"People who don't work with their hands are parasites" and other truisms by Jenny Holzer
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Re: "People who don't work with their hands are parasites" and other truisms by Jenny Holzer
#2I stopped reading after:
"a man can't know what it is to be a mother"
That's true at a precise level. But more valuable is:
"a man can know what it is to be a parent"
and I think that's a much more valuable statement.
I pretty much recall this exact discussion happening during the VP debate.
Re: "People who don't work with their hands are parasites" and other truisms by Jenny Holzer
#3These could be significantly improved by superimposing them over pictures of cats.
Re: "People who don't work with their hands are parasites" and other truisms by Jenny Holzer
#4For those who aren't familiar with the name, Jenny Holzer is a conceptual artist (so take these truisms with a grain of salt):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Holzer
I was first introduced to Holzer's work when I found the "Green Table" in the corner of a courtyard at UC San Diego. It's engraved with the following statement:
"IN A DREAM YOU SAW A WAY TO SURVIVE AND YOU WERE FULL OF JOY"
Re: "People who don't work with their hands are parasites" and other truisms by Jenny Holzer
#5The horror, the horror.
The freakin after-images...
Re: "People who don't work with their hands are parasites" and other truisms by Jenny Holzer
#6Can one of the eight people who unmodded this explain themselves?
EDIT: No, no. Quit downmodding me and explain why you upmodded that website. I'm just curious. It seems really dumb and really offtopic, both.
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#7These could be significantly improved by superimposing them over pictures of cats.
I don't even now why I'm replying but to say, "I couldn't have said it better!!!" ;) where is the tiled animated cats background and the cute music?
Re: "People who don't work with their hands are parasites" and other truisms by Jenny Holzer
#8Accept loss as a universal force.
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#9Good thing I type all day then.
Re: "People who don't work with their hands are parasites" and other truisms by Jenny Holzer
#10These could be significantly improved by superimposing them over pictures of cats.
I'm thinking blinking text and a few marquis tags thrown in for good measure. Now I have a headache.