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Ambient/Post-Rock/Textural bass playing thread
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oh, I agree that one must have absolute garbage in order to have genius level in culture.26595069[/URL], member: 37282"]Nice one @Scott!
I always say that crap is the price we pay for culture. For instance, @ugly’s complaining about crap very much fits my definition of “culture,” which would be impossible without crap.
In other thread news, I was confronted by this water dispenser yesterday.
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like we say in french:
« ça prend de tout pour faire un monde. »
Thank you Stevie Wonder blasting on the stereo to keepme from going loco!!
pretty sure it was ever thus.
we only see the “successes” of culture—the beethovens (or put in your fave instead). there was probably a ton of not of not so great composers/players in those days. of course, nowadays we have our noses rubbed in it every time we go on youtube or what have you.
and a lot more people, so more of the “failures.”
My wife is a big time museum curator. Some of her colleagues were not amused with my theory that certain quintessential artists are people that perfected a certain niche of crappy style.
I don't mean that as a derogative. Really. Some of my absolute top ten favorite artists fit in this. e.g. I think Basquiat, certainly in my top five favorite artists, can be seen in an historic human sense of being the perfection of drawing like a child. There is a purity of only the necessary lines to convey the subject and emotion. Likewise, I think Mike Ness is the perfection of music that is supposed to be played with jeans, slicked back hair, and a pack of cigarettes rolled into your sleeve.
So we have to suffer through Kid Rock so we can have the occasional genius. Given the direction of culture nowadays, that's becoming an increasingly hard sell.
Isn't "ambient water" just humidity?
since you seem to live in maryland, i'm trying to figure which museum that would be.
anyway, that must have been a fun conversation to eavesdrop on.
as much as i *love* art, i have to say that the art world seems to be overrun by people who are more concerned with the "prestige" rather than the art. the broad here in l.a. has a ton of jeff koons stuff, which i find horrible (i know that other people love it) and more an example of a guy who figured out collectors than anything. i can't remember the name of it, but there was a documentary about the collector/museum/gallery combine and how it drives this stuff (and, eventually, art history, imo).
One of them Smithsonians. I'm in Maryland, but I'm just a km from the D.C. border.
cool. i figured balt or dc.
my aunt worked at the smithsonian, but not curatorial stuff.
my aunt worked at the smithsonian, but not curatorial stuff.
When it comes to discussion about art and pop culture, my favorite youtube channel is Solar Sands. His video on the hated Thomas Kinkade is possibly the best and fairest rundown I've seen:
The Most Hated Artist You Probably Recognize - YouTube
The Most Hated Artist You Probably Recognize - YouTube
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ok, does it kill humans?Unrelated non-ambient x-post, just for smiles.
cuz you know…..it’s Bender and all…….
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I want one. Don't know what it's called, don't even care what it does. Want.
I had a T-shirt with the original Homer Simpson rip-off image! Unfortunately they misspelled "Power" but I'm willing to overlook it...Unrelated non-ambient x-post, just for smiles.
I dig your theory…. and agree. I’d throw the cubists and surrealists in that mix. (I love cubism and surrealism.)
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