Author Topic: A random thread for small art things not warranting their own thread.  (Read 32348 times)

citoyen

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Re: A random thread for small art things not warranting their own thread.
« Reply #25 on: 02 March, 2021, 08:29:48 am »
Redundancies & restructuring at the V&A.

What you get when you put money people in charge of art... the living embodiment of Wilde's quote about cynics.
"The future's all yours, you lousy bicycles."

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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: A random thread for small art things not warranting their own thread.
« Reply #27 on: 04 March, 2021, 08:40:41 pm »
I'm not a huge Banksy fan but that one made me smile. Though I did think for a moment he was going to make a picture of Bob Ross.
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Re: A random thread for small art things not warranting their own thread.
« Reply #29 on: 15 March, 2021, 11:02:32 pm »
It's wonderful how Twitter can suddenly introduce you to an artist you've never heard of.  In this case Fermin Rocker.


https://twitter.com/GrimArtGroup/status/1371576129769910290?s=20


https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/fermin-rocker-544347.html


http://www.ferminrocker.org/
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Re: A random thread for small art things not warranting their own thread.
« Reply #30 on: 16 March, 2021, 12:50:06 pm »
Googling more about Rocker led me to this blog by BBC correspondent Andrew Whitehead.  There looks to be lots of interesting stuff, especially for Londoners.  https://www.andrewwhitehead.net/blog
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Tenement Tiles     https://twitter.com/TnmntTiles


A Twitter account concentrating on the decorative tiling used in the communal areas of some Glasgow tenements. 


I suppose it's like Rule 34.  If it exists, someone has an account dedicated to it. 
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Cudzoziemiec

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They're rather lovely. I might well be misinterpreting the word "tenement" but it reminds me a little of old buildings in Polish city centres, dilapidated and inhabited by ~"bad neighbours" but retaining gorgeous original features.
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citoyen

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Joe Lycett has made a video for Katy J Pearson's song Miracle. You may not have known it, but you need to see this:
https://youtu.be/w15_jxp2hhM
"The future's all yours, you lousy bicycles."

citoyen

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In other news, I discovered today that St Vincent started her career as a member of the Polyphonic Spree, who I had completely forgotten about. Dug out their first album, which I remember enjoying very much back in the day. Fantastic. Completely mad twee hippy shit but truly uplifting. Love it.

Helpful reminder:
https://youtu.be/qt6dqnSeaVc
"The future's all yours, you lousy bicycles."

Eddie Mair on the LBC news just now, referred to Matt Hancock as Mancock  :thumbsup:

In other news, I discovered today that St Vincent started her career as a member of the Polyphonic Spree, who I had completely forgotten about. Dug out their first album, which I remember enjoying very much back in the day. Fantastic. Completely mad twee hippy shit but truly uplifting. Love it.

Helpful reminder:
https://youtu.be/qt6dqnSeaVc
I saw them live 3 times. I was in a period of quite severe depression and boy they brought light into my life.

citoyen

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In other news, I discovered today that St Vincent started her career as a member of the Polyphonic Spree, who I had completely forgotten about. Dug out their first album, which I remember enjoying very much back in the day. Fantastic. Completely mad twee hippy shit but truly uplifting. Love it.

Helpful reminder:
https://youtu.be/qt6dqnSeaVc
I saw them live 3 times. I was in a period of quite severe depression and boy they brought light into my life.

This gladdens my heart! (Them bringing light into your life, not you being depressed.)

Never saw them live myself, wish I had.
"The future's all yours, you lousy bicycles."

I saw them at the Roadmender in Northampton and while the support band were on I noticed a fellow member of the audience really really enjoying it.
20 minutes later he was on stage in white robes.

It was glorious.

Follow the sun, maaaaan..

TheLurker

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Triggered by an advert. on the telly for some new Spiderman film or cartoon or... whatever...

Right, leaving aside the spider bite, Peter Parker is your fairly typical late teenage bloke, yes?  So where did he get his tailoring skills?  One day he has a big chunk taken out of his arm by an arachnid with attitude, a week or so later he's rocking around the {neighbourhood/neighborhood} (delete according to taste) in a  body hugging skinsuit made out of a fabric that is probably the devil's own job to work with and you can't see the seams!  Sorry,  there's willing suspension of disbelief and there's stretching credulity to breaking point and asking me to believe that a teenage oik can run up a flash super-hero cossie more or less overnight? ....  Nah.

