Sorry Popeye, spinach
DOESN'T make your muscles big: Expert reveals sailor's love of the food
was due to a misplaced decimal point!
READ ABOUT IT HERE:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2354580/Popeyes-legendary-love-spinach-actually-misplaced-decimal-point.html
Amusing bit of popular history, Angie! Thanks for the info. And your collage is terrific, well-designed.
ReplyDeleteI have a question for you. Several times in the last few years you have described one of my collages as "ambitious,." I must confess, Indo not know what "ambitious" means in the context of these small collages. Since my mail art code is to give away, send off by post, all my originals—as often as not to complete strangers—It's obvious I have neither the expectation nor the desire to show my work in exhibitions, nor to get it published in books. So you see why I'm puzzled by the word "amitious." Ambitious for what? Could you explain?
Hi Fi. Hmmmm...maybe I was using the wrong word. I looked up the definition of "ambitious" and I think what I have meant when I applied the word to one of your works was "energetic". Because that is what I thought I was saying by using the word ambitious. I see that ambitious can mean "exacting" or "formidable" or "challenging" and I think your collages are also that. Do you agree?
DeleteAnd thanks for the compliment on the collage!
DeleteI don't really agree that my collages are "exacting, formidable, challenging..." certainly not compared to Michael Leigh's for example. "Energetic" sort of works, but what I've noticed most about the ones you'ved called 'ambitious' is simply that they are ones that took a lot of time to execute. I enjoy making collages so much that I'm not always cautious about throwing myself headlong into projects that will take many hours on end. But I'm retired, so why not go for long painstaking endeavors...?
ReplyDeleteOf course, this is all an "eye of the beholder" thing anyway. =smile= I don't have a problem with whatever anyone wants to say about my work. I only asked about "ambitious" because it puzzled me, Thanks for your effort in consulting a dictionary, Angie! All is fine, believe me...
Fi...I read above and was thinking about why I said ambitious and I think I should have said "artistically ambitious" meaning all the thought and work you put into the piece. That's it. End of this discussion and I know you now understand what I meant. :)
DeleteWell, I just now caught up with these comments and feel a need to stick my big nose in here....OF COURSE your pieces are ambitious, Fi. Your thought level (I'm referring to the meaning of the images, and the back story and the history, the composition, etc.) is always visible to the rest of us. I always have the feeling that you've given more consideration to what you are doing than I do. Maybe it's your medical/scientific background. You don't simply grab an image that happens to be sitting on your kitchen table (who....me??) and add it to a piece. You have ambition in a very "good" way -- you are appropriately serious about what you are putting down, how it comes together, and what it means. So, I think your pieces are very ambitious....! [add a "grin" emoticon here...]
DeleteToo bad that spinach does not make muscels - but this explains why it does not function with my body and now I know and have to go to the gym again ;-)
ReplyDeleteFun one, Angie!
Thanks Sabine. I was actually just going to make some joke about eating spinach for strength being not true and then I GOOGLED the words "spinach" + "Popeye" and that Daily Mail story came up. I was blown away as I did not know it when I made the collage!!
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