daily cliches

[porktaco]

let's see... from flickr groups. i love these, but it's probably good that we don't have running threads on these... lol.

mosaic monday
toy tuesday
bokeh wednesday
half-naked thursday
fence friday
cliche saturday
self-centered sunday (my personal favorite)

 

[oftheherd]

I had no idea what I had been missing. 🙁

 

[GSNfan]

what is wrong with cliches? serious question.

 

[porktaco]

nothing. in moderation...

 

[Sparrow]

what is wrong with cliches? serious question.

... we never seem to get any new ones

 

[back alley]

... we never seem to get any new ones

why IS that?

 

[sparrow6224]

since you say it's a serious question: what is wrong with cliches is that repeated use of a certain word in certain circumstances, or, more often, a phrase, causes that word or phrase to lose its meaning. think of "heartbroken" for instance: what it's supposed to mean and what it's come to mean. people are now heartbroken over losing a parking space. if you've ever actually BEEN heartbroken, however, you'll know the phrase no longer does justice to the feeling it was invented to signify.

all that said, I'm not sure the flickr appellations above are cliches, so much as they are campy and 'dumb' in an amusing way, making use of a tired trope: the 'such and so Saturday' etc etc.

Sorry. But you axed!!!

 

[GSNfan]

since you say it's a serious question: what is wrong with cliches is that repeated use of a certain word in certain circumstances, or, more often, a phrase, causes that word or phrase to lose its meaning. think of "heartbroken" for instance: what it's supposed to mean and what it's come to mean. people are now heartbroken over losing a parking space. if you've ever actually BEEN heartbroken, however, you'll know the phrase no longer does justice to the feeling it was invented to signify.

all that said, I'm not sure the flickr appellations above are cliches, so much as they are campy and 'dumb' in an amusing way, making use of a tired trope: the 'such and so Saturday' etc etc.

Sorry. But you axed!!!

I very much enjoy looking at well executed cliche shots rather than boring and pretentious attempts at trying to be original. Cliches are the staple of every art form, its where everyone starts from.

 

[sparrow6224]

(Admittedly OT now, but....) A well executed cliche in photography is at worst boring. But a well executed cliche in literature -- the realm for which the term was invented -- is an offense against the core tenets of the form. Indeed the worse for being 'well executed'. A primitive cliche is better.

 

[sparrow6224]

I'd add, too, in support of all attempts at originality, that pretending toward something is the only way to attain it; and that 98 percent of the times I've ever heard or read the word 'pretentious' deployed against an attempted work of art, it was done so in an unmistakeably Philistine way.

 

[gekopaca]

On Flickr I've got an album called : Cartes postales - My "lieux communs".
In french "lieux commun" is like "clichés", but IMO pictures of clichés (or clichés de lieux commun) is a kind of second degree… ;-)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gekopaca/sets/72157624317200093/

 

[benlees]

Depends on your audience, I guess. Some people like them because they are familiar; soft and cuddly. Others dislike them for those same reasons. Of course, they exist because someone came along and found new ways to look at things. The paradox of originality. Or is that a cliche?:angel:

 

[jedrek]

what is wrong with cliches? serious question.

Banality is art's greatest foe.