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Steve Jobs statue is a bit odd
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Slade Trillgon
Brutor Force Federated
#21 - 2014-02-28 12:32:27 UTC
Aspalis wrote:
Eurydia Vespasian wrote:
it's almost as ugly as the imicus.

I would have made him nude and greek-esque and pissing into a fountain.


Imicus serves a purpose though.

I would have made him nude and greek-esque too, but I would have the statue pissing into the mouths of every idiot that ever bought a Apple product.



The Apple IIe was a solid product that served my family well through the late 80's and early 90's Big smile
Malaclypse Muscaria
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
#22 - 2014-02-28 18:39:08 UTC
Steve Jobs isn't the only one being recently disgraced with a hideous sculpture, Kurt Cobain just got the same treatment as well. Shocked
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#23 - 2014-02-28 18:53:15 UTC
Malaclypse Muscaria wrote:
Steve Jobs isn't the only one being recently disgraced with a hideous sculpture, Kurt Cobain just got the same treatment as well. Shocked



Seriously. It looks like hippy Jesus crying into his guitar.

Thinking about all this, these memorial type statues are just horrendous really, because they are designed by committee, and everyone thinks they know what's best.

The best article I found about all this discusses these issues and the horrendous public outcry when Maya Lin submitted her minimalist idea for the Vietnam Memorial.

The "Black Gash of Shame": Revisiting the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Controversy (Which was probably the last time we got a really great piece of public memorial art).

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Sturmwolke
#24 - 2014-02-28 21:32:11 UTC
Art : one person's rubbish is another person's treasure ;)
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#25 - 2014-02-28 22:13:51 UTC
Sturmwolke wrote:
Art : one person's rubbish is another person's treasure ;)



That pretty much applies to everything else too.

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Sturmwolke
#26 - 2014-02-28 22:40:33 UTC
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:
That pretty much applies to everything else too.

Well, not necessarily. Engineering, mathematics, physics etc. all have a common reference.
You can't bullshit and get away with it like you can in art ... or anything else that relies on a subjective reference ;)
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#27 - 2014-02-28 23:11:45 UTC  |  Edited by: Krixtal Icefluxor
Sturmwolke wrote:
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:
That pretty much applies to everything else too.

Well, not necessarily. Engineering, mathematics, physics etc. all have a common reference.
You can't bullshit and get away with it like you can in art ... or anything else that relies on a subjective reference ;)



Note my use of "pretty much", which allows flexibility and exception in the statement to a degree.

I'm not at all in the mood for a semantics argument. I mean, really...............

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Ila Dace
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#28 - 2014-03-01 03:22:33 UTC
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