h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

ps Goodnight, Ed!

edward. i've decided i like you a lot. in a totally non gay way of course.

I shall add you to my friends list, then. Disagreements between friends are no big deal.

But I must have it on record that I would in no way be discombobulated by being liked in a gay way.

and a double reference to john waters AND the simpsons. your knowledge is multifarious.

Well that just proves that the audience can sometimes get out something that the artist didn't put in. I don't get the Waters/Simpsons connection. Too arcane for me.

gtg. nite nite. l8rs.

in this episode http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer's_Phobia there is a reference to a kitsch collectible (so it does tie to the thread sort of) called a discombobulator. discombobulation being also related to klein and the bed lady's work.

accidental or not, i like these sorts of connections.

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That would be an Orca. So nothing to do with my nickname then.
Orcus is a D&D demon I named myself after many years ago when I joined this site.

It's amazing the number of people who've done this over the years though

Could synaesthesia explain why some people have a "buzz" with some paintings?

It is a sincere question. Maybe some of you know about it.

>>Orcus is a D&D demon I named myself

If I'd known that...as a founder member of 'Rock Against D&D', I'd have taken the piss.

Could synaesthesia explain why some people have a "buzz" with some paintings?

Hmm. I'm not synaesthetic myself. If you believe the NLP malarkey, I genetrally think in auditory terms and am into language. But when I explain things to people I draw flowcharts and scribbles. (I'm famous for it. But I'm still constantly surprisd when people ask to keep the scribble). I am also reasonably competent in things like typography and graphic design, albeit at an amateur level (I do a mean Powerpoint ). But I can't draw for toffee (But then - I don't try enough.) And I am absolutely useless at 3D visuo-spatial problems. But I do, strangely, have an amazing sense of direction. (My theory is that, like pigeons, I have magnes in my sinuses).

So these are the characteristis of a random sample of one person who gets a buzz from art. Make of it what you will.

Thinking about it...I realise that my appreciation of Art is seldom on the purely visual level, but the Conceptual. If that makes me an intellectual ponce - then so be it. It's my brain and I quite like it - for all its faulty wiring and chemical imbalances.

One artist who *was* famously synaesthetic was Vasily Kandinsky. He saw sounds as colours. He said that his paintings were of the way Jazz sounds.
http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLG,GGLG:2007-29,GGLG:en&q=kandinsky&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi

I do like Kandinsky.

Me too. And the rest of the St Ives group.

yes, wallpaper is good.

Now funny you shouild mention wallpaper. Try these local lads:
http://www.timorousbeasties.com/
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/design/story/0,,2008228,00.html

now that's good gear

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/itn/20080519/ten-abramovich-revealed-as-freud-buyer-ea4616c.html

It was Abramovitch who bought the Lucien Freud - now there's a surprise.....

But he did well to get the Francis Bacon.

And what do we make of Freud?...leaving aside the tawdry money angle. He always sells for shitloads.

Obviously he's a representational painter par excellence. Do we like him? What are his good points? Or bad points?

Bacon once came on to me, in a mild way. (Winked at me and said 'Hello, ducky.')

I was well flattered! The girl I was dating dined out on the story for years.

>Bacon once came on to me, in a mild way.<

Shame it was only in a mild way.....

I loathe Lucien Freud's work. He's an utter perv about women.