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Arty farty things that you like.

  • 19-06-2008 04:56PM
    #1
    Pighead
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    Pigheads no arty farty pretentious tosspot. Far from it. Pigheads your average, everyday http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/member.php?u=6020. A simple man with simple pleasures. Watching a game of football with the lads, reading a book with just the right amount of big words in it, appreciating a bit of opera, but just the hits.

    Anyway most of the arty farty stuff out there makes Pigheads eyes roll way back in his head, a bit like this wee fella :rolleyes:.

    For example the below exhibition by the artist Tracy Emin was supposed to represent 'vibrancy and flair for self-expression' that revealed a 'frank and brutal honesty.' Nope can't see it, to Pighead that picture says nothing except she posseses bad bedroom management skills as she's not utilising the space available to her. Beds should be in corners or at the very least up against one of the walls.

    http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/turnerprize/images/emin_bed.jpg

    But every now and again a piece of wanky arty farty art does hit home into Pigheads head and makes him go "Hmmm, you know what Pighead? Thats actually not bad"

    One such instance was the plastic bag scene in American Beauty.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu8_8TJC9E8

    Stopped Pighead dead in his tracks. Didn't really know what it meant but it damn well made an impression. Supposedly it's supposed to represent the firmness and suppleness of Mira Sorvino's breasts but Pighead's not so sure.

    Anyway what wanky arty farty pieces of art have made an impression on you?


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  • #2
    Ruu_Old
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    Took me down to meet the anarchist party
    Met a groovy guy, he was arty farty
    Said: "I know a little Latin, a kissen an a kai
    Said: "I dunno what it means", I said: "Neither do I"

    Not really arty farty but Riverdance is brilliant, don't tell me the hairs don't stand up on the back of Pigheads neck everytime he hears it.


  • #3
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Don't tell anyone but when I first heard Paul Potts sing Nessum Dorma I got goose bumps

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k08yxu57NA


  • #4
    CliffHuxtabel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 407 ✭✭CliffHuxtabel


    Pighead wrote: »
    Supposedly it's supposed to represent the firmness and suppleness of Mira Sorvino's breasts but Pighead's not so sure

    Mena Suvari?


  • #5
    nyarlothothep
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,184 ✭✭✭nyarlothothep


    I like rothco

    RothkoTryptich.jpg

    I also like modern classical music

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYsn4FeOM1Q


  • #6
    cornbb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,790 ✭✭✭cornbb


    Some experimental music (proper arty farty music, not experimental-lite) has had quite an effect on me:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVN_mxVntXk


    I would consider this piece to be the aural equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting.


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  • #7
    RedXIV
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,570 ✭✭✭RedXIV


    biko wrote: »
    Don't tell anyone but when I first heard Paul Potts sing Nessum Dorma I got goose bumps

    Similar as above, this kid blew my mind



  • #8
    Pighead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,184 ✭✭✭✭Pighead


    biko wrote: »
    Don't tell anyone but when I first heard Paul Potts sing Nessum Dorma I got goose bumps

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k08yxu57NA
    RedXIV wrote: »
    Similar as above, this kid blew my mind

    So the two of you are labelling two fat fcukers singing karaoke on a Simon Cowell primetime Saturday evening show as arty farty?

    Suddenly Pighead feels a lot more sophisticated.


  • #9
    Rb
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    Pighead wrote: »
    So the two of you are labelling two fat fcukers singing karaoke on a Simon Cowell primetime Saturday evening show as arty farty?

    Suddenly Pighead feels a lot more sophisticated.
    In fairness Pighead, they're both country muckers, what could you expect?


  • #10
    [Deleted User]
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    Opera shatters me emotionally.


  • #11
    Twee.
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 9,721 Mod ✭✭✭✭Twee.


    I love watching ballet, gives me the chills! Here's Mikhail Baryshnikov, who may be better known to most as "The Russian" from SATC!



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  • #12
    taidghbaby
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    Moonbaby wrote: »
    Opera shatters me emotionally.
    went to an opera once....shat something alright but it werent me emotions!!


  • #13
    kraggy
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    Once saw a quartet play Pachelbel's Canon on Shop Street in Galway some years ago. That was pretty spine-tingling.

    Also, Damien Rice's opening song in Wembley Arena last October (9 Songs, solo with just piano) was also memorable, though I'm not really into him anymore.

    Plus a few times I've gone to theatre.


  • #14
    GirlInterrupted
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    Vogliatemi bene, from Madame Butterfly as sung by Maria Callas (although it is a duet) brings me to tears.


  • #15
    cornbb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,790 ✭✭✭cornbb


    How is Damien Rice arty farty? This is arty farty...


  • #16
    GirlInterrupted
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    cornbb wrote: »
    How is Damien Rice arty farty? This is arty farty...

    And how can the contemplation of nothingness not be arty farty?
    A vision of internal emptiness....the void within the psyche of us all.... a statement of nullity...... very meaningful and profound it is.

    Philistine:D.


  • #17
    cianclarke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,389 ✭✭✭cianclarke


    cornbb wrote: »
    How is Damien Rice arty farty? This is arty farty...
    Solo piano? Sounds pretty arty farty to me. Especially since it's Lisa who played piano if I'm not mistaken, and not Damo the tosspot.

