Crud

[STEED]

Flying piece of art causes museum chaos in Switzerland

GENEVA (AFP) - A giant inflatable dog turd by American artist Paul McCarthy blew away from an exhibition in the garden of a Swiss museum, bringing down a power line and breaking a greenhouse window before it landed again, the museum said Monday.
The art work, titled "Complex S(expletive..)", is the size of a house. The wind carried it 200 metres (yards) from the Paul Klee Centre in Berne before it fell back to Earth in the grounds of a children's home, said museum director Juri Steiner.
The inflatable turd broke the window at the children's home when it blew away on the night of July 31, Steiner said. The art work has a safety system which normally makes it deflate when there is a storm, but this did not work when it blew away.
Steiner said McCarthy had not yet been contacted and the museum was not sure if the piece would be put back on display.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080811/r_t_afp_od_other/tod-switzerland-offbeat-art-7f81b96_1.html?printer=1


Modern art............:down:

[rifleman13]

I don't understand "Modern Art"... :doh:

I'm not much of an art aficionado but...

I prefer classical art since I could understand it better... :|\\

[HunterICX]

Steiner said McCarthy had not yet been contacted and the museum was not sure if the piece of DogSh¡t would be put back on display.

;)

HunterICX

[rifleman13]

Steiner said McCarthy had not yet been contacted and the museum was not sure if the piece of DogSh¡t would be put back on display.

Nice addendum, HunterICX!
:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::arrgh!:

[SUBMAN1]

Modern art............:down:There is no art in a POS. :down:

-S

[jumpy]

Yea, modern art - it's a load of bollocks.

Way back when, when I was studying art at university :roll: a friend of mine and I thought up an ironic idea for a combined work, with the intention of drawing attention to our tutor's total lack of decency and common sense when it came to anything rubbish. The guy wasn't into people who could really paint or draw, but if you knocked up any old piece of tat in the free period before lunch on a friday, he thought the sun shone out of your arse.

Anyway, our proposal was as follows:

Required: one large empty room with bare walls (painted white). Two chest high plinths, wood or stone. Two large glass specimen jars with lids. Formaldehyde (enough to fill both jars). One whole cows brain. One pair of bulls testicles.
Brief: place the two plinths at opposite ends of the room with a jar atop of each, one containing the aforementioned formaldehyde and brain, the other formaldehyde and testicles. The room is to be devoid of all other decoration and accoutrements.

Sadly due to petty officials in brussels, we could not buy the necessary offal, nor would the university's medical department be persuaded to part with any of its precious formaldehyde, or at least certainly not to a pair of scruffy art students. I bet damien bloody hirst never had such problems. The git. (just goes to show it's not what you know it's who you know, eh?).

I think it would have been a great exhibit come the end of the course, with many a patron chuckling quietly to themselves after they 'got it'.

Trouble today is, most so called modern art takes itself way too seriously indeed, like it really matters or something. When in reality after you've thought about it for a bit, it's just a load of pretentious old bollocks.

[brian sewell] see how this pile of old house bricks is a parallel for the degradation of the urban society and the life therein...[/brian sewell] :roll:

[Konovalov]

I wish all dog turd would just quickly blow away in the wind. I once stood on doggy doo doo on the way to a job interview. Didn't get the job. Turned out that the job was sh*t anyway. ;)

[Tchocky]

Me wonders what Marcel Duchamp would make of this.

@ jumpy - I like it :)

[UnderseaLcpl]

The key to enjoying modern art is to make like one of the townspeople in the fable "The Emperor's New Clothes".

[Platapus]

Perhaps if we dissolved the NEA in this country, we could cut down on this type of art.

I seriously doubt any artist could get individual or corporate sponsorship for ...uh.. crap like that.

[Kapitan_Phillips]

I don't understand "Modern Art"... :doh:

I'm not much of an art aficionado but...

I prefer classical art since I could understand it better... :|\\

Yeah, me too. However, my reason is classical art isnt complete ****. (pun intended) :smug:

[Jimbuna]

Sounds like a load of sh!t to me :p

[STEED]

Sounds like a load of sh!t to me :p

Inflatable. ;)

[Konovalov]

Sounds like a load of sh!t to me :p

Inflatable. ;)
Hopefully odourless.

[Jimbuna]

Sounds like a load of sh!t to me :p

Inflatable. ;)
Hopefully odourless.

Might as well go for colourless as well.

[STEED]

While we on the subject has anyone seen real white dog poo like it was years ago? I only ask as I heard years ago an substance was put in dog food which made there poo white so you could see it and made it with less smell. Nearly forgot dried up quicker as well.

[Konovalov]

While we on the subject has anyone seen real white dog poo like it was years ago? I only ask as I heard years ago an substance was put in dog food which made there poo white so you could see it and made it with less smell. Nearly forgot dried up quicker as well.
:lol: :lol: I ca't believe we are talking about this. :oops:

Seriously though, you are right. I remember in my younger days seeing doggy poo as white as chalk on the footpath and elsewhere. Now though I don't see this. Did pet food manufacturers really put something in the food to make crud turn white? :hmm:

[Jimbuna]

Dogs were fed tripe in those days.

These days it's the human population that are fed it :lol:

http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/5054/whitepoo1wo8.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img352.imageshack.us/img352/9580/whitehorsepooxi4.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[STEED]

While we on the subject has anyone seen real white dog poo like it was years ago? I only ask as I heard years ago an substance was put in dog food which made there poo white so you could see it and made it with less smell. Nearly forgot dried up quicker as well.
:lol: :lol: I ca't believe we are talking about this. :oops:

Seriously though, you are right. I remember in my younger days seeing doggy poo as white as chalk on the footpath and elsewhere. Now though I don't see this. Did pet food manufacturers really put something in the food to make crud turn white? :hmm:

:rotfl: :rotfl:

From what I heard yes.


Whatever happened to dog poop being white and powdery?

In the late 70's/early 80's when I was a kid we would see white chalky dog poo all the time. It was powdery, it turned to dust in a few days. And my friend would just step on her dogs poo and it would turn to dust. And back then the poop didn't stink either.Back then there were no signs saying "please clean up after your dog". Since the poop just turns chalky and eventually to dust within a few days. Nowadays when I walk to work I see brown dog poo everywhere. It stinks. Heck i havn't seen white dog poo in about 15 years! There are some piles that last for months before finally dicomposing. what happened?


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker

Because the diet of dogs has changed. I totally blame pet food manufacterers for this. Commercial pet foods are filled with all sorts of crud and fillers and preserves, which make the poop brown and gunky. In the seventies more people fed their dogs a raw diet than they do now. People are being brainwashed into thinking commercial pet foods is what we should be feeding our pets!. My dog's poop is white. He is fed raw.


Corn started to be added to dog food...
Corn acts as an artificial stool hardener.. Also, dogs can't digest it properly, so, when it's pooped out, there's still quite a bit of it left to be broken down..


http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071202181503AAplmiW

[STEED]

Crud Bump time. :rotfl:

[Jimbuna]

Crud Bump time. :rotfl:

http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/2328/blahgc1.gif

[Task Force]

:rotfl: Honey watch out for the flying dog turd.:rotfl: