i keep having to make threads like these

facetious

Things I am bad at: brevity.

Tonkka

I have done Willy Shakes.

I was the best.

facetious

Heh heh. "Willy Shakes". Heh heh.

-SPI-

Orikaeshigitae wrote:

Airking850 wrote:

Orikaeshigitae wrote:

Quoth wrote:

I like comfy art

I want art that is like a warm blanket and a mug of cocoa

me too

'swhy i keep coming back to adventure time

But they throw a total gut punch in every once in a while.

what then?

oh man

this is going to be one of Those Threads, where i end up writing a huge essay on why some piece of culture works despite nobody actually caring

awesome

go find the max payne thread while i eat 2 am fast food. i'll be back to this idea.

I have a fine arts degree and a head full of bullshit. Let's rock and roll.

Airking850

I assure you that I would read such an essay.

Tef

-SPI- wrote:

Tef wrote:

Orikaeshigitae wrote:

if you're comfortable then you're not really being challenged, and that goes for any kind of art, not just trying to get a reaction

I agree in principle, but the type of thing I'm talking about here is people that are wholly and solely attempting to get shock reactions from their audiences without any clear or thought-out direction to the piece outside of, 'I'm gonna paint on this portrait with poo'

If one paints a portrait with poo the medium used is not in fact poo, it is the reactions of the people that look upon it. The artist is not creating a picture made of faeces, they are making a picture made of raw revulsion. The art is as irrelevant to the final product as a brush is to an oil painting, simply a tool, not the art itself.

HRRRRNNNNGGGG

#pipe

I've never been in a play.

I have played a bunch of trumpet in a bunch of pit bands though.

good times.

Orikaeshigitae

Tef wrote:

-SPI- wrote:

Tef wrote:

Orikaeshigitae wrote:

if you're comfortable then you're not really being challenged, and that goes for any kind of art, not just trying to get a reaction

I agree in principle, but the type of thing I'm talking about here is people that are wholly and solely attempting to get shock reactions from their audiences without any clear or thought-out direction to the piece outside of, 'I'm gonna paint on this portrait with poo'

If one paints a portrait with poo the medium used is not in fact poo, it is the reactions of the people that look upon it. The artist is not creating a picture made of faeces, they are making a picture made of raw revulsion. The art is as irrelevant to the final product as a brush is to an oil painting, simply a tool, not the art itself.

HRRRRNNNNGGGG

*shrug*

it makes sense apart from the incorrect equivalence drawn between poo and a brush when it should be between poo and paint

#pipe

Also I count seeing Hamlet at the Globe in London as one of the most important moments of my life

Tonkka

facetious wrote:

Heh heh. "Willy Shakes". Heh heh.

I KNOW RIGHT AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAFUCKYOU.

facetious

E: pipe I'm jealous. Damn.

-SPI-

Orikaeshigitae wrote:

Tef wrote:

-SPI- wrote:

Tef wrote:

Orikaeshigitae wrote:

if you're comfortable then you're not really being challenged, and that goes for any kind of art, not just trying to get a reaction

I agree in principle, but the type of thing I'm talking about here is people that are wholly and solely attempting to get shock reactions from their audiences without any clear or thought-out direction to the piece outside of, 'I'm gonna paint on this portrait with poo'

If one paints a portrait with poo the medium used is not in fact poo, it is the reactions of the people that look upon it. The artist is not creating a picture made of faeces, they are making a picture made of raw revulsion. The art is as irrelevant to the final product as a brush is to an oil painting, simply a tool, not the art itself.

HRRRRNNNNGGGG

*shrug*

it makes sense apart from the incorrect equivalence drawn between poo and a brush when it should be between poo and paint

How so? Paint is the medium of the artwork. The image is rendered in paint, here the image is rendered in the viewer. The tool used to create each is the brush and the poo.

