Comments on Mountains and Water: Chuck Frybergers New Film The Scene

I was writing about the film The Scene. The search...

2011-09-17T07:12:34.315-06:00

I was writing about the film The Scene. The search for meaning is often the topic of works of art such as film, etc.

If you are making the argument that bouldering is shallow and therefore my complaint is ironic because I am a boulderer, you would have to explain how bouldering is shallow and precludes any possibility of deeper significance. Let's hear about that some more.

"I fail to see the "irony" in any c...

2011-09-17T01:34:58.463-06:00

"I fail to see the "irony" in any case, since bouldering films (or any film) can lack the same focus on surface at the expense of meaning."

Who said anything about the "films"? I was referring to the search for meaning. Is that search only validated by how the "films" that try to portray that search are judged?

Anon, Good call on Mayan's blog. However defin...

2011-09-16T07:27:11.009-06:00

Anon,
Good call on Mayan's blog. However defining bouldering as "the shallowest form of climbing (if it can even be called that)" is flaunting one's prejudices a bit too obviously. I fail to see the "irony" in any case, since bouldering films (or any film) can lack the same focus on surface at the expense of meaning.

"The segment on Spain seems to find its way m...

2011-09-16T01:34:09.803-06:00

"The segment on Spain seems to find its way more successfully than the others though again, there is this avoidance of any exploration of the meaning of all this activity, any searching for a deeper dimension."

Ironic to here this from an avowed boulderer, by definition the shallowest form of climbing (if it can even be called that)

Try Mayan's most recent post, one of the better ruminations on the subject you (in principle anyway) are concerned with:

http://www.mayanclimbs.com/

That's putting it a bit strongly but I would l...

2011-09-06T17:48:17.552-06:00

That's putting it a bit strongly but I would love to see a bit more introspection and consideration of what the act of climbing means besides spectacle and a vehicle for selling stuff

after climbing narcissist, it's time for climb...

2011-09-06T14:49:08.381-06:00

after climbing narcissist, it's time for climbing nihilist?