Thread Killer Champions: Franzbear & Moonbear

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In summary, Franzbear is the most prolific thread killer in the forum. He has killed at least 12 threads and is likely responsible for 21 more. His ability to kill threads is not a direct outcome of the evidence (number of last posts). You have to at least factor in the total number of posts by each person (posts in GD) to get a more accurate representation of the killer instinct. Franz and Moonie have so many posts here, they are more likely to be the winning killers. You have to divide the number of kills by the total number of posts during the same period to get a corrected distribution.
  • #981
Anti-art, sure, and the Wikipedia article said that too. But a "joke on critics"? Give it up.
 
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  • #983
Table turned? By that site's own admission, its writing is "not PhD level" and it is not scholarly work.
 
  • #984
Stiil talking trash,huh...?In MY THREAD...:mad: Shut up.People are trying to slip here.

Daniel.
 
  • #985
Slipping into a pool of hot gluey magma?
 
  • #986
http://www.qwantz.com/index.pl?comic=387
 
  • #987
http://www.qwantz.com/index.pl?comic=393 This one is an actual joke, but it might take you a moment to get it.
 
  • #988
Bartholomew said:
Table turned? By that site's own admission, its writing is "not PhD level" and it is not scholarly work.

Geez, Bart, it's no fun if you never realize what's going on. :-p

I haven't linked to this one yet. :smile:
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~jenglish/English104/tzara.html
 
  • #989
dextercioby said:
Stiil talking trash,huh...?In MY THREAD...:mad: Shut up.People are trying to slip here.

Daniel.

Yup, talking lots of trash! :smile: :devil: But it's no fun being evil if nobody recognizes it for what it is. :cry:
 
  • #990
I understand that the site is an attempt at Dadaism. However, unlike the Dadaists, the site was not created in the wake of WWI, and the owners of the site are not nihilists, they are just people who are trying to be funny. If that's the best you have... keep trying, or quit.
 
  • #991
As for the Manifesto, although it is written oddly, you'll find that the things it is actually saying are pretty grave.
 
  • #992
Bartholomew said:
I understand that the site is an attempt at Dadaism. However, unlike the Dadaists, the site was not created in the wake of WWI, and the owners of the site are not nihilists, they are just people who are trying to be funny. If that's the best you have... keep trying, or quit.

That IS the style of Dada. Did you read through most of the site. It's actually pretty good.

http://quotes.prolix.nu/Art/

:smile: :smile: :smile:

(Dex, tell me at least you understand what's going on here...:smile:)
 
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  • #993
Well, the site is utterly worthless. But the Manifesto is not, and after reading much of it I must admit that Dadaism--at least as envisioned by that author--is more whimsical than I had supposed. There is, however, no "joke on critics" who view Dadaism as great art--the intended joke is on those who view other art as great art.
 
  • #994
"Kunst ist schei*se" Dadaist motto :smile:

I guess that sums it up.
 
  • #995
But nonetheless, a joke.

http://www.artfacts.net/index.php/pageType/newsInfo/newsID/2255
Jokes and novelties Hoax? Mystification? Conceptualism crisis? The last exhibition of the New York Swiss Institute and its radical curatorial concept which is to show only minimally sized or unimportant artworks in the large space of the location is pretty disconcerting and questioning. The institute which has recently been acclaimed as one of the most innovative and creative platforms in terms of contemporary art exhibitions in New York will probably live up its reputation thanks to the care of John Armleder who was named curator of this Christmas exhibition. The Geneva troublemaker has urged about forty international artists, among them the Americans John Tremblay and Richard Artschwager, the French Xavier Veilhan, the Italian Maurizio Cattelan, the Swiss Sylvie Fleury and Olivier Mosset to cover in a very discreet way the emptiness of the Swiss Cultural Center halls of Broadway until January the 15th. Definitely Dada, the project can be seen as a joke, a slap in the face of the artworld, but also as a homage and a reflection on the curatorial handling and conceptual art. Armleder puts forward an immaterial vision of art and called unreasonably well-known artists to show works that can only be imagined by the audience. This exhibition is not the product of a spoilt child though. With subtlety, Armleder turn away the meaning of the dadaist sentence: "Everything is Art" to tell us that the nothing, or the almost nothing in this case, is still art. The Geneva artist and curator is pursuing with scholarship and a deep consciousness of the art history his exploration of the notions of sense and nonsense. This exhibition, while banishing the concrete and tangible artworks, is appealing for a sixth sense which might be called imagination...

