Not long until lunch now. Whilst we're waiting, show, or tell me about a piece of modern art that you like.
Alternatively tell me about a rock and roll suicide.
(Cave Duck, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:10, 163 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Modern art is nearly entirely shit.
Alt: I'm not a fan of his music, but I've always appreciated Kurt Cobain's decorating. He really used his brains to paint that room.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:13, Reply)

What's red and white and got more brains than Kurt Cobain?
His ceiling.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:16, Reply)

That bender from the Manic Street Preachers was funniest.
He was such a fucking bender. When I started university I got some poxy 'student welcome pack' from Nat fucking West, which included an article by said bender all about how he never pissed about at university because he was an impoverished Taffy who was grateful for the opportunity and how all the students who got pissed were cunts.


Rock - and also Roll, 'Richey'. '4 Real'.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:17, Reply)

Michael Hutchence's death is something I still find funny

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:19, Reply)

Me too. What a wanker. Literally.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:20, Reply)

it's not a good way to go, is it?

( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:22, Reply)

Tell that to David Carradine.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:42, Reply)

Death by
five finger knuckle grip
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:44, Reply)

From Kylie to Paula Yates
No wonder he wanked himself to death
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:22, Reply)

I'd prefer Paula to Kylie.
Dirtier looking.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:26, Reply)

Lord NO!
Dirty in a tramps piss kind of way, maybe.
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:28, Reply)

Although Kylie's sister has a scampish gleam in her eye.
And norks.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:30, Reply)

Agreed

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:32, Reply)

If only we were discussing rock and roll murders
Because there are some awesome ones of those, such as Rasputin & Rikidôzan (stabbed with a urine soaked blade, in a nightclub. Threw the attacker out, and carried on partying)
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:25, Reply)

Russia's greatest love machine
took some getting rid of, didn't he?
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:26, Reply)

Definitely.
I love the Turisas version of that track though...
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:28, Reply)

If he is in fact dead.
I've placed a bet on him re-emerging next year, doing a cover of Dubstar's "I'm Not So Manic Now"
(Cave Duck, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:19, Reply)

Jeez, there's a blast from the past
I swapped my Elastica album for a mates Dubstar album. What I should have done is smashed them both with hammers.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:26, Reply)

like stewie and brian...
hey colonel, haven't you heard?
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:29, Reply)

is this of an ornithological nature?

( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:30, Reply)

i did think EVERYONE had heard

( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:44, Reply)

I was never sure if "it" was a girl or a boy

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:23, Reply)

Ah, 'Tripitaka Syndrome'

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:29, Reply)

Indeed sir
He/she/it is in the Severn Estuary for sure though
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:30, Reply)

I like the sinister certainty of this.
Have you still got the keys to his car, Sportscow?
(Cave Duck, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:33, Reply)

erm, no......
*Flushes keys down toilet*
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:34, Reply)

Being Welsh, he did the world a favour, by reducing the gene pool.

(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:31, Reply)

How "modern" is modern?

(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:15, Reply)

1860+ refers to the modern period.

(PsychoChomp, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:18, Reply)

I've always been a fan of Max Ernst.
I like the surrealist stuff.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:23, Reply)

If modern art
is from 1860-1970(ish) then it's mostly not that bad. Contemporary art, however, is by and large utter tosh. Half a cow and an unmade bed indeed *snorts* it's not art, it's dickheadism at it's very highest pinnacle.
(berk, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:26, Reply)

While there are cunts to buy it
cunts will make it! I give you Damien Hirst's £50million skull
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:27, Reply)

I really like that skull.

(PsychoChomp, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:30, Reply)

Looks like it belongs in the last Indiana Jones film

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:31, Reply)

Looks like dozens of ancient artifacts made for kings/tribal leaders since prehistoric times
just even more so because we're now able to get £13million of diamonds and platinum if we want and can afford it.
I also like that it did cost £50 million, that way it goes to the current "kings and tribal leaders" usually some cunt from Russia or Wall Street.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:35, Reply)

Then you're a div, quite frankly
it's garish and pointless, and what's more, any dickhead with a skull, some diamante and a fucking glue gun could make it - no talent was required whatsoever.
(berk, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:35, Reply)

That's kind of part of the point.
It's more annoying, though, that Hirst actually is a very good "proper" contemporary artist. He just chooses to produce that sort of shite because wankers will pay for it. disturbing.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:39, Reply)

A dead shark in a tank isn't art though, its science
and thus belongs in a musuem or suchlike, not some Russian oligarch's house
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:41, Reply)

You could argue that all Art should belong in Museums as well.

