Red Mosquito

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Kaius wrote:Cooking/creating food is without a doubt no less an art form than making music or film or painting or whatever.

tragabigzanda wrote:

Kaius wrote:Cooking/creating food is without a doubt no less an art form than making music or film or painting or whatever.

Yea. Consider how many amateur musicians there are now due to the proliferation of Garageband and the like. Food has basically been dealing with that forever: a very small number of exceptionally-talented artists, and millions of amateurs.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

tragabigzanda wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

Kaius wrote:Cooking/creating food is without a doubt no less an art form than making music or film or painting or whatever.

Could not disagree more.

Joey, have you even seen Ratatouille?

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

tragabigzanda wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

Kaius wrote:Cooking/creating food is without a doubt no less an art form than making music or film or painting or whatever.

Could not disagree more.

Joey, have you even seen Ratatouille?

I have, yes.

Food has the ability to emotionally transport us to another time or place; to generate feelings of care, empathy, or anger with the world; to excite the senses and stimulate the mind; and is most certainly a craft in that it requires knowledge of many different tools and their interactions with each other...How is that not art?

durdencommatyler wrote:

Kaius wrote:Cooking/creating food is without a doubt no less an art form than making music or film or painting or whatever.

Could not disagree more.

tragabigzanda wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

Kaius wrote:Cooking/creating food is without a doubt no less an art form than making music or film or painting or whatever.

Could not disagree more.

Joey, have you even seen Ratatouille?

I have, yes.

Food has the ability to emotionally transport us to another time or place; to generate feelings of care, empathy, or anger with the world; to excite the senses and stimulate the mind; and is most certainly a craft in that it requires knowledge of many different tools and their interactions with each other...How is that not art?

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.