Post your funny pictures here!!! part Deux

[drunkenshoe]

@Hydra009 Sweetie, that's all fine. But the thing is you cannot exclude the main culture and leave the most of the works done altogether out. Because that's the culture we live in.

We don't get to jump into some 'center', or 'main stream', and say: "STOP!", or "GO THIS WAY".

What we think is 'ideal', and what humanity is going through are two very different things. They almost never meet. As we sow, so shall we reap. This is not a decision somebody makes. Actually, again this is what he means. What's more, it's like wishing peace on earth, Hydra. 
I'm just pointing it out that's all.


     

[drunkenshoe]

You know what, it actually feels like a bit that you're interested in history of art...

[Hydra009]

I see your point (descriptive VS prescriptive), but there actually is a person who decides what is and isn't art - the person who decides what can and can't be on display at the art museum.  Same for music and comedy and basically everything else - there are boundaries, fuzzy and subjective (or inter-subjective) as they can be.

[drunkenshoe]

I see your point (descriptive VS prescriptive), but there actually is a person who decides what is and isn't art - the person who decides what can and can't be on display at the art museum.  Same for music and comedy and basically everything else - there are boundaries, fuzzy and subjective (or inter-subjective) as they can be.

Yeah, but mostly about the commercial value, no? Without someone like Warhol, it would be much much worse. Without Warhol we wouldn't have memes, would we? He would LOVE it by the way, lol.

I like that you are interested in history of art. I have bad news though. As an art historian, I think 95% of art history is bullshit, while the 5% is crucial for humanity. Most of the at historians would tell you that 'but, how that's important'. It's not. However, unfortunately you need to swim through that 95% bullshit I'm afraid. And you should. (I promise you, you'll have so much fun.) And that's the reason why I'm writing all these. I want you -and everybody else- to o lay back and enjoy their species. You know..."these are Pyramids, that's Mico's pieta...that's blah blah and that's the fucking soup cans...". Because that's what we are. :D

[Hydra009]

Yeah, I guess I gotta take the bad with the good.  Definitely familiar with that as a scifi fan.

Around here in NC, we don't so much have utterly bad art as just painfully mediocre art.  But at least we have the stargate rings:



"Chevron 7, locked"

[Hydra009]

[Hydra009]

European:
Dragons (strong start, admittedly)
Griffins
Werewolves (reportedly native to London, albeit originally from America)
Loch Ness monster
Changelings (much scarier than you think)
Fairies
Gnomes
Selkies
The Portuguese

North American:
Bigfoot/Sasquash
Wendigo (not the same thing as above)
El Chupacabra
Mothman (real)
Jersey Devil
Slenderman
Satan
Sewer gators and/or monstrous gators
Lava bear / Cocaine bear
Florida Man

[Unbeliever]

How can werewolves be "native to London" if they are "originally from America"?

[Hydra009]

How can werewolves be "native to London" if they are "originally from America"?

It's an American Werewolf in London :P

[drunkenshoe]

It's an American Werewolf in London :P

I like that movie.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

He is amazing. And they treated him as if he had the plague. Well, he died young, but then it is not like he'd be taken seriously if he didn't.

Potato Eaters is my favourite painting. And I don't even necessarily like paintings.

I thought that was a leper colony.

[Blackleaf]

North American:
Bigfoot/Sasquash
Wendigo (not the same thing as above)
El Chupacabra
Mothman (real)
Jersey Devil
Slenderman
>>>Satan<<<
Sewer gators and/or monstrous gators
Lava bear / Cocaine bear
Florida Man

[Hydra009]

It's a play on "The Devil Went Down To Georgia" as well as poking fun at Americans' insanely high religiosity (emphasis on insane) and obsession with the Devil.

[Unbeliever]

It's an American Werewolf in London :P

I figured that, I was just confused by the language. 🤣

[drunkenshoe]