(PsychoChomp, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:42, Reply)

To my mind, art requires some kind of skill
painting, drawing, sculpture

NOT a fucking chainsaw and a fish
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:43, Reply)

I saw Michaelangelo's David when I was 9
Fucking incredible, the detail is just phenomenal.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:43, Reply)

That is art!
Stuff like the Sistine chapel, etc
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:44, Reply)

eleventy billion times this ^
If I could make it (given the right materials obviously) then it's not fucking art.
(berk, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:45, Reply)

I disagree.
With the right training most people (who aren't spackhanded retards) could copy almost any piece of art. So, therefore, you could make most of these things. What you couldn't do is make it originally, because you didn't have the idea. Ideas are just as much skill as being able to weild a brush or a chisel or a violin bow.

But, I still think Hirst's stuff is shite, mind.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:49, Reply)

Every month or soo I get someone who wants me to build a website, where they tell me the idea, get upset when I ask logic questions, and then say I can have 50% if I do 100% of the work and investment.
Most of the time they're porn related.

"I go around fucking these chicks, and we pay them, and we do it on video, and then sale the videos".

Or

"Facebook, yeah', £25b, yeah', how about we make a website that's like facebook, only it's for pugs. We'll make a fortune, there must be loads of pugs owners out there who want to share their pugs."

or

"Yeah', just like google, only it would belong to us".
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 12:36, Reply)

They are _not_ website developers, designers or even conceptionalists.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 12:37, Reply)

You need skill to use a chainsaw
and what about sculpture, they use hammers and wooden sculptures use chainsaws.
I think you're underestimating how hard it is to cut a shark in half and preserve it.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:45, Reply)

If it was alive it would be difficult, yes
Do you think he actually did it?
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:46, Reply)

Really depend on your definition of art.
I mean, I pretty much agree, but others certainly would argue that as long as it is willingly displayed and appreciated it can be classed as art.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:43, Reply)

This is one of the many reasons he's a cunt.

(berk, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:42, Reply)

..."and that was Art Today with berk"
"Tune in tomorrow to find out why Monet's 'Impression Sunrise' looks like it was painted buy her 3 year old niece"
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:40, Reply)

"and why Van Gogh was useless cunt who couldn't even paint a chair straight"

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:41, Reply)

or kill himself properly
he shot himself in the stomach, THE STOMACH! Unless every cowboy movie has lied to me, that's the worst place to get shot.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:45, Reply)

What a grade A shining example of cunthood that man is
I would cheerfully rip his actual skull out THROUGH HIS SKIN and piss on it. Bollocks to the diamonds.
(berk, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:30, Reply)

I love you berk!
This ^ is a modern art show I would pay to see
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:31, Reply)

Charles Saatchi would buy that for a squillion pounds

( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:36, Reply)

and get Nigella to piss on it!

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:37, Reply)

Still can't believe she's 50

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:40, Reply)

Actually
I got more than a glimpse of Nigel in her show a few weeks ago. Put me right off my stroke
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:41, Reply)

I would pay good money to be there when she does that.
The whole skull bit is irrelivent to my interests though.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:45, Reply)

He is probably crap at baking cakes as well.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:37, Reply)

Not that i've seen it with my own eyes, but I like the Angel of the North
Rock an Roll suicides? How about Del Shannon...He's a Waa-Waa-Waa DEAD
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:16, Reply)

I like Del Shannon.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:19, Reply)

So do I
still blew his brains out though
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:21, Reply)

I can't work out what I love more.
Del Shannon, or my dad warbling along to Runaway with big can headphones on, blissfully unaware that we were pissing ourselves.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:39, Reply)

Bridget Riley


I've liked her "Op-Art" since first seeing it on the album cover of The Faust Tapes
(Cave Duck, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:17, Reply)

There's a retrospective of hers somewhere at the moment.

