Found these, didn't want to spag up the Pics thread.
(http://skychasm-consulting.ca/images/stories/1_geliografic-team.jpg)
(http://skychasm-consulting.ca/images/stories/2_geliografic-team.jpg)
(http://skychasm-consulting.ca/images/stories/3_geliografic-team.jpg)
(http://skychasm-consulting.ca/images/stories/4_geliografic-team.jpg)
(http://skychasm-consulting.ca/images/stories/5_geliografic-team.jpg)
(http://skychasm-consulting.ca/images/stories/6_geliografic-team.jpg)
(http://skychasm-consulting.ca/images/stories/7_geliografic-team.jpg)
(http://skychasm-consulting.ca/images/stories/8_geliografic-team.jpg)
http://www.geliografic.com/
I think its bad taste.
Sorry!
Quote from: Joh'Nyx on February 01, 2011, 04:12:29 AM
I think its bad taste.
Sorry!
You aren't supposed to eat them.
I think it's cool. This is similar to still life and portraits of arms and armor and personages wearing and bearing them.
Also, I find some fire arms to be aesthetically pleasing, but that is personal taste.
Quote from: Joh'Nyx on February 01, 2011, 04:12:29 AM
I think its bad taste.
Sorry!
I got that "WHA... I Don't Even?" sense too.
Then I realized I like the unnerving juxtapositions, but I don't consider these pieces glorifying the objects or promoting war.
In other words, I like it because it's very well done art that makes me feel uncomfortable about it (in a way that makes me think).
I like a couple, and I think a couple are kinda dumb looking. I was not particularly struck by them either positively or negatively.
Quote from: Canis latrans eques on February 01, 2011, 04:17:23 AM
Quote from: Joh'Nyx on February 01, 2011, 04:12:29 AM
I think its bad taste.
Sorry!
You aren't supposed to eat them.
I think it's cool. This is similar to still life and portraits of arms and armor and personages wearing and bearing them.
Also, I find some fire arms to be aesthetically pleasing, but that is personal taste.
EHAUEHEAU the joys of foreing language: making puns without realizing it.
But what i meant by bad taste is that i think it implicitly promotes guns as something good with the logic of "pretty=good".
Quote from: Joh'Nyx on February 01, 2011, 04:29:55 AM
But what i meant by bad taste is that i think it implicitly promotes guns as something good with the logic of "pretty=good".
I figured.
I don't personally view guns as inherently being good or bad, but at the same I don't think that something that is inherently warlike should be depicted as bad or wrong. And I enjoy how well made TOOLS of any kind look.
Quote from: Joh'Nyx on February 01, 2011, 04:29:55 AM
But what i meant by bad taste is that i think it implicitly promotes guns as something good with the logic of "pretty=good".
Yeah, we get your meaning. Coyote's just being an ass. :lol:
To say that a piece of art is in bad taste means exactly what you meant. That it is somehow offensive to your sensibilities. In this case, promoting firearms.
However, I disagree with you, because I don't see that message, but I can fully understand that it could be taken that way.
i love them
My new favorite art!
In fact, I feel inspired
great juxtaposition
Still life paintings are always so serene
the guns add a rather distinct tone to them which clashes with your expectations
delicious
How did you manage to get into the NRA boardroom?
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on February 01, 2011, 01:39:43 PM
How did you manage to get into the NRA boardroom?
He borrowed my tits.
Quote from: Joh'Nyx on February 01, 2011, 04:12:29 AM
I think its bad taste.
Sorry!
Yeah, who the hell paints plastic fruit, anymore?
I like it. New computer desktop today.
Quote from: Cramulus on February 01, 2011, 12:53:37 PM
great juxtaposition
Still life paintings are always so serene
the guns add a rather distinct tone to them which clashes with your expectations
delicious
This. And they're very nicely done as well!
Only for some of them the juxtaposition is "stronger" than others, as if the artist didn't exactly know what their point was. Then again, maybe they didn't, and it just worked out this way, and some of them are really awesome.