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offline christina from Athens (Greece) on 2004-05-15 14:12 [#01189810]
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kindest greetings everyone.

I joined this forum just to
get a glimpse of the creative
genii of my cousins, Ian Noll and qtrer.

they are also lovers.
please please please reply
I'm desperate for attention.

LAZY_TITLE


 

offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2004-05-15 14:13 [#01189814]
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your cousins are your lovers?


 

offline christina from Athens (Greece) on 2004-05-15 14:15 [#01189815]
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no they physically love one another


 

offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2004-05-15 14:18 [#01189822]
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all your links are broken on that site

ian and qrter are lovers?


 

offline roygbivcore from Joyrex.com, of course! on 2004-05-15 14:21 [#01189829]
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i love the internet


 

offline ecnadniarb on 2004-05-15 14:21 [#01189830]
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A Russian link....hmm...


 

offline christina from Athens (Greece) on 2004-05-15 14:21 [#01189832]
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naturally they are.
my broken links may be
attributed to you either
being uncreative, and/or gay,
and/or using a Mac. apologies.


 

offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2004-05-15 14:24 [#01189840]
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i am on a mac.



 

offline ecnadniarb on 2004-05-15 14:25 [#01189843]
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duh, they know you are on a mac. you don't need to tell
them. this isn't a new person.


 

offline christina from Athens (Greece) on 2004-05-15 14:26 [#01189844]
Points: 124 Status: Regular



so you aren't ruling out
being gay or uncreative.
hi-hi-hi-hi


 

offline christina from Athens (Greece) on 2004-05-15 14:27 [#01189847]
Points: 124 Status: Regular



ecnadniarb> I am a new person. why should you doubt it?
I just happened to know w M w's "real" name.


 

offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2004-05-15 14:27 [#01189848]
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i know

but like christina, Im bored enough to go along with it.


 

offline ecnadniarb on 2004-05-15 14:29 [#01189852]
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oh, in that case:

WELCOME TO THE BOARD SKYFAR<>>> I MEAN CHRISTINA.


 

offline christina from Athens (Greece) on 2004-05-15 14:32 [#01189864]
Points: 124 Status: Regular



thanks for the latter part of the welcome! mwah!
I bet skyfar is quite an asshole,
on account of me being an asshole in my first
topic (purely out of boredom you must believe me)
and you believing I'm him/her.


 

offline christina from Athens (Greece) on 2004-05-15 14:45 [#01189882]
Points: 124 Status: Regular



oops I just noticed what ecnadniarb said.
my site isn't russian. my gf studies russian
but still that's my closest relation with the Reds.

my actual url is http://darksprite.chaos-rules.com/
and the free redirect service (of which I'm thankful)
is www.da.ru . Those cool people allow me to
call my site www.christinart.da.ru

this is not an ad


 

offline ecnadniarb on 2004-05-15 14:46 [#01189886]
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So you're a lesbian?


 

offline DJ Xammax from not America on 2004-05-15 14:47 [#01189889]
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Russian lesbian??? hott


 

offline christina from Athens (Greece) on 2004-05-15 14:52 [#01189897]
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transexual lesbian. why is this important?
(used to be a boy. if ignorant about transexual
mating habits, check the very good FAQ
transexual FAQ )

no point in me talking about transexual habits or
rights. kisses


 

offline DJ Xammax from not America on 2004-05-15 14:55 [#01189900]
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Nice try.


 

offline christina from Athens (Greece) on 2004-05-15 14:57 [#01189904]
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try at what?


 

offline DJ Xammax from not America on 2004-05-15 14:58 [#01189906]
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I have no idea


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2004-05-15 15:02 [#01189912]
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hELLO! omg! aRE YOU A HUMAN FEMALE OR A PIKACHU? eITHER WAY,
i WOULD, WITH YOUR PERMISSION, HUMP YOUR FACE IF YOU LIKE.
dON'T TELL QRTER i LOVE YOU.


 

offline Sempoo from Barlinek (Pluto) on 2004-05-15 15:03 [#01189915]
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Hello Christina. Have you ever been slightly on the west?


