Yale School of Art
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Somehow, I expected an art school, especially a big name like Yale, to be a little better than this.
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Wow. That's all I can say.
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<font size="+4"> SCHOOL OF ART!!!!!! </font>
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Seriously though...
"This website is a wiki. All School of Art grad students, faculty, staff, and alums have the ability to change most of this site’s content (with some exceptions); and to add new content and pages."
Some doofus probably just stuck a lame background-image attribute in an unprotected template-related page.
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I blame Ryan Weafer myself.
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Given how ugly the login page looks like, I highly doubt that this was just a simple case of vandalism.
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@henke37 said:
Given how ugly the login page looks like, I highly doubt that this was just a simple case of vandalism.
That's a different sort of WTF, then.
Also, it appears that today is some sort of major football game against Harvard.
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@fennec said:
Seriously though...
"This website is a wiki. All School of Art grad students, faculty, staff, and alums have the ability to change most of this site’s content (with some exceptions); and to add new content and pages."
Some doofus probably just stuck a lame background-image attribute in an unprotected template-related page.
That appears to be by design - every page has a different background image (with varying degrees of lameness).
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The fuck is this shit.
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@dhromed said:
The fuck is this shit.
Art. Can't you tell? (cf: Turner Prize in recent years, and various tales of cleaners vandalising exhibits because they thought they were, literally, rubbish - there's been one this year - google 'dortmund art cleaner')
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@PJH said:
@dhromed said:
The fuck is this shit.
Art. Can't you tell?This strikes me more as: "We're an art school, I bet everyone expects our website to be cool and arty. But if we try that and our site turns out rubbish then it'll reflect badly on the school. Much safer to make it deliberately crap then say we're being ironic and post-modern."
Although it could easily be art.
(I had a mate at uni who shared a house with a guy doing an art degree. For his final year project he bought some metal shelves and 2 creepers and spent his time watering them. By the end of the year they covered the shelves which he had named "The Living Shelves". H apparently got a good mark for this.)
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@RTapeLoadingError said:
2 creepers
I only know the minecraft type of creeper, and the human perv creeper. What is that to which you're referring?
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Gotta have balls to put this on the source code:
[code] [/code]
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@dhromed said:
@RTapeLoadingError said:
2 creepers
I only know the minecraft type of creeper, and the human perv creeper. What is that to which you're referring?
The third kind, the type of plant that grows up stuff e.g. ivy.
Although the story would be much better if he'd used the human perv kind.
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Every page says its editable by everyone and there seems to be a variety of authors. All those artists and not one with a sense of colour, layout or taste.
For reasons that are beyond me, the background for the Summer Courses page includes a photo of Kim Jong-il. Why?
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@RTapeLoadingError said:
@dhromed said:
@RTapeLoadingError said:
2 creepers
I only know the minecraft type of creeper, and the human perv creeper. What is that to which you're referring?
The third kind, the type of plant that grows up stuff e.g. ivy.
Although the story would be much better if he'd used the human perv kind.
Or the minecraft kind!
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@warmachine said:
Every page says its editable by everyone and there seems to be a variety of authors. All those artists and not one with a sense of colour, layout or taste.
For reasons that are beyond me, the background for the Summer Courses page includes a photo of Kim Jong-il. Why?
Dear leader was probably an alumni learning about evil capitalism from the inside and after a few "suggestions" this fine example of proletariat art came to be.
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Obviously they're all Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff fans.
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This site reminds me of the [url=http://museumofbadart.org/collection]Museum Of Bad Art[/url] Lots of hilarity there. check out the commentary that accompanies each image. Some of may be NSFW depending on your viewpoint. it is art afterall
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@warmachine said:
For reasons that are beyond me, the background for the Summer Courses page includes a photo of Kim Jong-il. Why?
He likes corn.
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I think the worst part for me was the fact that the first thing I saw was Chrome asking me where to save the .mov file present on the landing page.
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I found TRWTF: Letting college art students have free roam over something and expecting it to not end up completely retarded.
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@El_Heffe said:
He likes looking at things. Including corn.@warmachine said:
For reasons that are beyond me, the background for the Summer Courses page includes a photo of Kim Jong-il. Why?
He likes corn.
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TRWTF is people who don't understand that Fine Art, Graphic Art, Graphic Design, and Web Design are all completely unrelated disciplines.
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@Master Chief said:
I found TRWTF: Letting college art students have free roam over something and expecting it to not end up completely retarded.
^ A thousand times this ^
@Kittemon said:
TRWTF is people who don't understand that Fine Art, Graphic Art, Graphic Design, and Web Design are all completely unrelated disciplines.
Obviously TRWTF is giving people who obviously know nothing about any of those the ability to modify a website.
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@Master Chief said:
I found TRWTF: Letting college art students have free roam over something and expecting it to not end up completely retarded.
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@Kittemon said:
TRWTF is people who don't understand that Fine Art, Graphic Art, Graphic Design, and Web Design are all completely unrelated disciplines.
TRWTF is thinking the term "art" has a meaningful meaning.
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@frits said:
@Kittemon said:
TRWTF is people who don't understand that Fine Art, Graphic Art, Graphic Design, and Web Design are all completely unrelated disciplines.
TRWTF is thinking the term "art" has a meaningful meaning.Hmm, let's see if we can steer this thread into a flame war about moral relativism vis-à-vis a class-based taxation policy ...
I'll try to start, this one with a subtle tact:
"Art" had meaning before postmodernism stripped society of a common frame of reference.
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@Xyro said:
@frits said:
Ooh. OK.@Kittemon said:
Hmm, let's see if we can steer this thread into a flame war about moral relativism vis-à-vis a class-based taxation policy ...TRWTF is people who don't understand that Fine Art, Graphic Art, Graphic Design, and Web Design are all completely unrelated disciplines.
TRWTF is thinking the term "art" has a meaningful meaning.I'll try to start, this one with a subtle tact:
"Art" had meaning before postmodernism stripped society of a common frame of reference.
By "society" do you mean "High Society"? As opposed to those dirty unwashed masses.
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@UrzaMTG said:
I think the worst part for me was the fact that the first thing I saw was Chrome asking me where to save the .mov file present on the landing page.
Yeah, that gave me pause. Although Chrome auto-downloaded it somehow...
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@Xyro said:
"Art" had meaning before postmodernism stripped society of a common frame of reference.
Xyronic.
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@henke37 said:
Given how ugly the login page looks like, I highly doubt that this was just a simple case of vandalism.
Pretty much confirmed by finding this year old YouTube video review posted by "Websitesthatsuck.com":Yale School of Art - Warning! Seizure Possibility
So yeah, it's supposed to look like that. (I'm discounting the possibility that it's been being constantly vandalised for at least a year and they haven't done anything about it.)
BTW, I found the link for that video on their (Yale Art School, "Graphic Design" department) own twitter feed, so they know and have no shame. Or are trying to be post-modernly ironic or something like that.