Like that piano that used to hang suspended in the entrance to the Tate
― impostor syndrome to the (expletive) max (stevie), Wednesday, 17 January 2024 12:49 (three months ago) link
one percent inspiration, forty-nine percent perspiration, fifty percent considering the logistics of keeping it spick and span after you've gone
― mark s, Wednesday, 17 January 2024 12:52 (three months ago) link
I’ve always loathed Chihuly for looking like stoner wax art gentrified for the world’s most boring liberals.
― steely flan (suzy), Wednesday, 17 January 2024 12:52 (three months ago) link
(i mean i make fun of this stuff all the time, i was just trying to not be a dick)(i don’t think Chihuly or Oxman are good designers or decorators)
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Wednesday, 17 January 2024 13:01 (three months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/2p6b6Xi.png
so there is no way to get rid of this ad?
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 17 January 2024 18:04 (three months ago) link
close the tab
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 17 January 2024 18:06 (three months ago) link
that worked
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 17 January 2024 18:08 (three months ago) link
My sense of Chihuly is that his work always impresses people, but this is due to it being colorful and obviously requiring plenty of technical skill to make. But being impressed by it should not be mistaken for enjoying it. I don't enjoy it.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 17 January 2024 19:10 (three months ago) link
I think his stuff is just ugly.
― B. Amato (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 17 January 2024 19:26 (three months ago) link
The only time I found any enjoyment in Chihuly's work was touring his exhibit by the Space Needle, where it was like enveloping yourself in the stoned alien landscape and less about a kind of ugly "focal" point in another context.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 17 January 2024 19:30 (three months ago) link
that pbs chihuly documentary with the tom tom club music was pretty ok
― butch wig (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 17 January 2024 19:58 (three months ago) link
Footage of Chihuly and his team working >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the finished product
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Wednesday, 17 January 2024 20:11 (three months ago) link
new synecdoche for Everything Wrong With Music and/or Music Journalism just dropped
― mark s, Wednesday, 17 January 2024 20:18 (three months ago) link
saw a chihuly exhibit once, silly stuff IMHO
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 17 January 2024 20:19 (three months ago) link
like Chihuly and any number of others, Oxman and her fans have mistaken “design” and “decor” for “art.”
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Wednesday, January 17, 2024 7:28 AM (eight hours ago)
on the one hand, I'd be very curious to hear your definition of these things, but otoh I have don't have any interest in either of these people's work
― rob, Wednesday, 17 January 2024 20:51 (three months ago) link
i am meh about chihuly’s work being art but i am more than cheered that aesthetic snobs hate it
― a single gunshot and polite applause (Hunt3r), Thursday, 18 January 2024 01:32 (three months ago) link
I am not a snob, despite some past pronouncements on this site. I like all kinds of stuff in most media forms. What I don’t like is what artless rich people, tech yups, and corporations deem “inoffensive” art, or what I would call decoration. It’s offensively bland and bad.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Thursday, 18 January 2024 03:29 (three months ago) link
You’re a snob and that’s fine be proud of it
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Thursday, 18 January 2024 03:46 (three months ago) link
You’re a snob
As we are now dealing in labeling people, pray tell what would your label be?
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 18 January 2024 03:50 (three months ago) link
i tend to agree with u table i think it is v often bland, tho sometimes it is not quite that to me. part of me is pretty enraptured by elaborate or even like, baroque process, and i think there's so much implied, necessary process in some of his pieces. and i tend to find some art in some of that necessary process, if done well. even if it is not transgressive, challenging, or offensive. even if it seems to some like mere decoration. no accounting for my bad taste, for sure.
― a single gunshot and polite applause (Hunt3r), Thursday, 18 January 2024 04:35 (three months ago) link
The mask she designed for Bjork was kind of cool.
I find her self-importance far more objectionable than her art.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 18 January 2024 04:36 (three months ago) link
Yeah, that's my feelings on like 99% of the art world.
