NationStates Jolt Archive


The art world is stupid

Drunk commies deleted
10-01-2006, 20:46
An "artist" is selling his latest masterpiece. A ball of boogers collected over a period of two years. He's looking to get 10,000 British Pounds for it.

http://www.ncbuy.com/news/2004-12-31/1011451.html
Iakeonui
10-01-2006, 20:49
An "artist" is selling his latest masterpiece. A ball of boogers collected over a period of two years. He's looking to get 10,000 British Pounds for it.

http://www.ncbuy.com/news/2004-12-31/1011451.html

Uhhhhhhh.. Makes one wonder what the "Pound per Booger" rate is for such
an item...?

Have I been "blowing" my money, or what..?


-Iakeo
Liverbreath
10-01-2006, 20:51
An "artist" is selling his latest masterpiece. A ball of boogers collected over a period of two years. He's looking to get 10,000 British Pounds for it.

http://www.ncbuy.com/news/2004-12-31/1011451.html

He must subscribe to the genius of George Carlin who said, "If you nail two boards together that have never been nailed together before, some schmuck will buy it!"
Nerotika
10-01-2006, 20:59
An "artist" is selling his latest masterpiece. A ball of boogers collected over a period of two years. He's looking to get 10,000 British Pounds for it.

http://www.ncbuy.com/news/2004-12-31/1011451.html
basicly WTF...
Drunk commies deleted
10-01-2006, 21:01
He must subscribe to the genius of George Carlin who said, "If you nail two boards together that have never been nailed together before, some schmuck will buy it!"
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. -Frank Zappa
Cheese penguins
10-01-2006, 21:11
Well erm this is very dumb... erm did he like just collect those or did he do it for art in the first place.
Liskeinland
10-01-2006, 21:16
I have no comment to make. I went down to an art gallery a few years back and saw a plastic bottle displayed as art. This doesn't surprise me any more.
Avika
10-01-2006, 21:36
I thought modern art was weird, but not stupid as this. As P.T. Barnum once said: There's a sucker born every minute.
TrashCat
10-01-2006, 22:25
I'm a going to start selling hairball collages.
Heron-Marked Warriors
10-01-2006, 22:32
I'm a going to start selling hairball collages.

I'll buy. At long last, a place to educate my hairballs...
Teh_pantless_hero
10-01-2006, 22:35
When people stop recognizing this trash as art, people with real fucking talent will make the papers.
Legless Pirates
10-01-2006, 22:36
Where is the picture?
Utracia
10-01-2006, 22:38
You can make anything you want and call it art according to some though that should hardly count.
Megaloria
10-01-2006, 23:08
As long as someone buys it, it'll be art. The artist isn't completely to blame, the buyer is the one making it worthwhile.
The Jovian Moons
10-01-2006, 23:25
art is stupid. everyone should be a scientist
Muravyets
11-01-2006, 00:15
As an artist, I would beat the snot out of that little turd for ruining the reputation of my profession, but apparently, I'm too late. Bastards like him are why I have to work in an office.

Art is not stupid. People are stupid. The sheer fact that all those people looked at that snot gob with a price tag on it and didn't pummel him proves that that man is surrounded by idiots. You take these morons into account and soon you're complaining that the food world is stupid (fast food), the clothes world is stupid (fashion), the political world is stupid (ahem), etc., etc.
Jenrak
11-01-2006, 00:39
What a dastardly profession.
Santa Barbara
11-01-2006, 00:42
And to think of all the money I wasted by pasting my boogers in reports for school.
Liverbreath
11-01-2006, 00:43
art is stupid. everyone should be a scientist

Yes Science! Hwang's fraud netted himself a 40 million dollar research lab w/ perks! All he had to do was invent a bunch of numbers and declare success!

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,181151,00.html

..and they wonder why we don't trust so called scientists.