More Awesome Than You!

Anyone seen this?

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Yes.  There is one at the entrance of a downtown nightclub.  I'm guessing it's a "moveobjects on" situation :)

You can see a similar toilet in the downtown museum.  Was this a way to demonstrate bladder desparation?  :P

That is the single coolest thing Maxis has ever done.  It makes me all warm and fuzzy inside.

Those Maxoids need to lay off the chili for a while...

'Tis truly a work of art.  ;)

Personally, am suspecting that someone (*cough* *cough*) got a few "ideas" from this forum, with its generally Burninating awesomeness. Seems like someone we know would do.

And wasn't I right when I said that the decorating possibilites of those flame things would be truly Awesome?

True.  When something cool happens in the way of flames or other forms of destruction, I tend to wonder if it's ripped off this forum.  Maybe it was MaxoidTom's way of saying "Thank you for not digging my eyes out with a grapefruit spoon."  That, or they're a bunch of idea-stealing ninnies.

Heheh, I halfway expected to see JM's initials carved on the back, "JMP was here."

Quite egotistical to just assume anything to do with fire or "burninating" came from this site.

Especially when the word "burninate" actually came from HSR.

No foolin'.

I wonder how many people around here are actually aware of that, though?  If JMP ain't careful, he may just end up with people thinking he started the whole burnination thing.

...Not that he'd mind, of course.   ;D

That toilet looks like the ones in the restrooms of Casa Burrito.  (Real life, not in the game.)  There is also a pile of chairs out back all with holes in the seats.

Hey, now we know where our horrible dates get their flaming bags of poo! :D

Hook

LOL..I have yet to notice that yet...classic.

Second time today I've had to LOL... trouble is it hurts cos got bronchitis ( :D poor, poor me). So stop making me laugh, dammit!

Now all they need is for Tracey whatever-her-name-is to donate a copy of her infamous bed, and the works of art in the museum will have reached a new high (or low, depending on your point of view!)

What kind of bed is it?

An unmade one with used everything you can think of, and it won the Turner prize!  Just shows you don't inhabit this sceptered isle! And she didn't even take the trouble to make a painting of it, it's the actual bed!

Tracy Emin... (http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Units/arthist/sharp/issues/0002/pHTML/pTraceyEminMyBed01.shtml)

(http://www.madforarts.org/mfa_assets/contrib_files/101/Tracey%20Emin%20My%20BedInstallat.jpg)

She is one hell of a weird artist, I'm not very fond of her stuff. However, what you said ZZ - art is a point of view, really it boils down to the fact that art is an expression. (I do wish that the A-level art coursework we had required something as easy as this though ;) )

Heh, you think that's bad? When my sister was in art college we went to look at the senior projects and I nearly tripped on this 2x4 piece of wood on the floor. I started complaining that they would just leave something like that out in the middle of the floor and went to pick it up when my sister told me it was someone's senior project.  ::)

Surely they weren't finished with it yet?

Oh no. He was done. That was it. My sister told me some of the students there wanted to see much they could get away with. Made me wonder what the hell she was doing getting herself into a lot of debt to go there.  :P

At this same college a friend of hers once did a project where when she was asked what it meant she said it didn't have a meaning and she just did it to complete the project. The professor and some of the other students I'm told insisted it had to have some sort of meaning. So the next time this girl did a project she made up some total BS about the meaning and they loved it and she got a better grade on it.  ::)

I like art as much as the next person, but I really can't stand some of the pretentious BS that goes with it sometimes.

Same here.

Well that's what the A-level art course was like - you have to be able to justify everything, same goes for my Interactive Design - why did you choose this font? Why did you put that image there? Because it looks good isn't a good enough reason on its own, it has to have depth...

I'm sure daVinci didn't worry about "depth"!

Hey, do you think by any chance the flaming toilet is some Maxoid cocking a snook at contemporary art?

It gets really ridiculous sometimes, doesn't it? A few years ago a couple of people jumped all over me for drawing things that don't exist, rather than making deep, meaningful abstracts. Huh?

One of my favourite artists, Ursula Vernon, paints lots of very strange things. She wants to have a gallery showing at some point, but she dreads having people come up to her and asking what the meaning behind the paintings are, because it's usually something like, "Hey, what if the Madonna and baby Jesus were chickens? Hehheh..." (http://www.deviantart.com/view/13202126/)  or, "Small animals in tiny hats are funny!" But the way gallery snobs so often seem to be, she could probably make up something completely random and off the wall and it'd make them happy.

No doubt they'd be happy, but would she feel she'd betrayed her art?

Hmmm.  If you take and make the room that bed is in a bit smaller it looks almost like my sister's old room!  That's not art--that's slobbishness!

I got a huge chuckle when I saw that toilet for the first time.  Of course it made me think of this site.

I know someone asked if a Maxoid might've been making fun of RL art and while I wouldn't be surprised at that, I think it could be just one of those quirky things in a Sim world.

