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From: Simon de Vet
Subject: Warfare interpretation
Date: 3 Sep 2001 18:59:56
Message: <Xns9111CBA761DAAsdevetistarca@204.213.191.226>
Despite my original cool response to Warfare, I've come up with what I 
think to be an interesting, and do-able idea.

However, today I read the official description:

    	"Anything involving a battle of some sort. D-Day, fighters, ants,     
	aliens, sibling rivalry, soccer dads, bacteria, etc."

I find this restricting. For example, an image of people hiding in the 
London underground during WWII would fit with my idea of warfare, but it 
does not depict a battle, and does not fit the description. The same goes 
for a millitary factory producing planes, propaganda images, etc.. 

The topic title is "Warfare", implying anything related to war, but the 
description is for "Combat", describing the action itself. 

Which is the genuine topic?


-- Simon


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From: Mick Hazelgrove
Subject: Re: Warfare interpretation
Date: 4 Sep 2001 02:11:32
Message: <3b947094@news.povray.org>
"Simon de Vet" <sde### [at] istarca> wrote >

> However, today I read the official description:
>
>     "Anything involving a battle of some sort. D-Day, fighters, ants,
> aliens, sibling rivalry, soccer dads, bacteria, etc."


This is not meant to restrict you. It is intended to give you ideas and get
you started, your idea would come under the etc. bit!

Mick


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From: Mark Wagner
Subject: Re: Warfare interpretation
Date: 4 Sep 2001 03:11:47
Message: <3b947eb3@news.povray.org>
Simon de Vet wrote in message ...
>Despite my original cool response to Warfare, I've come up with what I
>think to be an interesting, and do-able idea.
>
>However, today I read the official description:
>
>    "Anything involving a battle of some sort. D-Day, fighters, ants,
> aliens, sibling rivalry, soccer dads, bacteria, etc."


The title is what counts for a topic.  The description is simply some ideas
about possible scenes.

--
Mark


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From: Jaime Vives Piqueres
Subject: Re: Warfare interpretation
Date: 4 Sep 2001 03:56:16
Message: <3B94891E.A81AFD2B@ignorancia.org>

>         "Anything involving a battle of some sort. D-Day, fighters, ants,
>         aliens, sibling rivalry, soccer dads, bacteria, etc."
> 
> I find this restricting. For example, an image of people hiding in the
> London underground during WWII would fit with my idea of warfare, but it
> does not depict a battle, and does not fit the description. The same goes
> for a millitary factory producing planes, propaganda images, etc..

  No, all these are very good! And they fit perfectly with "anything
involving a battle": do people come to underground shelters for
pleasure? No, it is because there is a battle outside. So it "involves a
battle", but out of the scene. That's perfectly on topic! And it's
brilliant, because it shows the war trough it's social impact, rather
than directly showing the war itself, which can be somewhat
"impersonal".

-- 
Jaime Vives Piqueres

La Persistencia de la Ignorancia
http://www.ignorancia.org/


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From: Warp
Subject: Re: Warfare interpretation
Date: 4 Sep 2001 04:17:09
Message: <3b948e04@news.povray.org>
I think that the "etc" part in the description covers that.

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From: Simon de Vet
Subject: Re: Warfare interpretation
Date: 4 Sep 2001 13:13:20
Message: <Xns911290E5CACBsdevetistarca@204.213.191.226>
Jaime Vives Piqueres <jai### [at] ignoranciaorg> wrote in
news:3B94891E.A81AFD2B@ignorancia.org: 

>   No, all these are very good! And they fit perfectly with "anything
> involving a battle": do people come to underground shelters for
> pleasure? No, it is because there is a battle outside. So it "involves
> a battle", but out of the scene. That's perfectly on topic! And it's
> brilliant, because it shows the war trough it's social impact, rather
> than directly showing the war itself, which can be somewhat
> "impersonal".

That's what I was hoping. I just dread seeing a hundred "Tank shoots Tank, 
Plane shoots Ship" images. The interesting part of warfare is not the 
hardware.

-- Simon


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From: Francois Labreque
Subject: Re: Warfare interpretation
Date: 4 Sep 2001 16:38:10
Message: <3B953B97.621A0B32@videotron.ca>
Simon de Vet wrote:
> 
> Jaime Vives Piqueres <jai### [at] ignoranciaorg> wrote in
> news:3B94891E.A81AFD2B@ignorancia.org:
> 
> >   No, all these are very good! And they fit perfectly with "anything
> > involving a battle": do people come to underground shelters for
> > pleasure? No, it is because there is a battle outside. So it "involves
> > a battle", but out of the scene. That's perfectly on topic! And it's
> > brilliant, because it shows the war trough it's social impact, rather
> > than directly showing the war itself, which can be somewhat
> > "impersonal".
> 
> That's what I was hoping. I just dread seeing a hundred "Tank shoots Tank,
> Plane shoots Ship" images. The interesting part of warfare is not the
> hardware.

Don't worry.  I'm sure people will still find ways of having their image
revolve around a scantily clad poser model...

-- 
Francois Labreque | Unfortunately, there's no such thing as a snooze
    flabreque     | button on a cat who wants breakfast.
        @         |      - Unattributed quote from rec.humor.funny
   videotron.ca


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From: Ken
Subject: Re: Warfare interpretation
Date: 4 Sep 2001 21:56:48
Message: <3B95873C.E831E96@pacbell.net>
Francois Labreque wrote:

> Don't worry.  I'm sure people will still find ways of having their image
> revolve around a scantily clad poser model...

So much for my idea of scantily clad poser models of biker chicks from hell.

-- 
Ken Tyler


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