 

offline christina from Athens (Greece) on 2004-05-15 15:09 [#01189922]
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I'm a human transgendered male ian, so now
a female. omg I don't usually have my face humped,
but I might let you if you gave me your talent.
qrter always knew you're being untrue to him.

plus, we're cousins.

sempoo> is greece west or east?



 

offline uzim on 2004-05-15 15:10 [#01189923]
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erm...

i'm not totally sure what to think about all this, the fact
that you're stating that ian and qrter are gay in your first
message, that you're saying you're desperate for attention,
that you have pikachu on your avatar, that you put a "â„¢"
after "art?", that you put antislashes in your urls making
the site harder to navigate through with a mac (is this on
purpose?), i think i'll just say nothing.... o_O

i like your artwork though.
that "trojan horse" one is quite disturbing and sickening...
(well, the others as well!)


 

offline christina from Athens (Greece) on 2004-05-15 15:12 [#01189927]
Points: 124 Status: Regular



yay tx uzim. very cool avatar.
I could fix my "/" in my site's urls
but Fireworks put it there, it
wasn't my fault, and now it's just
too much work. more work than
apologising to Mac users.
tx again for the kindness.


 

offline Sempoo from Barlinek (Pluto) on 2004-05-15 15:16 [#01189929]
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Definitely south-east.


 

offline uzim on 2004-05-15 15:17 [#01189931]
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ok... : )

so, for mac users:
art page
bio page
contact page
links page


 

offline christina from Athens (Greece) on 2004-05-15 15:20 [#01189935]
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txx uzim
u're the first one to take me seriously
and be decent to me.


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2004-05-15 15:27 [#01189941]
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Those are some quality drawings. You made them all? I
thought the one eyed cat was wicked, but then I found out it
was a fish and not a one eyed cat. I always had an idea for
a drawing technique that I havn't tried much because it
would take too much time, but like that scorpion for
example.. since you're the drawer you can draw it anyway you
like to turn it into something you'd not normally see in
reality. So you could give it a pencil instead of a scorpion
tail. The thing is to use real objects to draw from since
they contain subtle detail you can mimic to make the drawing
more "real" than just drawing things you imagine (probably).
but the pencil-tail is a stupid example, the real idea is to
keep fusing objects that later, when looked at as a whole
would be something "real" looking but unidentifiable as to
it's constituent parts, maybe like the inside booklet for
tri repetae by autechre sort of. When I drew though, I just
drew directly from imagination sometimes- usually- using
subtle shading in the paper's texture as a guide.


 

offline isnieZot from pooptown (Belgium) on 2004-05-15 15:27 [#01189942]
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I like your artwork.
you're a talented boy or girl or boygirl.


 

offline Sempoo from Barlinek (Pluto) on 2004-05-15 15:33 [#01189949]
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Impressive stuff!
What is the technique? Oil? Maybe Photoshop?


 

offline christina from Athens (Greece) on 2004-05-15 15:43 [#01189957]
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isnieZot> girl. and tx, kind of you.

w M w yes I painted them all.
and surprisingly, I've thought about
the exact same thing.
Yes I should paint more from life.
But the really interesting point is
when you fuse stuff, even if it's
an actual foto u're manipulating,
it might not be identified by the
viewer as what it is.
The brain won't understand that
(for example) in the respective Rene Magritte
painting, a bottle is turning into a
carrot, because I think the brain
is on the look-out for certain
properties of an object.
That's probably why Magritte
painted an actual carrot and
an actual bottle next to their
fusion, so that the brain deciphers
it more easily.
At this present junction as you
understand, I'm more inclined
to make identifiable fusions,
because in my naive opinion
they "mean" something.
(that's because I'm not very
talented yet, and yes my stuff
does take a lot of time, precisely
because I'm an amateur. like
months)
For example I'm now painting
a crucified jesus as seen from
below, who is fused to his cross
(for some reason). it's important
to me that the cross and the jesus
do look a bit real, in order to "prove"
my point to the viewer.

but I'm more and more inclined
to think the way you do on mixing
realistic objects. perhaps I can do
something interesting someday.
tx Ian. could we work on an idea
for a painting together sometime?



