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RailFoxen · Vociferator Joined: 01 Jan 2005 Posts: 625

Who'd take bets he has a hard-on? Hmm... he defends it as art, claims everyone does it, and loves to take pictures of himself doing it. Sounds quite suspect...

Tass · Prattler Joined: 05 Mar 2005 Posts: 178

You know, It's a nifty idea..

But there could be SO much better done with it..

Besides, the guys an photographer, and have you SEEN the gallery?

I didn't see anything you know..
"SEXY"
It actually looks quite well done, but I can't get a close up..

And the shots in his gallery have nothing to do with 9/11..
He was probably doing it to commemerate it somehow, personally i'd rather he friggin STOP being an attention whore.

And also, anybody who says "He's an artist, he should go paint fruit bowls or something." about a photographer..
Needs SERIOUS help.

EDIT: also, it's probably more adrenaline based then anything..
Like jumping out of an airplane.

Ray Prower · Prattler Joined: 11 Apr 2005 Posts: 166

And also, anybody who says "He's an artist, he should go paint fruit bowls or something." about a photographer..
Needs SERIOUS help.

That was the funniest comment in the article.

As if all artists ever do these day is paint fruit. That and like you said, he is a photographer, not a brush-n-paint type of artist.

Computolio · Needs to get out more Joined: 01 Jun 2003 Posts: 865

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Paul · Needs to get out more Joined: 01 Feb 2004 Posts: 1092

Who'd take bets he has a hard-on? Hmm... he defends it as art, claims everyone does it, and loves to take pictures of himself doing it. Sounds quite suspect...

I'm with Tass, seems perfectly legit. There's lots of odd things going on in art circles... That's the point of much art: to explore new territory, even at the risk of getting silly. Nothing sexual about this. Self-gratifying, surely, as almost all art in a way is. But that's something different.

BTW, in principle, I don't see anything wrong with mixing art and sexual excitement although I'm sure it happens very rarely. Take some of Jeff Koons' sexually explicit sculptures: making sculptures is hard and very time-consuming work; the process is totally useless as wank material (as are his sculptures... there's just that little bit weird about them that make them a comment on sexuality rather than three-dimensional porn). That reminds me of a performance art piece I saw last year where the performer got naked on stage and poured bodypaint over herself in rhythm with the accompanying music... it was close to a strip tease but essentally different. Nothing sexual about at all.

Eh, I'm babbling. But I do find much "strange" modern art to be very fascinating. While the really good works are few and far betwen, it's interesting to see all the weird stuff people come up with. :)

Monkey King · Vociferator Joined: 16 Jun 2005 Posts: 459

Eh, he's just another artist who doesn't realize that Picasso was playing a colossal joke on the art community and laughing all the way to the bank. Gawk for a moment and move along.

AngryPuritan · Needs to get out more Joined: 15 Jan 2005 Posts: 1361

Eh, he's just another artist who doesn't realize that Picasso was playing a colossal joke on the art community and laughing all the way to the bank. Gawk for a moment and move along.

Were we a curator at the Degenerate Art show, Herr King?

Anyway, it sets unwell with me when artists make publicity stunts without anything to back them up, buti f they were to be inoffensive all the time, and were ever-so-careful to not piss off anyone...

Art would loose it's balls completely.

baserock love · Vociferator Joined: 04 Dec 2004 Posts: 685

"Eh, he's just another artist who doesn't realize that Picasso was playing a colossal joke on the art community and laughing all the way to the bank. Gawk for a moment and move along."

I knew it! Fuck Picasso!

Monkey King · Vociferator Joined: 16 Jun 2005 Posts: 459

Were we a curator at the Degenerate Art show, Herr King?

No, but I've been to the Frankfurt Museum of Modern Art, which is close enough. You could put up a hermaphrodite macro vore art exhibition in there and nobody would bat an eye.

"The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous. I have contented these people with all the many bizarre things that have come into my head. And the less they understand, the more they admire it. By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous ... I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time."
- Pablo Picasso

...And they haven't caught on yet.

Paul · Needs to get out more Joined: 01 Feb 2004 Posts: 1092

"The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous. I have contented these people with all the many bizarre things that have come into my head. And the less they understand, the more they admire it. By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous ... I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time."
- Pablo Picasso

...And they haven't caught on yet.

How do you know they haven't? The artist's motives for making art are irrelevant. It's the art that counts. Art, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.

Also, Picasso's works have proven to be first-rate investment objects, so even if Picasso laughed all the way to the bank, so did pretty much everyone who ever bought a picture off of him.

RailFoxen · Vociferator Joined: 01 Jan 2005 Posts: 625

The first post was something of a badly phrased joke.

Personally, I think he's another delusional and strange man in a long line of bullshit modern artists who've lost the point of the movement. (You can only call a urinal art once before you've lost the idea.) Now, his recent little stunt's just... dumb. Hmm, he falls off things and calls it art. But now he's so distraught over this loss of life, he needs a way to commemorate it... so he falls off of a building and calls it art. I wouldn't doubt he believes he's doing something for the enlightenment of society - I don't see it as a publicity stunt, though it may be. I'm more willing to write the guy off as crazy. Of course, if he's making bank and having a good laugh off of people who admire his work in fancy galleries, more power to him. But his quote makes me doubt that.

Just for fun, go back, read his words, try to fit them to a meaning. Where have we heard that before? After all, we're all animals, most of us just ignore our natural state...

Dr. Dos · Vociferator Joined: 11 Oct 2004 Posts: 718

FROLESWORTH (n.)

Measure. The minimum time it is necessary to spend frowning in deep concentration at each picture in an art gallery in order that everyone else doesn't think you've a complete moron.