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Sanfranjoshfan
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09-17-2000

Thursday, June 17, 2010 - 4:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sanfranjoshfan a private message Print Post    
Miles cracked me up, too. Her did/indeed. show vulnerability when he was sleeping in a group of people that were judging his work......but what was with the two giant concrete butt holes he made? Was he trying to say that he was surrounded by a**holes in this competition?



Smokey
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07-08-2003

Thursday, June 17, 2010 - 8:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Smokey a private message Print Post    
I find Miles very fascinating. He's like a mad scientist and he has no filters on his words or how he works. It's like this crazy genius just flows through him. He has no self consciousness, that I can see.

I sort of wondered if he didn't have a little autism or aspbergers syndrome along with the OCD.

I also liked Abdi's piece. And, I liked the piece done inside the big console TV.

Jgalt
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02-17-2009

Friday, June 18, 2010 - 8:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jgalt a private message Print Post    
Abdi is my favorite so far, I've loved everything he's done. The TV head was beautifully done, the posture was perfect in his sculpture, the slight tilt of the head, the back was positioned just right for the head tilt as well, great work. I like the guy who won, but not quite getting the an---, puffy things. I'm think he could have picked something more representative of sleep or vulnerability, just a strange choice, but that's why they are where they are and I'm not.

So many talented people, such a joy to watch such creativity.

Alisons
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01-10-2003

Sunday, June 20, 2010 - 7:33 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Alisons a private message Print Post    
Costa, Miles is the installation artist and Trong is the conceptual artist.

Also Costa, I like what you said about the piece that Jaime Lynn did with the vacuum cleaner. I thought that there was some gender bias going on in the judging because even in this day and age, guys do not have the same perspective on household cleaning tools that women do. I totally "got" her piece and thought that it was cool.

Chitchat58
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07-25-2008

Sunday, June 20, 2010 - 1:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Chitchat58 a private message Print Post    
Abdi is my favorite as well. I think they are setting us up for a Miles win. I like Miles, but think his art is too much food for thought.

Jgalt
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02-17-2009

Sunday, June 20, 2010 - 2:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jgalt a private message Print Post    
Thanks so much for the banner!

Mummy35332
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09-09-2005

Monday, June 21, 2010 - 1:32 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mummy35332 a private message Print Post    
I believe Miles is to unstable to win this comp. I like his stuff, but I think he will crack before it is over.

Twiggyish
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08-14-2000

Monday, June 21, 2010 - 2:18 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twiggyish a private message Print Post    
I love your art work Smokey!

Smokey
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07-08-2003

Wednesday, June 23, 2010 - 7:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Smokey a private message Print Post    
Twiggy, thanks so much!

Tonight's show was interesting. I did not pick the winner. I liked it, but it just seemed too empty to me, like the object was lost in white space. I thought it was good, but wouldn't have picked it, I don't think.

Mark's was definitely a good, commercial job. I did like what the one judge said that it would have been great with just one blood drip making the backbone of the "D" in Dracula, rather than all that blood.

I really felt sorry for Abdi. I think he's got tons of talent.

I am glad Judith went home.

ETA: These challenges so remind me of art classes and all the extreme pressure to produce something very quickly. It's so difficult and it's so interesting to see what the various kinds of artists come up with since they each have different specialties.

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Thursday, June 24, 2010 - 8:02 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
I actually thought Mark's should've won. I liked John's but wasn't sure about it as a cover. It didn't "draw me in" but then again maybe it lost something via the television.

Judith's condescending "I do fine art" totally turned me off of her. If she ONLY does "fine art" what the heck was she doing competing on a reality TV show? Not to mention how entirely horrible her cover was. Why would you totally obscure the title of the book?

Maplsyrp
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02-10-2009

Thursday, June 24, 2010 - 10:39 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Maplsyrp a private message Print Post    
Thank goodness for you guys cause I cant seem to stay awake past 9:45 lately.

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Thursday, June 24, 2010 - 10:41 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
Oh, I thank goodness for my DVR. I watch this show the next morning while I'm drinking coffee and waking up.

Smokey
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07-08-2003

Thursday, June 24, 2010 - 11:36 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Smokey a private message Print Post    
Costa, I thought Mark's should have won, too. It just looked like a more attractive cover to me.

I actually liked Miles's. :-) But, I like Miles for some reason.

I hated the "I do fine art" thing, too! Geesh.

I DVR a lot of stuff but this one, I've actually been watching when it's shown.

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Thursday, June 24, 2010 - 11:41 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
Oh yeah, I liked Miles' too. And I liked that he took the time to read the book, so he could understand what the cover would be. Unlike what's her name who is so self involved that she seems to be wanting to do a lot of nekkid self portraits. (And honestly, I didn't think her artwork was all that bad, but to spell Austen's name wrong? Shameful!)

