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July 18, 2007 6:04 PM Subscribe
I think this is some sort of performance art making a statement about pointless posts to oddities that aren't all that interesting.
posted by IronLizard at 6:12 PM on July 18, 2007
posted by IronLizard at 6:12 PM on July 18, 2007
You know that voice in the back of your head urging you to make cryptic posts? Treat it like you'd treat a voice urging you to murder.
posted by Pope Guilty at 6:17 PM on July 18, 2007 [10 favorites]
posted by Pope Guilty at 6:17 PM on July 18, 2007 [10 favorites]
It's cool! Someone made tables and stuff all in HTML and it looks cool like art!
posted by thirteenkiller at 6:27 PM on July 18, 2007 [1 favorite]
posted by thirteenkiller at 6:27 PM on July 18, 2007 [1 favorite]
Buh?
posted by WinnipegDragon at 6:27 PM on July 18, 2007
posted by WinnipegDragon at 6:27 PM on July 18, 2007
Nonplussed, English prose, five words.
posted by oncogenesis at 6:28 PM on July 18, 2007 [1 favorite]
posted by oncogenesis at 6:28 PM on July 18, 2007 [1 favorite]
This is interesting. I was all prepared to dismiss this, but the more I look at his works, they become more... interesting.
posted by suedehead at 6:28 PM on July 18, 2007
posted by suedehead at 6:28 PM on July 18, 2007
I definitely don't get it. Any image can be turned into html tables. Just like any image can be turned into, say, macaroni art. But... why?
posted by dmd at 6:28 PM on July 18, 2007
posted by dmd at 6:28 PM on July 18, 2007
I get it. But I'm not telling.
posted by ORthey at 6:30 PM on July 18, 2007 [1 favorite]
posted by ORthey at 6:30 PM on July 18, 2007 [1 favorite]
ummmm... what?
posted by punkrockrat at 6:32 PM on July 18, 2007
posted by punkrockrat at 6:32 PM on July 18, 2007
HTML is dead. (NOT CSSIST.)
posted by fidgets at 6:49 PM on July 18, 2007 [2 favorites]
posted by fidgets at 6:49 PM on July 18, 2007 [2 favorites]
Wow! A third crazy post in as many nights for me to complain about!
posted by mrnutty at 7:05 PM on July 18, 2007 [1 favorite]
posted by mrnutty at 7:05 PM on July 18, 2007 [1 favorite]
If you really wanted to be a jerk, you wouldn't have posted a link to HTML-table art to the front page, you would have posted HTML-table art to the front page. Amateur.
posted by grobstein at 7:06 PM on July 18, 2007
posted by grobstein at 7:06 PM on July 18, 2007
Treat it like you'd treat a voice urging you to murder.
But the last time I did that bad things happened.
posted by kirkaracha at 7:07 PM on July 18, 2007
There's art and then there's good art.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 7:12 PM on July 18, 2007 [1 favorite]
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 7:12 PM on July 18, 2007 [1 favorite]
Man. The web is really starting to suck.
posted by kittens for breakfast at 7:16 PM on July 18, 2007
posted by kittens for breakfast at 7:16 PM on July 18, 2007
I, for one, am for this. I remember seeing this blog a couple years ago, glad to see this guy is still at it. While it may not be the most engaging art I've come across on the web, I like the compositions and the idea that they're specifically made for the web, so you don't have to have any of the disclaimers like, 'these paintings look better in person than,' etc...
posted by garethspor at 7:49 PM on July 18, 2007
posted by garethspor at 7:49 PM on July 18, 2007
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posted by 2sheets at 8:03 PM on July 18, 2007 [1 favorite]
This doesn't make any sense. And even if it did, it sucks. I mean, really?
posted by puke & cry at 8:16 PM on July 18, 2007
posted by puke & cry at 8:16 PM on July 18, 2007
sure, why not?
posted by garethspor at 8:25 PM on July 18, 2007
posted by garethspor at 8:25 PM on July 18, 2007
Can someone more versed in art history help me out here? Is this boring concept art, or boring regular art?
