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Sadly no! I wish!

Anything techincal just confuses me. I can just about cope with crayons and paper.

They are characters from the web comic Kawaii not.

Cool.

What is that behind you? Looks like a Matthew Barney reject from here. Can't make it out.

It's the bum of a statue in the tropical rooms of the Glasgow Botanical Gardens. And this is a place where people take their kids for a family outing. What is the world coming to?

I had to look up Matthew Barney. From wiki:

"The Apprentice comes to wait for retribution at The Cloud Club bar. In a room adjacent to the bar, a woman (paralympic athlete Aimee Mullins) systematically cuts a large number of potatoes, using blades attached to her shoes, into the shape of a wedge. She uses the wedges to tilt the bar un-level (mirroring the Chrysler Building’s new found disruption).... A hot sheet of plastic is molded over his face keeping his mouth open to accept the compressed remains of the Imperial New Yorker like a pair of dentures. At that moment, the Apprentice's intestines prolapse through his rectum,"

Wow.

I know!

And Tracey Emin just writes the name of her lovers in a tent? LOL!

http://www.cremaster.net/

Crazy. And I thought David Lynch was bad. What's it for? Who watches it? (am genuinely curious)

:O
Don't you like Twin Peaks?

Love it - I meant 'bad' as in 'and I thought David Lynch's stuff was surreal'. Not bad as in bad or bad, and bad.

Ahhh.
You are 'bad'.
(I mean 'bad' as in Michael Jackson.)
(I mean 'Michael Jackson' as in the 80s, not 'Michael Jackson' as in mental.)

Laughing out loud

A fact about Matthew Barney's The Cremaster Cycle. There are only 10 DVD's of each film in the world costing $1million each! No wonder Bjork married him.

The thing I remember about Twin peaks was Mulder from X files as a woman.

That was a highlight.

Quote: RubyMae - Glamourous Snowdrop at large. @ August 19, 2007, 6:09 PM

A fact about Matthew Barney's The Cremaster Cycle. There are only 10 DVD's of each film in the world costing $1million each! No wonder Bjork married him.

That's really interesting. I wonder if it was just something else for bored rich people to buy, or there really is some artistic merit to it.

Quote: zooo @ August 19, 2007, 5:27 PM

Ahhh.
You are 'bad'.
(I mean 'bad' as in Michael Jackson.)
(I mean 'Michael Jackson' as in the 80s, not 'Michael Jackson' as in mental.)

Thanks zooo! You're the man! I mean woman.

Quote: Simon Stratton @ August 19, 2007, 9:10 PM

That's really interesting. I wonder if it was just something else for bored rich people to buy, or there really is some artistic merit to it.

After hearing the fact that he only made 10 dvds fo tht price I would say he's not artistic. Theres tons of artistic directors who distribute there films to mass market whats so good about this bloke?

I believe the whole idea was to create an air of mystery around the films. Barney did release "The Order" which is the dream from Cremaster 3 for mass audiences. The DVD's are pieces of art themselves with unique images on them. If you look on you tube, you can find the odd clip filmed by spotty european art students sneaking their cameras into the Guggenheim before being dragged out by their piano braces.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZhce176yvY

I always think about giving the characters a full life I.e. being a detective is just a job and in reality not a very glamourous one. Give them a family and friends, community responsibilitys etc

Having a life affecting disorder is good to, it makes them stand out. Or you could go the other way and have a 'normal' affliction such as a skin problem like eczma etc apparently 70% of the population struggle with something like this so the audience would be able to identify with the character.

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