Posted 17th November 2009 19:36 IP1) What was the last Gallery/exhibition that you visited?
2) What art tickles your fancy the most?
3) Damien Hurst or the one who does art with blood?
4) Do you have any posters up on any of the walls?
5) What art adornes your house/flat?
(Edited by Mark Mc)Everyone is talking about the closing ceremony at the Olympics and what was their favourite bit.
I just spoke to Nick Griffin, his favourite bit is today when they all fcuk off back home.
Posted 1st February 2010 11:06 IP
1) What was the last Gallery/exhibition that you visited? Took LO to the National Portrait Gallery. Preferred the Natural History Museum though tbh.
2) What art tickles your fancy the most? I like Jack B Yeats
3) Damien Hurst or the one who does art with blood? Neither
4) Do you have any posters up on any of the walls? nope but LO has a few hello kitty ones up in her room
5) What art adornes your house/flat? N's got a few winnie the pooh pictures and a few hello kitty stuff but thats all confined to her room.. My front room has a massive pop art pic of Drew Barrymore though that i love! You put the moo in cow.
There is no moo in cow.
Posted 1st February 2010 11:27 IP
1) What was the last Gallery/exhibition that you visited?
The Laing in Newcastle.
2) What art tickles your fancy the most?
I couldn't say I have a favourite, I like most art.
3) Damien Hurst or the one who does art with blood?
I quite like some of Damien Hirsts stuff. I'm not sure who the blood one is.
4) Do you have any posters up on any of the walls?
LO has Hanna Montana and princess posters up and OH has a Lenny McLean poster up in the computer room.
5) What art adornes your house/flat?
There are some framed posters on my stairs, Pulp Fiction (signed), Scarface and The Godfather. In the sitting room there is a Marilyn Monroe and a scarface popart and in the dining room I have a massive egyptian print.
No, but i've watched him box in a pub where they used to put on 'cobble' fighting.Everyone is talking about the closing ceremony at the Olympics and what was their favourite bit.
I just spoke to Nick Griffin, his favourite bit is today when they all fcuk off back home.
Posted 5th February 2010 09:47 IPI wouldn't to be honest. From all the British gangster type books I've read, Lennie came across as someone who just wanted to look after his own and took no chyt from people. Roy Shaw came across as a bully in his book.
I was on a job a few weeks ago (i gut out empty dwellings and do the first fixing's) and in a house, the previous occupier left well near to 500 books.
A lot were based on crime, The Nazi's and the IRA.
So i gathered other innoculous stuff, bagged them all up and donated them to the Hospital Ward in Bart's where my mate is undergoing therapy.
Anyhoo, amongst some that were left over, The Krays (ten books) and other 's Roy Pretty Boy Shaw, Frankie Frazer etcetc, i came across that struck me, it was Blogg 19. (with regards to the essex killings in the range rover yonks ago) I read it in 3 or so day's as i couldn't put it down.
Quote: Mark Mc wrote:
1) What was the last Gallery/exhibition that you visited? Van Goch at the Royal Academy Of Art
2) What art tickles your fancy the most? Impressionist. Anything that stops me in my tracks...
3) Damien Hurst or the one who does art with blood? Erm, can I pass?
4) Do you have any posters up on any of the walls? Nope. I have a b&w picture taken of Shadwell by London Bridge. Does that count?
5) What art adornes your house/flat? Nothing great. Mainly stuff I pick up in markets and wotnot
Apologies for butting in here, but I'll never understand why people do this. (And ILiL is far from the sole culprit, so it's quite likely that I'm the one who's out of step with messageboard culture.)
It's a nice paradox that people (on messageboards,at least) impute antidemocratic, antipluralist, orthodoxy-imposing motives to the rebutting of an unfounded view (or any kind of view, but it's always an unfounded one, from my experience).
I see this tendency as paradoxical because it's hard to imagine debate without disagreement, and debate is essential to democracy. And these precious opinions that we're always asserting our right to, they really can't be worth a great deal if they're so flimsy that we can't stand to have them challenged.
ILiL, what John did was to anticipate the evidence that you were likely to adduce in support of your view of this guy as a bully or whatever it was, and then said that he didn't agree with your conclusion. This is, it seems to me, legitimate debating procedure. I'd love to know why you think (or anyone else thinks) otherwise.
So far, he has presented only the bare bones of an argument, but that's a little more than you have done.
What you needed to do, if you were going to pursue the argument, was to point out aspects of the guy's CV that John overlooked, or you could have said why you disagreed with John's assessment of the evidence that he mentioned.
As I say, those are things that you might have done if you had decided to pursue the argument. There is, of course, no reason why you should have bothered to pursue it; but I think that you would have emerged from the exchange looking better (in my eyes at least, though I may not be representative of the board) if you'd just let the matter drop. Your latest comment, which seems born of nothing more than an insistence on having the word, does you no favours at all, as far as I can see.
But really, as must be obvious, your behaviour is not really the target of my comments. I wouldn't feel compelled to comment were it not for the fact that your behaviour seems representative of a broader tendency, and that's what I'd really like to have explained.
(Edited by Stevie)
Quote: irish_lass_in_london wrote:
You have no need to apologise for 'butting in' as you put it.
On reflection, perhaps not so much for that as for taking out on you some frustration left over from past exchanges that I’ve been involved in. And also for overreacting, because the worst charge that could be levelled at you in your dealings with John was that you were a little unfair.
I tried to make it clear that I was complaining more of a general tendency than about your comment to John. I could have done more to make it clear that there was no real reason to complain about your comment at all.
Quote: july wrote:
Have you finished it Tony? What did you think?
Sorry July, just seen this, I was nt ignoring you
Erm, tbh, I took the book with a pinch of salt, he (McLean) will obviously try and excuse some of the things he did by claiming he was living by some sort of code. Although it was clear that he carried alot of baggage through his life because of his relationship with his 'mothers boyfriend.My life was in tatters because of my
obsession with the Okey-Cokey.
But I turned myself around and that's
what it's all about!
Posted 22nd June 2011 17:39 IP1. Oh I just visited Zionsville Art Gallery.
2. Nothing particular but I would say, all of it is my favorites!
3. Damien Hurst! He is so amazing. Speechless over his work of arts.
4. I don't have posters but I do have art painting on my room and all over our house!
5. All of my art paintings and sculptures!
I enjoy this thread a lot so I participate also in answering the topic. John Briner Art
Took LO to the National Portrait Gallery. Preferred the Natural History Museum though tbh.
Have you read his book, Huggy?
