Comments on: Kunstbar by The Petrie Lounge

Kunstbar by The Petrie Lounge

Pretty_Generic — Mon, 18 Nov 2002 03:47:09 -0800

Kunstbar is funny, cultured and very well executed. [Flash]

By: andrew cooke

andrew cooke — Mon, 18 Nov 2002 04:11:41 -0800

there was a person with a big, round, orange head - what was that a reference to?

By: carfilhiot

carfilhiot — Mon, 18 Nov 2002 04:16:45 -0800

if you say so

By: hama7

hama7 — Mon, 18 Nov 2002 04:22:44 -0800

Like a wee dram from the hysterical hallucination of modernism. Nice stuff, Pretty_Generic. Any fellow MetaFilterers care to Flash their stuff?

By: kozad

kozad — Mon, 18 Nov 2002 04:42:36 -0800

Nice. Reminds me of a Walker Art Museum t-shirt I have, featuring four grotesque faces and the caption: "Art Can't Hurt You." Well, in Kunstbar world it can. The big orange head has me flummoxed, too, andrew.

By: crunchland

crunchland — Mon, 18 Nov 2002 04:49:58 -0800

Klee?

By: Trombone Borges

Trombone Borges — Mon, 18 Nov 2002 05:05:17 -0800

Re: big orange head. Magritte, I think? Can't find a link, though, so that's just a hunch based on a vague memory of a Magritte involving a man in a suit with a giant orange head. (magritte.com used to have an online "museum" of all of Rene Magritte's work, but apparently they don't anymore.)

By: jeremias

jeremias — Mon, 18 Nov 2002 05:24:58 -0800

Indeed, the man with the orange for a head is Magritte. However, the man with the orange head is Klee.

By: Slithy_Tove

Slithy_Tove — Mon, 18 Nov 2002 05:47:06 -0800

Ack, what an opportunity lost! No Bar at the Folies Bergere!

By: wobh

wobh — Mon, 18 Nov 2002 06:45:50 -0800

Whatever you do: DO NOT ORDER THE BOSCH!

By: Dark Messiah

Dark Messiah — Mon, 18 Nov 2002 07:53:12 -0800

I'm sure the well-read members of MeFi will shame me, but I didn't 'get it'. That Flash movie just struck me as someone's imaginative LSD trip being transposed onto streaming video. Nothing more... Frankly, I thought it sucked. Still, it seems I'm in the minority. I'm cool with that. No one's looking for my stamp of approval anyway. I'll show myself out, sans turning into a human pinwhell, I might add.

By: falameufilho

falameufilho — Mon, 18 Nov 2002 09:30:02 -0800

Read up, Dark Messiah!

By: muta

muta — Mon, 18 Nov 2002 09:41:25 -0800

It's great to see that Steve Whitehouse is making new stuff. He was one of my favorite artists during the brief internet animation boom.

By: andrew cooke

andrew cooke — Mon, 18 Nov 2002 10:06:52 -0800

thanks! (it was the magritte). dark messiah - it's one of those trainspotting things that probably only works if you know a limited selection of the main modern (mainly) iconic paintings. i guess if you know more or less than me (for example), it's probably either boring or pointless. or maybe it's more fun with sound (i'm at "work").

By: oflinkey

oflinkey — Mon, 18 Nov 2002 13:01:49 -0800

The Thinker lapping up the Guinness slayed me.

By: madamjujujive

madamjujujive — Mon, 18 Nov 2002 16:33:38 -0800

great post, pretty_generic - loved it! I liked The Thinker too, oflinkey, as well as the lounging Modigliani...I liked it all. Slithy_Tove, good suggestion. I thought of one of the Absinthe Drinkers as good potential too - there are many to choose from.

By: Winterfell

Winterfell — Mon, 18 Nov 2002 20:44:53 -0800

Ok. that was strange. I just posted a comment in a neighboring thread (iconomy's) about Miro's Blue series and then I come here and see it used as a Menu. The opening landscape, by the way, is from the under-appreciated Di Chirico.

By: wobh

wobh — Mon, 18 Nov 2002 22:52:19 -0800

I liked the blue stuff. Where does the blue horned figure playing the bass come from?

By: Winterfell

Winterfell — Tue, 19 Nov 2002 00:11:01 -0800

You mean Chagall?

By: Winterfell

Winterfell — Tue, 19 Nov 2002 00:34:48 -0800

For what its worth, I thought this film was one big wank-fest. Call me a rarefied aesthete, if you will, but this had that feel of a badly curated museum or of a K-tel greatest hits collection - uninspired cacophony. It was painful to watch.

By: Pretty_Generic

Pretty_Generic — Tue, 19 Nov 2002 03:32:49 -0800

Was it not Kant who stated "Art, although externally complex to the observer, may be fundamentally divided into the strata of 'good' and 'wank-fest' "?

By: wobh

wobh — Tue, 19 Nov 2002 06:22:20 -0800

Thank's Winterfell. I wrote all the names on the menu and looked up the ones I didn't recognize google. I hadn't seen that one in the Chagall galleries I found. I'm sorry you didn't like it (and for the opposite reason as Dark Messiah above). For me it hit all the right notes, it was an inside joke I was in on, but also introduced me to mysterious new images for me to explore. I don't know that I would have the same appreciation of Chagall or Morriseau if I hadn't seen those images in a playful and fun context such as this.

By: crunchland

crunchland — Tue, 19 Nov 2002 06:42:23 -0800

Don't know if anyone else looked, but this Kunstabar is just one of the winners on the Flash Award website.

By: ginz

ginz — Tue, 19 Nov 2002 08:25:59 -0800

Kunstbar, it means artcafe. (if anyone was wondering) More nice stuff to see on the Flash Award site.