In other news today...
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@otter Yeah, or this.
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@otter said in In other news today...:
Things like paint splatter or a canvas with a hole on it.
why put in so much effort?
http://the-purest-of-treats.blogspot.co.uk/2009/02/1000-hours-of-staring-by-tom-friedman.html
"One work in this show consists of a large blank piece of paper that the artist has purposefully stared at during the last five years."
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@slapout1 said in In other news today...:
a mess of cigarette butts and empty bottles
Sounds like modern "art".
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@Tsaukpaetra Bah, that's nothing:
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@all_users said in In other news today...:
purposefully stared at
What purpose? Was he trying to conjure art upon it by sheer force of will?
Or is he just bullshitting and he got some piece of paper the day before he was supposed to submit his piece and send it in blank?
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@Fox said in In other news today...:
@all_users said in In other news today...:
purposefully stared at
What purpose? Was he trying to conjure art upon it by sheer force of will?
Or is he just bullshitting and he got some piece of paper the day before he was supposed to submit his piece and send it in blank?
todays artists continue to be grossly misunderstood it appears
everyones a critic
http://www.continentcontinent.cc/index.php/continent/article/view/55
His labor, to use his own words, is his way to “bring all of who you are to the experience.” Friedman shares his labor, allows the slow, deliberate pace of his work born in the studio to penetrate the museum. Nothing seems effortless, or a gesture, the labor is apparent, displayed, and tangible. He gives us the labor, the personal investment in the physical that saved art for him, that divorced the work from the language he cites as a factor of alienation. When we see his work we do not see words, we see acts, we see objects. He has forced the studio as workspace into the exhibition space, as he stuffs hundreds of more hours of labor into his shows with each new piece, filling the space with material and labor, material and labor – his involvement, his investment, is his gift to us as the viewers, as he introduces the laborious and contemplative pace he feels belongs to the museum.
http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/attention-getters/Content?oid=903124
The materials are identified in a wall label as "Stare on paper." Having spent 1,000 hours staring at this sheet, Friedman now encourages the viewer to think about why such an act might be interesting. The label also raises the question of whether his stare has actually altered the paper, or one's perception of it, in the same way that "watercolor on paper" would.
fuck - I'm turning into the david thompson of the art world...
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@all_users said in In other news today...:
think about why such an act might be interesting.
Except as a vehicle for trolling society, I'm coming up blank.
Well, also pretension.
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@all_users said in In other news today...:
think about why such an act might be interesting
I'm gonna give that a "Nope."
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@all_users I still remain unconvinced that he actually stared at the paper for a thousand hours, or, indeed, that he didn't purchase the paper the day before the show opened.
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@FrostCat said in In other news today...:
Except as a vehicle for trolling society, I'm coming up blank.
a bit like the canvass then
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@all_users paging @Groaner
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At least this:
Maybe I should consider switching my major, since obviously there's lots of money to be made in suckers.
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This gives a whole new meaning to the term 'atomic I/O' eh? My favourite excerpt:
With each bit of data represented by the position of a single chlorine atom, the team was able to reach a density of 500 Terabits per square inch.
"In theory, this storage density would allow all books ever created by humans to be written on a single post stamp," said Dr Otte.
Or, by another measure, the entire contents of the US Library of Congress could be stored in a 0.1mm-wide cube.
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http://www.nbcnews.com/id/13939272/ns/us_news-weird_news/t/surgery-removes-electric-blanket-python/
Typo (I think) in article date; it was on the radio news this morning.
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@Boner said in In other news today...:
A farmer in southern Turkey was amazed and delighted to find among his flock a lamb born with just its two front legs.
WUT. Why delighted?
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@Magus Because this lamb will probably make him more money than the rest of his flock. People love the odd.
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@Magus said in In other news today...:
@Boner said in In other news today...:
A farmer in southern Turkey was amazed and delighted to find among his flock a lamb born with just its two front legs.
WUT. Why delighted?
People love the strange and grotesque. Almost as much as they hate the abnormal and ugly.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@Magus said in In other news today...:
@Boner said in In other news today...:
A farmer in southern Turkey was amazed and delighted to find among his flock a lamb born with just its two front legs.
