tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post4255967705779148048..comments2023-07-03T06:51:05.962-07:00Comments on O Dock: Season's GreetingsO Dockerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08674140306304705852noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-68096603953265548382010-12-28T23:53:47.785-08:002010-12-28T23:53:47.785-08:00It's *almost* as bold as Cage's four minut...It's *almost* as bold as Cage's four minutes and 33 seconds and up there with the Tate's famous pile of bricks.<br /><br />But agree with Tillerman: Mrs O'Dock should be commissioned for next year.JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10749223049615363296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-91319924798390741592010-12-24T06:42:31.171-08:002010-12-24T06:42:31.171-08:00I plan to celebrate Christmas this year by not pub...I plan to celebrate Christmas this year by not publishing a post tomorrow. The post that I will not publish is a post that managed to maintain its dignity and timeless grace. A post that remained sublime. A post that was familiar but strange, like all posts but no other. A post that had potential to become another. A post that talked. A post as a post as art.<br /><br />Such a shame that nobody except me will ever read it. But that's the price you pay to appreciate high art.Tillermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00639738519386820997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-18204887261311035522010-12-23T18:10:07.197-08:002010-12-23T18:10:07.197-08:00Thanks for the link , JP, about the Tate's Chr...Thanks for the link , JP, about the Tate's Christmas tree exhibit by artist Giorgio Sadotti.<br /><br />I was reading that article while multi-tasking at work when this line gave me pause:<br /><br /><b>"The whip will be used during a ceremony on Twelfth Night."</b><br /><br />Wait, was that the Marquis de Sadotti?<br /><br />Despite Sadotti's penchant for whips, I think he might still be my kind of artist. After all, the article says "Sadotti is known for an art practice that 'celebrates the power of the nothing'."<br /><br />Since its inception, this blog has also celebrated the power of nothing.<br /><br />I like the confidence with which he has dragged a 30-foot Norwegian spruce tree into one of the world's great art museums and, without doing anything else, proclaimed it 'art'.<br /><br />He says, "For me, the challenge was to present a tree that was naturally effortless."<br /><br />Well naturally it was 'effortless'. He expended virtually no effort in the creation of this powerful work of art.<br /><br />Giorgio may have the rest of the art world fooled, but he's not sneaking this fast one past me. I know the last minute Christmas crunch he got caught by.<br /><br />"Yikes, here it is December 1st, and I still haven't gotten anything for the guys who work on my car, for aunt Gertie, or for those rubes at the Tate."<br /><br />"Ah, I've got it! The power of nothing!"<br /><br />"Right, presentation and marketing is everything!"<br /><br />I must admit, JP, I thought I was pretty good at spinning BS into graceful phrases, but this guy has me beat by a mile.<br /><br />This quoted graph is one of the most brilliant transformations of BS into high art that I have ever read:<br /><br /><b>"A tree that managed to maintain its dignity and timeless grace. A tree that remained sublime. A tree that was familiar but strange, like all trees but no other. A tree that had potential to become another. A tree that talked. A tree as a tree as art."</b><br /><br />JP, I stand humbled and awestruck in the presence of such genius.<br><br>O Dockerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08674140306304705852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-9854053186315559662010-12-23T18:09:59.888-08:002010-12-23T18:09:59.888-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.O Dockerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08674140306304705852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-6873716264744839652010-12-23T10:27:58.111-08:002010-12-23T10:27:58.111-08:00I think the Tate should hire Mrs O Docker next yea...I think the Tate should hire Mrs O Docker next year.Tillermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00639738519386820997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-2376176012740455622010-12-23T02:01:41.588-08:002010-12-23T02:01:41.588-08:00Very cool "tree"
Your wife might like t...Very cool "tree"<br /><br />Your wife might like the Tate's take on the Christmas tree:<br />http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11968334<br /><br />Happy Christmas!JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10749223049615363296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-2741526834432378342010-12-22T22:01:56.004-08:002010-12-22T22:01:56.004-08:00Cool, Noel!Cool, Noel!Zenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10787377470200331937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-90794821051729828022010-12-22T21:43:34.579-08:002010-12-22T21:43:34.579-08:00Loverly. We haven't had a tree in our six yea...Loverly. We haven't had a tree in our six years together. We do have a box of ornaments since my sisters keep sending them to us as gifts. <br /><br />Our dog, Momo, put up solar powered LED lights on her dog house this year. She must have seen something about Snoopy doing that... <br /><br />Happy New Year, O Docker.Pandaboniumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08352197350806179930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-88298586384422193682010-12-22T16:52:17.126-08:002010-12-22T16:52:17.126-08:00Well, there have been a couple of occasions when w...Well, there have been a couple of occasions when we were not so conventional. Once, we were on vacation for Christmas; we brought along our Christmas lights with no idea what we would end up hanging them on. The condo we rented had a ficus tree, so that was our tree that year.<br /><br />A couple of years ago, we strung lights up on a couple of Sunfish in the front yard, although I don't know how much that counts, since after dark, they did look like trees.Carol Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07201269435839112134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-87725611871376046772010-12-22T11:51:35.587-08:002010-12-22T11:51:35.587-08:00Nothing wrong with that at all, Pat.
We paid for ...Nothing wrong with that at all, Pat.<br /><br />We paid for everything this year with the traditional plastic.<br><br>O Dockerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08674140306304705852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-86606357064904340612010-12-22T11:45:44.020-08:002010-12-22T11:45:44.020-08:00...and we went with the traditional plastic tree........and we went with the traditional plastic tree...Pathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13417115374524861438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-43345528517178475292010-12-22T07:30:46.524-08:002010-12-22T07:30:46.524-08:00Wine is responsible for the fact that I move a lot...Wine is responsible for the fact that I move a lot slower now than I did when I was 20 years old. But it does allow me to sit around the house and admire my wife.<br /><br />Are there two orphans huddling under that tree skirt?Baydoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00751866865203182109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-11302704806831673842010-12-22T07:00:41.182-08:002010-12-22T07:00:41.182-08:00I think my wife and your wife would find much in c...I think my wife and your wife would find much in common. Our non-christmas non-tree this year is made from a few dead twigs that Tillerwoman scavenged from my son's back yard, and that she and our granddaughter "decorated" last weekend. The result is spectacular.<br /><br />In our case though the practice of having non-christmas non-trees is for medical reasons, after we discovered that I am allergic to christmas.<br /><br />I like your theory that christmas can be used as an excuse for why I am slower in my Laser than I was 20 years ago. I need every excuse I can find in that area.<br /><br />Have a happy, very slow non-christmas.Tillermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00639738519386820997noreply@blogger.com