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Fell Choice's avatar

Art can be almost anything that does not have a multiple choice question near it. In the presence of multiple choice questions, art does a sort of quantum flip into other dimensions, leaving us with the world we deserve.

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heydave56's avatar

I look for advice from the coffee cup; it is full of goodness and aware.

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Laura Smith's avatar

Two really made me LOL - the yes manager and the coffee cup. Plus all those signs! You are teaching me to read the fine print 😁

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Stephen Beals's avatar

Always read the fine print.

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Karen Brenchley's avatar

I worked in a movie theater in the summer during college. We got free popcorn while we were working, and could see any movie in town for free. One of the best jobs I ever had.

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Stephen Beals's avatar

Popcorn and movies are better than Prozac.

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Karen Brenchley's avatar

True!

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Alan Devincentis's avatar

Art is your ability to make me blow coffee out my nose.

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Stephen Beals's avatar

Thank you so much! If that were rhetorical actual definition, I’d visit museums more often. Wait, maybe I’d stay away.

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Nik's avatar

I run Nature Crafts programs at two state parks. Mostly getting pre-schoolers. I tell everybody “this is art. There are no rules.” I had a mom who was an actual art teacher give me the Mom Death Stare for that.

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Stephen Beals's avatar

There are learned design practices that are worth studying and it’s better to learn how to draw before abstracting things, but it irritates them that you’re absolutely right.

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Deb Perry's avatar

I would argue that Charles Schulz was pretty good at design as well. Who else but Schulz would be able to tell people that an abstract design like Woodstock is a bird AND get so many people to believe him? Well, maybe Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks…they took a bunch of circles, told us it was a mouse, and Mickey Mouse has been a household name ever since.

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Phil Jackson's avatar

Your work is excellent. Humor brings happiness.

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Stephen Beals's avatar

Thank you!

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TRT's avatar

What would a Russ Meyer be?

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Stephen Beals's avatar

A quirky vending machine snack.

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TRT's avatar
Oct 25Edited

Interesting choice. The buttons marked Vend number two and seem to cover 65% of the width of the vending machine itself; each.

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Ërb's avatar

Talk about Schulz and surrealism...GoComics is running one of the stories where Snoopy is a helicopter.

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Stephen Beals's avatar

Snoopy on top of his doghouse was a punchline once. By the time I was born, it wasn’t. Charlie Brown would walk into his back yard, Snoopy would be on top of his doghouse, and no mention would be made of how weird it was. It was normalized weirdness and I loved it.

Snoopy was also a helicopter in the animated specials, but the helicopter never moved past being a punchline.

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Nick H's avatar

My daughter graduated from CalArts last year. I can confidently say that you are someone with an expensive degree and can therefore sometimes declare that art is "Leonardo da Vinci good."

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Stephen Beals's avatar

Well, congratulations to your daughter! That’s the biggest lesson I learned at college: it’s expensive.

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Nick H's avatar

She loved it. I'm glad she was able to go there.

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Stephen Beals's avatar

That’s great to hear. It was definitely a slight miracle that I was able to go there.

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Flatland Jonny's avatar

So Schindler’s List was like a quarter pounder with Cheese?

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Stephen Beals's avatar

It was much better than Full Metal Jacket it my vey subjective opinion.

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Deb Perry's avatar

“Art is

A warm puppy?

Seriously though, art is different things to different people.

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JES's avatar

I always, on this sort of question, remember Tom Lehrer's song!

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Stephen Beals's avatar

Oh, which song? I like him a lot but my brain is not fully loading this fine morning.

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JES's avatar

Smut!

It gives me a giggle every time.

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Stephen Beals's avatar

You got me to listen to the Tom Lehrer songs that I meant to listen to when he passed away earlier this year. Thank you for that!

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Peter Gimpel's avatar

What the heck is "Corporate"? And why are people afraid to speak its name?

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Fell Choice's avatar

Naming is calling. Sshh!!

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