Comments on: Guest in a box

By: ambroziak

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:35:48 +0000

on damien hirst –
Thus again we find a direct equivalent to Victorian academia, whose sentimental, moralising genre pieces did exactly the same for their age. The fact that Hirst’s work does mirror society is not its strength but its weakness – and the reason it is guaranteed to decline artistically (and financially) as current social modes become outmoded.

so apparently that is not a cool thing about his art.

original article here:
http://www.channel4.com/culture/microsites/H/hirst/against.html

By: Adam_Y

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:54:20 +0000

That is true genius in responses to true arrogance.

The whole Cage/Silence thing is important. Very post-modern, and influential. But I get the feeling that he took himself a little too seriously over it.

By: Erika Hammerschmidt

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:51:50 +0000

I heard on the radio once that John Cage threatened to sue another artist who gave a title to a couple minutes of silence at the end of his CD. Cage claimed it was an unauthorized quotation from his own silence. The other artist asked him to specify which part of 4′33′ was being quoted, and he never heard from Cage’s lawyer again.

By: Adam

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 08:56:59 +0000

Good call!

*P. J. Schadenfreude now owns all the bits in between words*

By: Adam

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 08:55:57 +0000

Timeshare comments… now there’s an idea to steal.

By: Adam

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 08:44:57 +0000

Both of you… no cash from I will you gain, for I must boycott your words and such.

By: Adam

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 08:42:57 +0000

Eeep.

By: Adam

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 08:42:20 +0000

“diversely angry essay”

Ha. You really should seek therapy for that.

By: Adam

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 08:41:29 +0000

That’s cool, but I have copyright over ‘holes in socks’… that’s right, if you find a hole, you owe me.

By: Ambroziak

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:15:54 +0000

Dale Chihuly does the same thing. He has an entourage of assistants that do his work for him, but i still give him credit for revolutionizing glass sculpture from a craft to an art form.

and i think that damien hirst COULD BE brilliant. Is his art what he makes (or in this case doesn’t?) or is his art truly a conceptual piece on the commercialization of the art world itself? If he goes by the latter, that would be amazing.

Also we need a new Andy Warhol/salvadore dali, another artist in the limelight, It’s great that people are actually debating over an artist for once. That means that everyday people MIGHT be able to name an artist that is still alive.

By: Maddie

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:19:40 +0000

I take credit for the word “Munflewhiptish” which is both a swearword and a compliment, when used correctly. (by me)
I also shall be claiming royalties for the phrases “motherfluffer” “flufftard” “pisscake” “fucktard” and “Your walk is a rhetorical question!”

Yes, everything I invent is a swearword or insult. Tha’s me!

By: Philip J Schadenfreude

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 07:07:19 +0000

One thing I find quite amusing is John Cage’s 4?33?, which effectively takes credit for not only other people’s work, but silence itself. Before John Cage, there was onl;y noise.

(I actually like the concept of 4′33″. Actually, it’s mine. I created it. Sod this John Cage bloke.)

By: Ben

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 02:03:50 +0000

You can have it.

I was sleeping any way.

By: Ben

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 02:03:00 +0000

Nope, no can do.
I am even responsible for those tuneless little songs ppl hum in the shower.

Damn, 11 “e”’s, I wonder how much bloody royalty I’ll have to pay for that?

By: Brandy

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 18:40:37 +0000

Drats. Fair enough. But I claim full ownership of the “t” and “h” and am exempt from paying you for my uses of “e”.

By: K_Eusebio

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 18:33:32 +0000

Actually, I own the letter “e” so 33% of the royalties you are paid for the word “the” will need to be paid to me.

By: Davey

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 18:17:15 +0000

I claim ownership of the time used to create this comment.

By: Brandy

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 17:11:53 +0000

I claim ownership over the color blue and the word “the”. I demand royalties whenever either is used.

This comic reminds me of my funeral arrangements that I’ve instructed my friends to carry out. It will be a Viking funeral. With a full Viking ship that has a live crew tied to it.

By: K_Eusebio

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 11:16:49 +0000

Whoa, you made all music? Everywhere? That’s pretty good. There’s too much though; can you slow it down a bit?

By: Ben

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 09:28:19 +0000

I, um, I’m the one responsible for all the music ever made.
That is right, all of it.
Sorry about modern pop.

By: joenis

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 02:13:33 +0000

nice, i want the same thing. exact same thing.

ps. your skull be included.

By: franzy

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:35:13 +0000

I hope you all enjoy this strip I drew today, along with my diversely angry essay below.
That be one hundred million dollars.

By: The Great Joe Bivins

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:46:55 +0000

I had something I wanted to take credit for, but I can’t remember what it was. I think it was a particular variant of a curse word. That’s okay, I’ll just take credit for socks. That’s right, I invented socks.