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By clock (Mon Sep 11, 2006 at 10:20:32 PM EST) (all tags)

we got our chihuly print and by popular demand (that is to say that kellnerin asked to see it) here it is!

so there. art. don't you feel more cultured now? our living room does. no more hobo movie posters!!!

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its crooked by garlic (4.00 / 2) #1 Mon Sep 11, 2006 at 11:11:05 PM EST

so is your butt. by StackyMcRacky (4.00 / 3) #15 Tue Sep 12, 2006 at 11:32:55 AM EST

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: my mom said i was special. :( by garlic (4.00 / 1) #46 Tue Sep 12, 2006 at 01:27:40 PM EST

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Nice walls. by debacle (4.00 / 1) #2 Mon Sep 11, 2006 at 11:30:31 PM EST

Back in math class that was 'puky color green.'

Ahhh, high school.

"I'm very responsive to certain stimuli, and pain is pretty much at the top of that list." - BadDoggie

"dancing green" by StackyMcRacky (4.00 / 1) #16 Tue Sep 12, 2006 at 11:34:35 AM EST

is what the color chart says

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Have you ever been thrown up on? by debacle (4.00 / 1) #27 Tue Sep 12, 2006 at 11:48:17 AM EST

I guess you could call what happens afterwards 'dancing.'

"I'm very responsive to certain stimuli, and pain is pretty much at the top of that list." - BadDoggie

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Dear Mr. Male with Colorblindness by StackyMcRacky (2.00 / 0) #29 Tue Sep 12, 2006 at 12:03:29 PM EST

This is a totally different color than bile green.

Get with the program.

Peasant.

Love,

Stacky

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: Dear Mrs. Girl on the Internet by debacle (2.00 / 0) #45 Tue Sep 12, 2006 at 01:22:21 PM EST

I just call 'em like I see 'em.
My walls are no better.
Peon.
Love,
debacle
"I'm very responsive to certain stimuli, and pain is pretty much at the top of that list." - BadDoggie

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Top Tip by Bob Abooey (4.00 / 1) #42 Tue Sep 12, 2006 at 12:53:17 PM EST

Turn the contrast knob on your monitor all the way down and it will then look a lot better.

Warmest regards,
--Your best pal Bob
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Would you mind if by calla (4.00 / 2) #3 Tue Sep 12, 2006 at 01:19:51 AM EST

I put it in a different frame? I've got an idea that would give the piece a bit more respect.

"but i have a vested interest in keeping the people who see me naked interested in continuing to see me naked." 256

what's wrong with the frame? by StackyMcRacky (4.00 / 2) #18 Tue Sep 12, 2006 at 11:35:50 AM EST

it looks really good in the context of the room.

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Frame too wimpy by greyrat (4.00 / 1) #24 Tue Sep 12, 2006 at 11:43:50 AM EST

Please double in width.

And not just because I'm hot for calla...
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There is absolutely no correlation or causation amongst intelligence, power, talent and wealth.
Kha-Nyou
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: for the photo, yes by StackyMcRacky (2.00 / 0) #26 Tue Sep 12, 2006 at 11:48:13 AM EST

but for the piece in the room...no.

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Its a lovely piece. by calla (2.00 / 0) #59 Tue Sep 12, 2006 at 08:20:29 PM EST

The current frame is a bit utilitarian. I'd put the picture in something more fanciful and definitely wider.

If I come up with something - I'll send you a pic, k?

"but i have a vested interest in keeping the people who see me naked interested in continuing to see me naked." 256
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: right by StackyMcRacky (2.00 / 0) #60 Tue Sep 12, 2006 at 09:24:09 PM EST

when you look at the piece in the room, the frame goes quite well.
it isn't in a gallery, it's in my living room above the TV. in a gallery setting or on a blank wall, i'd totally change the frame.

