The Random Image Thread (keeping it PG-13 at the worst)

Pariah · Post by **Pariah** » Fri Jan 13, 2017 9:29 am

Local driver crashes into SecState office.

Post by dv » Fri Jan 13, 2017 9:52 am

Who's Jesse White?

Farmerkev · Post by **Farmerkev** » Fri Jan 13, 2017 10:00 am

dv wrote: Who's Jesse White?

IL Sec of State
That's our dmv where you take drivers tests and get license stickers, title transfer etc

Pithecanthropus · Post by **Pithecanthropus** » Fri Jan 13, 2017 11:06 am

ukimalefu wrote:
Kirk wrote: Art requires some cleverness to get a point or points across. That's just random damage from shipping.

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That's like saying Jackson Pollack isn't art because it's just random dripping. Sorry if you don't think it's art, but that doesn't make it not art.

Kirk · Post by **Kirk** » Fri Jan 13, 2017 11:12 am

Jackson Pollack used dripping to paint a picture. He applied the drips in a pattern to evoke images or emotion as intended. That 'control' of the medium makes it art.

Post by dv » Fri Jan 13, 2017 11:17 am

Farmerkev wrote:
dv wrote: Who's Jesse White?

IL Sec of State
That's our dmv where you take drivers tests and get license stickers, title transfer etc

That's silly - you have to change the sign every election.

I figured it was like the "Jesse White Memorial DMV" or something, but they ran out of room for letters.

Pariah · Post by **Pariah** » Fri Jan 13, 2017 12:05 pm

dv wrote:
Farmerkev wrote:
dv wrote: Who's Jesse White?

IL Sec of State
That's our dmv where you take drivers tests and get license stickers, title transfer etc

That's silly - you have to change the sign every election.

I figured it was like the "Jesse White Memorial DMV" or something, but they ran out of room for letters.

Welcome to Illinois.

Kirk · Post by **Kirk** » Fri Jan 13, 2017 12:08 pm

The state which originally defined the term 'gangster'

TOS · Post by **TOS** » Fri Jan 13, 2017 12:23 pm

Pithecanthropus wrote:
ukimalefu wrote:
Kirk wrote: Art requires some cleverness to get a point or points across. That's just random damage from shipping.

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jec

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That's like saying Jackson Pollack isn't art because it's just random dripping. Sorry if you don't think it's art, but that doesn't make it not art.

sorry, if it doesn't employ cleverness to get a point across it's just not art

DEyncourt · Post by **DEyncourt** » Fri Jan 13, 2017 1:14 pm

Remembering the late William Peter Blatty with this.

ukimalefu · Post by **ukimalefu** » Fri Jan 13, 2017 1:18 pm

TOS wrote:
Pithecanthropus wrote:
ukimalefu wrote:
Kirk wrote: Art requires some cleverness to get a point or points across. That's just random damage from shipping.

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jec

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That's like saying Jackson Pollack isn't art because it's just random dripping. Sorry if you don't think it's art, but that doesn't make it not art.

sorry, if it doesn't employ cleverness to get a point across it's just not art

I disagree art can, but does not have to get any point across or mean anything. It also doesn't need to be "pretty" or be hard to make, or be liked by anybody.

But that's just my opinion, because the only thing art absolutely is, is stick fiddling subjective.

Kirk · Post by **Kirk** » Fri Jan 13, 2017 1:23 pm

'Subjective' is not a catch all term that anything can hide inside.

Pithecanthropus · Post by **Pithecanthropus** » Fri Jan 13, 2017 1:51 pm

TOS wrote:
Pithecanthropus wrote:
ukimalefu wrote:
Kirk wrote: Art requires some cleverness to get a point or points across. That's just random damage from shipping.

sub

jec

tive

That's like saying Jackson Pollack isn't art because it's just random dripping. Sorry if you don't think it's art, but that doesn't make it not art.

sorry, if it doesn't employ cleverness to get a point across it's just not art

Your vision is too narrow.

Mustapha Mond · Post by **Mustapha Mond** » Fri Jan 13, 2017 2:32 pm

What artistic tradition is the art coming from? I don't know much about the visual arts, but, Like, if you're a literary modernist, you're going out of your to use symbolism and stuff to try to convey your intended meaning. If you're a post-modernist, you write your story however you want and let the reader do with it what they will. Lots of art (not all of it) just needs some context to enable people to make sense of it.

TOS · Post by **TOS** » Fri Jan 13, 2017 3:16 pm

Pithecanthropus wrote:
TOS wrote:
Pithecanthropus wrote:
ukimalefu wrote:
Kirk wrote: Art requires some cleverness to get a point or points across. That's just random damage from shipping.

sub

jec

tive

That's like saying Jackson Pollack isn't art because it's just random dripping. Sorry if you don't think it's art, but that doesn't make it not art.

sorry, if it doesn't employ cleverness to get a point across it's just not art

Your vision is too narrow.

apologies ... i was being utterly sarcastic, that definition is unbelievably wrong

as an artist i can only shake my head in pity for anyone who thinks that way

Metacell · Post by **Metacell** » Fri Jan 13, 2017 3:32 pm

Kirk wrote: Jackson Pollack used dripping to paint a picture. He applied the drips in a pattern to evoke images or emotion as intended. That 'control' of the medium makes it art.

