Random Fashion Thoughts (Part 3: Style farmer strikes back) - our general discussion thread

[DubbyThaFerrgamoCZAR]

Macy’s, Home to $8,000 Mink Jackets, Will Stop Selling Fur Products by 2021 (Published 2019)

Macy’s, which operates more than 600 department stores, follows brands like Michael Kors and Gucci in stopping sales of fur products.

www.nytimes.com

 

[skeen7908]

I remember him - I think his username was Fade To Black. RIP, so young.

Anybody else think that they could have painted stuff like this pretty easily?

 

[steveoffice]

Anybody else think that they could have painted stuff like this pretty easily?

No

 

[shopcanoeclub]

@skeen7908 no. but you apparently do so you should. you should just casually do it, bro

 

[cocostella]

I really like the paintings shown in that NYT article. Can’t believe he was only a few years into his art...

 

[LA Guy]

Anybody else think that they could have painted stuff like this pretty easily?

How do you mean? Technically, what he did doesn't look that hard. I would bet good money that I could make pretty decent copies of his work - I have enough training in acrylics, oil, and water colors to do that. All of the great masters can also be copied, though it would take a considerably better artist or art technician than I to make a convincing copy/forgery.

However, representational or other technical proficiency is not a particularly good indicator of artistic merit, especially in the modern period.

I think that some of his work is interesting.

He was a consistent pain in my butt. I ultimately had to make the call and ban his account - even after a number of time outs, after which he always promised to be civil with other posters, his posting would always deteriorate into attacks on other posters.

He was also apparently a promising young artist with some pretty deep issues. Just goes to show that people are complicated. And regardless of anything else, it's always tragic when someone dies young, and even moreso when its by their own hand.

 

[dieworkwear]

Anyone else think they're pretty good at typing and can probably re-write Master and Margarita if given a copy?

 

[g transistor]

Anybody that says anything like "That looks simple I can do that!" in any context and sits there and produces nothing or produces but does not put their art into the world for others to say "That looks simple I can do that!" can go get bent.

Hard.

Get bent.

 

[g transistor]

Anyone else think they're pretty good at typing and can probably re-write Master and Margarita if given a copy?

Master and Margarita? Why couldn't you use something accessible like Tolstoy?

Even DWW's shitposts are flexes of his ~kultur~

 

[LA Guy]

Anyone else think they're pretty good at typing and can probably re-write Master and Margarita if given a copy?

Harder that you think. I took a touch typing class (this was back in 1989 or 1990, when typewriters were still a thing, and 100MB of storage on a computer was huge. The latter I remember because I commandeered one at school to use clips from "The Wrath of Khan" to make a parody - it wasn't funny, but my physics teacher was impressed. One of our exercises was to touch type a scene from Hamlet - apparently so that we couldn't rely on common patterns we were used to - and man, it took a looog time to pass that one.

Anyway, carry on. I loved The Master and Margarita, incidentally - the scenese with Pontius Pilate in particular were pretty freaking great. Now, if @dieworkwear really wants to flex, he'll have to comment on the various translations.

 

[LA Guy]

Anyone else think they're pretty good at typing and can probably re-write Master and Margarita if given a copy?

So, if you are an English speaker and don't know the cyrillic alphabet, and you could do it in Russian, and at speed, I'd be pretty impressed. (0)

 

[FlyingMonkey]

He was a consistent pain in my butt. I ultimately had to make the call and ban his account - even after a number of time outs, after which he always promised to be civil with other posters, his posting would always deteriorate into attacks on other posters.

It was a long time ago, but those threads make for very sad reading in retrospect and in the light of recent events, and I am very glad the forum is not like that any more.

 

[Benesyed]

Lol fok smdh

 

[cb200]

I've given up on holding too serious of an opinion about art that I've not seen in person. Been surprised in both good and bad ways seeing things in a gallery that I had seen reproductions of previously.

 

[smittycl]

Master and Margarita? Why couldn't you use something accessible like Tolstoy?

Even DWW's shitposts are flexes of his ~kultur~

M&M isn't accessible?