( girlinthehole, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:19, Reply)

I saw something about that on The Culture Show.
What do you think of her work? And what sort of stuff do you like.
(Cave Duck, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:25, Reply)

we have so many meeting rooms etc here
and the art is different in all of them, but it's all very modern. in fact, "the times" did a feature on our reception when we moved in a year or so ago.

some of it is so stunning that it is tempting to stick it under my arm and walk out whistling after every meeting. and some of it..... what the artist or the committee who spent so much money on it were thinking is a total mystery.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:21, Reply)

I'm quite a fan of Gilbert and George funnily enough.
And Paula Rego. Egon Schiele is on of my favorite.
( girlinthehole, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:23, Reply)

Rod Hull had a record out once.
Him falling off that roof was piss-funny.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:23, Reply)

Emu pushed him.
Internet fact.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:27, Reply)

Not a fan of modern art
Alt: The old drummer from Feeder, who hanged himself because he was depressed because he was the drummer in fucking Feeder.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:25, Reply)

I'm disappointed that none of the rock and roll suicides recently have been intentional, it's just a waste!
There's been a fair few deaths in alternative music over the last year or so - RJD, Peter Steele, The Rev, Paul Gray, etc
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:28, Reply)

Peter Steele wasn't suicide though, was it?
Not even accidental (Paul Gray, I'm looking at you).
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:29, Reply)

Sorry, good point
Neither was RJD, it was simply a comment on the fact a lot of rock/metal musicians have died.

And in advance - Monty, this is not a good thing.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:31, Reply)

Wendy O Williams
I was saddened by this. I wasn't a massive fan of The Plasmatics, but she was a real "outthere doing for real" performer. But apparently quite a sensitive soul. She ended up shooting herself in woodlands near her home, apparently havinf previously attempted to take her own life by hammering a chisel into her chest, only to then change her mind.
(Cave Duck, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:30, Reply)

Oh yeah, I forgot about that.
"Butcher Baby."
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:32, Reply)

I love some modern art.
I like late 60s psychedelic poster art A LOT. I also like graffiti - a truly modern artform in some instances. I like MC Escher, because I am a sterotypical potsmoking type.

However the old 'pile of bricks' bollocks is so 'Emperor's New Clothes' it's almost funny. But isn't at all.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:33, Reply)

What's the font that was used in the Psy stuff?
Sort of balloon like.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:36, Reply)

I have no idea what its name is, or even if it has one.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:37, Reply)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Freak_Brother_No_1.jpg
That's what i call art!
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:41, Reply)

Ever read Pete Loveday's Russell comics?

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:50, Reply)

I have all of those
I should read them again for the nostalgia.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 12:30, Reply)

Most old film posters are cool
I have Bullitt and 2001 - simple and great to look at (much like me!)
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:38, Reply)

Ok, I'll concede that I do love some modern art
Black and white photographs of nature being some of my favourites, as are some of the works of Rob Sheridan (did a lot of work for NIN).
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:40, Reply)

I'm also a huge fan of Art Noveaux , and people like Aubrey Beardsley....

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:49, Reply)

Not completely my cup of tea, but it's lovely stuff
I prefer photography to paintings/drawings.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:51, Reply)

Basically
A lot of the pictures here I love.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:59, Reply)

Most of my brother's stuff is pretty good.
But that's more contemporary than modern.

And Jeff Buckley walks a fine line between "utterly rock and roll" and "fucking emo" for the whole "walk into a freezing river with your guitar" thing. Still, his voice. HIS VOICE.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:37, Reply)

I loved this:
www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?workid=10317&roomid=3669
But then at some point when it was at the Tate Liverpool, they put a cordon around it.
DUR! Most of the point of it was walking among the cubes and seeing the reflections and experiencing it, as well as looking at four pretty mirrored cubes.
Knobs.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:42, Reply)

Have you seen 20w-50?
I'm always amazed that isn't cordoned off. It's quite eerily pretty though.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:46, Reply)

Nope
Linky?
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:51, Reply)

Here. It's used sump oil, so the metal fragments in the oil produce an almost perfect black mirror
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:53, Reply)

I like that!
Its mental
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:55, Reply)

That rules!

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:58, Reply)

The Chapman Brothers
www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=5221392

They're pretty cool.
(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:43, Reply)

Yes we are

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:44, Reply)

Haha
Also: Erwin Wurm's 'Fat cars' series
Chapman Brothers' 'Distasters of War'
Carsten Hollen's 'Killing Children' series
Charles Ray in general

But Allen Jones' 'Chair' is awesome and I want it!
www.shafe.co.uk/art/Allen_Jones-_Hatstand_and_Chair-_1969.asp
(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:55, Reply)

They are amazing,
I so want to see this in person: www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23488320-chapman-brothers-hell-is-rising-from-ashes.do the pictures of it are fantastic but you tell tell it's not a patch on the whole thing
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 7 Dec 2010, 12:25, Reply)

Oh I know
I saw some of their stuff at Tate Liverpool a few years ago. Their attention to detail and twisted sense of humour are so, so awesome.
(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Tue 7 Dec 2010, 12:27, Reply)

I am very jelous
will have to find out when they're next doing something in London.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 7 Dec 2010, 12:34, Reply)

Piet Mondrian


I really like the order and restraint and use of colour.
(Cave Duck, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:45, Reply)

It's shit.
It BLATANTLY RIPS OFF L'Oreal's 80s 'Studio Line' hair gel graphics.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:58, Reply)

I like Picasso's figurative art.
Saw some really stunning stuff in the art gallery at the monastery of Montserrat. Like this one.



