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Friday Open Thread

by afew Fri Jul 27th, 2012 at 11:22:27 AM EST

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Re: Friday Open Thread (none / 1)
Yeah, I know. Put it down to the heat.
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Fri Jul 27th, 2012 at 11:23:00 AM EST
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Summer pipe dreams...

The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman
by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Fri Jul 27th, 2012 at 11:38:29 AM EST
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Re: Friday Open Thread (none / 0)
What makes this picture popular?  Is it the surrealism/antiquine nature, or just smut?
by njh on Fri Jul 27th, 2012 at 11:50:01 AM EST
Surreal? (4.00 / 8)
It's really not a pipe, only the image of one.
by Katrin on Fri Jul 27th, 2012 at 12:08:10 PM EST
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Re: Surreal? (none / 0)
My friend from the louvre tells me it has a double entendre or two.  But I'm never sure whether he's just pulling my leg.
by njh on Sat Jul 28th, 2012 at 12:10:44 AM EST
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Re: Surreal? (none / 1)
Une pipe in French means a blow-job.

Whether Magritte intended the pun or not, I don't know.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Sat Jul 28th, 2012 at 01:45:47 AM EST
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I say. (4.00 / 3)
Good show.

by Magnifico on Fri Jul 27th, 2012 at 12:52:16 PM EST
Ceci n'est pas une pissotiere (4.00 / 5)

... it's a readymade.

Yesterday we happened to walk into the modern art museumin Salzburg, where they have a major exhibition on John Cage and the visual arts. Duchamp was a friend and mentor, and after his death Cage produced some artifacts under the title of not wanting to say anything about marcel

It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II

by eurogreen on Fri Jul 27th, 2012 at 01:55:07 PM EST
Re: Ceci n'est pas une pissotiere (none / 0)
Hans Richter on what happened to DuChamp:

This Neo-Dada, which they call New Realism, Pop Art, Assemblage, etc., is an easy way out, and lives on what Dada did. When I discovered the ready-mades I sought to discourage aesthetics. In Neo-Dada they have taken my readymades and found aesthetic beauty in them, I threw the bottle-rack and the urinal into their faces as a challenge and now they admire them for their aesthetic beauty.

The fact Dada is considered an Art Movement is proof of the failure of Dada.
 

Ever since I learnt about confirmation bias I've started seeing it everywhere

by ATinNM on Fri Jul 27th, 2012 at 02:10:19 PM EST
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Other than that... (4.00 / 8)
Today we (me, daughters 1 and 2 and Mr and Mrs Bath) walked up to the eagle's nest. Tourists take the bus, 3000 per day. But we, the elite...



It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II

by eurogreen on Fri Jul 27th, 2012 at 02:07:05 PM EST
Re: Friday Open Thread (4.00 / 2)
Commenttator on radio 4 this morning about Romney "Nobody has united londoners this thorougghly since the Luftwafffe"

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Sat Jul 28th, 2012 at 07:34:15 AM EST
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