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- emukid0
HNNNNNNNNNGHHHH!!
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/05…- wow. how sad.omgitsacamera
- what a cunt.Jnr_Madison
- emo, please give me an answer to my email.Jnr_Madison
- NO I AM NOT GIVING YOU COKE FOR A BLOWJOB YOU CUNT! NO AFTER WHAT HAPPENED THE LAST TIME!emukid
- coke-boogers on your thighs?locustsloth
- emo, just once more, than I'll beat my addiction, promise.Jnr_Madison
- ...omgitsacamera
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Peter Saville: ...and this is the point in which fine art and late 20th century applied art diverge completely. In the applied arts we learn to please people, we learn strategies of pleasing others. Pleasing yourself or expressing yourself, the confessing self, is not pertinent within the applied arts. It might be terribly interesting but it’s not exactly what we’re looking for. The prevailing condition within the applied arts is also to make things look good. Things that look good tend to be familiar – things tend not to look good until we are to some extent familiar with them. We see this in the culture of design all the time, what was radical 20 years ago and received with shock, we now see as kind of easy on the eye.
Dan Fox: It becomes part of the canon.
PS: Exactly, and then it’s OK for a Habitat kitchen – and so there’s a process that happens there. The shock of the new is quite counter-productive in the applied arts because mostly it’s not what the market’s looking for. The applied arts generally rely on making things look good and take it into iterations of the canon. Once I tried to sit down and do some work of my own that would have any kind of place in what I thought a gallery should be, I realised I was just quoting the existing codes. That was my first big embarrassing moment – the first Frieze Art Fair three or four years ago, where I had some digital recycled pieces, which conceptually were quite an interesting idea.
DF: The Waste Paintings?
PS: Yes, which were literally a shredding of something “finished”. So conceptually it was, “Nothing lasts very long, we just finished this today, so let’s make something else out of them tonight.” But of course the tendency with them is always to make them look good, so they ended up looking like variations on Abstract Expressionism. I was quite happy that they looked like a Morris Louis.
DF: And why not!
PS: And then I took a walk around the art fair and it was probably the first time I’d ever been in an art fair and, you know, I’m walking down Avenue B, second left and there was a Morris Louis! I thought, “Shit! I’ll get my coat.” That was the first day of the fair and it was there for another three days... I just wanted the world to open up so I could disappear into it. It was the most embarrassing and shameful experience. I thought, “Well Peter, the art world doesn’t need another Morris Louis, it’s already got one...” And that gave me an insight into how I’d been able to freely work within fashion and media cultures, where putting a Morris Louis into a record store was a reasonably idealistic gesture. But it would have been much better to let [The Waste Paintings] be what they were – to some extent ugly and unfamiliar – that would have been a better way of brokering them than ending up with something that looked familiar. Why would anyone go beyond the surface to find out anymore about it? So that week I realised how wide the divergence was.
- creative-0
- HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...Jnr_Madison
- ...you even gave him a shadow!!!!Jnr_Madison
- hahahahalocustsloth
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- haaaaaaaaaaacanuck
- hyuck hyuck hyuck
nice wan, crtvdetritus
- ismith0
What have I missed over the past 3 days?
- ismith0
Too many puppies are being shot in the dark.
Too many puppies are trained not to bark.
At the sight of blood that must be spille dso that
We may maintain our oil fields.
Too many puppies
Too many puppies are taught to heal.
Too many puppies are trained to kill.
On the command of men wearing money belts that buy
Mistresses sleek animal pelts.
Too many puppies.Too many puppies with guns in their hands.
Too many puppies in foreign lands.
Are dressed up sharp in suits of green and
Placed upon the war machine.
Too many puppies are just like me.
Too many puppies are afraid to see.
The visions of the past brought to life again,
Too many puppies, too many dead men.PRIMUS
- ismith0
- Y'all seen this one?ismith
- Yep, has featured in a few PSB's too.Jnr_Madison
- Ah alright. I couldn't remember if I saw it here or notismith
- canuck0
i think i just broke my finger owch.
