Comments on: crystals in the public eye http://blog.amysacksteder.com/2010/02/crystals-in-the-public-eye/ updates, exhibitions, studio, travel Sun, 22 Jan 2012 16:09:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Joe Sacksteder http://blog.amysacksteder.com/2010/02/crystals-in-the-public-eye/comment-page-1/#comment-596 Joe Sacksteder Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:19:40 +0000 http://blog.amysacksteder.com/?p=736#comment-596 But the opening ceremonies - of which lighting the torch is the culminating moment - are entirely a cultural event for showcasing a variety of art, including dance, music, costume design, etc. I also heard these crystals continually referred to as "totems" during the event, which seems more like an homage-paying/appropriation of native american symbols. Does that make it more or less aggravating? How's travel? But the opening ceremonies – of which lighting the torch is the culminating moment – are entirely a cultural event for showcasing a variety of art, including dance, music, costume design, etc. I also heard these crystals continually referred to as “totems” during the event, which seems more like an homage-paying/appropriation of native american symbols. Does that make it more or less aggravating?

How’s travel?

]]> By: amy http://blog.amysacksteder.com/2010/02/crystals-in-the-public-eye/comment-page-1/#comment-541 amy Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:13:46 +0000 http://blog.amysacksteder.com/?p=736#comment-541 Joe, I don't really have a problem with the Olympics. This post is more about the appropriation of an image being used in art by a LARGE non-art related event . Certainly no one has ownership over this image, but it's use in association with the Olympics has just taken a little of the magic away from it for me personally. This tendency is what I am looking at in a lot of my artwork, so I am extra sensitive to it, I suppose. Joe, I don’t really have a problem with the Olympics. This post is more about the appropriation of an image being used in art by a LARGE non-art related event . Certainly no one has ownership over this image, but it’s use in association with the Olympics has just taken a little of the magic away from it for me personally. This tendency is what I am looking at in a lot of my artwork, so I am extra sensitive to it, I suppose.

]]> By: Joe Sacksteder http://blog.amysacksteder.com/2010/02/crystals-in-the-public-eye/comment-page-1/#comment-540 Joe Sacksteder Sun, 21 Feb 2010 19:06:03 +0000 http://blog.amysacksteder.com/?p=736#comment-540 True there's something lame about the Olympics, but couldn't the case be made that - though it's based in winning and losing - it still brings the countries of the world together like no other event? Seems like an okay use for crystals. True there’s something lame about the Olympics, but couldn’t the case be made that – though it’s based in winning and losing – it still brings the countries of the world together like no other event? Seems like an okay use for crystals.

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