Influences: Daniel Dennett, Karl Popper.
Strengths: Typing, being meta.
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Strengths: Typing, being meta.
Weaknesses: N/A
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In reply to this comment by Crake:
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1166330/nuclear_explosions/
nicer quality here
Israelis have become so sure of two things: That the world doesn't and will never like us, and that the world owes us. We just don't care anymore, and the article addresses that perfectly.
As for the article you linked, I sincerely doubt that the prosperity of the entire world depends on the percentage of Jews there (as the second paragraph seems to suggest) since you just have to look at how Israel is doing economically and politically to realize that's not exactly accurate
Anyway, it's always nice to see yourself from the outside
In reply to this comment by Crake:
This article might cheer up your national sensibilities after the "not cool anymore" thing... honestly have I no idea though, might be crazy, offensively biased for all I know. I found it on a libertarian blog that I don't trust to be a hundred percent sane, but still read as a guilty pleasure. I'm a bit curious what you as an Israeli thinks of it.
In reply to this comment by Crake:
^Just make ChickieNobs already - problem solved.
In reply to this comment by Crake:
Ahem.
In reply to this comment by Crake:
Thanks for the promote! was it a specific set that did the trick?
In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
*promote
In reply to this comment by griefer_queafer:
>> ^Crake:
Too much concept, and not enough craft.
GQ:
Wow. I wholeheartedly disagree. Do you know how much craft goes into something like this? I agree that much of its substance lies in the conceptual, but my god man, that is a beautifully crafted art object. Check out the documentary PBS's art:21 did on him. You may appreciate the work more if you see how much knowledge and artistry goes into his pieces.
CRAKE:
Sorry for the terse comment, I just used your video as an occasion to whine about a pet peeve of mine, that a lot of artists these days only do just enough work to convey some concept or message, and don't particularly care about the quality of the end result.
The half-hearted mushroom cloud is a good example - or Damien Hirst paying some contractor to do the actual hands-on work of making his pieces.
Not much love seems to go into it, is what I'm saying, I guess.
Nah. Its cool. No offense taken. I don't post videos for everyone to just agree with my tastes. I like my tastes to be challenged. I actually killed the video because I found one that I absolutely had to post, but it had already been posted. So its gone now
In any case, there is a way in which much art these days seems half-hearted, as you would put it. And though I still don't agree that Qiang's work in any way constitutes a half-hearted attempt at conveying an idea or feeling, I understand where you are coming from. Hirst IS a particularly good example, and its easy to hate him when he is selling his shit for record-setting prices. Westy pointed out that the piece ended up looking like a giant piece of floating crap at the end. I think that is part of the point. For a moment, it is really beautiful, but that is really fading. Blah blah blah. I don't know... i bet it would have looked amazing if the quality of the video was better.