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Subject: Re: Wetlook: Mainstream, Fringe, or Somewhere in Between?

Date: Wed 04/03/09 03:52:20 GMT

Name: soggybottom

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I don't think it matters much where society sees it. I'm sure that "society" doesn't even think about it. It is important only to those who really like it.

I think it is just a sidelight of anything. People think it is funny, odd, stimulating or just don't consider it. It is getting much more common though. The last episode of The Batchelor; they ended up in the pool. For some reason it is getting written into these shows. (I'm sure that was planned).

I don't think much about what others think. I just know that I'm addicted to it; always have been and probably will be when I'm in my wheelchair in the "home". "What's he doing under that blanket?"

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Wetlook: Mainstream, Fringe, or Somewhere in Between?

By Poliut - Tue 03/03/09 16:17:50 GMT

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Where would you say wetlook happens to be on the Mainstream-Fringe scale?

I would have to say that while it's not quite at the mainstream level just yet, it's getting there. I wouldn't consider it completely fringe, as there has been enough exposure of wetlook in the mainstream avenues of society (though I think it's often not as much as anyone here would like). Some of the things our talented* filmmakers, photographers and writers produce would probably be considered more towards the fringe side of society (at least from MPOV). Not that being fringe is bad - everything mainstream started out as a fringe element. When would I consider wetlook to be finally mainstream? That's an even tougher question, especially since the shift from fringe to mainstream is very gradual and difficult to measure.

I will say that here, it's considered more of an art, where in the mainstream it's more of a sidethought or circumstance, and that shift could significantly swing the stand of wetlook on the Mainstream-Fringe scale. I still haven't found that scene that looked like it was shot by Swen Goebbels, Leon Moomin, or Erik Elsas in a Hollywood blockbuster film - but then again I'm not looking hard enough either (most movies just don't interest me that much these days)...

Agree? Disagree? Think I'm a blind moron again?

*As much as I may crtiticize and second-guess what comes out, I still love ya (in a completely non-romantic manner, of course)

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