 

offline christina from Athens (Greece) on 2004-05-15 15:44 [#01189958]
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photoshop with a tablet. tx


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2004-05-15 16:38 [#01189994]
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Well... to do that we'd have to share files over the
internet obviously. I tend to never use color in any of my
drawings, just pencil and I tend to make really small
intricate things. They can however be blown up in size to
color better. You seem great with color so perhaps could
color one of my drawings someday? Other than that it's hard
to collaberate... since I don't ever have something in mind
when I draw, it'd be hard to think of a drawing topic
together or something. I have/had a weird "technique" where
I just draw what's currently imagined. I had a long period
where I stopped drawing, but recently picked up a pencil
again. I've been avoiding it because it was almost a
religious period where I felt like I lost my soul. Some of
the drawings I made are just like... fuck... they're an
exact non-word convertable expression of how fucked I felt.
Barfing poetry is a good description. www.iuma.com/wmw (at
the bottom) has some.
I never used photoshop. Do you actually draw with a mouse?
It probably has one of those pad doohickies where you can
draw with an electric pen? Mouses are way to shaky for me.


 

offline christina from Athens (Greece) on 2004-05-15 19:44 [#01190171]
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yes well,
I've seen two of your sketches
(actually 2 of the three that are
put up in your page, the click
and the vaginal thingie)
and they're as clever as your rhythms.
I think I'd enjoy trying some constructivism
with you (the art movement that I think
dealt with painting masses of machinery
piled on one another)
or something of the sort.
or just discussing what could be a
step ahead from such "fine" but
naive and useless paintings.

there's a person
who does something like what I imagine
you're talking about:

bern's gallery

on the subject of photoshop, well, you can try
using it, it's not harder than cubase 5 was.
Yes of course I use a graphic tablet+pen
(cheapest WACOM I could find)
However I did do some of my work with
just the mouse, and the brush set to "fade"
(that's like starting out with a brush being loaded with
paint
and at the end of your brush stroke there
isn't any paint left). That carrot-angel was
one of those. Mouse is shaky, but you learn
to cope by making gentle moves.

The "what's currently imagined" technique
was kinda well-researched by the surrealists
under the name "automatic drawing".

On another note, how was it a religious period
and how did you feel you had lost your soul?

and something I remembered and kinda wanted
to put accross for discussion,
I'm becoming increasingly convinced that
an artist's thoughts or effort put in a piece
are completely irrelevant. The finished piece
belongs to the viewers/listeners/readers
and their opinion is final. I don't think a
single AUTECHRE member thought of their
pieces as alien insects having sex, but
there it is.. In the same way, that fish you
saw in my thingie, could well be the
elongated head of a cat.
I saw a cat when I looked again.
what the fuck is the meaning of art then?
coz most people will tell you it's about
expressing yourself. me, I'm


 

offline christina from Athens (Greece) on 2004-05-15 19:45 [#01190173]
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just ignorant.


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2004-05-15 19:47 [#01190174]
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thomas brinkmann tokyo+1


 

offline dog_belch from Netherlands, The on 2004-05-15 19:49 [#01190175]
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i want to bum you.


 

offline nacmat on 2004-05-15 19:56 [#01190183]
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christina what?


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2004-05-15 20:59 [#01190232]
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Wow... !
"intermezzo" in bern's gallery (the first picture that
popped up) is perhaps the best drawing I've ever seen.
That's the type of thing I would have strove to create had I
pursued drawing further. It also does look like it could
maybe be created in that "surreal" way I mentioned (like
using clothing folds and other things perhaps). I almost
can't justify taking the time to make things like that
myself anymore. If I had made that I would have made it much
smaller to require less time shading etc. It would appear
more detailed because of scale, but wouldn't be as high of a
resolution in detail also because of scale. The quality of
that thing is better than things I made. It even looks
restricted being confined to a conventional rectangle.

Well, when I drew a lot I was in high school mostly and
doing so was a necessary relieving expression of .. perhaps
self hatred. I didn't have it the worst, but for whatever
reason didn't handle it very well. I couldn't stand being
humuliated by other people and gradually hated other people
and myself. It sounds like a lame problem and probably is
considering there is a wounded creature somewhere right now
being taunted by predators, with just enough energy to put
up enough of a fight to go through another unimaginably
horrible night. It was just the dulling reoccurence of the
same dreadful day repeating hundreds of times with minor
variation. I don't want to say much more about it than that.
My school experience sort of fucked me up permanently as I
have no friends and strive to make none to this day.