Sanfranjoshfan
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09-17-2000

Thursday, June 24, 2010 - 2:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sanfranjoshfan a private message Print Post    
I liked Miles' work, too. I found it interesting that he read the whole book and then said he was using a scene from the book about a lightning strike, so he made the cover look like it was burned with an electrical current.

BUT, when the judges were looking at his cover, one of them said (paraphrased)- I really like this one, but it's too bad it has nothing to do with the book.

Apparently that judge didn't remember that was in the book...or never read it at all.

That's typical of some of the "art crowd". I've seen some act as if their opinions are so infallible they should never be questioned, but they often don't know what they're talking about, IMHO.

Mummy35332
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09-09-2005

Thursday, July 01, 2010 - 11:23 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mummy35332 a private message Print Post    
So who was shocked last night? Do you agree with the judges? I don't understand any of it until it is explained to me, and then I still may not get it.

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Thursday, July 01, 2010 - 11:37 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
I wasn't so sure Abdi should've won. But I guess I did agree with the top 2 and bottom 2.

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Thursday, July 01, 2010 - 11:49 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
LOL - While I appreciate everyone being circumspect could someone be kind enough to spell out for me who got eliminated. Thanks! :-)

Dipo
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04-23-2002

Thursday, July 01, 2010 - 11:49 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dipo a private message Print Post    
Who left?

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Thursday, July 01, 2010 - 12:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
John and Nao. The bottom two left.

The challenge was to create something that would shock the judges.

Abdi created heads of African American men that were shaped like bombs. It was his statement of how young men in the AA community are being treated and how they can be ready to "explode." He won.

Jaclyn did, once again, self portraits of her mostly nekkid body. Then she allowed people to add their own graffiti by putting a jar of Sharpies below the pix. She came in second.

Nao did a performance art piece, where she basically looked a mess. She wasn't real clear on what her statement was all about. Something about homeless and not want to look at them? At one point it looked like she was smearing excrement all over herself. Truly a mess. She was second to last but she was eliminated also.

John started the competition by stating that he's gay and he spends his life trying NOT to shock people. Then he got into this how he's fascinated by autoerotica, and essentially drew a cartoonish figure of some man sitting there with legs spread and head bent giving himself a blow you-know. The judges told him he also spelled fellatio wrong (he spelled it "follatio" or something like that). The judges said his art would've been more shocking if he'd taken a picture of himself (attempting to) performing that act. His work of art did not impress and he was gone also.

Jgalt
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02-17-2009

Thursday, July 01, 2010 - 6:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jgalt a private message Print Post    
I wasn't crazy about the assignment. To tell people to do something to shock, just seems wrong. You're bound to get mostly sexual things or excrement of some kind, and instead of shocking, I think it's just disgusting. The artist would say, "That's great, we got a reaction from you". but is it necessary? I'd rather the reaction to art be one of awe with the beauty of the piece, not disgust, heck, you can be disgusted just listening to the news, who needs art to do this? I certainly understand art can elicit every human emotion awe, wonder, confusion, fear, exhilaration, but in asking for "shock", I feel the works were forced, not something from their soul, or heart, but manufactured to be the most disgusting thing they could think of, not my cup of tea. Seeing menstrual blood on someone's face, why? What's the point, disgust, ok, point made, mission accomplished.

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Thursday, July 01, 2010 - 6:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
Oh, I absolutely agree most of the artists "forced" their work. The most "shocking" ones were the most disgusting, and those were the ones who got eliminated. It wasn't shocking at all, unless you stop to think that THIS is what THEY thought would be shocking!

Smokey
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07-08-2003

Thursday, July 01, 2010 - 6:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Smokey a private message Print Post    
I didn't like the assignment, either. I really don't like the shock stuff, at all. But, that's me.

One thing I did appreciate hearing was about the famous shock artist's reason for putting the crucifix in the urine. I had heard about this piece before, but didn't understand his point of view. It is a statement as to where Christianity is today (in his observation) and what it's become and how this shows how he feels about what man has done to Christ. Here, I thought it was him showing how he can piss on Christianity or Christ. It doesn't mean that at all.

I did really think it was hilarious how Miles added his personal DNA to his piece, like an after thought. He wanted a way to make it even more shocking and was so pleased with himself when he came up with the idea.

The right people went home, IMO. I thought John got real lucky with the win last week.

Alisons
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01-10-2003

Friday, July 02, 2010 - 5:14 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Alisons a private message Print Post    
WHY are they keeping Erik? He would have been my first choice to go. I am not liking the judging at all.

Smokey
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07-08-2003

Wednesday, July 07, 2010 - 7:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Smokey a private message Print Post    
Bye-bye Jaime. I felt she should have gone a couple episodes ago.