Flicking a brush around to make vomit-like projectile stains is not 'control' anymore than letting FedEx break your glass. They both are allowing randomness into the design.

Farmerkev · Post by **Farmerkev** » Fri Jan 13, 2017 3:54 pm

dv wrote:
Farmerkev wrote:
dv wrote: Who's Jesse White?

IL Sec of State
That's our dmv where you take drivers tests and get license stickers, title transfer etc

That's silly - you have to change the sign every election.

I figured it was like the "Jesse White Memorial DMV" or something, but they ran out of room for letters.

He's been Sec of State since 1998.

juice · Post by **juice** » Fri Jan 13, 2017 3:54 pm

TOS wrote:
Pithecanthropus wrote:
TOS wrote:
Pithecanthropus wrote:
ukimalefu wrote:
Kirk wrote: Art requires some cleverness to get a point or points across. That's just random damage from shipping.

sub

jec

tive

That's like saying Jackson Pollack isn't art because it's just random dripping. Sorry if you don't think it's art, but that doesn't make it not art.

sorry, if it doesn't employ cleverness to get a point across it's just not art

Your vision is too narrow.

apologies ... i was being utterly sarcastic, that definition is unbelievably wrong

as an artist i can only shake my head in pity for anyone who thinks that way

This discussion reminds of the federal judge's definition of porn. "...I know it when I see it."

maurvir · Post by **maurvir** » Fri Jan 13, 2017 5:35 pm

TOS · Post by **TOS** » Fri Jan 13, 2017 5:37 pm

now that's some stabbin' ice right there

TOS · Post by **TOS** » Fri Jan 13, 2017 11:40 pm

freaky deaky pentagon "drone swarm" exercise

it's a whole ton of drones that use distributed computing, sharing processing; they can easily adapt to losing or gaining individual drones and can decide on the best way to carry out their mission

Post by dv » Fri Jan 13, 2017 11:54 pm

TOS wrote: freaky deaky pentagon "drone swarm" exercise

it's a whole ton of drones that use distributed computing, sharing processing; they can easily adapt to losing or gaining individual drones and can decide on the best way to carry out their mission

Quick, somebody make a random chick's house fly and crank up the Beastie Boys.

ukimalefu · Post by **ukimalefu** » Sat Jan 14, 2017 4:06 am

TOS wrote:
Pithecanthropus wrote:
TOS wrote:
Pithecanthropus wrote:
ukimalefu wrote:
Kirk wrote: Art requires some cleverness to get a point or points across. That's just random damage from shipping.

sub

jec

tive

That's like saying Jackson Pollack isn't art because it's just random dripping. Sorry if you don't think it's art, but that doesn't make it not art.

sorry, if it doesn't employ cleverness to get a point across it's just not art

Your vision is too narrow.

apologies ... i was being utterly sarcastic, that definition is unbelievably wrong

as an artist i can only shake my head in pity for anyone who thinks that way

You're an artist? :squint:

ukimalefu · Post by **ukimalefu** » Sat Jan 14, 2017 4:22 am

Long ago, I made this in, what I like to think as, a Pollock kind of way. I threw things at it until... it "spoke to me", know what I mean? Some of the things I threw at it are deliberate, some are random.

Sometimes I do that for a while, but I don't always get a result I like. And I rarely show those things to anybody.

Don't call me an artist. I wouldn't dare calling myself that. The most I'd say is, look at this thing I made. :shrug:

ukimalefu · Post by **ukimalefu** » Sat Jan 14, 2017 6:55 am

I call this art

ukimalefu · Post by **ukimalefu** » Sat Jan 14, 2017 6:56 am

this is art too

ukimalefu · Post by **ukimalefu** » Sat Jan 14, 2017 6:59 am

no comment

ok, one comment, wtf

ukimalefu · Post by **ukimalefu** » Sat Jan 14, 2017 7:44 am

more art

Metacell · Post by **Metacell** » Sat Jan 14, 2017 7:50 am

ukimalefu wrote: Long ago, I made this in, what I like to think as, a Pollock kind of way. I threw things at it until... it "spoke to me", know what I mean? Some of the things I threw at it are deliberate, some are random.

Sometimes I do that for a while, but I don't always get a result I like. And I rarely show those things to anybody.

Don't call me an artist. I wouldn't dare calling myself that. The most I'd say is, look at this thing I made.

That's about 1000x more interesting than any Jackson Pollock. But so is TV snow (which is hard to find nowadays...it's the signal from the background radiation of the Big Bang...and it does have patterns in it).

ukimalefu · Post by **ukimalefu** » Sat Jan 14, 2017 7:54 am

Bowie Pixel art

Strong with the Force pixel art

Happy little trees pixel art

ukimalefu · Post by **ukimalefu** » Sat Jan 14, 2017 8:06 am

video game art

ukimalefu · Post by **ukimalefu** » Sat Jan 14, 2017 8:21 am

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