I know she wouldn't be happy! General consensus is that she should stick to her guns and say that no, really, she did that piece because the idea is funny, or whatever the real reason is. I think she probably will unless she's trying to screw with people's heads - she's taken to saying that cute is the new edgy.  ;D

Well, a lot of people like cute - who's to say they're wrong?

I took a chance and went to a photographic exhibition at the local Modern Art Gallery(Ikon) in B'ham; went with a friend as we both enjoy that kind of stuff and certainly the publicity merited it. Huge piece of work showing the raddled corpse of a HIV sufferer who had died a few hours previously. We discussed it, as you would, it being somewhat contentious and showing similar style to Klimt, then decided that we would take in the rest of the exhibition. Except that was it.  ??? Eh?

A further look round the gallery revealed another exhibition...joy! A pile of dirt, with some brooms and a couple of shovels. Who says modern art is pretentious?

Who in their right minds even says some of it is Art?

Indeed. I would have welcomed seeing some of the photographer's other work as the piece displayed conjoured up some really deep feelings, as I believe Art should. The pile of dirt only managed to conjour my mate and I leaning against a wall having a belly laugh. Which did no good for the artist as he was there talking at a podium to a small, but keen, audience. Some people you just can't take anywhere...  ;D

Not twice anyway


I think we had some art here that won a prize - a dirty sheet if I recall. Not even a whole bed.  ::)

Just remembered, the chap in the copy centre, well his wife paints. Sort of like Picasso style, only everything is in the right place. I thought they were quite nice, colourful, maybe I'd get one, couldn't be more than $50 or so...

Nearly had heart failure - $450 she wanted for a painting maybe 2 feet high by 1.5 feet wide. I found one about 6 inches square, streaks of blue-green with a yellow rectangle on it - that was $50. I did manage to keep a straight face as I left.

Paint and canvas are expensive, you know!  So payment by the square inch is probably reasonable, although unrelated to merit!

My husband was looking into jewellery courses and ultimately decided against one university after seeing their previous students' portfolios. My favourite was the "instant bracelet"--a guy with his arm through the railing at a Tube station. ::)

Clever some of these people may be (or not) but artistic - never!  They've just learned how to open up a new branch of the conman profession!

Yeah, but after the artist is finished with them, they're damaged. 

Hook

Not re-usable, anyhow (at least, not the paint!) :D

And by some strange coincidence, that's EXACTLY what I thought of.   ::)

I have, on occasion, attempted to try earning a living from art, and used to paint murals for institutions (hospitals, kids homes etc) which is harder than it sounds (age/area appropriateness). I could spend a hundred hours designing and painting the damn thing and get paid jack. People do not want to pay for art, even if it comes under 'not half bad'. A friend, who is a professional (and damn good), refuses to climb onto the current band-wagon and produce the stuff that Witch describes which she could knock out in less than half an hour (I could knock it out in less than half an hour!). Most people prefer to nick down to the local hardware store/Ikea and buy a couple of rather dodgy prints rather than something they will get pleasure from. Then it aint art. Wallpaper substitute, maybe, but not art.

It's like stocking your library (if you're rich enough to have a library) with books bought by the yard, and selected for the binding!

That looks like my bedroom. Hey maybe I can sell my room for big bucks too! Geezz... Ive studied art and usually artwork requires, thought,comtemplation and EFFORT.

If that's art, my house is a frickin' masterpiece! Now I don't have to feel bad about not cleaning. I call my creation "Entropy Realized". I might have some stiff compeition for the Turner prize (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051017/od_nm/arts_turner_odds_dc_2), though.

Every time I see the flaming toilets, I can't help but think of them as the birthplaces for flaming bags of poo. That stuff has to come from somewhere, right?

 


I would love to see what would happen   death by urination?  revenge of the toilet?

That would be pretty awesome... A lavvy with jaws that could snap shut on a sim's backside.  ;D

That reminds me...
I was at a stupidly fancy schmancy restaurant that had been converted from an old schoolhouse.
The art work consisted of 'primary school' type paintings. Big triangle-on-square houses, red, blue and yellow...(sort of like the first couple sim paintings) There was a pair of snooty ladies looking at them and I heard one say very seriously 'Those were either done by a young child or a very talented artist'

I couldn't help but laugh out loud at how stupid it sounded. Yep, it was either Picasso, Monet, or a random 4 year old...

Sad, innit?   ::)

I would've been tempted to say something to the effect of...
"Talented... hmm, yes, very talented.  It's not everyone who can paint in their stomachs - just look at these!  You can tell the artist swallowed the raw materials and vomited these up!"

Art doesn't necessarily have to be something... oh, photographic or something to be interesting.  But when it's a blank piece of canvas (it's been done), a potential movie set for a slob's house, or looks like it came from a kindergarten paint fight... there's just something off, don't you think?

I know art is supposed to be an expression of the soul... but even so, there IS a threshhold when it passes from Expression to Crap.

Hehe, what is one man's crap is another man's art.

Well, you know the saying: If it's not Scottish, it's crap!

Perhaps one could be made for Rentechd....she seems to have a mild obsession with buttocks  ;)