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Respect? It's a Chihuly, m'dear. by ammoniacal (2.00 / 0) #58 Tue Sep 12, 2006 at 06:46:58 PM EST

read: MUSEUMOFGLASS.COM

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Attn clocking infidel... by Metatone (4.00 / 1) #4 Tue Sep 12, 2006 at 03:20:48 AM EST

Have you seen Christian Marclay's Video Quartet (2002)?

I saw it a few weeks ago at Tate Modern and it wasn't badly done.

: i haven't! by clock (4.00 / 1) #17 Tue Sep 12, 2006 at 11:35:25 AM EST

i will have to find a way. i've had my head in the sand with my recordings (and wedding) of late, so i have to get back into the swing.

_{Clock is right. [nt] --vorheesleatherface}

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Mint green wall???? by Bob Abooey (4.00 / 2) #5 Tue Sep 12, 2006 at 07:16:43 AM EST

Er.. is sasquatchan your interior decorator?

Warmest regards,
--Your best pal Bob

Our living room is nearly that color by georgeha (4.00 / 1) #12 Tue Sep 12, 2006 at 09:35:36 AM EST

I think ours is rubbed sage.

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it isn't mint green by StackyMcRacky (4.00 / 2) #19 Tue Sep 12, 2006 at 11:37:37 AM EST

it's more of a spring green.

it looks really nice.

and i dont' know why i bother responding to a guy who can't figure out how to input a password.

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: Well, up north we call that mint by Bob Abooey (4.00 / 1) #33 Tue Sep 12, 2006 at 12:21:12 PM EST

But at least you don't drive a faux-wood wagon, so you're still one up on sasquatch.
That is to say, I don't think you drive a wagon do you?
Warmest regards,
--Your best pal Bob
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Dear Sir by sasquatchan (2.00 / 0) #49 Tue Sep 12, 2006 at 01:37:17 PM EST

I'll have you know Ms. Rackey has exceptional taste. Had you shelled out the clams to buy such an exceptional print by an artist with such acclaim and approval from the art establishment, you too could be considered avant-garde. Alas, you're simply pedestrian and provincial, always a follower, not a leader.

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acclaim? approval? avant-garde? by StackyMcRacky (2.00 / 0) #50 Tue Sep 12, 2006 at 01:39:34 PM EST

I just thought it was pretty.

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which is all that really matters by sasquatchan (2.00 / 0) #52 Tue Sep 12, 2006 at 02:38:38 PM EST

in the end.

(We may disagree on what we'd pay for "pretty", but that's a different matter, and depends on how strongly the Ms likes it)

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: we paid more than normal by StackyMcRacky (2.00 / 0) #54 Tue Sep 12, 2006 at 03:08:40 PM EST

because we tied in the whole "commemorate the wedding day" thing. cuz....we just felt like it.
family has given us enough money as gifts that it's actually paid for at this point (which was just fortune smiling on us).

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ObICouldHavePaintedThat! by DullTrev (4.00 / 1) #6 Tue Sep 12, 2006 at 07:23:50 AM EST

ObReply:ButYouDidn't

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DFJ?

not all art is about technical talent. by garlic (4.00 / 1) #7 Tue Sep 12, 2006 at 07:44:08 AM EST

i.e. punk music.

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Tut. by Breaker (4.00 / 3) #8 Tue Sep 12, 2006 at 07:58:55 AM EST

It's not about the actual delivery of the painting; it's all about the writeup.

"Consider the warmth of the deep orange backdrop, invoking the comfort of the womb. Juxtaposed is the angular spikiness of the pineapple motif, coupled with the enigmatic hues of the foreground reeds. It's a damning comment on the human condition, resplendent with joy and pain."

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f that, yo by StackyMcRacky (2.00 / 0) #23 Tue Sep 12, 2006 at 11:42:58 AM EST

it moved us, so we bought it.

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It moved you, how? by Breaker (4.00 / 1) #35 Tue Sep 12, 2006 at 12:23:44 PM EST

All I see is an ejaculating pineapple and some badly drawn and coloured reeds set on a 1970s nylon curtain. With something unreadable in Spanish/French scrawled across the bottom (or possibly the ego of the "artist").