Which leads to another thought.  Is there some super-hero/heroine equivalent of Saville Row were your newly minted hero/heroine can stroll up and say, "I need something in figure hugging stretchy kevlar that will accentuate my chest development and will pick up the green flecks in my eyes and it'll need somewhere I can put my mobile 'phone."?
Τα πιο όμορφα ταξίδια γίνονται με τις δικές μας δυνάμεις - Φίλοι του Ποδήλατου

Kim

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Which leads to another thought.  Is there some super-hero/heroine equivalent of Saville Row were your newly minted hero/heroine can stroll up and say, "I need something in figure hugging stretchy kevlar that will accentuate my chest development and will pick up the green flecks in my eyes and it'll need somewhere I can put my mobile 'phone."?

If you haven't watched The Boys, I suggest you do so.

A Twitter thread for the font & typesetting fans.  Does not feature Comic Sans.


https://twitter.com/Feorag/status/1399020909722284033?s=20
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Tenement Tiles     https://twitter.com/TnmntTiles


A Twitter account concentrating on the decorative tiling used in the communal areas of some Glasgow tenements. 


I suppose it's like Rule 34.  If it exists, someone has an account dedicated to it. 

Very nice. If I weren't hoping to offload our flat onto someone else I would be planning to tile our vestibule. (Cos we don't/can't have a cat flap and the wind and rain come straight in our door when it's open for teh kittehs).
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Re: A random thread for small art things not warranting their own thread.
« Reply #43 on: 09 June, 2021, 11:39:04 am »
https://courtauld.ac.uk/news-blogs/posts/the-courtauld-gallery-opening-programme-news/


Hurrah!  The Courtauld Gallery is re-opening in November.     I hope they haven't changed it too much......
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Re: A random thread for small art things not warranting their own thread.
« Reply #44 on: 27 June, 2021, 09:56:48 pm »
Another sculptor I'd never heard of discovered by a Tweet.  Hugo Lederer.    https://twitter.com/ScrambledStill/status/1100017989859065858?s=20


https://germanartgallery.eu/hugo-lederer-bogenschutze/


I missed this when I was in Hamburg the other year.  An excuse to return (when it's allowed).


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citoyen

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Re: A random thread for small art things not warranting their own thread.
« Reply #45 on: 28 June, 2021, 12:08:19 pm »
What exactly is the statue depicting? I got the title - Fate - so I assume it's Classical, but I don't know the story. Looks a bit creepy to me!

Love the style though. Very much of its time - in a good way.
"The future's all yours, you lousy bicycles."

Re: A random thread for small art things not warranting their own thread.
« Reply #46 on: 28 June, 2021, 12:21:40 pm »
https://www.cemeteryart.net/the-cruel-countess/


Some other good stuff.








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Re: A random thread for small art things not warranting their own thread.
« Reply #47 on: 28 June, 2021, 12:25:04 pm »
What exactly is the statue depicting? I got the title - Fate - so I assume it's Classical, but I don't know the story. Looks a bit creepy to me!

Love the style though. Very much of its time - in a good way.

It's based on an old Greek proverb which, roughly translated, goes - "Children are a drag.....and then your dress falls down."  Sandie Shaw, who modelled for the picture, encapsulated it in her hit, "Always Dragging Something Behind Me".

(I may have made some, or all, of this up.)

citoyen

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Re: A random thread for small art things not warranting their own thread.
« Reply #48 on: 28 June, 2021, 12:45:45 pm »
What exactly is the statue depicting? I got the title - Fate - so I assume it's Classical, but I don't know the story. Looks a bit creepy to me!

Love the style though. Very much of its time - in a good way.

It's based on an old Greek proverb which, roughly translated, goes - "Children are a drag.....and then your dress falls down."  Sandie Shaw, who modelled for the picture, encapsulated it in her hit, "Always Dragging Something Behind Me".

(I may have made some, or all, of this up.)

 ;D
"The future's all yours, you lousy bicycles."

Tim Hall

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Re: A random thread for small art things not warranting their own thread.
« Reply #49 on: 28 June, 2021, 09:52:04 pm »
The proper (1984) version of Ghostbusters was on TV last night. They cut the best line.

This:
Quote
Dr. Raymond Stantz: Everything was fine with our system until the power grid was shut off by dickless here.
Walter Peck: They caused an explosion!
Mayor: Is this true?
Dr. Peter Venkman: Yes it's true.
<pause>
Dr. Peter Venkman: This man has no dick.


Became this:
Quote
Dr. Raymond Stantz: Everything was fine with our system until the power grid was shut off.
Walter Peck: They caused an explosion!
Mayor: Is this true?
Dr. Peter Venkman: Yes it's true.

Bah!
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