- what did you do?Jnr_Madison
- You got it stuck up there again didn't you?creative-
- Fingering a llama again?Jnr_Madison
- _salisae_0
i was reading the onion and laughing, even spitting pfffft, at some of their jokes and then began to cruise their for sale accessories and decided to buy the 'i'll never take this camping' water bottle for my mom. she and i share a very similar taste in humour and i thought she would appreciate it and we could share a laugh. instead, this is what happened and this pretty much encapsulates the manner in which i was raised.
she is going to costa rica for a couple of weeks and was shopping for a water bottle the night prior to receiving the shipment i sent her. she was at sports authority and wasn't pleased with any of the styles or materials or colors so she decided not to go with any of them, despite the fact that she is leaving soon and has a million things to do before she goes. she wanted the water bottle she had in her mind and was not going to relent until she had it.
the next day my package arrived, marked only with 'the onion' stamped as the sender. my name was left out entirely! and because the water bottle was the exact color, shape and material she had craved, she immediately assumed the universe listened to her desires and began to exclaim 'i'd also like to win the lottery' etc. etc. she called her best girlfriend and went on and on about how special she is and how there is a force in this world that looks out for her.
so i was speaking to her yesterday and asked if she got the water bottle and she says 'OH that was you?!' and proceeds to tell me her hilarious story. i laugh and say ha that's really fun and that i sent it to her b/c i thought she'd like to share the humor with me. 'oh. what does it say? oh yes. i see. i'll never take this camping.' she doesn't confirm that she thinks this is funny and she doesn't even thank me for sending it she just goes on and on about how interesting her life is.
bless her and her hearty belief in correlation causation.
- ha haJnr_Madison
- < classic fail_salisae_
- At least your mom loves herselflocustsloth
- one of the jokes that still cracks me up was 'i can immediately tell if someone is african-american with my incredible BLACKDAR.' hahaa_salisae_
- BLACKDAR'
lol_salisae_ - Have you seen the Landover Baptist shirts? I went to a Christian school for a year and they weren't pleased to say the leastismith
- thank god you didn't inherit this character trait********
- okay, come clean, dr rand. sarcasm?_salisae_
- no, I was dead serious********
- the awful thing about this board is that it's hard to ever take anyone at face value********
- I thought it was nicer than directly saying something bad about your mom********
- good to know. i like to think i can see beyond myself a little more. at least i try to._salisae_
- classic boomer magical thinking!********
- Jnr_Madison0
Someone make me something to eat, please.
- I just finished cheese on toast with a hint of soy sauce. Had you have said 5 minutes ago you could have had somecreative-
- me too please. i've had way too much pizza lately but if it's pizza i won't complain._salisae_
- I'm cooking toad in the hole in with mash and peas in half an hour or so.creative-
- i'm gonna ride my bike to the beach i suppose i'll pick up a corn dog somewhere along the way._salisae_
- I'm want to make a chicken kebab but as I'm so lazy, probably an oven ready cottage pie.Jnr_Madison
- ps where's my cheese on toast with soy sauce, david?Jnr_Madison
- In my tummy Gordoncreative-
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"rest in the lord"
- Jnr_Madison0
Poor Federer but it's hard not to like Nadal too, he always seems very humble and obliging.
Gwen Stefani looked rough (so did Gavin Rossdale mind you) in the crowd, eh?
- Really? I didn't think they looked that bad. Maybe they got tired of sitting there, like everyone else.Jaline
- Maybe she was just cold.Jnr_Madison
- Jaline0
I was rooting for Nadal. He's so young and Federer is a veteran. So the match was amazing from that sense too.
- Shut up, he's only 27, three years younger than me!!!Jnr_Madison
- veteran = won 5 times ;)Jaline
- Federer reminds me of Jeff Gordonismith
- Flash Gordoncreative-
- LOLJnr_Madison
- I actually thought he was 35-ish. He looks old.Jaline
- Haydesign0
What and where is the PSB?
- On here? nt used to have the PSB but now it's just the PB. Or do you mean photoshop battle?Jnr_Madison
- Sorry, I meant PC not PB (public choice).Jnr_Madison
- omgitsacamera0
I'm giving up.
- ismith0
It's been a whole day and we're still on the same blog page. TIme to fix that...
- omgitsacamera0
Life: 1 - Me: 0
There ismith. Fixed.
- At least partly.omgitsacamera
- http://profile.myspa…
Is this your SS teacherismith - Nope. The HS she graduated is near me.omgitsacamera
- Nvm. Wrong link lolismith
- O rly?ismith
- Right linkismith
- Aragon High? Yeah.
San Mateo High here.omgitsacamera
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Life: 1 - Me: 2
- In my dreams.omgitsacamera
- had a couple of good months********
- I wish I could say the same thing.omgitsacamera
- congrats. seems like you were a bit sad in some of your posts. glad to see that you're doing OKJaline
- Not sure why I said "congrats" ;)
More like, "yaaay"Jaline