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I love stuff like this.
Science is magical.
Your hair is thicker than Barzul, I'd be offended if you didn't let it flow and flourish on that folliclely blessed planet of bone you call a head.
Mother of god.
LabouredSubterfuge
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Buffon is confirmed out for the England game.
Art's a weird one.
I can appreciate a good painting, or a banksy, or something with immediate aesthetic value that may well have a statement to say about something or other.
But that's only 5% of art. The rest, largely, irritates me.
And music isn't art.
I can appreciate a good painting, or a banksy, or something with immediate aesthetic value that may well have a statement to say about something or other.
But that's only 5% of art. The rest, largely, irritates me.
And music isn't art.
£50m worth of art was donated to the Tate gallery in London the other day.
Fifty million pounds worth.
pulga
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pulga
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Agreed. Its fucking ludicrous to think it isn't.
Justin Bieber is clearly art. It's a cynical study into society's stagnation and decline. One of the greatest works of art of our generation.
I can play guitar fairly well, without blowing my own trumpet.
I enjoy music, I think it plays a really important part in society. But I wouldn't call it art.
I might've thought differently if I were alive when music attempted to say something. When it rebelled against the government etc. I've grown up with the Arctic Monkeys and Pitbull.
£50m worth of art was donated to the Tate gallery in London the other day.
Fifty million pounds worth.
Exactly my point.
Not having that.
It's pokemon cards for affluent fucktards.
You've convinced me.
I concede I was wrong.
Music is art, then. On that we're agreed. Going back to my earlier point about 95% of art not befitting the definition (see above), music fits perfectly within this category.
you're just jealous
LabouredSubterfuge
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I don't think the term 'art' needs to connote a degree of 'high quality', which I think many people seem to conflate it with.
Art can be crap too. An artistic work just needs to have an element of creativity about it. I think the bar for something being art is actually pretty low. And so what if it is?
Art can be crap too. An artistic work just needs to have an element of creativity about it. I think the bar for something being art is actually pretty low. And so what if it is?
Broder Salsa
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If fucking banksy is art, then so is pittbull.
Why not?
HotHamWater
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That chicks butthole was art.
Shanks D Zoro
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Only football is art, and Totti is the only true master.
Antibiotic resistance, not ours but the bacteria and shit. You basically get a situation where drugs that were designed to target those organisms don't work any more because they've mutated to become resistant to them. Inappropriate prescribing and use has sped this process up.
My anxiety-ridden mind is just assuming that them being more readily available (just walk in to your local pharmacy and buy some!) will mean more inappropriate use. I don't know that this is necessarily borne out by the evidence base.
pulga
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god yes, hannibal makes me so jelly ill never be 1/4 of the cook he is </3
LabouredSubterfuge
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I was rash.
Thinking about it, of course it is.
Referring back to my original point music is the perfect example of why art frustrates me. Because the vast majority of it is relatively talentless pineapples too lazy to earn a proper living scamming a wage with the faintest fart of creativity.
Of course for every person who manages this there are hundreds who try and fail. The people who call themselves writers and painters and musicians but have an income befitting someone not actually in work. Because truthfully they aren't. Yet they still paint and write and sing.
They're everywhere, look in the right place under the right floorboard and you'll find them. No shoes and socks with dirty fingernails and a greasy scalp. Their days are spent watching television and smoking meagre rollups. You wouldn't believe how many I met when flat hunting in Peckham. They love those basement flats with little natural light.
"What do you do?"
"I'm a writer"
"Oh really, that's cool, what sort of stuff have you written"
"I'm between projects at the moment"
oh aye
The world moves on without them.
I apologise if this is overly judgemental I just wanted to write something mad and I'm bored as fuck.
Gareth Bale
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I did a module on this at university
Fun fact: There are two methods of acquiring drug resistance. One is genetic mutation, and the other is some sort of genetic transfer that is really fucking boring and you should be happy that you'll never be forced to learn about.
edit: the resistance mechanisms themselves were quite interesting though.
Amazing.
Bacteria sounds great.
I really do wish I'd focussed on some form of science at school. I got Bs in them all at GCSE then fucked 'em off for a life of English. I don't even want to learn about it for employment purposes - the idea of working in a lab doesn't make my willy tingle - but I'm fascinated by how the world works and functions.
I buy books about physics and shit but don't get around to reading them because there's always something slightly more appealing on the shelf. Like the story of how Pep Guardiola swerved a drugs ban.
"Old man yells at cloud"
Most people believe that something must be made with a high degree of technical skill or have a useful function to have intrinsic value. To me, the easiest way to explain art's value would be that it defines an understanding of culture that other people aren't easily able to recognize or experience.
People who dismiss important art works because they're just paint splatters or blocks of color aren't wrong, they just haven't been educated on art, which shouldn't come as a big surprise as art education is pretty abysmal in public education.
Yeah I sat in with my design class on some photography for Carl's Jr burgers. The food stylist sits there with tweezers to make sure every sesame seed on the bun is perfectly placed, and there's a very short window of time where photos can be taken. If you don't get it just perfect, you have to make the whole thing again. It's very painstaking. Though I think he was making a bit more than what you said, it was more like $200 per hour. Nuts.
This is also definitely true.
My step dad loves art. He studied it and he loves it.
I 100% readily admit that I have no formal art training to help me understand why something along the lines of an empty tin can or a seemingly incoherent splash of paint has intrinsic value.
Saying that, there's only so much time in the day and space in one's brain so I suppose there's also an argument to say people simply have other things to be getting on with.
pulga
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like shanks said in the other thread, not like you'll be getting many shots in anyway bb
Explain it to us.
It's like someone said Rothko's art is amazing because he uses the golden ratio. I know what the golden ratio is too. That's not art, that's science.
Gareth Bale
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One time after a long session I came up with this idea about art that you need a microscope to see. Like art using stained cells or something like that. Or maybe take artsy pictures and enlarge them. It's probably been done but there like was a good hour or so where I was convinced that this was my destiny.
Baconsaurus Rex
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There's art that's simply amazing because of the work and skill that is required to make it.
There's art which simply looks beautiful.
There's art that has an important message or lesson, a point to be made.
And there's art which is nothing but splooges of red paint on a big canvas.
There's art which simply looks beautiful.
There's art that has an important message or lesson, a point to be made.
And there's art which is nothing but splooges of red paint on a big canvas.
:lol
I've said before how I think modern art is just a conspiracy to launder money. The absolute worst is Tracy Emin.
Broder Salsa
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This is real art (nsfw despite no nudity,
)
http://youtu.be/wKFZOIv5sS0
i was linked from a GAF thread, don't ban me bro
http://youtu.be/wKFZOIv5sS0
And there's the guy in the OT who tried to turn his dick into a submarine.
Where on your scale said piece falls I'm not too sure. Indeed there's probably some considerable overlap.
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