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Roland Karlsson said:

Chato said:

On the other hand, an appropriate end to that video would have been a team of Commandoes, blowing that bouncing dweeb into the next universe.

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hehe ... isnt it annoying?

But is it art?

Just to round it off .. another one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxEkDkvDVPk

... and maybe another one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3xM84AfKzM

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But I have never wished you any harm, let alone attempted to cause any harm. In fact on those occasions when I think of you, I wish you well.

Yet here you are trying to kill me. What, WHAT have I done to deserve this?

Dave

Roland Karlsson said:

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Roland Karlsson said:

hehe ... isnt it annoying?

But is it art?

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Art can often be annoying.

For example; ... anything ever done by Julian Schnabel.

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Chato said:

But I have never wished you any harm, let alone attempted to cause any harm. In fact on those occasions when I think of you, I wish you well.

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Harm? Of course I mean you no harm.

I am trying to decide if you are joking or not.

If you are not joking ... please accept my apologies.

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stanislaw stitchanow said:

everywhere you see pictures of any subject.

Nudes for example, I think I have seen anything and it is plain boring, the poses are a repetition, the light is a repetition etc. Just the models are different.
Same goes for Babies, Flowers, Weddings nearly anything

Same goes for Landscapes, Bryce Canyon, antilope etc. You see thousands of pictures of it and it is boring in 99.99%

In my opinion that is the real problem, that the eyes are getting tired of the endless repetition and the flood of pictures.

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Your comments, with very slight modifications, could have been said at any time over the past thousand years. "Another painting of a woman's face??...'The eyes are getting tired of the endless repetition.'" ... until some old Italian guy produced the Mona Lisa.

The point being that great art is all about taking the same tired old subjects and doing something dazzling with them. Great music uses the "same old notes" used in every mediocre piece. Great chefs don't invent new food; ... they find inventive ways of presenting the "same old food".

And when producing graphic art, it doesn't matter what process was used to create the image. Paint, pixels, clay, ... whatever it takes to place the image and the idea before the viewer.

Claiming that photography can't be used to produce art is like saying anything that uses the color red cannot be art. Photography is just one of the newer tools in the art media basket. Keep in mind that at one time the same debate raged about water-colors versus oils, and more recently, printmaking.

Roland Karlsson said:

Chato said:

But I have never wished you any harm, let alone attempted to cause any harm. In fact on those occasions when I think of you, I wish you well.

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Harm? Of course I mean you no harm.

I am trying to decide if you are joking or not.

If you are not joking ... please accept my apologies.

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I had to go to Belvue because of a seizure induced by those videos. Not even Alfred and the Chipmunks are even vaguely comparable...

(Well, maybe I am joking, but it sure would help this, err, artist, if a team of commandoes DID pop out of nowhere and blow him away; followed by crowds of cheering spectators, to make the ending even more satisfactory.)

Roland - That was baaaaaaaad....

Dave

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From: http://www.patricktaylor.com/141

The Tate Gallery's pile of bricks

As an aside, the 'Pile of Bricks' is the popular name for some building materials the Tate Gallery bought from Carl Andre in 1972. Andre's so-called minimalist sculpture ('Equivalent VIII') consists of 120 firebricks placed on the floor in a rectangular formation. The Pile isn't always on display. It can be dismantled for storage, but each time it's put on display again the bricks aren't assembled in any particular order, so even if it was a work of art, it isn't really the work originally purchased. The Tate Gallery never recorded the order and orientation in which Andre first arranged them.

The Turner Prize is firmly associated with such 'Conceptual Art'. This is a branch of the visual arts in which an idea takes precedence over the aesthetics and craftsmanship traditionally associated with the great media handed down to us through the centuries (notably drawing, painting, and sculpture). A conceptual artist making an installation or presenting an objet trouvé is not required to demonstrate any skill, except (i) skill in coming up with a gimmick no-one else has thought of before and (ii) skill in self-promotion.

Turner's [Tracey's] unmade bed

When an artist called Tracey hit on the concept of her unmade bed 'graphically illustrating' the "whole human life-cycle in the place where most of us spend our most significant moments" and felt it should win an award for artistic merit, she decided to send it in for the 1999 Turner Prize. Lo, Serota and his arty cronies shortlisted 'My Bed' into the top four entries, undeterred by the fact that this applies to most people's beds. Ah, but wait. Of course. No-one else had thought of it before. The Turner Prize sponsors would love it and Charles Saatchi might like to buy Tracey.co.uk's unmade bed for £150,000.

Also:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivalent_VIII

http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/artpages/tracey_emin_my_bed.htm

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DMillier said:

From: http://www.patricktaylor.com/141

The Tate Gallery's pile of bricks

As an aside, the 'Pile of Bricks' is the popular name for some building materials the Tate Gallery bought from Carl Andre in 1972. Andre's so-called minimalist sculpture ('Equivalent VIII') consists of 120 firebricks placed on the floor in a rectangular formation. The Pile isn't always on display. It can be dismantled for storage, but each time it's put on display again the bricks aren't assembled in any particular order, so even if it was a work of art, it isn't really the work originally purchased. The Tate Gallery never recorded the order and orientation in which Andre first arranged them.

The Turner Prize is firmly associated with such 'Conceptual Art'. This is a branch of the visual arts in which an idea takes precedence over the aesthetics and craftsmanship traditionally associated with the great media handed down to us through the centuries (notably drawing, painting, and sculpture). A conceptual artist making an installation or presenting an objet trouvé is not required to demonstrate any skill, except (i) skill in coming up with a gimmick no-one else has thought of before and (ii) skill in self-promotion.

Turner's [Tracey's] unmade bed

When an artist called Tracey hit on the concept of her unmade bed 'graphically illustrating' the "whole human life-cycle in the place where most of us spend our most significant moments" and felt it should win an award for artistic merit, she decided to send it in for the 1999 Turner Prize. Lo, Serota and his arty cronies shortlisted 'My Bed' into the top four entries, undeterred by the fact that this applies to most people's beds. Ah, but wait. Of course. No-one else had thought of it before. The Turner Prize sponsors would love it and Charles Saatchi might like to buy Tracey.co.uk's unmade bed for £150,000.

Also:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivalent_VIII

http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/artpages/tracey_emin_my_bed.htm

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I believe I comented to you and others my feelings about the, "If you put a frame around it, it's art" theory....

And I'm still debating whether I should send a request for cash from the author of a book I read justifying this rather, err, novel idea...

That's another thing you should consider yourself lucky about. You didn't have to read the book. For reasons I wont go into, I had to read the book...

Dave

just passing by and with no arguments to add or credible things to say...here's a pict taken 2 days back after an hour of climb and mosquito frenzy attacks

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