Seriously, though, sort of clever, I guess. Not the kind of clever I'd buy a book of, or hang on my walls, but clever enough to click through for 30 seconds or so.
posted by infinitywaltz at 8:27 PM on July 18, 2007
Seriously, though, sort of clever, I guess. Not the kind of clever I'd buy a book of, or hang on my walls, but clever enough to click through for 30 seconds or so.
posted by infinitywaltz at 8:27 PM on July 18, 2007
Damnit, preview lied to me. Please delete that failed abortion ^ and this post too.
posted by tehloki at 8:40 PM on July 18, 2007
posted by tehloki at 8:40 PM on July 18, 2007
this is not a comment.
posted by UbuRoivas at 9:14 PM on July 18, 2007 [1 favorite]
posted by UbuRoivas at 9:14 PM on July 18, 2007 [1 favorite]
OK, honestly, having read the artist's statement and perused a bit more of this, it's actually kind of interesting stuff. Like I said, I probably wouldn't hang it on my wall, necessarily, but he's got some interesting ideas, and from what I gather, he's done some interesting work in other media as well. Some of his watercolors are reminiscent of Japanese art in a way that I like, and I enjoy his contrast of heavy, stylized india ink lines with pastel blurs of paint. It's very modernist and stylized, but just barely representational enough to intrigue viewers who might ignore purely abstract art.
Not a bad post, but it probably would've gotten a better response if it had been a tad less cryptic, and maybe included a hidden linke to some of Ashley's own explanations of his work.
posted by infinitywaltz at 9:18 PM on July 18, 2007
Not a bad post, but it probably would've gotten a better response if it had been a tad less cryptic, and maybe included a hidden linke to some of Ashley's own explanations of his work.
posted by infinitywaltz at 9:18 PM on July 18, 2007
Uh oh, quonsar broke the Internet...web...filter...thing.
posted by infinitywaltz at 9:19 PM on July 18, 2007
posted by infinitywaltz at 9:19 PM on July 18, 2007
Um, if beauty is in the eye of the beholder than this "art" is pretty darned fugly.
posted by fenriq at 9:25 PM on July 18, 2007
posted by fenriq at 9:25 PM on July 18, 2007
Pope Guilty : You know that voice in the back of your head urging you to make cryptic posts? Treat it like you'd treat a voice urging you to murder.
But what if that voice is telling me to murder quonsar?
posted by quin at 9:36 PM on July 18, 2007
But what if that voice is telling me to murder quonsar?
posted by quin at 9:36 PM on July 18, 2007
get the hell off our internet
posted by TrialByMedia at 9:40 PM on July 18, 2007
posted by TrialByMedia at 9:40 PM on July 18, 2007
Yes, I know quin, I totally fucked that up. But did you see the cartoon? Blank canvas? Quonsar's comment IS the blank canvas.
posted by IronLizard at 9:44 PM on July 18, 2007
posted by IronLizard at 9:44 PM on July 18, 2007
quonsar's post is gone and now none of the following posts making fun of quonsar's post are funny anymore.
Or rather, they are, but for different reasons, I guess.
posted by infinitywaltz at 9:45 PM on July 18, 2007
Or rather, they are, but for different reasons, I guess.
posted by infinitywaltz at 9:45 PM on July 18, 2007
Yes, because now it looks like I'm capriciously threatening to murder a well respected member of the community for no apparent reason.
Actually, your right. That is pretty funny.
posted by quin at 9:59 PM on July 18, 2007 [1 favorite]
Actually, your right. That is pretty funny.
posted by quin at 9:59 PM on July 18, 2007 [1 favorite]
Cretins used to say much the same about this guy's work.
posted by squalor at 10:49 PM on July 18, 2007
posted by squalor at 10:49 PM on July 18, 2007
I think this guy's work is awesome. This one in particular struck me. It brings attention to the fact that these are the thinnest lines that you can draw with computers.