Opened my eyes to picasso being a bloody good artist.
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:46, Reply)

Innit.
Once you've seen those you have to concede that the abstract stuff was definitely done by choice and not because he couldn't draw proper, like. I think there are probably a great many modern artists who couldn't also do a perfect portrait in oils. The cunts.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 12:00, Reply)

went round the Museum of Modern Art in Brussels
There was a statue man made out of televisions that impressed.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:48, Reply)

I feel like such an uncultured twat, 'cus I haven't seen a single thing in reply to this that I've thought "Yeah', that's alright", let alone "I'd quite like that on my wall".

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:49, Reply)

Does photography count?
I've seen loads of photography I like, like that one of those people on a building site in New York and they're on a steal girder eating lunch.

And have you seen that one with the dogs playing poker? That's wicked.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:50, Reply)

I see you as very much a Klimt man.
However I think you would like one of Damien Gosh's more surreal efforts.
A pug in a clown outfit with a six gun, smoking a pipe and balancing on a big ball.
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:57, Reply)

This bloke?
damien-gosh.deviantart.com/gallery/

Seems like a copy'n'paste load of tattoo art.

Or this bloke....
www.google.co.uk/images?q=Klimt&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1916&bih=984

which seems dull to me.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 12:07, Reply)

This
www.moolf.com/amazing/vision-of-hell-by-jake-and-dinos-chapman.html
(Himjim died a little more inside on, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:52, Reply)

Vorticism too
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorticist

Do like my some Wyndham Lewis!
(Himjim died a little more inside on, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:54, Reply)

This is in our local gallery

(Cave Duck, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 12:52, Reply)

Crikey
I'd never heard of them before, that's mental!
(berk, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:55, Reply)

I used to like Warhamer stuff too, some of the painting of the models was stunning when you go into the GamesWorkshops.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:56, Reply)

Ace, it's 3d Heironymus Bosch in a modern medium.

(Cave Duck, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:57, Reply)

Huge Bosch fan right here.
And Archimboldo.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 12:05, Reply)

Kandinsky


I like the lack of restraint and order, and the use of colour.
(Cave Duck, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:52, Reply)

I'm not sure if it's classed as modern art
but I quite like the Angel of the north. It's a welcome sight at the end of a long journey to gods own land.
( M o D, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:56, Reply)

Gateshead?

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 12:00, Reply)

Gateshead / Newcastle
Much the same to me
( M o D, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 12:01, Reply)

Another northern b3tan!
Yay
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 12:03, Reply)

Actually I am a southerner
I just happen to have to travel to Newcastle for work soemtimes.
I do like it up there though.
( M o D, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 12:05, Reply)

Yay for Northern b3tans!

(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Tue 7 Dec 2010, 12:07, Reply)

*Doffs flat cap and releases celebratory pigeon*

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 12:08, Reply)

You say that
When I was a kid, we actually had a whippet and two ferrets. I'm sure I have a flat cap lying around somewhere too. I am so Yorkshire it's a bit wrong.
(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Tue 7 Dec 2010, 12:10, Reply)

When ar we' lass
All this we' fields
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 12:11, Reply)

There's a planning application to build 27 massive houses at the farm at the end of my road
If if goes through, I will actually be able to say that.
(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Tue 7 Dec 2010, 12:14, Reply)

Woo!

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 12:08, Reply)

Did anybody watch the thing on BBC 4 earlier this year
Goldsmiths: But is it Art?

I wanted to punch every single person on that programme in the face forever.
(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Tue 7 Dec 2010, 12:00, Reply)

Massive geek that I am, I tend to like things like this:

(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 12:02, Reply)

I too like a red x on a white square
Its the clean lines and simplicity
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 12:04, Reply)

*snigger*

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 12:05, Reply)

Who doesn't love a redex?
Shut up I'm fixing it.
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 12:05, Reply)

Don't!
It will spoil the joke
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 12:06, Reply)

Too late.
Bwahahaha.
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 12:06, Reply)

curses!

