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Re: AGA CONTEST - Digest V1 #470
Excellent convention!!! Thanks to Charlene and everyone who made it happen!
Chris
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From: owner-aga-contest-digest@thekrib.com (AGA CONTEST - Digest)
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 03:12:08 -0800
To: aga-contest-digest@thekrib.com
Subject: AGA CONTEST - Digest V1 #470
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> AGA CONTEST - Digest Saturday, November 17 2001 Volume 01 : Number 470
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> In this issue:
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> Next year: TITLE OF AQUASCAPE field
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> Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 13:29:58 -0800 (PST)
> From: Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>
> Subject: Next year: TITLE OF AQUASCAPE field
>
> Note to self. I was supposed to have put this in this year, but forgot.
> Next year there needs to be a separate field in the aquascape information
> specifically for "Title". Common in Singapore & other asian based tanks,
> not common in US tanks.
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> - Erik
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> Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 22:57:47 -0800 (PST)
> From: Lazarus Miskowski <lazmiskowski@yahoo.com>
> Reply-To: aquatic-plants@actwin.com
> Subject: Re: art and the planted aquarium
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> It's interesting, Roger, that the club would be
> historically divided about aquaria as art.
>
> The problem with the technical aspect of the hobby is
> that you can only take it so far. And then you are
> done. We all know how to get there. Lack of success
> usually means shortcuts were employed (co2, light,
> algae eaters, fertilizers).
>
> How many more plants will be added to the hobby? How
> many more species can we jam into one tank?
>
> I've never been completely comfortable with the word
> "gardener" when it comes to planted aquascapes. When
> I hear that word, I think of rows of corn and
> tomatoes. I admit to eating watersprite once, but
> that's as far as it goes for me.
>
> I have noted that none of the tanks in the AGA contest
> have titles. At least none of the ones I have looked
> at. Works of art have titles. And when they don't
> have titles, they are called "untitled." Amano uses
> titles for his tanks. I think adding titles colors
> the way we view a tank, and just that little bit can
> add to the enjoyment. How about it? Titles
> (optional, I suppose) in the future.
>
> It seems to me that an aquascaping contest is ALL
> about art. The AGA can be about many things, but the
> contest ought to be about art. If people want, maybe
> there can be other kinds of contests, like points for
> the number of species you can grow in a year
> (sometimes I get emails that sound like those kids
> that solicit magazines--"if I sell one more magazine,
> I'll get 5,000 points, and win a scholarship to
> Harvard, please!" "I need x plant to get the 10
> points that will put me over the top in my plant
> club..."). Or maybe quantity can be a contest (dry
> weight of plants). Or perhaps "most LFS trade-in
> credit contest". But the showcase ought to be about
> art. Which it was, for the most part. I think there
> is one glaring example where it wasn't, but I don't
> really feel like going there. You either know what I
> am talking about or you don't.
>
> I'm somewhat familiar with poetry. Took a class in
> college. :) And what they would do there is have
> someone in the class bring a poem. We would go home
> and study it, and then come back and offer critique
> and criticism. Then the author would use that info.
> to improve their work. Eventually, you could kind of
> guess what the criticism would be, and could therefore
> edit better even before you showed your work to
> others. Perhaps people can post URL's to tanks they
> would like critiqued, and interested parties can offer
> their advice/opinions. Or perhaps someone would like
> to suggest that a different tank besides the one
> selected ought to have been the Best of Show, and can
> tell us why he/she thought so. I'm just throwing out
> ideas here. Getting together for a contest once a
> year is great, but maybe ongoing dialogue could be
> useful also. Maybe even creating a different list
> would be in order.
>
> Arthur
> http://www.awaqua.com
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