<DocumentaX><blast>re: Harlem Nights
Jaakko Hucklebee (jessec@zipnet.net)
Sun, 03 Aug 1997 03:49:16 -0400
I believe it was last year, or maybe the year before, that a paper in a
science journal
reported that pigeons could be taught to recognize an artistic style
such as cubism. No
amount of "art education" could enable them to identify a unique
artwork, say The Portrait
of Henry Kahnweiller, however. This pigeon perception of style is all it
takes to notice
the regressive fashion worn by a number of Harlem girls. These young
women seem
to have hit upon something hot or cool by wearing teddy bears and
sucking pacifiers
after watching cartoons and munching breakfast cereal. It didn't take
thought for them
to link infantile visual manifestations with the art they wear on their
bodies. If you must
put a word on it, well, they are quite the BABES. They seem to know this
as reality.
As Fritz wrote,"thoughts are better walked than sat." So, I expect this
thought to move
uptown to the catwalk of high fashion soon. Even so, I'm not much more
than a pigeon
when trying to understand the eidos of the Harlem girls. I've so much to
learn! Sadly,
neither the Harlem girls nor the pigeons are going to make a penny from
the things they
learn about eidos, the perceptual trends they discover. Yet, I need to
do some more living
before I can say this for sure. Maybe something will come of it. And
somebody really
has to keep track of them in the mean time.
Jaakko Hucklebee
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