See earlier comment for my credentials as art critic.

Really, I am interested in your talk through of the picture.

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well by StackyMcRacky (2.00 / 0) #37 Tue Sep 12, 2006 at 12:30:09 PM EST

i see a plant in a vase with colored beads, with that scribbly branchy stuff that's so "in" with the interior decor people. i also see it set amongst bamboo (i have no idea why i think "bamboo" instead of "reeds")

and...the colors are in line with the colors in my house, which are the colors i like to surround myself with (redundant).

to me, it's like what most of the rest of the art in my house wants to grow up and be like.

there's no accounting for taste.

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And that moves you, how? by Breaker (2.00 / 0) #41 Tue Sep 12, 2006 at 12:49:19 PM EST

It's an ejaculating pineapple, not a vase.

scribbly branchy stuff that's so "in" with the interior decor people

Keeping up with the Llewellyn-Jones's then?

I'll concede it works with the wall colouring.

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it makes me smile by StackyMcRacky (2.00 / 0) #43 Tue Sep 12, 2006 at 01:00:26 PM EST

i don't have the scribbly-branchy stuff in my house, i just used those terms to define it.

isn't art in all its forms subjective? trying to express how the painting moves me it probably along the same lines as a man trying to explain what sex feels like to a woman (especially since i have the vocabulary of a five-year-old).

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: Mmmm. by Breaker (2.00 / 0) #48 Tue Sep 12, 2006 at 01:33:28 PM EST

Have a go though?

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for reference.... by StackyMcRacky (2.00 / 0) #38 Tue Sep 12, 2006 at 12:31:29 PM EST

Matisse is one of my all-time favorite artists (more than just the blue nudes).

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Ejaculating pineapple. by ambrosen (4.00 / 2) #40 Tue Sep 12, 2006 at 12:41:56 PM EST

Now there's a phrase I'm scared to google.

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you'd love a piece at the local musuem. by garlic (2.00 / 0) #56 Tue Sep 12, 2006 at 05:32:20 PM EST

The whole piece is just the title. No painting, no sculpture, no pile of junk on the floor, just the title on the wall.

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: What is the title? by Breaker (2.00 / 0) #62 Wed Sep 13, 2006 at 04:26:21 AM EST

"Swindle"?
"I got paid for this, haha"?

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"chihuly"? by Breaker (4.00 / 3) #9 Tue Sep 12, 2006 at 07:59:52 AM EST

Is that Guatamalan for "talentless daubs of a 6 year old"

who actually gets paid to do this crap by StackyMcRacky (2.00 / 0) #20 Tue Sep 12, 2006 at 11:39:06 AM EST

while you don't.

boo hoo

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To be honest by Breaker (2.00 / 0) #32 Tue Sep 12, 2006 at 12:18:52 PM EST

I'd be embarrased to take people's money off them for something that looks like something Joey Deacon could knock up in one of his "creative expression" afternoons.

Don't get too wound up about my comments BTW, CAB regularly reminds me I have no appreciation for art.

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but i'm having fun by StackyMcRacky (2.00 / 0) #34 Tue Sep 12, 2006 at 12:23:19 PM EST

redirecting the physical pain i suffer from currently into snarky comments on teh intarweb!

you can't take that away from me!

if i can take money from people doing what i do, i can take money from people doing just about anything *shrug*

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Fair enough. by Breaker (2.00 / 0) #39 Tue Sep 12, 2006 at 12:32:57 PM EST

I apologise for my kid gloves earlier then!

See my other comment for further opportunities to justify your questionable choice of wall decoration.

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if you think that's questionable by StackyMcRacky (2.00 / 0) #44 Tue Sep 12, 2006 at 01:01:23 PM EST

i'd hate to hear what you have to say about the other stuff on my walls!

