oh geez. i feel so randomly upset or pissed off or something and i don't know why. hormones hitting me i guess.
i have this big frown on my face and no inclination to arrange my face any other way.
AND i lost all my bookmarks.
geez.
Now, i've been meaning to write about this for a while, and i'm in a particularly bitchy mood so it's probably gonna come out a lot horrible-er than i meant it to be really but screw it.
As some of you may know, I live in a house with six people (including myself) and four of us get along great. The other two... we don't really talk to. It's okay though, we just kinda ignore each other and quietly bitch about how they keep turning the heating down because they "can't afford it", but they can afford to get curry delivered four times a week.
Anyway, that's all just background, I wanted to bitch about something else. Now one of them is a guy who I will call G. And the other is a girl, H. They're both studying Art at university. G's actually a fully trained chef, but after getting that qualification, went back to uni to study Architechture, and then quit that after a year to study Art. I don't really think he has any idea of what he's gonna do with an art degree, but it's apparently fun.
Well, I'm just gonna come out and say it... any art i've ever seen either of these two create completely sucks. Now, I'm not usually one to mock the artistic endeavours of others, but seriously, you'll see where i'm coming from. You know in pre-school, when you used to do paintings like dump loads of paint on one half of a sheet of paper, then fold it over and smush it together, then unfold and it looks like a butterfly? That's the kind of thing G does.
He did that thing where you colour a sheet of paper all different colours, then draw over it with black wax crayon and scratch some of the wax crayon off so the colour shows through.
He's not shown us anything new for a while, as we've kind of all completely stopped talking to them, but last i heard... his art teachers fucking LOVED the crap he was coming out with!
I don't know, maybe I'm completely missing something incredibly insightful about his work, but to hear him talk about it he even admits himself that he's just fucking around.
It's really none of my business, but it pisses me off that he's fucking around in an art course and complaining about how his parents won't give him any money (big surprise when he's like 25 and they've already paid him through two courses). I'm all for modern art when it's genuine, but it's a little grating to watch this guy make crap and have his teachers fawn over him for it.
As for H, i can't really comment since i've never seen anything she's finished. All i know is that she knits a lot and there is currently a baking tray in our kitchen with a layer of tin foil, then a layer of cling film, then a sheet of pink knitting painted with furniture polish.
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What the hell is Curry?
Grimtooth | Email | 05.03.04 - 9:25 pm | #
what the hell??? You don't get CURRY in america???
Jaymee | 05.03.04 - 9:29 pm | #
We get curry in America. It's just that Grim doesn't get curry where he's at.
Art teachers do that kind of shit. Take it from someone with experience. You could take the time a paint the most beautiful portrait anyone has ever seen and just be ok to the art teachers but if you draw a doll's head impaled on a fork in feces, then you're fucking brilliant. On the whole, art teachers are douches.
MaestroCalhoun | Email | 05.04.04 - 7:20 am | #
Those who can't teach, so chances are good these art teachers are bad
dolly | 05.04.04 - 10:44 am | #
My wife taught her students to do that crayon thing. She teaches Grade 6. I bet next thing your roomy brings home is a paper snowflake.
Taz | Email | Homepage | 05.04.04 - 2:58 pm | #
mmmmm, curry, it's hard to get good curry here in the states, and even then it's scarce. Curry is about the best food you brits have. I had curry on the flight to london and it was the best thing I age the whole trip. Maybe I should have eaten at more pubs or something.
shiva | 05.04.04 - 6:59 pm | #
I spent a week working next door to an Indian restaurant once. They cooked Currie all day long. It was all you could smell, and it would coat your throat and tongue, so I spent the whole day thirsty as hell, no matter how much water I drank.
Scarlette | Email | 05.08.04 - 12:51 am | #
Well, NOW I know why you got all heated up with the 'What is art?' thread... :D
Kz | Email | Homepage | 05.08.04 - 4:12 pm | #
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