freecounterpoint: The greatest receiver ever

Sunday, February 07, 2010

The greatest receiver ever

8 comments:

Mr roT said...: Did you make the picture of the greatest receiver ever lesser?; 2/07/2010 8:59 AM
Mr roT said...: Hygiene too!; 2/07/2010 9:36 AM
Tecumseh said...: Finally, one of you noticed. Yes, I go clean up after your postings and AAs, and remove all sorts of blank lines and cut down to size humongous pics, to make this blog more readable. And nobody notices...; 2/07/2010 11:40 AM
Mr roT said...: Nonsense. Only AA needs that kind of janitorial treatment. I am pure. If you disrupt my interlinear tensions, you merely degrade the quality of my work.

If the title of a post includes the word "greatest" then it is more than reasonable, nay, it is necessary that the image be large.

If you don't know anything about wordpainting, then I cannot help. In fact, I am still puzzling at why you chose to make a certain CD resemble a C-130 gunship blasting a your proof to shreds.

It seems that your indiscriminate use of violence is directed radially outward and you really need some rest.; 2/07/2010 12:10 PM
Tecumseh said...: Herr Rot, Herr Rot -- when you get too emotional, I just can't follow you. Honestly, I don't know what are you talking about. Can you go over your grievances (real or imaginary) one more time -- but slowly?; 2/07/2010 10:00 PM
Mr roT said...: Oh Tecs. I hafta 'splain everthang.

1) Interlinear tensions, in music has to do with the relations between succeeding phrases in a piece of music. I was joking that if you remove blank space between my lines, then you're disrupting that aspect of my art.

2) I had also noticed that the image was giant when it rendered on the front page. I did debate shrinking it some, as I often do, but then decided it more appropriate to leave it as it was. The reasons for this are that a) Jerry Rice was always remarkable not only for his extreme speed and his miraculous hands, but also for his height. Most football players are gigantic, and thus tall, but Rice was tall and thin, as he had to be to run so fast. He looked frail on the field and I always cringed on seeing him hit since he looked so much more fragile than the guy defending him. b) As I point out in the previous note, it makes sense artistically, to make things big that should be considered important. See how big Jesus is compared to everyone else? This practice ended in so blatant a form in mediaeval art, but of course even in more realistic art, what's important is in the foreground, where it's big. If something in a picture is the "greatest," then it should be big, no? c) Similarly, in music, when a phrase, say, contains sung words referring to some physical characteristic of something, then it is a common compositional technique (from Renaissance times, I think) to have the melodic line mimic the lyric. Check what Händel does, starting about 2:55. "Ev'ry valley shall be exalted" is sung to melismata dragging the valley up. There are a lot of examples in this music, also in the "Comfort Ye" section. That's what word painting is and I was referring to my massive ego dump from a few days ago in which I compared myself to Bach. As I recall, you and Leverkuhn agreed that I some of my posts reach the perfection of a Brandenburg Concerto. It was not clear to me which one you meant.
3) The C-130 reference I thought you would recall. While stealing some TeX from a paper of yours on the archive, I noticed a rather dramatic CD that I compared to a gunship. For this comment here above, I upped the description a bit to that CD shooting the rest of your proof, below it. I brought this up to refer to the higher-than-usual value you put on aesthetic considerations in your research papers. I find this admirable, however I did think appropriate to mention it here.
4) The indiscriminate violence idea I put there on general principle.

Alles klar?; 2/08/2010 12:50 AM
Tecumseh said...: Alles perfectly klar now -- but how on earth was I supposed to infer all that Brandenburg Concerto nuance from your pithy prose?

At any rate, just making a pic twice the normal size does not achieve the effect you apparently desire. Neither writing in caps, in triple size, underlined, and all in bold fraktur. You gotta be understated for maximum effect -- and unleash the cymbals at the right moment. Right?; 2/08/2010 7:47 AM
Mr roT said...: Alles perfectly klar now -- but how on earth was I supposed to infer all that Brandenburg Concerto nuance from your pithy prose?

Are you getting pithy with me?

As to your second question, I believe it was W that said he didn't do nuance.

Classic.; 2/08/2010 10:01 AM

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