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If you can take it... by Breaker (2.00 / 0) #47 Tue Sep 12, 2006 at 01:32:05 PM EST

plspstpicskthx

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this piece by StackyMcRacky (2.00 / 0) #51 Tue Sep 12, 2006 at 01:44:50 PM EST

replaced a Superman movie poster (which I would link to, but nobody seems to sell anymore. it was a copy of the 1978 movie).

go!

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Finally! by Breaker (2.00 / 0) #53 Tue Sep 12, 2006 at 02:44:01 PM EST

You're showing some taste!

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sweet! by StackyMcRacky (2.00 / 0) #55 Tue Sep 12, 2006 at 03:09:20 PM EST

i also have a Blade Runner poster, and a Star Wars poster.

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: Don't take them down by Breaker (4.00 / 1) #63 Wed Sep 13, 2006 at 04:26:55 AM EST

In order to put up any more of this rubbish.

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the last piece (only piece?) by garlic (2.00 / 0) #57 Tue Sep 12, 2006 at 05:36:28 PM EST

of art I bought is very similar to this by Roy Cacek.

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: i bet it looks awesome in person by StackyMcRacky (2.00 / 0) #61 Tue Sep 12, 2006 at 09:26:18 PM EST

this is actually my 3rd "real" piece of art. the other 2 i picked up at local art shows.

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thanks for posting! by Kellnerin (4.00 / 1) #10 Tue Sep 12, 2006 at 09:16:26 AM EST

And I actually like the way it looks on your idiosyncratic green wall :)

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Do not misuse.

er, actually by iGrrrl (4.00 / 1) #14 Tue Sep 12, 2006 at 11:28:31 AM EST

I'm not sure it's idiosynchratic. I just had my office painted that color.

"I don't have time for martial law, I have to get to the gym!" zarathus
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: perhaps not by Kellnerin (2.00 / 0) #21 Tue Sep 12, 2006 at 11:40:49 AM EST

It's not all that far off from a color my college friends dubbed "Kellnerin Green" because I tended to buy clothes in that hue.

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Do not misuse.
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i do enjoy a colorful home by StackyMcRacky (2.00 / 0) #25 Tue Sep 12, 2006 at 11:46:20 AM EST

my ex called my house a "skittles home" because every room is a different color.

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taste the rainbow! by Kellnerin (2.00 / 0) #28 Tue Sep 12, 2006 at 11:51:39 AM EST

We've got a couple of cranberry walls in our place but it came that way. We like it, even though we'd probably not have been bold enough (or just too lazy) to do something like that ourselves.

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Do not misuse.
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: I fear no paint! by StackyMcRacky (2.00 / 0) #30 Tue Sep 12, 2006 at 12:05:05 PM EST

even huge paint screw-ups (like what I originally did to my entry hall, or my ex's office) can be fixed with relative ease. Killz is your friend!
I love to have fun with paint.

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Nice... by ana (4.00 / 1) #11 Tue Sep 12, 2006 at 09:25:14 AM EST

however, comma, what with it being right under this picture story, I'm unable to look at it without thinking "squid. hiding in weeds."

Regular, or decaf abomination? --Kellnerin

Welcome to HuSi by yicky yacky (4.00 / 5) #13 Tue Sep 12, 2006 at 11:13:45 AM EST

Couldn't give a fuck about Chechnya, the Sudan or Zimbabwe, but show 'em a green wall and a wooden frame and watch the fur fly!

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Done.

what's with that? by StackyMcRacky (4.00 / 1) #22 Tue Sep 12, 2006 at 11:41:47 AM EST

people fear color, man.

i feel like i should post photos of my whole house - that would really freak them out.

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plspstpixkthx. by ambrosen (2.00 / 0) #31 Tue Sep 12, 2006 at 12:14:43 PM EST

Well, if you can be bothered.

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: i dunno by StackyMcRacky (2.00 / 0) #36 Tue Sep 12, 2006 at 12:24:45 PM EST

that's a lot of work. for clock, because i certainly wouldn't do it. ;)

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