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Tony Hawks and Art

Published on April 21, 2008 in Hobbies, Media and Rants. 8 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , .

One week until I’m through with exams and I check out of my dorm to head home for the summer. I’m looking forward to starting my job and not doing anything otherwise (aside from TKD, I need to lose weight o.x). And it gets me money! Wooo money! With it I’m gonna get my gorgeous camera, Disneyworld Park tickets (with Park-Hopper passes… I have hotels lined up, just no tickets), and maybe I can fix the stereo in my car so Tricia and I will have something to listen to for the trip to Orlando and back. It’s looking to be a blast – she and I have been planning this forever. I can’t wait. :3

So! Tony Hawks. He’s not a professional skateboarder, but a British author. What a surprise, eh? As such, he gets a LOT of mistake mail from skateboarding fans. His fantastic replies are certainly worth a read – I laughed outloud quite a bit. :P

How long did it take to land the 900?

mr.me
——-
Mr. You
Ages. Air traffic control made me circle Heathrow for forty minutes.

TH

Or:

hey tony!

I like tony hawks underground.I skate myself and i must say i cannot ollie.How is it done?Cheers for reading.
Samuel
——
Samuel,
I like the way you finish your mail. ‘Cheers for Reading’. At last someone else who appreciates this much maligned town. Reading is a wonderful place with an excellent one way system, efficient libraries, and a number of fine grass verges. On top of that, it is well-served by the M4 motorway, so it has easy access to places which are much, much nicer.

Goodbye

TH

Another:

Tony what was your first ever trick you did and what was your favourite trick you ever did?

Liam
——
Liam,
I’ve stopped turning tricks since they cleaned things up around Kings Cross.

You probably wouldn’t want to know what the trick was.

TH

Ah, British wit. It’s funny as hell. :P Give the site a read, you won’t regret it.

Now… something a bit more serious. Art. Art, it appears, is serious business. I noticed a number of my friends joining a Facebook group – “Prevent the “Artistic” Death of an Innocent Animal-SIGN THE PETITION!” (hope that hyperlink works). Apparently some Latin American artist Guillermo Vargas Habacuc picked up a stray dog off the street and tied it in a corner of an art museum exhibit without feeding it. It’s contested if the dog died or not – some reports say he let it die in the museum, others say he fed it before and after the exhibit and released it later to the streets… Yet I noticed all these Facebook comments on the photos, and I realized most of these people are absolutely retarded.

Michael Weileder of NSULA made a fantastic comment on the nature of the 500+ comments:

Top five most popular things to do on this wall:

5: Assert the absolute lack of morals of those who do not agree with your point of view!

4: Use profanity and overt vulgarity (and even extreme violent language), so everyone knows that YOU MEAN BUSINESS!

3: Assure the world that you, having attained the illustrious title of art major, can DEFINITIVELY state the exhibit is not art! Make sure to put “art” in quotations!

2: Belittle Shiggmasta’s [editor's note: Shiggmasta made arguments in favor of the art] intelligence, cleverly using his name against him in your intellectual debate!

And with an overwhelming lead…

1: Suggest that the artist himself be tied to a wall in place of the dog! Because it’s the same thing! Really!

…Which pretty much sums up everything in a few sentences. Really, though – regardless of whether it is or isn’t art it DID make a point. It made the point against standing and staring at animal neglect and strays dying before your very eyes. It made the point that even when you put the animal in the public eye, still no one takes care of the damn thing. No one fed it, no one let it go. Instead, they argue if it’s art.

Good. Fucking. Job.

“Why didn’t he just take a picture?” It wouldn’t have made the same point – it wouldn’t have elicited the same response. If you’re so enraged, if this group changed you, go out and adopt a pet instead of purebreeding them. Go out and spay or neuter your pet. Instead, you children are thinking you’re making a statement by joining a group and doing nothing else, aside from clicking on your newsfeed to see pictures of John getting drunk, or Becky hooking up with Charles. Instead, you children are opting “an eye for an eye”, which as Gandhi put it, “makes the whole world blind”. It’s you violent sick fucks who are destroying this world, those of you who think it’s okay to kill because someone did something you don’t like. Get off your ass, log off Facebook, and DO SOMETHING GOOD for once. Instead, you’re sitting safely in your middle-class suburban home, parading your half-naked Facebook profile pictures, rattling your jewelry and wishing for death upon others, when you could be changing the world.