#pipe

-SPI- wrote:

How so? Paint is the medium of the artwork. The image is rendered in paint, here the image is rendered in the viewer. The tool used to create each is the brush and the poo.

no see he's not taking a piece of poop and dipping it in paint and then painting a portrait

he's smearing poop across a canvass to make a portrait

#pipe

Like how some people paint with menstrual fluid

YaYa

here is the short version of my theatrical experience

did a lot of acting in high school, small parts, etc

met a girl when I was right out of high school, fell incredibly in love with her, did a lot of amateur theatre mostly due to dating her at the time

wrote an article on a shitty local theatre website that really pissed a lot of people off

broke up with the girl and fucked the director of a show I was in at the time

slowly lost interest

ended up at a gathering of local theatre people, realized I hated everyone there, went off to make my own films and never looked back


the end!

DarkPrimus

Bravo!

-SPI-

#pipe wrote:

-SPI- wrote:

How so? Paint is the medium of the artwork. The image is rendered in paint, here the image is rendered in the viewer. The tool used to create each is the brush and the poo.

no see he's not taking a piece of poop and dipping it in paint and then painting a portrait

he's smearing poop across a canvass to make a portrait

Yes but the portrait painted in poo is just the tool to create the actual portrait in flesh, the portrait of the reaction of the viewer. This is how all "provocative" art works, the actual artwork itself is largely irrelevant. It's artistic trolling, the important part isn't object, duchamp's urinal wasn't the important part, it's the reaction and the controversy.

It's not a painting in poo, it's a painting in people. The poo artwork is simply the brush used to paint their reactions.

#pipe

-SPI- wrote:

#pipe wrote:

-SPI- wrote:

How so? Paint is the medium of the artwork. The image is rendered in paint, here the image is rendered in the viewer. The tool used to create each is the brush and the poo.

no see he's not taking a piece of poop and dipping it in paint and then painting a portrait

he's smearing poop across a canvass to make a portrait

Yes but the portrait painted in poo is just the tool to create the actual portrait in flesh, the portrait of the reaction of the viewer. This is how all "provocative" art works, the actual artwork itself is largely irrelevant. It's artistic trolling, the important part isn't object, duchamp's urinal wasn't the important part, it's the reaction and the controversy.

It's not a painting in poo, it's a painting in people. The poo artwork is simply the brush used to paint their reactions.

yeah but it's a cleaner analogy to compare the poo and the paint

FAQ

I wanna hear about that article

-SPI-

#pipe wrote:

-SPI- wrote:

#pipe wrote:

-SPI- wrote:

How so? Paint is the medium of the artwork. The image is rendered in paint, here the image is rendered in the viewer. The tool used to create each is the brush and the poo.

no see he's not taking a piece of poop and dipping it in paint and then painting a portrait

he's smearing poop across a canvass to make a portrait

Yes but the portrait painted in poo is just the tool to create the actual portrait in flesh, the portrait of the reaction of the viewer. This is how all "provocative" art works, the actual artwork itself is largely irrelevant. It's artistic trolling, the important part isn't object, duchamp's urinal wasn't the important part, it's the reaction and the controversy.

It's not a painting in poo, it's a painting in people. The poo artwork is simply the brush used to paint their reactions.

yeah but it's a cleaner analogy to compare the poo and the paint

Sure, but it undermines the argument. It's too obvious, doesn't leave as much room for bullshit.

YaYa

FAQ wrote:

I wanna hear about that article

I'm not sure if I have it lying around anymore, but basically there are two award ceremonies in what was my branch of amateur theatre, the guilds and the lyrebirds, sort of like the oscars and the golden globes respectively

I was asked to do a report on the lyrebirds

most of the reports from previous years were 'it was fun, people dressed up, here's everyone who won'

my report was 'wow, everyone is really drunk and doesn't at all seem to be caring about this beyond an excuse to party, this ceremony is kind of silly and self-serious, oh hey the show directed by the president of the awards committee won all the awards, how interesting'

