She should start a blog. posted by TimeFactor at 7:31 PM on January 29, 2006
longest fake poop
I guess that makes it the longest bullshit ! posted by lobstah at 7:33 PM on January 29, 2006
It's about time the Jackass crew added a female to the roster. posted by dgaicun at 7:37 PM on January 29, 2006
This is exactly the sort of thing I always hoped to find on the Interweb. posted by Joey Michaels at 7:39 PM on January 29, 2006
Alright, that's it, I've seen all there is to see on the web. I can't think of anything else I haven't seen. Night all! I'm turning out the lights on the way out. posted by rolypolyman at 7:39 PM on January 29, 2006
This post stinks. posted by konolia at 7:42 PM on January 29, 2006
"The weeklong endurance prior to the event was ensured by the employment of a plug specifically designed to curtail any premature excretions.'
Michelle Hines is full of shit. posted by fandango_matt at 7:42 PM on January 29, 2006
This was so much better when I thought it was real. You've killed Mr. Hanky for me, jassamyn. I don't want to hear one word about the easter bunny. posted by cytherea at 7:58 PM on January 29, 2006
This shit is re-farted. posted by tweak at 8:02 PM on January 29, 2006
I doubt that after a fiber rich diet and administering a laxative, the feces would be that solid.
Or, to be more succinct, I don't believe this shit. posted by Alvy Ampersand at 8:10 PM on January 29, 2006
Fake, stupid, pretentious. That V.V. article highlights some other "ordeal art," much of which is as fake, as stupid, and as pretentious.
From the article, referring to one of the artists' work:
"The data collected may be as impractical and useless— therefore artlike..."
The bar has been lowered so close the ground that when someone shits they call it art. I hope these miserable hacks have to take up jobs as terrible as their art to keep from starving. I wish them nothing but the worst. posted by BlackLeotardFront at 8:12 PM on January 29, 2006
Rectum? Damn near killed 'em!
ba dump bump. posted by shmegegge at 8:16 PM on January 29, 2006
Ack, the first time I clicked on jessamyn's link it didn't work!
Still, satisfying to know I can tell shit from shinola. posted by Alvy Ampersand at 8:17 PM on January 29, 2006
The Aristocrats! posted by Rothko at 8:24 PM on January 29, 2006
Shit is poisonous, so the idea of plugging up your poop for a week is a dangerous idea.
My dad had 2 brothers who died in infancy where their bowels tied themselves into a knot, rendering them unable to shit. The shit trapped inside slowly poisoned them, leading to a slow death.
This happened in the late 30s / early 40s out in the country, so I'm guessing medicine has come a long way since then (duh).
(One died before dad was born, one when he was a kid. Dad can remember the poor tyke spending whole nights throwing up before he passed. Very sad.) posted by uncanny hengeman at 8:32 PM on January 29, 2006
If we can't agree that some stupid anti-ordeal-ordeal about the longest shit isn't well, shit rather than art, then I say aw fuck it.
What an idiot. This would be really stupid, if it were true. That it was meant as some kind of "statement" makes it much, much more than really stupid, and makes me want to smack the "artist." (And those aren't scare quotes -- they're mock quotes). posted by teece at 9:09 PM on January 29, 2006
teece, you should give the artist some slack. It's conceptual. It doesn't matter if it really happened--it's the emotional truth that's important. And it seemed very sincere. Even if it wasn't all real, it was probably agony to go through--No one should have to get reamed out on Oprah like that. posted by cytherea at 9:28 PM on January 29, 2006
This was really not necessary, or wanted. posted by stevis at 9:50 PM on January 29, 2006
http://www.ratemypoo.com/ratemy/poo
Well, now I've seen everything I ever want to on the web. Internets, it's been grand, drop me a line sometime. posted by jokeefe at 10:15 PM on January 29, 2006
The weeklong endurance prior to the event was ensured by the employment of a plug specifically designed to curtail any premature excretions.
That can't have been comfortable. posted by clevershark at 10:18 PM on January 29, 2006
rolypolymanwrites"Alright, that's it, I've seen all there is to see on the web"
Is anyone else imagining her saying "Vrrrrooooom!" in fandango_matt's gif?
*crickets*
Just me? Okay. Nevermind. posted by brundlefly at 10:58 PM on January 29, 2006
This goes out to every cranky philistine who ever visited a modern art exhibition and said loudly "what's next? Take a massive dump on the floor and call it art?" posted by George_Spiggott at 11:02 PM on January 29, 2006
Wasn't this sort of suspect on the face of it? No one's colon is 26 feet long. Your small intestine maybe, but your colon isn't nearly that long. posted by hwestiii at 1:57 AM on January 30, 2006
Well done everybody! Hines for her art, and the thread participants for theirs. This week I am mostly not being too dismissive of modern art.
Gilbert and George made me think when they said that poo is the first thing that we create. They do like to wallow in it a bit, though:
'The artists first used excrement as a theme in their 1983 work entitled Shitted, in which the artists superimposed photographs of themselves facing each other in front of a wall of vastly magnified, orange-brown turds. Gilbert & George are shown wearing blue and green with the same brown substance in their mouths. In this work, they seem to refer to themselves as the creators of the "shit" that critics claimed they brought into the art world.'
'"This will be hanging in the room where we are to eat," George proudly declares. Spit on Shit is one of the Fundamental Pictures of 1996 and depicts exactly what it says - a gob of spit sliding down two monumental turds. "Very few art works are called Spit on Shit. It's about being alive in the western world," George says. "What else?"
God love them! posted by asok at 3:25 AM on January 30, 2006
"I guess for me it didn't seem necessary to actually have done the thing. Today you don't really have to do anything."
They can carve that on humanity's grave when we finally bore ourselves to death. posted by languagehat at 5:38 AM on January 30, 2006
Whoever is commissioned to do the carving will most likely carve "Whatever" instead. posted by Gator at 6:51 AM on January 30, 2006
poop lol posted by Stynxno at 6:58 AM on January 30, 2006
It won't be carved. A young female artist will squat atop humanity's grave and squeeze out the word, hopping in tight circles to spell it. posted by fandango_matt at 7:24 AM on January 30, 2006
What is odd to me is that pieces like this—those that aim at triggering an emotional reaction that's implicitly the primary context for the work—are not seen as the banal and idiotic cliches that they really are. Other works of art that crudely trigger banal emotions such as love or nostalgia are properly ridiculed by those who nevertheless see the context of, for example, disgust to be more than sophomoric and cliched. Why? posted by Ethereal Bligh at 7:26 AM on January 30, 2006
fandango_matt, somewhere Terry Gilliam is giggling himself shitless over your GIF. posted by rosemere at 8:31 AM on January 30, 2006
Bandwidth exceeded (on lead link). Gee...what a surprise.
Who are they crappin'? : ) posted by SisterHavana at 7:58 PM on January 30, 2006
Drat. Bandwith exceeded by the time I got to it.
"Metafilter: Let us help you exceed your bandwith!" posted by WaterSprite at 8:10 PM on January 30, 2006
Don't worry. fandango_matt's gif still makes the thread worthwhile.
(I'm not hearing "Vrrrrooooom!" while watching it, though. Unfortunately, it's the Benny Hill theme for me.) posted by rosemere at 10:23 PM on January 30, 2006
Those aren't mutually exclusive, rosemere. posted by brundlefly at 10:25 PM on January 30, 2006
Memepool has a link to some genuine record-breakers. Link leads to DVDs for sale... the great taste of Pepsi Brown. posted by Aknaton at 10:09 PM on February 2, 2006
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