Recent content by procrasty

no, but this is life and not some idealistic cartoon in which you're never going to come across someone transexual, or have a friend who comes out as trans. it could at least mean rainbows and free cake (well, support and friendship, maybe cake as well) for someone.

+1 see also; mental illness which i often see talked about in the same way. (indeed issues like this seem less like "first world problems" and more like the antithisis of that. these are very much third world problems, because those are the parts of the world which lack the means to deal with...

this is most likely because it was part of a private collection, and only on loan to the museum. were it part of their own collection there would be other photographs, as it is any photographs will belong to the private collector, and more than likely just be reference images for insurance and...

i think there may be a slight misundersatnding here, i wasn't working on a game, just playing one. it was a reponce to the level i was playing. unless i'm misundstanding you, in which case sorry. but what are you basing that definition between something that clearly does have meaning, or one...

and i disagree with you. i did a drawing (just in a sketch book) over the summer which had nothing other than four straight lines on it, i actually based it on a perticuar level of game i was playing through. i made several versions, each increasingly abstract and minimal before i ended up at...

honistly, last one now. fine art isn't a language, it's not about getting a message across to an audiance with no margin for error, that's illustration, or graphic design (and even then only to a greater extent rather than entirely). a work having ambiguity is not failure on the part of the...

*sigh* you don't see that in it, but it doesn't mean that the people who do are fools, or wrong, or being conned. again i could tell you what i see in a solid red canvass, but to what end? for you to tell me than i'm wrong to get something out of it? i like rothko paintings, love in fact, and...

no, they don't because the two things are still utterly different. art doesn't claim have a physical curative effect on the human body, the only effect it has is emotional, and that's a subjective matter. edit: anyway, to bed with me.

seeing as you insist i edited something important from this. i don't agree that the people creating art you don't like are conning anyone, or that the people who like it are "marks". and i wouldn't say the same of a defunct area of medicine, because medicine is an area of science, even if it...

ok, so it was a type of medicine that existed before regulatory bodies, or circumvented them. the safety, effectieness, and content of an injestable product is still not comparable to art and personal taste.

erm, no, because medicine is a completely different thing, it's a field of science it's objective, where a art is a field of, well, art, and is subjective. really, they're just completely different things.

its important not to confuse the monatary value placed on works by the art market as being the be all and end all of how the art world values work culturally. the super expensive bidding wars for perticular works (sadly) take place between a lot of people who view art from purely an investment...

you view this perticular story as something which validates how you already feel about a cirtain area of art, fine, whatever. the problem with the comparason to the "emperors new clothes", is that people use that to validate pointing and laughing at everyone who holds a different opinion to...

what i don't like, isn't that a work was accidently damaged, but the horrible reaction to it which goes beyond "well, that's a bit absurd" to a full on attack on the value of the art, the artist, the owner, the people putting on the show, anyone who might enjoy it, and even the entire field of...

finding joy in the destruction of an irriplaceable piece of culture isn't much better (and some people here are calling it good). artists are not conning anyone, again i know how the things i like are made, the process that goes into them, i have seen the fabric, it's not the emporers new...