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Thread #121077   Message #2641937
Posted By: johnadams
27-May-09 - 11:13 AM
Thread Name: Short film from Doc Rowe's collections
Subject: RE: Short film from Doc Rowe's collections
Of course I've looked at them - as soon as this thread started.

The caravan looks great and is surely as relevant in the scheme of things as David Owen's 'Seeds of Love ' exhibition or Matt Cowan's Flash Company exhibition - using art to attract people in with a view to leading some of them to dig further.

You talk about them leaving out all this other stuff - it's a quick launch video not a fully peer reviewed balanced academic artefact. I'm prepared to have a little patience and tolerance and see what follows. It seem to be an ambitious plan and if the vision were to succeed it would benefit us all.

It's not really a case of seeing eye to eye. Given that you accept that the fantasy folkists have a right to get it wrong and given that you accept that Doc, MoBF, etc have a right to observe it, I can't actually see what you are objecting to except that somebody's effort didn't meet your exacting standards with regard to your pet issue.

I'm not out of line with your viewpoint on some of these things. I'm just showing a lot more tolerance towards somebody's efforts to make a difference.