Beading a Dead Horse
Synergy watch: the Current’s folk critic uses A2’s latest favorite word to draw parallels between folk and beading in her column “The Folk and Beading Parallel”:
Another aspect of beading that I’ve been learning about is synergy — the taking of components from various inspirational sources and combining them into a new thing that is all your own. My co-conspirator Lisa and I are working on an “Obsession Necklace” together, using her skills in wire working, my ideas and my own skills in beading. I imagine that the Yellow Room Gang doesn’t need to worry about anything being beyond their combined skills…
Beading? Is this like the hippie version of reloading ammunition?
posted by PondComet on June 8th, 2006 at 1:44 pmIf I had a hammer…
I’d hammer the beads out of folk music… then look for the Roches.
posted by leighton on June 8th, 2006 at 2:52 pmI think the word she is looking for is ’synthesis’. But what the hell synergy is an impressive sounding word and why not sprinkle in some expensive words to help keep the discussion of beading from sounding well… boring and repetitive.
But I guess when the word becomes ’synthetic’ it becomes even less attractive in the folk music scene. Too scratchy.
posted by abc on June 8th, 2006 at 3:18 pmYou’ve GOT to be kidding me.
No?
Damn.
posted by Jen on June 8th, 2006 at 5:05 pmI won’t even mention how out-of-touch Current’s “folk” critic is with what’s really happening in the local “folk” scene.
posted by Brandon on June 9th, 2006 at 12:57 amSounds like Current might be able to use a copy of Bullfighter (available at www.fightthebull.com.
posted by anno on June 9th, 2006 at 1:32 pm