    And that ^^ I hope is a joke..! :D


  • #18
    Steve01
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    Pighead wrote: »
    Supposedly it's supposed to represent the firmness and suppleness of Mira Sorvino's breasts but Pighead's not so sure.

    Off-topic but Mira Sorvino is way hotter than Mena Suvari


  • #19
    bluto63
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    I love the works of Giacomo Balla.

    http://www2.polito.it/didattica/polymath/htmlS/Interventi/Articoli/MATEMATICA_palcoscenico/Img/image001.jpg

    Also Gerald Barrys Piano Concerto No. 1, a mad piece but genius at the same time


  • #20
    Pighead
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    foot_guy wrote: »
    W*nker
    Pigheads sensing a post modernist arty farty vibe off this foot_guy character. He's using the term w*nker in a complimentary "I wish I had a penis like you" type fashion. Keep an eye on this guy. He could be the one to raise the intellectual tones around here.


  • #21
    solas
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    this place would be lost without you pighead

    As for arty farty, theres few poems that do it for me

    blow, blow, thou winter wind,
    thou art not so unkind
    As man's ingratitude;

    shakespeare was a funny guy

    as for our own, I hope someone gives this woman a publishing deal


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  • #22
    LadyE
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    biko wrote: »
    Don't tell anyone but when I first heard Paul Potts sing Nessum Dorma I got goose bumps

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k08yxu57NA

    Me too! Everyone takes the piss tho.

    I find him strangly attractive too :o


  • #23
    cornbb
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    cianclarke wrote: »
    Solo piano? Sounds pretty arty farty to me. Especially since it's Lisa who played piano if I'm not mistaken, and not Damo the tosspot.

    And that ^^ I hope is a joke..! :D

    Nope, its no joke: http://www.guggenheim.com/exhibitions/singular_forms/highlights_1a.html

    Are you still trying to tell me Damien Rice's solo piano looks arty farty alongside some white paintings?

    Here's some proper arty farty solo piano:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HypmW4Yd7SY


  • #24
    ojewriej
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    I'm not really into arts myself, but i really like Salvador Dali's paintings, like The Ship or The persistence of memory


  • #25
    30txsbzmcu2k9w
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    Jandek. Interesting story behind this fella if you care to read. he played in Trinity earlier on this week.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jandek
    Jandek is the musical project of an outsider musician who operates out of Houston, Texas. Since 1978, Jandek has self-released 53 albums of unusual, often emotionally dissolute folk and blues songs without ever granting more than the occasional interview or providing any biographical information.
    Only a handful of people claim to have contacted Jandek, a.k.a Sterling Richard Smith. He releases albums through his own record label Corwood Industries. He keeps a Houston post office box so fans can write to Corwood for a typewritten catalogue and order Jandek’s albums, usually at inexpensive prices. Jandek’s work has been available on vinyl, compact disc and DVD. Many of his albums feature pictures of the same man at various ages; although it seemed likely, it was not until Jandek's live debut in 2004 that it became certain that the person depicted on the album covers was the principal performer.



  • #26
    Terry
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    NSFW


  • #27
    kraggy
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    cornbb wrote: »
    How is Damien Rice arty farty? This is arty farty...

    Damien Rice, under normal circumstances is not arty farty (whatever that means anyway)

    But on that night, with the way the stage was set-up and the way the performance was carried out, was definitely not conventional entertainment.

    Also, I'd consider Banksy's work pretty intellectual/"arty-farty. Very interesting and looks good.


  • #28
    TomCo
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    Why do people keep posting pop-idol or whatever the hell videos, bunch of uncultured **** ****s.

    Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings is awesome, as is the poetry of Sylvia Plath


  • #29
    Pighead
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    TomCo wrote: »

    Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings is awesome, as is the poetry of Sylvia Plath
    April 18th

    the slime of all my yesterdays
    rots in the hollow of my skull

    and if my stomach would contract
    because of some explicable phenomenon
    such as pregnancy or constipation

    I would not remember you

    or that because of sleep
    infrequent as a moon of greencheese
    that because of food
    nourishing as violet leaves
    that because of these

    and in a few fatal yards of grass
    in a few spaces of sky and treetops

    a future was lost yesterday
    as easily and irretrievably
    as a tennis ball at twilight

    No offence TomCo but thats rubbish. And before you start saying that Pighead doesn't understand it you're wrong. Basically some bloke got her pregnant, she got a craving for green cheese, felt nauseous, he left her, she has a whinge. The End. Nope, its rubbish TomCo, sorry mate.

    There was a crap poet called Sylvia Plath,
    TomCo tried saying her poems were all that,
    but Pighead found out that her rhymes they were pants,
    if she was a footballer she'd be playing with France.


  • #30
    TomCo
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    Sorry Pighead, that was a typo. I meant Emily Dickinson, I always get those two crazy broads mixed up.
    Still, your poem is still almost relevant, sort of, ish.


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  • #31
    FlutterinBantam
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    "The pristine whiteness of the pewter
    The cold white kiss like deaths right hand
    the hiss of gasses slowly easing
    the painful clutch of an iron band

    ***************************
    The rythmic parting of the water
    like a holt of otters from a sandy bank
    like the gentle paddle of well fed goldfish
    as they move and sway in their deep green tank

    *********************************
    Away away in a rush of thunder
    Away and never seen again
    I held you once within my body
    returned you back from whence you came


    Never tire of those words... Keats was it, or Shelley??


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