― Chyiv Kyiv (Fetchboy), Thursday, 18 January 2024 05:57 (three months ago) link
Hunt3r, that makes sense— I can admire the process behind something while also thinking it is objectively not interesting qua art. Chihuly (and much glass craft) is a good example.In the end, I don’t really think the problem is with what’s being made— it’s that at a certain point, “craft” became a naughty word and everyone started calling the mugs they made on the weekend or the elaborate pieces that Chihuly’s studio makes “Art,” when in the past it would be described as (and admired for its) craft. My best friend is a professional ceramicist. They make functional things and art pieces, and while both are part of their practice, there’s a huge difference between them. Oxman exists at the point where design, craft, and technology meet. I just don’t find it very interesting, provocative, or cool— it’s empty stuff from someone who has little sense of art, but a lot of aesthetic smarts.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Thursday, 18 January 2024 12:53 (three months ago) link
obviously the incentive to humor rich people plays a huge part in shaping the art world but the mit media lab seems like a particularly pure example of that, mit and rich people coming together to, in this case, produce art (small orbs), it sounds bad, and it is
― lag∞n, Thursday, 18 January 2024 15:10 (three months ago) link
the orbs need to be bigger, also they never gave one to me
― mark s, Thursday, 18 January 2024 15:28 (three months ago) link
❌ small orb✅ extremely large orb
― lag∞n, Thursday, 18 January 2024 15:35 (three months ago) link
btw whats up with rich people and orbs feel like theres been a lot of orb stories over the last x number of years
― lag∞n, Thursday, 18 January 2024 15:39 (three months ago) link
the MSG Orb for instance
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 18 January 2024 15:40 (three months ago) link
is there any saudi money going to the media lab? this could be part of some effort to create and refine orbs like the one Trump was touching
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 18 January 2024 15:42 (three months ago) link
the saudi orb
https://i.imgur.com/noQZbw1.png
the crypto orb that steals your identity
https://i.imgur.com/p1HVU94.png
the msg orb
https://i.imgur.com/67YsEMf.png
― lag∞n, Thursday, 18 January 2024 15:43 (three months ago) link
here is a ball for yourich person: nohere is a small art orb for yourich person: yes thank you i need this
― lag∞n, Thursday, 18 January 2024 15:44 (three months ago) link
mit media lab small orb
https://i.imgur.com/jMJZ0Hq.png
https://i.imgur.com/X0c8g0p.png
― lag∞n, Thursday, 18 January 2024 15:46 (three months ago) link
All I got in this world is my orbs and my stock portfolio
― wang mang band (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 18 January 2024 16:00 (three months ago) link
*gazing upon my orbs* all that effort for what an admittedly insanely sick and huge orb collection
― lag∞n, Thursday, 18 January 2024 16:03 (three months ago) link
🎶 "orbs are the opposite of tunnels” 🎵
https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/045/381/tj_mack.jpg
― mark s, Thursday, 18 January 2024 16:04 (three months ago) link
do your orbs even have adventures beyond the ultraworld bro?
― Chyiv Kyiv (Fetchboy), Thursday, 18 January 2024 16:19 (three months ago) link
went down a glass rabbit hole after all this talk about Oxman's orbs and Chihuly and now my instagram feed is just 90% dudes who make drug pipes
― peace, man, Thursday, 18 January 2024 21:14 (three months ago) link
Yeah Chihuly's stoner aesthetic is what I enjoyed about the one big exhibition of his I saw, where you could walk through immersive tunnels lined with it. (I actually did it stoned iirc.) Silly but kinda fun and unobjectionable imo.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 18 January 2024 21:28 (three months ago) link
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Thursday, 18 January 2024 21:29 (three months ago) link
ty tabes and also this thread suddenly overdelivered whoa*returns orb to rest spot*
― a single gunshot and polite applause (Hunt3r), Friday, 19 January 2024 03:56 (three months ago) link
Classic understatement from the Met Office.
https://dailycaller.com/2024/01/18/met-office-metrouk-double-fisting-caption-twitter-x-forecast-britain-weather-forecast/
― Dan Worsley, Friday, 19 January 2024 12:02 (three months ago) link
lube up for winter, folks
― wang mang band (Noodle Vague), Friday, 19 January 2024 12:03 (three months ago) link
Daily Caller eh
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Friday, 19 January 2024 12:03 (three months ago) link
Ah, not familiar with that site , was top news link on my search. Apologies.
― Dan Worsley, Friday, 19 January 2024 12:07 (three months ago) link
I'm 50 and I've never touched an orb :(
― B. Amato (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 19 January 2024 15:00 (three months ago) link
never too late to touch orb
― lag∞n, Friday, 19 January 2024 18:16 (three months ago) link
https://twitter.com/StyledApe/status/1749073238926254353?s=20
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 21 January 2024 14:21 (three months ago) link
What was that
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Sunday, 21 January 2024 15:45 (three months ago) link
Trying again.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 21 January 2024 17:42 (three months ago) link
Nope, but a very funny tweet
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 21 January 2024 17:43 (three months ago) link