I would say that an artist's thoughts/feelings put into a
piece vary in degree of relevence from case to case. If an
artist uses a scientific idea (say a fractal) or relies on
sophisticated technology (comlex sound generating computer
algorithm) then the nature of the idea/algorithm determines
the output more than the human brain (the brain did perhaps
select a particularly pleasing fractal or algorithm though).
Otherwise, yeah I'd say thoughts and feel


 

offline horsefactory from 💠 (United Kingdom) on 2004-05-15 21:02 [#01190235]
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ART THREAD


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2004-05-15 21:10 [#01190236]
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ings (logic/ emotions) perhaps solely play a part in the
output (other than the nature of the medium.) Humans are
very culturally varying though. Some humans havn't, for
whatever reason, developed the sort of culture that would
cause them to appreciate "art" much. Perhaps only those who
have culturally learned to escape from reality into
something appreciate it.. But even of those who like art,
there are again varying reasons and aesthetic preferences.
The reasons for this are tied in with the complex
developement of each unique individual brain. So where this
is going is that, if one person creates a work of art for
his/her particular emotional/logical reason (well, emotional
is more subjective than logical I assume.. not having been
in anyone else's brain I don't know for sure...) it can be
interpret by a different viewer using their own learned
culture/behavior of their own brain to draw their own
subjective conclusions/emotions. I thought Lp5 was one of
the most fantistic artistic creations by humanity at one
point for example, for whatever my reasons, but autechre
said themselves it's not their favorite album.


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2004-05-15 21:13 [#01190240]
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Hey! Don't you ever interrupt me again! Even if you
are a paying member and I am not! By the way, since you're a
paying member you should threaten to sue phobiazero if he
does not immediately fix the innacurate character counter.

and the eyes on the top and the "thoughest" thing.


 

offline horsefactory from 💠 (United Kingdom) on 2004-05-15 21:19 [#01190241]
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Someone paid for my account for me. It was a present. I
would like to see the eyes at the top go, though. Most of
all, I like you, and I hope that we can go to a waltz
together some time in the near future.


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2004-05-15 21:26 [#01190246]
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ahhhhhh... :*)

(um, is that the right "crying" face)


 

offline princo from Shitty City (Geelong) (Australia) on 2004-05-15 21:28 [#01190251]
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try either :

:_( or :'(


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2004-05-15 21:44 [#01190270]
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:') ah, yes


 

offline sneakattack on 2004-05-15 21:48 [#01190273]
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that just looks like a smug pinocchio


 

offline christina from Athens (Greece) on 2004-05-16 02:42 [#01190381]
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what right have you to talk, snakeattack?! your current ant
avatar lookes like a weird brownish anal dildo. :]

ian> people have to LEARN to escape from mundanity?
you have a strange idea about the common person...
it's one of the things that comes naturally to every
society,
on account of the human animal not having been designed
to live so long and to realise its nothingness in the
universe.
so as far as I'm concerned, what societies do is filter out

"bad things" for poor humans in order to help them not go
whack, and replacing them with elegant theories that
"make sense"..

and yes in a brain confused in THIS way to think there is
a meaning to life, art does or doesn't play a role.. but at
best it's just another thing that societies can use to
appease
people (and money can be made). so some people are
being convinced that striving to appreciate art is a finer
goal than, say, follow their stronger instincts..

but yes, there's no mistake that what you like in art,
even when it's designed to specifically stimulate a part
of your brain to the max (say red and white squares by
that painter Mondrian, or complex equations used for
rhythmic parts to cause a difficult to follow noise)
even then, what gives you the pleasant/unpleasant
feeling of satisfaction/indifference is how you have
come to connect the stimulation of the specific brain
region with feelings of "chemical reward" (by drugs
inherent in the human body). And there's
no need in me telling you what triggers chemical
reward in different people... from chocolate
to pedophilia and, closely following, Vanilla Ice...

so when we create "art", we can at best hope to
be appreciated by like-minded people. because
I can't see anything that can trigger a universally
uniform reaction.

hm... other than that, I knew u'd like what bern
does. but see, it's been done before, so an "artist"
motivated by her own (mis)conceptions about "art",
wouldn't find it very rewarding to continue in
the same vein.


 


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