(All this starts with me sending the plane graffito to D4rw1n)
D4rw1n: Damn too soon?
b1-66er: I can understand why you'd say that, but i personally don't think so...is it too soon to wonder what the hell happened to your loved ones that never got explained and you'll never see again?
D: I guess that started immediately and probably won't ever end for the victims' families.
b: So...what do YOU think? Is it too soon?
D: I take your comment as implicit criticism that I'm thinking of myself as much as them when I ask "too soon?"
I can see both sides of that
I'm the guy who initiated and moderated a fax bulletin board of Dahmer jokes starting the day he was caught
So a bit of yes and a bit of no
When I saw the Banksy (?) piece you sent my mind first identified with the pain of loss and judged the art to be too soon
b: That whole thing just creeps me out.
We've both taken flights that could've been that one.
The plane disappears. Government demands answers. People wail.
And then? Nothing.
D: Now when I look at it from a perspective you suggest (e.g., the art asks the questions the victims' families are probably asking) I can see it as positive
Yes
Everyone gone in a flash
b: It feels to me that 2 days after the incident wouldn't be too soon.
There's an interesting question there and that's one of intent.
Is it poking or prodding; or is it compassionate and demanding?
D: Both? Plus protest and rage and guilt and despair
It's a beautiful piece of art
Even for just sparking this conversation
b: EXACTLY.
Very very few pieces of art hold that quality.
Especially now in the us-or-them world.
D: Right
Good art
b: Look closely again at it. Look at the blurb on the far R.
Now tell me your impression.
D: Saw that too. It's part of the work. It's painted on the wall I believe
b: Yes.
I THINK the guy in front is actually just walking past.
D: I had wondered about some of the other stuff. Like is the "Load Studio" logo part of the work?
I was going to make the same joke
b: If that IS a guy just walking past, the pic is perfectly timed -- maybe even staged.
D: Also there's a small trompe l'oeil within the trompe l'oeil (am I spelling that right? A word I learned from RJ): the airline logo is designed to look 3D. And it does, even in a 2d painting of a 2d painting.
b: Yes.
