[quote]dollarbill44 wrote:
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
Regarding the same roommate I mentioned above:
He was a fine arts major when he lived with me. Well, his final art project before he graduated was some bullshit, semester-long thesis that culminated in a big showing for all of his friends, teachers and classmates.
What he had done was film himself rebuilding the engine from his '73 Honda 350 and then he built a makeshift theater in one of the art rooms on campus where people could come and view this fucking lame video. The deal was, whoever came to view it had to tell other people about what they saw, except that they had to tell a lie about it. I know, I can’t believe they give degrees for this shit either.
Anyways, his art was him creating a scenario in which other people could create art; what lies people told about what they saw was HIS art. It was supposed to be some aborted commentary on what people consider art these days.
So for his big showing, in front of literally hundreds of people, I got myself a front row seat and sat through the whole fucking video until the question/answer session where people could ask about the artist’s process. I called him out in front of everyone. I told him it was all bullshit and that if what he did was art, then essentially the people who make oil pastels, brushes, canvasses and so on are artists as well. I started screaming at him, demanding that the school give ME an art degree since I was the artist and he was just the maker of my supplies, I called him a fraud, then I got into a huge argument with him and a few of his hippy classmates about their complicity in the cheapening of what didn’t even deserve to be referred to as “low art”. By the end of the show, most people were on my side, he was literally crying on stage, and he got booed by about half of the audience.
It was great! So yeah, that’s how far I’ll go.[/quote]
You’ve got some issues to deal with. You don’t seem to understand the difference between practical jokes and psychotic behavior.
DB[/quote]
Read the title of the thread. This is how I have gone/will go.