well, I must disagree.
A title should be descriptive when it is a work in progress, because then the
focus isn't the image, but the idea behind the image. do you see my point?
In a final image, i think the title is a significant part of the image(well, me
for one gives the image a name, does anyone here have a filesystem without
names?)


Ph Gibone wrote:
> 
> Once again I think I've been misunderstood (English's not my mother language
> +ACE-) : I'm very pleased you liked the image(s) but my previous message was not
> a request for recognition but another attempt to play with the idea that a
> title can be
> 
> 1) A designation (which it always is, even if you give a single letter as
> title (Hi Govert +ADs--))
> 2) A description (when the title is made of at least one word, kinda memo)
> 3) An explanation (The worst from my point of view)
> 4) A trap (as this and the previous messages : are we talking about any
> Dali-esque image ?)
> 5) Part of the piece (As Magritte's pipe)
> 6) Another piece (I think of Tanguy a surrealistic painter)
> 7) A trick (when there is no piece under the title : sorta mixed of +ACI-part
> of+ACI- and +ACI-another+ACI- piece
> 7) Any other idea ???
> 
> Steve a +AOk-crit dans le message +ADw-36FC1FC9.408E6CAF+AEA-ndirect.co.uk+AD4-...
> +AD4-I said it was good didn't I, and all of the earlier versions.
> +AD4-
> +AD4-Steve
> +AD4-
> +AD4-Ph Gibone wrote:
> +AD4APg-
> +AD4APg- Steve a +AMMAqQ-crit dans le message
+ADw-36FBD09F.B833DB78+AEA-ndirect.co.uk+AD4-...
> +AD4APg- +AD4-I've been thinking about this subject today, and came to the
conclusion
> +AD4APg- +AD4-that in a medium such as this (and in many other media), a title is
> +AD4APg- +AD4-essential.  Imagine if none of the postings in this particular NG had
a
> +AD4APg- +AD4-title, would you even bother looking at the work,  you could waste
some
> +AD4APg- +AD4-money spent on your phone bill to download 100 Star Wars pics
> +AD4APg-
> +AD4APg- For instance I'm downloading all the messages attached to this thread in
> the
> +AD4APg- secret hope to read that one of you (at least) thinks my image is great
> and
> +AD4APg- I read a futile discussion about titles : I've been tricked by my own
> title
> +AD4APg- which was supposed to intrigue not to puzzle. Well in fact the discussion
> is
> +AD4APg- not futile, I just wanted to puzzle you, and to intrigue you.
> +AD4APg-
> +AD4APg- If you didn't read Godel Escher Bach : put on your Nikes and just do it.
> +AD4APg-
> +AD4APg- Philippe

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