Minyassa opened this issue on Mar 06, 2010 · 131 posts
bagginsbill posted Thu, 11 March 2010 at 6:43 AM
Heheh. I figured this thread would bubble along for weeks. And it is. It is such a sensitive topic for Poser land.
I understand the reasons for the consternation on both sides. It is true that some people dismiss any individual Poser art without even considering what it took to make, based solely on the collective body of work produced by the Poser community. This, they should not do.
However, I think that some Poser users would have the same attitude, if the topic were something else, such as cooking and the notion of "chef" versus "cook".
Consider - imagine you go to a restaurant and you eat:
1) A beautifully arranged Caesar salad on a lovely plate. However, it came from a Stop and Shop (grocery brand) bag with croutons and dressing already prepared by the factory. (Still damn good, but the local "chef" did not make it. He did choose the plate, and did toss the salad with the dressing, adding a bit of chopped anchovy, and arranged the croutons.)
2) Garlic shrimp and pasta with vine ripened cherry tomatoes. Except, it came from a frozen bag of Bertolli, made in a factory. (Bertolli is restaurant quality food, according to Bertolli.)
If you ate this meal (along with a good wine and nice atmosphere) and nobody told you that all of it came from factories, you'd probably say it was an excellent meal, and the restaurant was great. No doubt, it was food, artfully prepared. If you paid around $24 you might even proclaim it a bargain.
Imagine your reaction when you walked around the building and saw the restaurant's trash can with the Stop and Shop salad bag, the Bertolli bag, and the Sara Lee box. Heheheh.
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