By Steve Stratford, Deputy Editor
I've just got out of our regular Monday morning news meeting with the reporters, where we go through what stories everybody has and discuss them. And we've certainly got some different ones this week!
But of course I'm not going to be silly enough to tell you what they all are now - for a start, rival eyes may be watching!
But suffice to say we have a sliced eyeball, a flying pig, a damaged roof, a vandalised bridge, a cruelly targeted pensioner and much, much more. I'm quite looking forward to this Thursday!
A quick aside: I received one of those press releases the other day that have to be seen to be believed, the type that should never make it into print as supplied. It's about an exhibition at Colwyn Bay library by Indian artist Bharti Jain, who has worked as an artist and teacher for the last 20 years in Mumbai. But this is what she says about her work in the press release:
"Nature has been the most inspiring force in all my artistic endeavours. I use nature with its elements as a metaphor in my visual expression of an idea, impression, experience or an emotion. I find no incompatibility between the inspiration from within and the dependence on nature. The essence of inspiration is from within, but the forms of expression are external. Yet each of my expressions gets nurtured and blossoms with my own elucidating insight."
I'm sorry, what?! As I was typing that out I did actually get the gist of what she was saying, but does it have to be so monumentally pretentious and ostentatious? How many people are going to read that and think: "Wow, that sounds amazing, I must go along!" Certainly nobody who wouldn't have considered going along in the first place.
We often get press releases like that from art galleries and the like, and while such rhetoric might work in the arts world, it certainly doesn't sell in the real world. What it should read is: "I paint mountains and thunderous skies."
I still won't be going, though...
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