Damn, I loved him in Kickboxer!

Van-Damme it!!!!

/oh nevermind..wrong one..

Jakevol2: Damn, I loved him in Kickboxer!

Man...simul post and I still couldn't be number one...

Goodnight, sweet prince

Damme you Jakevol2 & allthebetter, I wasted precious time scouring GIS for the perfect image that captures his monumental contributions to the arts and you guys beat me to the punch. :(

/R.I.P. Splits-man
//bonus best scene EVAR (new window)

A brilliant piece of art. A brilliant artist.

Sorry to see things swing this way.

T.M.S.: A brilliant piece of art. A brilliant artist.

Sorry to see things swing this way.


Yes, he was brilliant in Universal Soldier.

RIP, JCVD.

GungFu: T.M.S.: A brilliant piece of art. A brilliant artist.

Sorry to see things swing this way.


Yes, he was brilliant in Universal Soldier.

RIP, JCVD.

I guess he really was expendable after all.

what did you say??

That's a wrap

HA!! farking brilliant, subby. nicely done.

And for her final installation the body will be embalmed and wrapped in 87 miles of orange plastic.

I hope this thread doesn't get all gay or anything.

Oops, too late.

/nttawwt

Sad. She was part of a partnership that promoted public art. RIP.

That's funny, it didn't look like art to me when it was up...

You know who else had the same last name as Van Damme?

/no, wait--

You know who else died?

The glorious, magnificent ~~~~~~ CHRISTO ~~~~~~ will throw a blaze orange tarp over her coffin and call it "transcendence".

black_knight: That's funny, it didn't look like art to me when it was up...

I thought it was damned amazing.

Overrated.

JerseyTim: black_knight: That's funny, it didn't look like art to me when it was up...

I thought it was damned amazing.

Just because it's amazing doesn't mean it's art.

Komplex: JerseyTim: black_knight: That's funny, it didn't look like art to me when it was up...

I thought it was damned amazing.

Just because it's amazing doesn't mean it's art.

I also thought it was art.

Wasn't a woman killed by one of the umbrellas in the '80s? How could the article leave that out?

Are they going to use an umbrella for a grave marker?

Komplex: JerseyTim: black_knight: That's funny, it didn't look like art to me when it was up...

I thought it was damned amazing.

Just because it's amazing doesn't mean it's art.

Basquiat must piss you off something fierce.

/Art is

johnnyTex: That's a wrap

HA!! farking brilliant, subby. nicely done.

Thanks. I was going to go with something similar to what Archie wrote below you, but I figured simpler is better.

Komplex: JerseyTim: black_knight: That's funny, it didn't look like art to me when it was up...

I thought it was damned amazing.

Just because it's amazing doesn't mean it's art.

What does something have to look like to qualify as art? The Gates transformed Central Park for a short time, and changed the relationship between the viewer and his/her environment. Sounds like art to me.

Now if we could just get rid of Christo too perhaps we would no longer have to be subjected to any more mind-bogglingly pretentious justifications for covering shiat with tarps.

By the way, The Gates was a massive ripoff. It was a obvious but poor copy of the Fushimi-Inari shrine in Kyoto, but he tried to pass it off as an original.

Nice, subby, very nice.

/sooo didn't expect to find out from Fark

Komplex: JerseyTim: black_knight: That's funny, it didn't look like art to me when it was up...

I thought it was damned amazing.

Just because it's amazing doesn't mean it's art.

I think you mean- "Just because it's art doesn't mean it's amazing". If someone says something is art, then it is. But, you don't have to like it.

GeeksAreMyPeeps: What does something have to look like to qualify as art? The Gates transformed Central Park for a short time, and changed the relationship between the viewer and his/her environment. Sounds like art to me.

So does planting a burning cross on someone's yard. Is that art?

"By the way, The Gates was a massive ripoff."

Since he put up the money himself, I'm willing to give him a pass wherever he got the idea.

I met them. she was a terribly self-imp[ortant biatch.

Rifle, Colorado Valley Curtain:



Rifle, Colorado Coal Bed Methane:

Thank farking Jah. One down, one to go.

/dislikes walking stereotypes
//likes dead ones better

JerseyTim: Komplex: JerseyTim: black_knight: That's funny, it didn't look like art to me when it was up...

I thought it was damned amazing.

Just because it's amazing doesn't mean it's art.

I also thought it was art.

I thought it was shower curtains.

mloree: Thank farking Jah. One down, one to go.

/dislikes walking stereotypes
//likes dead ones better

You are confusing archetypes with stereotypes.

They did amazing work together, but he wont last long without her.

Rose Red: I met them. she was a terribly self-imp[ortant biatch.

I did too. It was part of her charm.

Jean Claude is pretty unassuming and a lot of their projects wouldn't have happened if he didn't have the partner/wife/bulldozer to push it through.

Komplex:

Just because it's amazing doesn't mean it's art.

It is art because they say it is. Amazing has nothing to do with it. "Amazing" is what you bring to it.

They just brought art.

RminusQ:

So does planting a burning cross on someone's yard. Is that art?

If the person planting the cross says it is art than yes. It is art.

I have never understood why people find such a simple concept so difficult to understand.

/like those islands

Komplex: JerseyTim: black_knight: That's funny, it didn't look like art to me when it was up...

I thought it was damned amazing.

Just because it's amazing doesn't mean it's art.

I thought it was art, but I didn't like it. I thought it was a waste of money and space. But it was still art.

brap: Rose Red: I met them. she was a terribly self-imp[ortant biatch.

Christo Jean Claude is pretty unassuming and a lot of their....

FTFM coffee please

Nicely done, Subby. +1.

/Resandwichment ftw.

Among the things I have long admired about Christo and his wife is that they don't take public funding for their projects, never have.

Another is that they take HUGE risks with their work and yet, when they are over, there's little or nothing left to see there - the gates were free-standing and left not even a stake hole in the ground.

I hope that he can pull off the Arkansas River project in Colorado now that she's gone. Just let me see one more of his works please!

UnoriginalNick: Now if we could just get rid of Christo too perhaps we would no longer have to be subjected to any more mind-bogglingly pretentious justifications for covering shiat with tarps.

Rose Red: I met them. she was a terribly self-important biatch.

My husband was a HUGE fan of Christo before meeting the couple about 8 years ago. He came home with a story of how bad it sucks when you find out one of your idols is a dick.

Was she gored by a giant umbrella?

and nothing of value was lost

Doggiewoggie: Overrated.

Overpaid, as well, I'm going to bet.