As an exercise in formalism it's beautiful. Very well placed plus-sign with the slight shift to make it twinkle. It evokes an exploding star in an old video game. Or some kind of fissure in a piece of paper.
It's 400x300, so small and contained. Only four lines enclosed in that space. Like a petri dish with only a few hairs. This is the strand of the computer. It's simplicity is sublime.
posted by philosophistry at 11:10 PM on July 18, 2007
As an exercise in formalism it's beautiful. Very well placed plus-sign with the slight shift to make it twinkle. It evokes an exploding star in an old video game. Or some kind of fissure in a piece of paper.
It's 400x300, so small and contained. Only four lines enclosed in that space. Like a petri dish with only a few hairs. This is the strand of the computer. It's simplicity is sublime.
posted by philosophistry at 11:10 PM on July 18, 2007
philosophistry, you're just trying to live up to your username with that comment, no?
posted by flapjax at midnite at 4:20 AM on July 19, 2007
posted by flapjax at midnite at 4:20 AM on July 19, 2007
I'm now convinced there's really only two kinds of art. One is the kind where the "artist" is laughing at you behind your back while you view it and the other is everything else. Clearly this particular piece falls into the former category.
posted by tommasz at 6:56 AM on July 19, 2007
posted by tommasz at 6:56 AM on July 19, 2007
You know that voice in the back of your head urging you to make cryptic posts? Treat it like you'd treat a voice urging you to murder.
Follow it, unquestioningly?
posted by Benny Andajetz at 10:50 AM on July 19, 2007
Follow it, unquestioningly?
posted by Benny Andajetz at 10:50 AM on July 19, 2007
Kill them. Kill them all.
posted by the back of your head at 1:38 PM on July 19 [+] [!]
Well, OK then.
posted by IronLizard at 11:42 AM on July 19, 2007
posted by the back of your head at 1:38 PM on July 19 [+] [!]
Well, OK then.
posted by IronLizard at 11:42 AM on July 19, 2007
This entire thread is just a comedy of errors, innit?
posted by IronLizard at 11:43 AM on July 19, 2007
posted by IronLizard at 11:43 AM on July 19, 2007
flapjax, no I enjoyed these pieces immediately. The words came afterwards to communicate that enjoyment. But probably why I enjoyed the piece is that I'ved tried creating art using only a 1-pixel non-anti-aliased pencil. I really like the aesthetic.
When the pixels are really noticeable, it reminds me of fiddling with MS Paint when I was 12, and seeing the pre-made drawings, like the chess board. It's a certain style. The HTML guy's work is just an act of minimalism with this style.
There isn't really much difference in genre between the HTML guy, and Franz Kline, Robert Ryman, Barnett Newman.
posted by philosophistry at 1:00 PM on July 19, 2007
When the pixels are really noticeable, it reminds me of fiddling with MS Paint when I was 12, and seeing the pre-made drawings, like the chess board. It's a certain style. The HTML guy's work is just an act of minimalism with this style.
There isn't really much difference in genre between the HTML guy, and Franz Kline, Robert Ryman, Barnett Newman.
posted by philosophistry at 1:00 PM on July 19, 2007
Come on, there's got to be SOME art theory peeps lurking in the MeFi crowd.
posted by philosophistry at 1:00 PM on July 19, 2007
posted by philosophistry at 1:00 PM on July 19, 2007
Hey, man, art's only, like, a theory.
posted by cortex at 2:33 PM on July 19, 2007 [1 favorite]
posted by cortex at 2:33 PM on July 19, 2007 [1 favorite]
I'm for it.
But I'm also excited for this to open. (notice? one link to one page instead of three links to one page? it's, uh. Brilliant.)
posted by OrangeDrink at 11:46 PM on July 19, 2007
But I'm also excited for this to open. (notice? one link to one page instead of three links to one page? it's, uh. Brilliant.)
posted by OrangeDrink at 11:46 PM on July 19, 2007
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