WUT. Why delighted?
People love the strange and grotesque. Almost as much as they hate the abnormal and ugly.
which is a delightful bit of cognitive dissonance as a minutes work with a thesaurus will lead you from
strange
to its synonymabnormal
and fromabnormal
straight back to its synonymstrange
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
People love the odd.
but it has two legs ... it's obviously even!
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@Boner Lean mutton?
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@theBread said in In other news today...:
@Boner Lean mutton?
that's a @Groaner if ever i heard one.
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@accalia It's halfway towards ground lamb!
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@theBread yes, only two shanks of a lamb's away.
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@theBread said in In other news today...:
@accalia It's halfway towards ground lamb!
My son appreciated that. Thanks.
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@HardwareGeek I'm here all week.
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I have always loved the theater.
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Fuck boats!
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@DogsB I'm with the swan on this one.
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@DogsB What do they expect the queen to do about it? Is this why those idiot Brits still have royalty? To get rid of ducks?
I guess that's actually more duties than the American Vice-President has...
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@blakeyrat She owns them.
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@Boner What the fuck is wrong with the British.
Or, more accurately: Any unclaimed mute swan in open waters in England and Wales is hers if she wants it.
So why doesn't boat-man just claim it then get his shotgun out.
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@blakeyrat Swan are protected under the law. There's more detail and some quotations here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/21/swanted-thuggish-bird-smashes-up-eight-model-boats-worth-15000-e/
Best bits:
this aggressive beast's reign of terror.
Attendances at the club have plunged by half as a result of the violence.
One fed-up member, who did not want to be named, said: "Some, like me, are even considering defecting to another club.
"He smashed it with his wings over and over again," said Mr Ashford. "It was like the German warship Bismarck in the Second World War!
the only swans now owned by Her Majesty are those on the Thames and associated waterways. The bird is protected from attacks under law, making it a criminal offence to harm them.
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From the Department of Duh...
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@blakeyrat said in In other news today...:
I guess that's actually more duties than the American Vice-President has...
Not if Trump gets elected, it seems!
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@blek This smells completely legitimate, no need for the DNA test, I fully believe him.
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@blek That's rather stretching the definition of 'today' ;)
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@coldandtired Eh, it could be worse: https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/17088/in-other-news-today/964
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@HardwareGeek I had a dog once that ate a blanket. The surgery's not terribly cheap.
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@blek said in In other news today...:
@coldandtired Eh, it could be worse: https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/17088/in-other-news-today/964
Did you notice the comment, though? I think that date may be wrong. Although it says 2006-07-21, I heard it on the radio on 2016-07-20. Or maybe the guy on the radio necroed it. I dunno, but I heard it the same day I posted it.
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@FrostCat said in In other news today...:
The surgery's not terribly cheap.
Not as expensive as similar surgery for a human, but definitely not cheap, and there isn't usually insurance to help with the cost. Such insurance does exist, but not many people have it.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@FrostCat said in In other news today...:
The surgery's not terribly cheap.
Not as expensive as similar surgery for a human, but definitely not cheap, and there isn't usually insurance to help with the cost. Such insurance does exist, but not many people have it.
Typing "I agree!" would've been simpler. ;)
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
Not as expensive as similar surgery for a human
Isn't all treatment for animals being cheaper a proof that we are charged too much for medical treatment?
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@groo said in In other news today...:
we are charged too much for medical treatment?
The medical care flame war is .
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
Not as expensive as similar surgery for a human
If you need a surgery to remove a blanket from your stomach, you deserve every cent you've paid.
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@Maciejasjmj said in In other news today...:
If you need a surgery to remove a blanket from your stomach, you deserve every cent you've paid.
Yes, well, you have a point there, but I meant similar types of surgery, in general, not necessarily this specific, removing a blanket from a stomach surgery.
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@Maciejasjmj said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
Not as expensive as similar surgery for a human
If you need a surgery to remove a blanket from your stomach, you deserve every cent you've paid.
What if terrorists forced me to swallow it?
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The site is "americangrit" but the incident happened in the UK.