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01/02/2004 05:22:52 PM · #1 |
Remember, if you enter a tacky shot, you'll end up with one in your portfolio too.
zeus
You see zeus some of us have no pride. As you will see after the challenge ends if you go to my site. Maybe I do need a Dunce cap?:)
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01/02/2004 05:14:29 PM · #2 |
Steve, this is my problem with the current challenge, too. Photographing something tacky doesn't mean that the performance should be tacky, rather the subject. But as I don't like tacky stuff, I voted for the in-my-opinion-bests there and I left it alone. I like simple things, tacky stuff is not my challenge. :-) I leave it to those who like it.
Have a look at motivational posters. As a user, you can't vote for them, but they are wonderful just to have a look at them, too! :-)
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01/02/2004 05:13:44 PM · #3 |
I like to imagine a postcard which humourously advertises tackiness. Therefore picture quality (focus, composition and clarity) has to be very good but subject extremely tacky and funny! |
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01/02/2004 05:02:35 PM · #4 |
I'm very clear what "tacky" is...
As a site newbie, I'm trying to figger out whether to rate "tacky-ness"(?) or photo quality/composition/lighting, et cetera...
Opinions? |
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12/29/2003 12:30:46 PM · #5 |
Eeewweeee! That's tacky just thinking about it, LOL. |
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12/29/2003 11:51:07 AM · #6 |
Think Kid Rock singing "O Holy Night" in a white stained tank top and that goofy hat of his while Pam Anderson is decked out in a skimpy Santa outfit hanging neon tinsel from a Christmas tree that has a bottle of Jack Daniels on the top as the star... |
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12/29/2003 06:20:57 AM · #7 |
Thanks for your help.
I now have a very clear idea on what this challenge is about (and when to use the words ;) ). Unfortunately that also makes it a lot harder to find a good subject. :)
Viewing all the entries will be fun. :)
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12/28/2003 04:05:54 AM · #8 |
Originally posted by Alecia:
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Originally posted by zeuszen: Remember, if you enter a tacky shot, you'll end up with one in your portfolio too. |
And everyone can mark it as their favorite and make you (and them) look weird ... |
which could, and will probably happen, cuz, while we all cringe while driving past some of these houses, honestly, who doesn't love the Griswalds? :) |
Tacky by association - I'm already there! :D
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12/27/2003 11:38:56 PM · #9 |
I have heard the word tacky all my life my mother used that word when something wasn't the way it was supposed to be If your socks didn't match that was tacky and etc. |
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12/27/2003 09:40:14 PM · #10 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Originally posted by zeuszen: Remember, if you enter a tacky shot, you'll end up with one in your portfolio too. |
And everyone can mark it as their favorite and make you (and them) look weird ... |
which could, and will probably happen, cuz, while we all cringe while driving past some of these houses, honestly, who doesn't love the Griswalds? :)
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12/27/2003 08:45:09 PM · #11 |
Originally posted by zeuszen: Remember, if you enter a tacky shot, you'll end up with one in your portfolio too. |
And everyone can mark it as their favorite and make you (and them) look weird ... |
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12/27/2003 08:35:56 PM · #12 |
Remember, if you enter a tacky shot, you'll end up with one in your portfolio too. |
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12/27/2003 07:31:56 PM · #13 |
For what it's worth my perception of tacky is: cheap'n'nasty, tasteless (subjective I know), unharmonious or just plain brash and cheeky. I'll have little problem with my entry fitting this description!
I tend to think of the house lights scene in National Lampoons Christmas Vacation, played to tune of 'Oh Come All Ye Faithful'! |
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12/27/2003 06:32:55 PM · #14 |
Originally posted by faidoi: Remember folks , whats tacky to you wasn't tacky to the person that put it up. |
I think the fact that it wasn't tacky to them is what makes it tacky. |
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12/27/2003 06:09:18 PM · #15 |
Remember folks , whats tacky to you wasn't tacky to the person that put it up.
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12/27/2003 05:35:02 PM · #16 |
Geschmacklos would work. It is as formal a term as 'tasteless' is in English. Kitschig is more idiomatic even than tacky, and a bolder translation, to my sense.
