Yahoo News: File this under Peo­ple Who Don’t Know They’re Ortho­dox Yet:

    PARIS (AFP) – A Cambodian-born French woman faces pros­e­cu­tion for crim­i­nal dam­age after plant­ing a kiss on a

  • paint­ing by the Amer­i­can artist Cy Twombly, leav­ing the imprint of her lip­stick on the oth­er­wise immac­u­late white canvas.

    • Good thing it wasn’t an icon she kissed or peo­ple would think she was weird, right?

    Thirty-year-old Sam Rindy, who vis­ited the show with a friend on Thurs­day, told AFP that she was so over­come by the white can­vas that she kissed it.

    “I stepped back. I found the paint­ing even more beau­ti­ful,” said Rindy. “The artist left this white for me,” she added.

    And if she’d have just wiped off the lip­stick before she laid one on the can­vas, the art museum might have agreed with her. As it is, though, they think her actions could have defaced the “image” (if you can call an white can­vas an image) and so she has to appear in court and pay a fine. I still think some­one should get her a book­let or some­thing. I mean, you never know.

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    In other news of the weird:

      “Tiny dog saves baby from rat­tlesnake” — Well, that was the head­line on this Yahoo News story, any­way. When you actu­ally read the story though, it seems like it should’ve been “Chi­huahua Stu­pid­ity Comes in Handy.” Zoey the chi­huahua got in the way of a rat­tlesnake and may have kept a baby from being bit­ten. But I can’t exactly make a Lassie moment out of that, since there’s noth­ing in the story to indi­cate that Zoey did it on pur­pose. And if the snake’s bites didn’t have any last­ing effect on a five-pound dog, it doesn’t seem like it would have even both­ered a one-year-old. But I sup­pose we ought to be sure. My next door neigh­bors have a perpetually-barking Yorkie that we could try putting in with a rat­tlesnake, just to find out. It’s a sac­ri­fice I’m will­ing to make in the name of science.

    • West Hol­ly­wood wants Bush and Cheney to be impeached. Oh well, it’s all set­tled then. I usu­ally just sit around and wait for the rocket sci­en­tists in West Hol­ly­wood to instruct me on mat­ters of great importance.
    • Via Drudge – Pri­vacy nuts start your engines — two employ­ees work­ing around sen­si­tive infor­ma­tion were implanted by a secu­rity firm with microchips so that their actions could be mon­i­tored.

      The “chip­ping” of two work­ers with RFIDs – radio fre­quency iden­ti­fi­ca­tion tags as long as two grains of rice, as thick as a tooth­pick – was merely a way of restrict­ing access to vaults that held sen­si­tive data and images for police depart­ments, a layer of secu­rity beyond key cards and clear­ance codes, the com­pany said.

      No word on whether the chips were etched “666″.


    Related posts:

    1. Adver­tis­ing and the state of Art — epi­logue: Art
    2. Silly air­port art
    3. Adver­tis­ing and the state of Art — part I
    4. 8 things about me
    5. Hollywood’s fear of con­tro­versy, cont.

    July 22nd, 2007 | Grace | No Comments |

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