Maybe someday I'll explain the biggest joke of all this. :smile:
 
  • #996
Evo said:
"Kunst ist schei*se" Dadaist motto :smile:

I guess that sums it up.

Well, since you posted it, I guess it's okay. That's why I only provided the link to the whole page...the determined could find it and translate for themselves. :smile:
 
  • #997
Yes, jokes, but not the one you imagined.

You're still really stung about not figuring out the comic, huh?
 
  • #998
Bartholomew said:
Yes, jokes, but not the one you imagined.

You're still really stung about not figuring out the comic, huh?

Not the joke you think it is either. :smile: Nope, not stung about the comic at all. :biggrin:

http://members1.chello.nl/~m.woestenburg/dada/articles/lifestyle11.html
 
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  • #999
That's why you're using my words about the comic to talk about dadaism?
 
  • #1,000
Isn't that the joke? ;)
 
  • #1,001
You know, we came to the conclusion that Dadaism is anti-art rather a while ago... it was in the Wikipedia article...
 
  • #1,002
Knavish said:
Isn't that the joke? ;)

I think you've caught on. :biggrin: How much longer do you think Bart will take?
 
  • #1,003
Bartholomew said:
You know, we came to the conclusion that Dadaism is anti-art rather a while ago... it was in the Wikipedia article...

http://www.pataphysics-lab.com/sarcophaga/manyfestos/Picabia,%20Francis%20-%20Dada%20Manifesto.html

It's about "nothing nothing nothing..."
 
  • #1,004
There's a new thread just opened.Please take a walk...

Daniel.
 
  • #1,005
dextercioby said:
There's a new thread just opened.Please take a walk...

Daniel.

I saw it. It's not midnight here yet. I'll post in it after midnight. :biggrin:
 
  • #1,006
Moonbear, look, you were partially right (and partially wrong) and I was partially wrong (and partially right) about an art movement I knew little about until today. You, on the other hand, couldn't understand a simple comic that was right in front of you. You're being a pretty sore loser.
 
  • #1,007
Bartholomew said:
Moonbear, look, you were partially right (and partially wrong) and I was partially wrong (and partially right) about an art movement I knew little about until today. You, on the other hand, couldn't understand a simple comic that was right in front of you. You're being a pretty sore loser.

Bart, that's what you're not getting. I'm not a sore loser. There was no winner or loser, at least not until somebody kills the thread. You're taking your comic far too seriously. And you're taking me far too seriously.

Alright, since this seems to be frustrating you too much, I don't want this to turn into a cruel joke...it is a joke though.

1) Dada is about nothing.
2) All those links I've been posting have been about nothing.
3) This thread is about nothing.
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4) And I don't get mad, I get even! :smile:

Though, this had nothing to do with that one comic we disagree on interpretation of, and it has everything to do with the dozens of links you've been posting. That you've learned some art history in the process was an accident (I really didn't think you'd keep reading all those links). I'm sorry for that. :-p :biggrin:
 
  • #1,008
Dada is about nihilism, not "nothing," and if you think you're being clever by saying that, you're only deluding yourself. If you think you're "getting even" by making a huge screaming deal out of a historical point on which you were not completely right, you're nuts. The most interesting connection that is hard to believe you are missing is the key feature of Surrealism which is also the key feature of Dadaism on which it is founded is the key tenet of my art.
 
  • #1,010
(Chopping block is someone else's comic. Just to be clear.)
 
  • #1,011
that is one huge link.
 
  • #1,012
No kidding!
 
  • #1,013
Wow, pretty colors.
 
  • #1,014
Going clockwise in order (starting at the top), they are the colors of things in my peripheral vision.
 
  • #1,015
Not really, but you can imagine it that way.
 

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