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Love → Building on Fire

  • 23-05-2014 5:34pm
    #1
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,073 ✭✭✭✭


    I must be a bad person. We have wars, famines, pestilence and death all around us in the world today ... but I'm more upset by a building on fire than any of those more human tragedies.

    The building in question is the Glasgow School of Art, and firefighters are currently battling a major fire there. Even if they manage to save it, it's already suffered extensive damage and a lot of valuable art is gone. Not to mention projects and exhibitions on which hundreds of students have been working all year.

    The building was designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh when he was a junior draughtsman - not even qualified as an architect - but when it opened in 1909, its pioneering Art Nouveau design won widespread praise. On my last trip to Glasgow, I puffed my way up the hill to see it for myself, and, well, it could use a bit of a clean to be honest.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuEcXjDci-8


    I didn't get to go inside, sadly, since the interior design (Mackintosh again) is just as unique as its exterior. Now, well, it's going to need a bit more than a bucket and brush. :(

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5lxKxfvfqU

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



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  • #2
    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,125 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    I get more upset when I can't find my keys than I do about all the wars, famines and suffering in the world so you're not that bad of a person.


  • #3
    Red Pepper
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,567 ✭✭✭Red Pepper


    You puffed up the hill and didn't go inside.

    So you did not see any of the art and you are still upset?

    Eye don't bulleeeeeeeve it!


  • #4
    Larianne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


    How'd you make that arrow in the title OP?


  • #5
    PizzamanIRL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭PizzamanIRL


    Larianne wrote: »
    How'd you make that arrow in the title OP?

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  • #6
    Larianne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


    PizzamanIRL wrote: »
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    Awh. :cool:


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  • #7
    Hande hoche!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,896 ✭✭✭Hande hoche!


    Probably too late to start looting.


  • #8
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Thought this was a Talking Head appreciation thread. :)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66wxY8H4Mu0


  • #9
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,073 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Ah - someone got the reference. David Byrne is originally from Dumbarton, just 20km up the road from Glasgow, but moved to the USA at a very young age. Maybe I should have titled the thread "Burning Down the House"? :eek:

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #10
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    The firemen pulling up outside the building, looking at the raging fire before them might have said "This Must Be The Place"...


  • #11
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    A prize for anyone who can work an I Zimbra reference in :p


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