The kind of person who'd say tacky here, IMO, would be socially at ease with one who'd say kitschig in German. |
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12/27/2003 05:29:37 PM · #17 |
Originally posted by Azrifel: (for the people who write the challenge descriptions: this kind of descriptions suck) |
well, after all these explanations you will not only know the meaning of the word "suck", but the meaning of the word "tacky" as well...
i thought the description was fine, myself... was full of anticipation, too... but instead, i am sitting this challenge out because i have a horrible horrible horrible flu... bummer! but i am looking forward to seeing all the submissions! |
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12/27/2003 04:29:05 PM · #18 |
Tacky is a yard filled with cheap Christmas decorations and 12 pink flamingos. What they have to do with Christmas I'll never know. And no I do not live in Florida? |
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12/27/2003 04:08:40 PM · #19 |
Originally posted by Harz_Joerg:
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Wouldn't geschmacklos mean literally without taste, as a watery soup or bland cereal?
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Yes, a watery soup is literally "geschmacklos", but is'nt it in English also tasteless?!
But "geschmacklos" also means: without any sence of well-behaviour and bad-taste
Originally posted by GeneralE:
The tacky kind of tasteless has more to do with inappropriateness, as in serving wine at an awards dinner for recovering alcoholics, or someone volunteering to serve meals to the homeless while wearing jewelry and a fur coat, or showing up at a formal wedding wearing a Harley-Davidson T-shirt. |
LOL:)
All these examples would be called "geschmacklos" in German, whereas "kitschig" is more like trashy, but not in the sence of bad taste, rather overdone, to much of everything. |
Yes ... I can see the overdone connection as well ... it's been more than 30 years since I took German (from an Estonian teacher) and haven't really kept up with it since. I'm frequently astonished at how much I can still intelligently guess at if not translate. |
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12/27/2003 03:59:05 PM · #20 |
"geschmacklos"(German) or the Dutch equivalent "smakeloos" can mean "without taste" if food is concerned, but it can also mean "showing bad taste" / "inappropriate" when other matters is concerned. |
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12/27/2003 03:56:44 PM · #21 |
Here's a recomendation....If going into a strangers yard, when asked what you are doing, be sure to tell them you're entering a photo of their place into a tackiest decoration contest. They'll love you for it and most likely offer you some hot chocolate and cookies. Just kidding, have fun everybody!!! |
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12/27/2003 03:56:17 PM · #22 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Wouldn't geschmacklos mean literally without taste, as a watery soup or bland cereal?
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Yes, a watery soup is literally "geschmacklos", but is'nt it in English also tasteless?!
But "geschmacklos" also means: without any sence of well-behaviour and bad-taste
Originally posted by GeneralE:
The tacky kind of tasteless has more to do with inappropriateness, as in serving wine at an awards dinner for recovering alcoholics, or someone volunteering to serve meals to the homeless while wearing jewelry and a fur coat, or showing up at a formal wedding wearing a Harley-Davidson T-shirt. |
LOL:)
All these examples would be called "geschmacklos" in German, whereas "kitschig" is more like trashy, but not in the sence of bad taste, rather overdone, to much of everything.
Message edited by author 2003-12-27 15:56:58. |
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12/27/2003 03:42:22 PM · #23 |
Originally posted by Harz_Joerg:
Originally posted by zeuszen:
I don't speak Dutch, Azrifel, but perhaps the German translation will give you a sense: Photografieren Sie die kitschigste Ausstellung von Weihnachtsfreude. |
Having the same problem as Azrifel, it now sounds to me that "geschmacklos", i.e. tasteless, might be a better translation than "kitschig", at least when reading what the native speaker write about tacky.
Jörg |
Wouldn't geschmacklos mean literally without taste, as a watery soup or bland cereal? The tacky kind of tasteless has more to do with inappropriateness, as in serving wine at an awards dinner for recovering alcoholics, or someone volunteering to serve meals to the homeless while wearing jewelry and a fur coat, or showing up at a formal wedding wearing a Harley-Davidson T-shirt. |
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12/27/2003 03:33:34 PM · #24 |
Originally posted by zeuszen:
I don't speak Dutch, Azrifel, but perhaps the German translation will give you a sense: Photografieren Sie die kitschigste Ausstellung von Weihnachtsfreude. |
Kitch is also an American/Yiddish slang term for a useless, tasteless ... well, tacky decorative item. |
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12/27/2003 03:29:36 PM · #25 |
Originally posted by zeuszen:
I don't speak Dutch, Azrifel, but perhaps the German translation will give you a sense: Photografieren Sie die kitschigste Ausstellung von Weihnachtsfreude. |
Having the same problem as Azrifel, it now sounds to me that "geschmacklos", i.e. tasteless, might be a better translation than "kitschig", at least when reading what the native speaker write about tacky.
Jörg
Message edited by author 2003-12-27 15:30:11. |
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