Pretentious bollocksPossibly the worst event I ever went to was an evening of turntablists in London. The lights went down, the first guy put a cymbal onto a turntable, dropped the needle on it and left it making screeching noises for ten minutes.
When the lights came up, half the audience had snuck out.
What's the most pretentious rubbish you've ever been to see in the name of art?
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chthonic, Wed 28 Sep 2005, 14:19)
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Computer animationAt SIGGRAPH '93, there was a superb animation screening. Companies have teams working all year just to produce a 5-minute short for SIGGRAPH. Most of them are witty, amazing, or more frequently both.
However, the 1993 festival had an animation called "Stripebox" - various white solids (cubes, cones, etc.) whirling about against a white background, with stripy shadows cast on them. Fair enough. Nice shadow algorithm. Next.
Oh. There's more - these stripy shadows are horizontal. And more - diagonals!. And more. And more... more... more... The thing was the longest animation there, and it seemed longer than the rest of them put together when you had to sit through it.
The point? God only knows.
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Amish Information Systems hates misplaced, commas, Wed 28 Sep 2005, 23:34,
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