I shouldn't have used the word "cleaned up" because it obviously is not what's happening with gentrification. To repeat my point, this is not an orchestrated movement, there's no one behind this. You can't forbid the more affluent people from buying real estate where they want even if it absolutely does negatively effect the then current residents.
It isn't good or bad, it's been part of the natural cycle of city life for a few centuries at least. One neighborhood is cleaned up and another one springs up in its place. Lately the trend has been for these to move further from the center, turning the diameter between the fashionable city centers and the suburbs into poorer areas. This is not a universal truth however. Should a city become sufficiently fashionable and important then gradually the poorer citizens will be ushered out entirely. Once this happens, the city will be deemed to have lost its "charm", the young cool professional types move on, decline moves in again and we re-enter the cycle.
This is not a political issue or an excuse to vent at types of people that irritate you (whether they're hipsters or hispanic or whatever)...it's just how things are.
The definition of art has eluded us for millennia but it seems the comment section has it all worked out "if I don't think it's art and it doesn't look like anyone put a lot of effort into it and it's all weird and junk then it's not art"
I hate to have to defend these conceptual art school wankers but you people are so much worse. If I have to chose between a prejudiced, smug conservative and a clueless art kid then I've made my choice. Phhukk you people.
This looks like it's being played backwards too. Just look at the stilted, unnatural movements. At least from the point that the rope is "thrown up" (i.e. falls down).
@edc3 "if your face was deliberately altered with a fist, its art?"
Please see my previous comment: "I love the hysterical housewife flank of Neatorama. Where any question, however restrained, can be parried with the deft use of: "!!1!!1 OH YEah, how'd u like if he wuz raping YOUR childerns!!1""
Which I will now amend to: "!!1!!1 OH YEah, how'd u like if he wuz punching youz in da faces, huh?!!1""
Read the previous comments, paying particular attention to the one supposedly by the artist himself and you'll get an answer to your question: "Who's paying for it? Who will the owners/patrons hold accountable for this mess?"
Having had a closer look at his website and that oh-so-clever thesaurus-impaired statement I think we're in agreement. Yes, it's some kind of art but as art it's absolute horrible rubbish.
Should a city become sufficiently fashionable and important then gradually the poorer citizens will be ushered out entirely. Once this happens, the city will be deemed to have lost its "charm", the young cool professional types move on, decline moves in again and we re-enter the cycle.
This is not a political issue or an excuse to vent at types of people that irritate you (whether they're hipsters or hispanic or whatever)...it's just how things are.
I hate to have to defend these conceptual art school wankers but you people are so much worse. If I have to chose between a prejudiced, smug conservative and a clueless art kid then I've made my choice. Phhukk you people.
hahaha...way to go! I get it, because it's just a bunch of random junk. You should have your own blog because you're wasted here.
This! Is! Some japanese hornets!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orri_P%C3%A1ll_D%C3%BDrason
"Stuff like this is why I have lost all faith in the conceptual/preformance art movement."
I'm genuinely curious, at which point did you lose interest? What kind of conceptual art do you like? Any particular artist?
"if your face was deliberately altered with a fist, its art?"
Please see my previous comment:
"I love the hysterical housewife flank of Neatorama. Where any question, however restrained, can be parried with the deft use of:
"!!1!!1 OH YEah, how'd u like if he wuz raping YOUR childerns!!1""
Which I will now amend to:
"!!1!!1 OH YEah, how'd u like if he wuz punching youz in da faces, huh?!!1""
Read the previous comments, paying particular attention to the one supposedly by the artist himself and you'll get an answer to your question:
"Who's paying for it? Who will the owners/patrons hold accountable for this mess?"
Having had a closer look at his website and that oh-so-clever thesaurus-impaired statement I think we're in agreement. Yes, it's some kind of art but as art it's absolute horrible rubbish.