Poshdeluxe

warning: today’s entry might be a tad bit on the rant-y side. AND THERE ARE NO PICTURES.

if you look at my blog post yesterday, you’ll notice that it’s been edited (by me this time, not by a strip poker bot).

earlier today, i got an email from my professor, who (kindly) asked me to take down the images and edit the text. apparently, one of the people who loaned art to the exhibit decided to google it and found my website.

which, as a side note, kind of impresses me. i guess there isn’t a lot of internet space devoted to this particular group of artists, but still. posh deluxe is all up in google’s mix!

it seems the lender got upset that someone had use of these images, and so the lender called the curator, and the curator called my professor, and my professor emailed me (again, she was v. nice about it).

so i took them down, cos i don’t want to get in trouble. in fact, i HATE getting in trouble. in the first grade, i got caught talking on the way to chapel, and then my laminated “sarah” apple fell two inches from the laminated discipline tree on the wall, and then i had to stare at it for the rest of the year and feel like a horrible person, cos my apple had fallen. I HAD FALLEN. INTO SIN.

but the fact of the matter is, i’m kinda freaking mad.

this whole copyright thing is a big issue now, and i can understand why. companies want money, people feel like they’re being cheated by companies, artists need to get paid, long live pirate bay, blah blah blah.

but you guys. we’re talking about ART here. ART. like, created to beautify yr life! inspire yr soul! express the self for the world! share an innermost secret with the universe! and now, cos someone owns that art, people can’t see it unless they go to a specific museum or a certain website?

based on what i’ve read so far about the artists involved in this exhibit, i’m pretty sure they would say this is a bunch of, pardon my french, baloney. they rented an entire building in soho just so they could invite the public to interact with their art. they WANTED to share it with people. if they had blogs back then, you better believe they would have posted about all kinds of artists and works, just to get a dialog going. which is exactly what *i* was trying to do.

obviously, i understand that if you own one of monet’s water lily paintings, you don’t want some random person selling mugs and aprons and t-shirts with yr art on it. that’s rude, not to mention tacky (aaaand passé).

but, as much as i love my blog, it’s not, like, a major player on the internet. i don’t get paid by advertisers for how many hits i get, and i certainly don’t get invited to fancy shmancy events so i can gush about them in my next entry (although i am not above being bribed, esp. when it involves cookies, hot clothes or a posh party with champers. FYI). so who cares if i post a picture of a painting?!! i mean, besides the owner, obviously.

sigh.

the bottom line is that it makes me angry, but mostly sad. sad to think that i might have something amazing to show you, something to add a bit of sparkle to yr day, and then i can’t post it, cos someone owns that piece of beauty and they don’t want to share it.

like, imagine a world where you couldn’t watch the baby who laughs and falls over every time he tears a sheet of paper. imagine a world without the pictures of baby polar bears. imagine a world without PEARL for god sakes!

what a terrible and dark place it would be.

and i, for one, certainly don’t want to live there.

LINKS

have you guys seen the complete sxsw band list? as usual, SWEET CRACKER SANDWICH. after a cursory glance, here are my picks:

Joseph Arthur
Nada Surf
Sea Wolf
Dolly Parton (OBVS!!!!!!!!!!)
Cassettes Won’t Listen
Ghosthustler
MGMT
MSTRKRFT
My Morning Jacket
N.E.R.D.
Office
R.E.M.
Santogold
Shout Out Louds
Vampire Weekend
VHS or Beta
White Denim
Yeasayer

LADIES. you MUST check out the new jovovich hawk line for target. KILLER.

i’m sure it’s just a coincidence that cupcake businesses are thriving in austin, and i live in austin. right? right (thanks to hilary and selina for both sending me the link. heh).