An L.A. Times article opens:
STEAL a toddler’s lollipop and he’s bound to start bawling, was photographer Jill Greenberg’s thinking. So that’s just what Greenberg did to illicit tears from the 27 or so 2- and 3-year-olds featured in her latest exhibition, “End Times,” recently at the Paul Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles.
I shudder to contemplate what else the photographer did to elicit “illicit tears” from 2- and 3-year-olds.
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Looks like they outsourced copy editing to the Grauniad
Francis (f95ff8) — 7/24/2006 @ 12:48 amThe work depicts how children would feel if they knew the state of the world they’re set to inherit, explained Greenberg, whose own daughter is featured in the show. “Our government is so corrupt, with all the cronyism and corporate lobbyists,” she said. “I just feel that our world is being ruined. And the environment — when I was pregnant, I kept thinking that I’d love to have a tuna fish sandwich, but I couldn’t because we’ve ruined our oceans.”
Heh. Whiny liberal = baby who lost his lollipop. This lady is her own parody.
nk (50d578) — 7/24/2006 @ 5:07 amMaybe that was their way of admitting that Greenberg’s whole argument was bogus. Illicit argument –> illicit tears.
Xrlq (f52b4f) — 7/24/2006 @ 5:41 amThomas Hawk has been all over this lady and has even received calls to his boss from Greenberg’s husband. He has been going more from a “child abuse” angle as he may very well believe the anti-Bush stuff. Either way, the last one was here. But he had about 10 previous posts on the subject if you are interested.
M (5af180) — 7/24/2006 @ 7:06 amMaking kids cry on purpose for “art.” Political “art,” at that, if there is such a legitimate animal.
I’m at a loss for something pithy, besides “that’s sick and sad.”
Anwyn (01a5cc) — 7/24/2006 @ 8:04 amNow, let’s make some children cry!
Pablo (efa871) — 7/24/2006 @ 8:11 amThat’s such a zinger I had to read it twice to parse it (as “elicit.”)
Sheesh.
rightwingprof (663991) — 7/24/2006 @ 8:27 ami saw that “illicit” earlier this morning and wondered about it, i don’t think the writer really knows what it means.
assistant devil's advocate (28d526) — 7/24/2006 @ 8:54 ami saw this controversy a few days back on metafilter. anybody who would deliberately make a kid cry for money (she’s selling 10-print editions for $4500) is an obscene sack of feces. the kid is too young to understand or consent, and those pics will live forever on the internet, there to mock those kids during childhood, adolescence and beyond. guilty of child abuse!
Aw, we’re guilty of taking away lollipops from screaming toddlers every day—right here at Patterico’s.
Only our screaming toddlers do more than cry—they register to submit comments, so they can use their crayons to call us names like ‘right-wing fascist,’ ‘tax-break dummy,’ and ‘Jew-loving, McBushHitler-Halliburton jerk.’
A few of them even believe that they can fool us authoritarian adults into the idea that sock puppets really are capable of speaking for themselves.
Alas, we break their hearts when we inform that Cucla and Ollie were being voiced by someone else !
(Patterico, since it’s your site…we’ll let you break the news to the lefties about the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus.)
While we often accuse these toddlers of living in fantasyland as a result of their observations, I’m pretty certain most of them still live with mommy.
Ah, and just like a dependent child….no matter how much they tell us they hate us, they always come crawling to us when they’re hungry for attention.
Desert Rat (d8da01) — 7/24/2006 @ 8:55 amI’m glad I’m not the only one who frets over misuse of the language by our poorly-educated journalists. I guess they are too busy studying political correctness to have time to learn how to use English properly. A frequent offender is to use “beg the question” to mean “raise the question,” even though the proper meaning is “to use circular reasoning, to assume what is to be proved.”
dchamil (64b278) — 7/24/2006 @ 9:49 amA few days ago I commented on how weak the Times editorial operation is when they can’t even scrub out a reporter’s blatant editorializing. Now I guess they can’t even catch the mis-use of a homonym. The copyeditors who actually know English must have been some of the paper’s recent pink-slips.
JVW (d667c9) — 7/24/2006 @ 10:32 amHeh, I’m reminded of the quality of university-level newspapers. Once, we popped open a copy of the Ohio State Lantern and were greeted with the headline, “Winds Reek Havoc at Muirfield Tournament”.
Snicker.
And not long after, a sports-related article describing how “the force of gravity, 14.7 pounds per square inch, tried to peel us off the rock face”.
I think these guys work for the Times now.
As for the content of the article itself, if someone mugged Greenberg in broad daylight in front of me, it’d elicit something from me alright… laughter at someone crazy enough to mistreat children getting her just desserts.
Additional Blond Agent (9315f5) — 7/24/2006 @ 11:23 amhttp://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-heat24jul24,1,2735185.story
How about this one in today’s paper:
“transformers are vital because they transfer power, converting it to lower wattages that can be routed down lines and into homes and businesses”
Tranformers convert voltage, not wattage. Don’t try to explain stuff to us if you have no clue what it is.
TomHynes (47e7b9) — 7/24/2006 @ 2:23 pmYeah, that’s just about as funny as, oh, I don’t know, making fun of cripples?
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Shorter Rightwing Meanies (e92581) — 7/24/2006 @ 2:35 pmPeople like this create their own hell on earth. No wonder the miserable bitch feels the need to make childen cry for her “ART”.
Tom (d663db) — 7/25/2006 @ 12:56 pmYeah – that woman created her OWN hell on earth, because we’ve filled the oceans with so much mercury that you are only supposed to eat one serving a month, or you get more than the dosage of mercury that is deemed safe for an entire year.
I guess your kind likes mercury, and defends it like Bush does, because it makes all of you so brain dead that you can accept all the cognitively dissonant things necessary to hold your brittle reality together.
Someone bitches about too much mercury in tuna, and you say SHE is the one making the earth suck. Nice.
Shorter Rightwing Meanies (e92581) — 7/27/2006 @ 8:04 amCitation, please.
Pablo (efa871) — 7/27/2006 @ 8:31 am