Pretentious Designers
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- Blofeldt0
Have a read of his four actions lecture. It's fucking ace. He manages to use about twice as many words as he needs too.
It's in the work on paper section.
- ad10
my work is nestling on a bed of lovingly caramelised bollocks lightly drizzled with extra virgin piss aged in oak barrels.
- donal0
i just opened this thread to make sure i wasn't mentioned.
so far so good!
- aliendn0
while i hate when people use big words, and some are indeed snooty. i have to remind myself that i may be being snooty towards others by thinking they are pretentious and use too many different adjectives.
this summarizes my thoughts:
are eskimos snobs because they have 20 different words for snow? why dont they just have one word for it?
- gabe0
nice donal, nice!
- DutchBoy0
there's too much talk about art anyway. meaning the wrong people are talking about it, only the self-proclaimed erudite so to speak.
art imho could be more confrontational and more 'out there' and not in the clean and closed environment of museums.
the buttplug carrying santa (by paul mccarthy) is ok with me in the center of rotterdam for this reason.
- winter0
buttplug carrying santa?
is that an anal..ysis?
- DutchBoy0
commentary on consumerism.
it's placed (or should be placed, it's contstantly debated by the council) right between the biggest mals/stores etc.
it's about 5 meters high, a giant santa holding up a buttplug.
[ apparently there's no image online, i give up ]
- winter0
commentary on consumerism?
hey, we'll start thinking buttplugs are outselling nokia around rotterdam...
- ********0
haha! only in the Netherlands!
- mitsu0
being pretentious is fun, but it's always good to back it up with some healthy self-deprecation as a sort of wink and nod, otherwise you just end up looking like you've got your head so far up your ass that you have to wipe with a toothbrush...
- winter0
...your head so far up your ass that you have to wipe with a toothbrush...
SANTA
(Dec 10 04, 07:04)
- DutchBoy0
haha!
but still...
it's more confrontational then a blue square in a white museumhall.
one of the more interesting aspects about art (imo) is how the average consumer thinks about it..
so hell yes, i'd say more art that really confronts people. i am all for it.
make them think. at least a goddamn bit.
- DutchBoy0
yes, the city council got a lot of criticism for the fact that they spent a lot of money on the artwork and it's still somewhere stored in a locked warehouse because of the debate it has already triggered.
:D
- winter0
how are people going to climb it? did the mayor thought on that?
- DutchBoy0
hmm... well the opposition's objections are already a 'pain in the arse' to those who favor it.
so they haven't thought yet about the issues of people "wanting to climb it".
i think some people there need to "open up more"..
:P
- ivan_cook0
I don't really see this as pretentious if it is a valid description of the process or product, and given in the right context, for the right audience.
- DutchBoy0
ivan_cook..
trying to check your site but it is loading painfully slow.. what up?
- winter0
well, xmas supposed to open your heart. maybe they're taking a more clinical approach...
- mogwai0
his description matches his work, which probably matches his personality. i started a thread on his work yesterday. "this is what happens when a designer tries to be an artist"
self-conscious, contrived, viewer-controlling interior design, in my opinion.