Comments on: Amazing Shadow Art

By: camping table

camping table — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:44:19 +0000

That has got to be the coolest and most original thing I have seen in a long time. The effect on the shadow is amazing. But is that a Merlot or a Blush... LOL

By: Xtina

Xtina — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 02:51:52 +0000

And Neil - thanks for the "pop showboating errors".
Go to the link below and read the usage notes. This is what happens in the course of languages. If it didn't we would still be saying "Wherefore art thou on thy soapbox?".
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/comprised

By: Xtina

Xtina — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 02:44:20 +0000

Seriously, people. The artist (I assume) is white. The piece is COMPOSED of trash. It is a self portrait Hence, white trash. Get over it.

By: Xtina

Xtina — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 02:40:27 +0000

Mytake, they are calling this piece of art "White Trash". They are not trashing whites. Unless you have some other description of this piece I'm not sure why you are all freaking out about this.
~Xtina

p.s. I am white.

By: Pam Richards

Pam Richards — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 17:23:07 +0000

@Steve

You took the words right out of my mouth! T.O. Stinks! On the "White Trash", totally unnecessary title. The name obscures any point they were trying to make.

By: Steve Michaelton

Steve Michaelton — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 16:17:48 +0000

Toronto needs these artists now!!! The city workers have been on strike for over a month with no garbage collection and it is starting to pile up everywhere. Please come and make some artful and persuasive arrangements that lead to a settlement.

By: ted

ted — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:16:35 +0000

Neil, that was quite the run-on sentence, verging almost on incoherence.

By: NotConfusedButAmused

NotConfusedButAmused — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 05:17:18 +0000

So
if i did the same thing using KFC buckets, Colt45 cans and watermelon rinds to "Artize" a "Vision" about urban crime, it would be slobberingly praised art at as well?

By: Neil

Neil — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 03:56:55 +0000

Things comprise the things of which they are COMPOSED. Nothing is ever 'comprised of' anything.

Example: This puzzle is composed of 100 pieces. Therefore, the puzzle comprises 100 pieces.

The darker side of these I'm smart pop showboating errors is that a certain critical mass of misuse forces dictionaries to redefine the misused word to include the misuse, hardly a desirable engine of language "evolution."

By: Mytake

Mytake — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:52:16 +0000

Xtina, why is it that whites and whites only can be thrashed, criticized and ridiculed in modern "art" these days? How is this less racist than the usual prejudiced remarks against blacks, indians etc?

By: Xtina

Xtina — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:05:46 +0000

and you are correct, i had NOT seen this before so i enjoyed the repost! Thanks!

By: Xtina

Xtina — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:04:11 +0000

I think this is really cool! And to those who are bothered by "white trash"... This was done by an artist. An artist expressing something. An artist with an opinion. If you don't agree with it or at least appreciate it then don't look. And as for the seagulls... I doubt that he went out and strangled them with his bare hands or even tortured them for information. They are likely taxidermied animals that will not decompose. Geez!

By: Sandman

Sandman — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 09:11:43 +0000

I was going to ask about the repost as well, I thought I had seen it before.

By: Him

Him — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:56:49 +0000

One question. If they worked on it for months, how did they keep the trash? Some of the stuff they used had to have decomposed somewhat.

By: Geekazoid

Geekazoid — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 04:59:42 +0000

There are several other artists using this form of art.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 04:57:01 +0000

Wow, you guys have great memory. We posted about Tim Noble and Sue Webster in 2007 ... I'm sure many new Neatoramanauts haven't seen it.

By: gulli

gulli — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 04:25:29 +0000

amazing art garbage reflecting as a couple

By: Mytake

Mytake — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 03:58:28 +0000

I see their point, but still: not art. Interesting idea for an ad perhaps. And the "White Trash" title is unnecessarily offensive and distracting.

By: Johnny Cat

Johnny Cat — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 03:26:06 +0000

It's pretty offensive, if only to say that white people are solely responsible for the refuse problem. As they sip their Chardonnay and contemplate the stars.

Contemplate this: If this goes on the road, do they need fresh seagull corpses?

By: ted

ted — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 02:56:16 +0000

Deja vu.

Actually, I think I would have remembered something as offensive as two dead sea gulls being presented as "art".

By: Vonskippy

Vonskippy — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 02:51:08 +0000

So "neat" we had to see it twice eh?

//I'm making a homage of crushed diet coke cans that makes a shadow spelling out DUPLICATE.

By: Wes

Wes — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 02:47:34 +0000

"The Trash Heap knows all!" "The Trash Heap tells all!" "Let's face it boys; the Trash Heap is all."