Recent content by Jim Tigwell

@Ashcrexl It seems like there are lots of things which aren't art. Even things that are beautiful might not be art, like sunsets. One thing we can agree on about art is that it has to have some kind of maker involved in it. Dogshit on a sidewalk put there by accident? Might be interesting...

@Brunt32 I know you said that is that, but I wonder. Let's say your definition of art is true. Art is something which tries to push the genre. Well, Human Centipede 2 does seem to be pushing the genre in the direction of gore, shock and sick thrills. It's pushing in such an avant-garde manner...

Woah, woah. I'm not saying it's a masterpiece, or that it's deserving of that title. It looks like a piece of shit movie. I'[m just saying that it's art. If my three year old niece scribbles a purple crayon on a piece of brown construction paper, tells me it's the sun, and asks me to put it on...

Sure, EMFCRACKSHOT. In this context, jacking off with sandpaper displays certain degrees of obsession and a self-destructive desire. The act of jacking off with sandpaper in a room alone? Probably not art, closer to some kind of ritual, like scourging. Depicting it on a screen, in a painting, or...

What I'm trying to get at is that food, whether prepared well or poorly, is still food. Similarly art, whether done well or poorly, is still art. There's good singing (Sarah Brightman), and bad singing (Wesley Willis), but they're still singing, and singing is art. Good writing (Tolstoy) and bad...

@Stick Antolili Your definition says that they often have symbolic meaning. That means that there are cases in which the arrangement of objects may not have symbolic meaning (say, in the classic still life painting of a bowl of fruit), and it would still be art. Often is not always...

Which makes that a poor definition of art, rather than the examples invalid (though I do doubt that the wind is art. Things blown over by the wind could be, though). By that definition, freestyle rap and oral history are not art, unless words are considered "items". Also, except for wind, every...

He's clearly had enough of her disingenuous assertions.

As always, an interesting show, Bob. However, the notion that the existence of some kind of supreme daddy figure could not be proved or disproved seems a little strange to me. Contemporary atheists such as Dawkins and Hitchens deny the claim about the existence of god precisely because nothing...