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 12:07, Reply)

I _hate_ regex, if that helps.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 12:08, Reply)

Ralgex is good though

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 12:09, Reply)

WHAT? regex is the absolute business (assuming it's the right tool for the job).

(BrianHequator was stretching owls, on, or around, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 12:17, Reply)

I'm pretty sure it was made by an autistic person.
Who the hell thought that something that looks like this...

^[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$

... would code validation for an email address? How the fuck is that readable by a non autistic?
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 12:22, Reply)

Here is how I would write that in a readable way
{::Any::}@{::Any::}.{::Any:2-4:}
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 12:30, Reply)

I'm not really going to argue very much ...
... but as something tends towards being very specific (and your example is a little ambiguous, right - what's an "Any" for example) so it gets more and more mad.

Some of it looks like line noise, I'll totally agree though. Ctrl-Alt-Palm, and there you go, instant regex ...
(BrianHequator was stretching owls, on, or around, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 12:44, Reply)

My dream is to one day own Giger chairs
Wouldn't go with any of my stuff but who cares!
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 12:09, Reply)

What a shit dream.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 12:50, Reply)

This,
they're fucking shit.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 12:51, Reply)

I always liked Keith Haring
*awaits Monty to say his work is shit*
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 12:06, Reply)

I hate the way he gets bracketed in with the 70s New York graffiti pioneers
along with Jean-Michel Basquiat. They were a pair of fashion benders rather than the LEGENDS OF THE OLD SKOOL like Seen, Phase II, Dondi White, Lee and many others.
If you want to watch an 'art film' where the artists are prepared to work for no money under cover of darkness & constant fear of arrest or death, watch 1981's 'Style Wars'. It's fucking incredible.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Style_Wars

How many of today's successful gallery artists who really mean it, maaaan do you think would be prepared to risk life and limb for their art? Very fucking few.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 12:14, Reply)

like have you toatlly forgotten how far David Blaine is willing to go!!

( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 12:19, Reply)

Shya?! Like, TOTALLY AWESOME.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 12:20, Reply)

ok
at the risk of being told it is shit, I rather like some of the work of Charlotte Atkinson - saw some originals in our local picture framers the other week and would love to own one.
(Purpledoris I've got afeckin' job, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 12:13, Reply)

Afternoon, All. How about a bit of modern art you can eat?
viz: www.guggenheim.org/new-york/education/school-educator-programs/teacher-resources/arts-curriculum-online?view=item&catid=719&id=25

I was visiting the Guggenheim in '95, and the best bit of that piece was taking some of it, and very nice it tasted too. Well, the obligatory little white card stuck to the wall with the bumf on it said that's what it was there for, so that's what me mate and I did.

There was quite a bit of pointed lookery and maybe even the odd tut from some precious NY arty-tards. I think I gave them a very blank look indeed. Not my fault that they're DOING IT WRONG.
(BrianHequator was stretching owls, on, or around, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 12:13, Reply)

I don't like modern art, particularly.
Lumping beakers like Hirst and Emin, who appear to be trying to sell their work by courting controversy, in with people like Raphael, Elgar and Constable is inexcusable.

The definition of art is a work that exists for no other reason than the creation of the work itself. Courting media publicity discounts a work from being art.
( Kroney, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 12:19, Reply)

That's a good way to look at it
Would they still be doing it if some rich deluded twat wouldn't pay them stupid amounts of money for it? If not - not art.
(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Tue 7 Dec 2010, 12:21, Reply)

Bit of Vorticism for you

(Himjim died a little more inside on, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 12:19, Reply)

Gilbert & George live near me.
I've seen them around a lot: looking for all the world like a Kwik-Save Morecambe & Wise, the great queers.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 12:27, Reply)

they exhibited in MK
I saw them in my local pub they seemed fairly normal if a bit overdressed.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 12:40, Reply)

They do look normal in a tweedy way,
but they do also look like Morecambe & Wise.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 12:49, Reply)

Please tell them I admire their work.
Kwik-save Morecambe & Wise? This is probably why I like them.
( girlinthehole, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 12:51, Reply)

Last time I saw, them the Ernie Wise one appeared to be wearing roadkill on his head.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 12:55, Reply)

Oh and tell them I named my cats after them.
I think it would amuse them.
( girlinthehole, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 12:57, Reply)

it is very hard indeed
to look as if i am drafting a witness statement with all these pictures on the screen.

just saying, like.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 12:53, Reply)