I literally had legal action threatened against me

Orikaeshigitae

-SPI- wrote:

#pipe wrote:

-SPI- wrote:

#pipe wrote:

-SPI- wrote:

How so? Paint is the medium of the artwork. The image is rendered in paint, here the image is rendered in the viewer. The tool used to create each is the brush and the poo.

no see he's not taking a piece of poop and dipping it in paint and then painting a portrait

he's smearing poop across a canvass to make a portrait

Yes but the portrait painted in poo is just the tool to create the actual portrait in flesh, the portrait of the reaction of the viewer. This is how all "provocative" art works, the actual artwork itself is largely irrelevant. It's artistic trolling, the important part isn't object, duchamp's urinal wasn't the important part, it's the reaction and the controversy.

It's not a painting in poo, it's a painting in people. The poo artwork is simply the brush used to paint their reactions.

yeah but it's a cleaner analogy to compare the poo and the paint

Sure, but it undermines the argument.

did you finish that liberal arts degree

-SPI-

Fine Arts. Far superior levels of over analysed bullshit nonsense gibberish.

godmode

Funny, was just talking about theater with Dave on Facebook earlier! I discovered that good performances are going to be in town shortly and I wish I had someone to see them with. I miss theatre, both performing and attending.

I performed in high school productions of "You Can't Take It With You", "Macbeth", and some smaller shows. Was always a blast.

Gumpy

One more day till essay hand ins

One more day

Deicist

My only experience with theatre is playing the part of an old woman in a modern day retelling of the pied piper when I was 14.

I was disturbingly convincing apparently.

Garlic Bread

Tonkka wrote:

I have done Willy Shakes.

I was the best.

More than three times and you're playing with yourself

tynic

I like going to the theatre!

I have never acted but I have done some cabaret. But mostly I just like going to plays. Even weird avant-garde german plays set in new york where halfway through the cast sing a song about tofu.

Garlic Bread

My theater experience is I played the donkey in a pre-school production of the Nativity

and the Maître d (I think) in Hello Dolly in 8th grade

I think I'm a pretty good actor.

Beasteh

i have been

sir toby belch

puck

caliban

mercutio

shakespeare amdram all up ins

Munkus Beaver

I love acting. I absolutely adore it. I wish I had better voice control so I could do consistent VA work. One of my greatest regrets is that I cannot sing.

I'd join an improv group if there was a decent one around.

FAQ

I played

beauty's dad

and it brought the fucking house down

Edcrab

I've done voices for radio! ...in local adverts

That probably doesn't count, does it, when you're flogging off cheap warehousing

Never acted in a proper capacity, but goddamn do I know a lot of "theatre people". They are, without exception, either interesting and downright awesome or they're so far up their own arses that they make the average writer look like a paragon of humility and grace.

FAQ

I was on a kids gameshow and said a poem

PaperLuigi44

I did some plays during high school, inlcuding one mini-play I wrote. Trying to commit lines to memory was a trying (but ultimately rewarding) experience.

Actually, a couple of months ago, a customer recognised me and complimented me on one of my performances. Which would have been 4 or 5 years ago.

Abracadaniel

I sang a solo in elementary school

Still know the lyrics

Crazy what your brain holds onto.

Crimson King

Orikaeshigitae wrote:

oh man

this is going to be one of Those Threads, where i end up writing a huge essay on why some piece of culture works despite nobody actually caring

awesome

go find the max payne thread while i eat 2 am fast food. i'll be back to this idea.

orik i am pretty excited to hear you explain adventure time

Mr Fuzzbutt

When I was little I saw Cats.

There was a dark section so it seemed like a pretty good opportunity to pick my nose.

At that moment the lights came on real bright and one of the actors was looking right at me.

Beasteh

did you slowly eat it

Oghulk

Oh man! Theatre thread!?

I'm performing Leading Ladies for the UIL one-act competition this spring. It'll be interesting to do but should be a lot of fun!