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Well, since we're talking about "DVD fungus," does that really exist? I mean, what can grow on plastic?

Or are we talking about "laser rot," as seen on some LD's? Not the same thing.

Since LD's were so big, sometimes the discs bend from their own weight and the metallic part of the disc could get damaged, flake, and become discolored.

With DVD's, there is a smaller danger of that since the discs are too small to bend under their own weight. But keep that in mind the next time you bend them for any reason, even if it's to get it out of a particularly stubborn case!

Yeah, I know a lot about fungus and they usally perfer a source where they get food. Like fruit, bread and vegitables. Unless you like spilled pop on your DVD, I don't know how you could get fungus on it.

Alan wrote:I actually find slipcovers pieces of art.

To each his own, then.

I guess I could sneeze into a picture of Bugs Bunny, frame it on a purple and orange striped frame, and hang it sideways and call it art.

Or take a clump of dirt, hurl it across the room, and call the spot where it made a mark a work of art.

Or we could call useless pieces of cardboard that wrap around a plastic box pieces of art.

Or better yet...we could take a large hunk of rock, chip at it every so often until it looks like something real like say a person or a building or a plant, and call it art. Or maybe take some colored goo and spread it on a canvas in a pattern that may or may not look like a sunset on the beach and call it art.

Escapay

Escapay wrote:I guess I could sneeze into a picture of Bugs Bunny, frame it on a purple and orange striped frame, and hang it sideways and call it art.

Or take a clump of dirt, hurl it across the room, and call the spot where it made a mark a work of art.

Or better yet...we could take a large hunk of rock, chip at it every so often until it looks like something real like say a person or a building or a plant, and call it art.

If you did, I'd have to sue you for stealing my creations.

Alan, calling slipcovers pieces of art is kinda overdoing it, don't you think? I mean, just because it's a duplication of the coverart and opens like a book, doesn't mean it's an artistic creation.

Well, let us not forget that there are different levels of art and we all have different tastes.

As for myself, I don't care much for most of the Disney cover art, period, whcih probably explains why I don't get too excited about slipcovers. If they were to put some really amazing artwork on them, then maybe.

To me, that's the same reasoning behind collecting a sericel as opposed to a production cel. What's the point of the former?

Pasta67 wrote: Alan, calling slipcovers pieces of art is kinda overdoing it, don't you think? I mean, just because it's a duplication of the coverart and opens like a book, doesn't mean it's an artistic creation.

People do say the strangest things on the internet, and there's no real way to tell what's true and what's not, but by now, this slipcover-obsession-and-calling-it-art is REALLY REALLY REALLY pushing it for me. Alan, I know you're young and everything, but some of the things you say just amaze/puzzle me and just...well it just makes me wonder whether you're saying it to be different, saying it to get attention and be known on UD as the young slipcover lover, or saying it because it's genuine. But slipcovers as art...just too strange for me. It's a piece of cardboard that's used for marketing and to give the feeling of protection and importance.

Escapay

You know, all of this kind of reminds me of when I was a kid and collected the Disney soundtracks.

Remember how they used to seal them in a big plastic package with some rather tall inserts?

I used to collect those bonus inserts or whatever they were called. Not that they ever became more important than the CD, nor did they ever sway me into buying or not buying one, but I enjoyed them immensly and hung them on my bedroom wall.

Of course, the artwork for those were a lot nicer than any slipcover.

<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/ ... lation.jpg" alt="Nala reads this thread">

Even though Nala realizes that she's basically just an unfinished chunk of fired raku clay, she reads this thread and contemplates what truly encompasses real art. A cardboard marketing ploy? A Picasso? A half-eaten sandwich? Hmm. . .

And when she sees this picture of herself, she freaks. She didn't realize her back end was so big!

you know what they said:
"The garbage of one is the treasure of other"