Ray Rolfe
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Re: The State of Words
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Apr 28, 2005 2:12 PM
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hmm. Factotum ( \fak-TOH-tuhm\, noun:
A person employed to do all kinds of work or business)
Premiers tomorrow night according to this trailer site.
http://www2.filmweb.no/trailer/article.jhtml?articleID=53450 . But it doesn't say where....
Yesterdays Pioneer Press follows
Posted on Wed, Apr. 27, 2005
A bit of St. Paul at Cannes
St. Paul's "Vision of Peace" sculpture will be getting a vision of the Riviera next month. The three-story-tall onyx sculpture, a fixture of the St. Paul City Hall/Ramsey County courthouse, is featured prominently in "Factotum," the Matt Dillon/Marisa Tomei movie that shot in the Twin Cities last year. "Factotum," based on a novel by Charles Bukowski, has been selected for the Director's Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival, which begins May 11.
(No word yet on when the film, which does not have a U.S. distributor, will open here.)
So, there, I have just "appropriated" the news. I think I would define it as putting pre-existing content into new context. Using ready material for new work, or play. I'm going to look it up because really, I don't know.
The Catholic Encyclopedia defines it thus;
Appropriation
In general, consists in the attribution to a person or thing of a character or quality which determines in a special way this person or thing. In theology, appropriation is used in speaking of the different Persons of the Trinity. It consists in attributing certain names, qualities, or operations to one of the Persons, not, however, to the exclusion of the others, but in preference to the others.
Aha! Artlex has a good definition.
appropriation - To take possession of another's material, often without permission, reusing it in a context which differs from its original context, most often in order to examine issues concerning originality or to reveal meaning not previously seen in the original. This is far more aggressive than allusion or quotation, it is not the same as plagiarism however. An image reused in collage is an example, but more complete are the photographs that Sherri Levine (American) made of photographs by earlier photographers.
But, I think you were being funny Mr. Orth and using it as a pun. Or, well, you know I can't spell as I cast. I like these definitions too...
suitable for a particular person or place or condition etc; "a book not appropriate for children"; "a funeral conducted the appropriate solemnity"; "it seems that an apology is appropriate"
advantageous: appropriate for achieving a particular end; implies a lack of concern for fairness
allow: give or assign a share of money or time to a particular person or cause; "I will earmark this money for your research"
apposite: being of striking appropriateness and pertinence; "the successful copywriter is a master of apposite and evocative verbal images"; "an apt reply"
Ahh, that was magical.
God, the higher intelligential order/being-force of the infinite seamless universe, is the master of appropriation. Unless you don't belive in a higher power, in which case Woody Allen, Andy Warhol, Trent Reznor, Duchamp, and Lou Reed are all cited as "masters of appropriation".
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