I agree that an animal shouldn’t have to die to prove a simple point. I don’t disagree with joining a group to show your opinions. I do disagree with not doing all that you can. I beg of you, if you joined this group and you’re my friend, do something more than simply joining the group. As for the rest of these maligned violent children, I can only pray they come to their senses soon.

I think I had more to say, but if I did I can’t remember it.

If there’s more to say, leave a comment. :)

Graffiti and Garfield

Published on April 6, 2008 in Media. 3 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , .

So, I love graffiti. It’s impressive, y’know? An art form that’s shunned upon… very interesting for that reason too. But does it make you think? I have to concentrate to even read it, sometimes. But I like the stuff that speaks without words. Banksy is that art. I bought his book – a showcase of his works. Here’s a couple of pictures of his work:

EDIT: Unfortunately, when the site exploded I lost these pictures. Look for them through his site that I linked to, okay? :)

So he’s a much more interesting graffiti artist than most, in my opinion. Most of the appeal of his work is from altering one aspect of a picture by adding in something completely unrelated to the piece, like the Mona Lisa with the bazooka, but then you have things like the telephone booth, and its death signifying how the cellphone killed it. He also does painting, which he frames and unceremoniously hangs in prestigious art galleries until someone removes it. XD His art is astounding.

And onto something I dislike. Garfield. Blegh.

It’s NOT CREATIVE. Jim Davis is killing the cartoon medium with his bland humor and unimpressive art, and I’m not the only one who thinks so. Interestingly enough, such lack of creativity spawns even MORE creativity concerning the lack Jim Davis presents. Hence… I present to you a few fantastic parodies. First up is garfield minus garfield. To quote: “Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life? Friends, meet Jon Arbuckle. Let’s laugh and learn with him on a journey deep into the tortured mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against loneliness in a quiet American suburb.” Which is an accurate summation of the fact that Jon talks and interacts with a cat that really doesn’t matter. Why the hell does the cat care if it’s Monday – every day is the same for a cat’s hollow routine of eating, shitting, and delivering completely unfunny humor.

Then, ladies and gents, we move onto Lasagna Cat. A subtle yet sublime “tribute” which points out how mundane each strip could be if occurring in reality, with an odd interpretation/jab at each strip at the end. Enjoy, because I know I was laughing for very odd reasons:

And the creme of the crop, what with a not-so-subtle jab at the pathetic Garfield films:

And finally, the Garfield Randomizer. With this, you can lock a frame you like in place and click “Go” until another panel in the remaining unlocked positions shows a frame you like as well. The result? A funny, self-made strip of absurdity.

More Garfield bastardizing can be found at Encyclopedia Dramatica’s Garfield Page.

Leave me some comments about what you think! :3

“Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.”

so….tired….

Published on April 1, 2008 in Uncategorized. 2 Comments Tags: , , , .

So today… today I woke up and went to classes… and I decided, after speaking with Ala about how she feels out of shape (AHAHAHA RIGHT), to work out at the gym. She helped me set up a list of stuff I should do, and when I got there, I got straight to work on the stationary bike machine for 10 minutes, and then the stairmaster thing, but the elliptical machine was the weirdest sensation. After jogging, I came back to it, and within the last minute of working out on it I FINALLY had a rhythm for the damn contraption. So I did it for another few minutes because I was proud. XD

Then I worked on my abs via crunches…. Hopefully I can keep up this trend and lose weight and get a kickass chest/stomach out of it. :)

But as for now, I’m feckin’ TIRED. So sorry for the short entry… I have hardly any concentration right now. XD I’ll leave you with a question to answer:

If you had to pick one feature about yourself you’d change, what would it be? Conversely, what would you never want to change?

“I read somewhere their periods attract bears. Bears can smell the menstruation.” – Brick Tamland