Comments on Fluffytek Art Blog: Damn lies and statistics

David, glad to see you here at last. I've been ver...

2008-02-22T11:15:00.000Z

David, glad to see you here at last. I've been very partial to your blog for a while now - good wisdom. I'd be beating down your door for coffee and a shoot if I lived near you.

Stephen I think my "spike" was largely due to the gratuitous horror effect, you know the "Holy cow! Look what she posted!" reaction. Your photographs, on the other hand, are way more subtle (and tasteful). Ooh, I love the explicit cords shots. I shall look forward to those.

Mr Wood, your posts are NEVER too long, and they are always gripping. We were hoping for a suitably witty response, and of course we weren't disappointed. Now I'll have to try and get hold of Focus magazine.

Consuming or not, you need your own blog, my dear. You'd have an awful lot of readers, you know.
(No I'm not going to give up nagging you about that. I recognise writing talent when I see it.)

Great news about the traffic. There are some blogs...

2008-02-22T10:36:00.000Z

Great news about the traffic. There are some blogs I have found over the last few months that should be required reading. Thanks to Lela for pointing me to yours and to you and Mr Fluffy for your wonderful insight into things.

Always,
David

Oh Ya - Now we're talk'n. A great pose. A beautifu...

2008-02-22T02:41:00.000Z

Oh Ya - Now we're talk'n.

A great pose. A beautiful smile with rich full lips and erect nipples. Made my day, no, evening it's definitely dark here in Chicago. You know you gotta look up from the screen once in a while.

And why stop the surveys. Rich was looking for "something" with his photography and art. Well it looks like you gave him a new direction. That's good, now he has something he can sink his teeth in...no, not good ..something that can get him excited....no... something that can get his juices flo...no not good either....something that can let him take his creative vision to a higher level. Whew.

As for your dodgy porn shots - Told ya were art at that post. Why the surprise women enjoy them. It seems to me that I heard once that more women rent porn than men. There was a good story in Focus magazine this month about Ruth Bernhard. Here is some excerpts that I think pertain to your post. The time frame is late 30's to 50's

"I felt that so many artists treated the female form badly, like it was an object that was tied up with their own sexual desires. I wanted to show the female form as filled with grace."

While enthusiastically agreeing that her nudes are sensual, Ruth maintains that her work is not sexual in nature. " I want all my photographs to be sensuous, whether they are glasses, or a pot, or a nude person, because I want them to be pleasing and exciting to the eye"

"I found a symmetry and beauty in the human form. Yet there are those who thought it was wrong for me to show a nude person. And I said to them all, That means the Lord made a terrible mistake when we were born nude. They did not like it, but it was the truth. But there are those people who will always find something wrong in the most innocent things. Why Edward Weston's still lifes were thought of as erotic. And I think there are very many highly exciting still lifes. But it depends on who is looking. There is no picture that is not influenced by the onlooker. One person can look at sea shell or a pepper as pornography and another person can look at a beautiful woman without clothes as a work of art. The distinction has very little to do with the picture in front of them, it is in the mind of the viewer."

So make them more edgy and let us see them and let each of us view them with what ever baggage we each carry.

Hope this wasn't to long.

D.L. Wood

My rule of thumb is people are quick ti bitch abou...

2008-02-21T23:33:00.000Z

My rule of thumb is people are quick ti bitch about what they dislike, so no news is good news. So if no one complained out the dodgey pics', oh I mean B&W fine arts prints then they like it. ;)

Interestingly, there is apparently no spinoff effe...

2008-02-21T22:50:00.000Z

Interestingly, there is apparently no spinoff effect. My stats showed no significant difference on 2/1, when that "dodgy" posting was made. On the other hand, I had a spike on 2/8 for no discernible reason. To quote my favorite Shakespeare in Love character, "It's a mystery."

And, yes, I'm thinking about posting "Explicit Cords 4," just to see if the same thing occurs here with my rather modest daily readership.