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Started by Doktor Howl, August 07, 2013, 01:03:24 AM

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Doktor Howl

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"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


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I am amazed that the man was intelligent enough to wander out of Missouri and to Italy in the first place but not smart enough to keep his god damn hands to himself.
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Suu

It's been found that he wasn't from Missouri, but from FUCKING WESTERN CONNECTICUT.

CAINAD!!!!!!! YOU'RE LETTING THEM OUT OF THE STATE AGAIN!  :argh!:
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Ugh.  Why the hell would you touch any artwork in a museum, especially when it's hundreds of years old?  I've seen some pretty badass works in my short life, but I've never had the urge to touch them if for no other reason than because I wouldn't want to run the risk of damaging them.  I don't get how you can be so stupid/careless/thoughtless/whatever.
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There is an effigy of a knight and his wife at the Cloisters in NYC...it's MELTING from all the oils from people touching it. There is a sign right there that says, 'THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU TOUCH' and people STILL FUCKING TOUCH.  :argh!:






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Don Coyote

I kinda want to always touch all the arts. All the time. And sometimes taste the arts.

Suu

Quote from: Don Coyote on August 07, 2013, 05:10:27 AM
I kinda want to always touch all the arts. All the time. And sometimes taste the arts.

Dimo did that last summer at the RISD Museum. He hasn't been quite right since...

...Oh, and they closed the Asian floor suddenly and it's not slated to re-open until next Spring.
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Doktor Howl

Quote from: Don Coyote on August 07, 2013, 05:10:27 AM
I kinda want to always touch all the arts. All the time. And sometimes taste the arts.

Many of the arts are made out of arsenic and lead.
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QuoteStill not as bad as the old lady that tried to restore a fresco

Okay, so sometimes touching the arts is justified  :evil:

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Cain

People like this are slowly destroying Florence.

It used to be that at least half of the iconic pieces of art which represent the city, statues especially, were in the main Piazza.  But because people can't keep their hands to their fucking selves, they've had to replace most of them with replicas and put the real ones behind several dozen bomb screening systems and surround them with 24 hour security.  And still people wont stop ruining them.

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Quote from: Suu on August 07, 2013, 03:11:41 AM
It's been found that he wasn't from Missouri, but from FUCKING WESTERN CONNECTICUT.

CAINAD!!!!!!! YOU'RE LETTING THEM OUT OF THE STATE AGAIN!  :argh!:

I was coerced. He broke my pinky finger :(

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So, over the years I have been gradually revising my feelings about the human desire to touch and change things and the transience of art.

I am still torn, but I am getting closer to an acceptance that the desire to touch is a fundamental part of human nature. So is the need to change things. Here in Portland there is a small, peculiar and very vocal group which is very strongly attached to the idea of things the way they were at a particular point in time... they lament the demolition of every old building and the renovation of every park, even when it's for the better for those living in the present and future. I think that their unfortunate stuck-ness in a nostalgia tomb of memories and clinging to the idea of everything remaining the same has done a lot for me in terms of changing how I feel about beautiful things passing out of current existence.

Funny, isn't it, that in a society where we insist that most of our day-to-day material goods be disposable, replaceable, we also insist that certain antiquities be preserved forever, untouched?
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Junkenstein

QuoteFunny, isn't it, that in a society where we insist that most of our day-to-day material goods be disposable, replaceable, we also insist that certain antiquities be preserved forever, untouched?

Historical cognitive dissonance. The new is never as important as the old.

Kind of curious, does anyone else think that art will become more interactive in the near future? As noted, people everywhere can't help but touch these things. You've not really been there and seen it unless you've touched it. I'd guess that exhibits that make the touching aspect part of the experience to be something we'll see more of. Just a hunch as touch seems to be an area that is somewhat neglected.
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Suu

Quote from: Cainad on August 07, 2013, 12:46:20 PM
Quote from: Suu on August 07, 2013, 03:11:41 AM
It's been found that he wasn't from Missouri, but from FUCKING WESTERN CONNECTICUT.

CAINAD!!!!!!! YOU'RE LETTING THEM OUT OF THE STATE AGAIN!  :argh!:

I was coerced. He broke my pinky finger :(

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