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

I usually find this combination works quite well:

But, if you read the article you would see that it's not simply a photograph. It's an image synthesised from a number of images in a way that expressed what the photographer wanted to express. If you dismiss this piece, you dismiss pretty much all art.


The Mona Lisa is doin' some judgin' here.

If a photographer can't use an actual photograph to express what he wants to express surely he's doing it wrong?

'If a photographer can't use an actual photograph to express what he wants to express surely he's doing it wrong? '


If everything could be expressed by an unmodified photograph, then painters would have gone out of business with the invention of the camera, and computer graphics would never have been imagined.

Yeah, I'm kind of aware of that... hence why I was being .

And I was aware that your were aware of that.

that *you* were aware of that.

And now I'm aware that you were aware that I was aware of that...

Anyone willing to revive the following? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stupid_(art_movement)

No.


Perhaps an ironic aspect of the position I've been taking here is that in my own work I am usually staunchly representational and very, very traditional, stuffy and anal. And an ironic aspect of that is that when I actually sell pieces, they are usual faux-avant guard things I toss off using laser printers, salt water and car batteries.

Only just seen the OP...

Well I rather liked it...but I'm the audience for Modern Dance. Is it the best Modern Dance I've seen? Or seen lately? Well...I'm not sure I'd put it above the Rambert Dance Company who I saw last week. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frFQJrcu_MA

But art? Sure, daaahlink. In what way not?

Here's an entry point: could you do it? Think of how athletic they are. I reckon they could give Mario Balotelli a run for his money. (No - I don't really know who he is, except I heard the story of him being stopped by the polis and asked why he was driving such a flash car and he said 'Because I'm rich!'). This is an important point about dance - the sweat and the grind. The best place to sit is about row five of the stalls so you can hear every footfall above the orchestra. Plus - the lassies often get their oot.

Coincididdly my son and I were stopped by some fit student lassies outside St Giles Cathedral on Saturday there and asked if wed be extras in their dance film. We played 'Crowd Out Of Which Dancer Emerged'. Coming soon to a url near you. Unfortunately, they didnae get their oot.

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Could I skite across a stage on an office chair shouting "HO!"

ummm.

I rather think I could

But the *very* best dancer I ever saw or ever will see was Michael Clark, just before his descent into skag. He did a version of 'The Rites of Spring' featuring both Stravinsky and PiL ( to swl). The supporting cast included his 70+ mother, topless, and Leigh Bowery...being Leigh Bowery. Pretentious? Who cares! He was *such* a good dancer and is still a great choreographer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CWf1FwwePw

Or for thems as like that sort of thing...one where he gets his ass out for the lads:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8W9sQJaAdM

(Play Loud!)

OK, then, swl. Challenge. Reproduce the first 30 seconds of that routine. I'd lay money on your being physically incapable of moving like that

Mona Lisa - update
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If "could you do it?" is a criterion for whether something can be regarded as art can I now, please, invalidate Tracy Emin's bed?

On a more serious note, I do notice people online insisting that something which falls outside normal conventions of 'art' or 'music' or whatever is bad simply for the reason "well, I could do that". And I used to be like that myself until I realised that in many cases I actually couldn't for whatever reason.

End on a song?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtnG6EHh1N4

Featured on YouTube, beside the one in the OP.

For swl. Take it how you wish.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GbHkhGr6-A&feature=related

'course with Emin's bed the whole point is not whether any of us could have done it but that we didn't.

(Not claiming that she's quite the technical master that Picasso was, but she can draw like a bitch.)

I could say something that would totally get yikes'd but I won't.

Can I declare London to be a work of art? It goes by the title 'city', and I exhibit it around 51° 31' N, 0° 7' W, until 30. November, and for free. After that, it just goes back to being an ordinary city.