I respect your right to be wrong if you wish. 😉

An image generated by a computer is CGI, it doesn’t have to be Avatar to qualify.
Art is art, whether you like and respect it or not. It doesn’t have to be good to be art.
People in England are painting potatoes, inserting some painted nails, and calling it potato art. This took more effort to make than that does, but they are still art just as much as a 3 year old’s drawing or a fresco by Michelangelo is.

Place de la Concorde Suisse...John McPhee's book exploring Swiss...paranoia...
---All military age men have an automatic weapon at home; the penalties for using it or even open the ammunition other than military duty are severe
---The bridges and tunnels in to the country are rigged with places for Swiss Army Engineers to stick explosives and drop them all
---Airbases tucked into mountain sides; not nuke proof; but damn hard to get at any other way
etc
etc
etc

"in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. "

Harry Lime; Orson Well's "The Third Man"...

Form.A sounds a lot like the Stoner virus, I'm assuming one of those was a variant of the other. Some OEM's were unknowingly sending out floppies with that virus on them with peripherals for a while which really helped them spread.

I always thought the Michelangelo virus was a pretty serious one for pre-internet days.

Post internet, the Code Red virus was especially hard to get rid of. It never touched the disk so most scanners had a hard time with it.

Life lessons garnered:

"YOU can paint a picture."

You don't need to "go to school half your life."
You don't need to be "blessed by Michelangelo at birth."
You don't need 1500 colors. 8 will do.
"You just need a dream in your heart and some practice."

Your base needs to be firm. "If you start with a thin, loose paint, you're going to become a mud-mixer."

Large strokes live in your mind. Details live in your brush. "You just need to push them out."

Don't lose the trees for the forest. Think about the small world that lives in your painting and it will be much richer. "This is where they live [these creatures]... In these bushes"

Painting will teach you to look at Nature and see things that have been there all your life, and you've never noticed. "Look around, look at what we have. Beauty is everywhere."

"In the time you sit around worrying about it and trying to plan a painting, you could have completed a painting already. Let it happen."

"We need dark in order to show light."

Your video, TEDed: The History and Meanings behind Michelangelo's David, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

Famous Aspergerino's include Gary Numan :

"Here in my car,
I feel safest of all
I can lock all my doors
It's the only way to live in cars.
Here in my car
I can only receive
I can listen to you
It keeps me stable for days in cars.

ANNNND,
Dan Aykroyd,Carl Jung, Beethoven, Michelangelo and Nikola Tesla!!


Oh, and a few folks know to frequent the sift in days past and present we must say!!

It's over-simplifying to say "there's a gene for reasoning". It's not like baking a cake.

Everything existed before it was invented. Mona Lisa is just a rearranging of elements that make up paint. An engine is just rearranging metals. Michelangelo's David is just marble cut out in a certain form.

Logic is a purely theoretical concept and of course that is "eternal". The idea of it existed before anyone really had the idea. You can argue that French existed before Frenchmen did - no one had ever used it, but in theory it existed before.

Nosepicking is a byproduct of us evolving mucus glands and hair in our nose to protect our airways from dust and dirt.

Some animals can do rudimentary reasoning too, like identifying which objects are dangerous. Learning from their mistakes as well. It is likely that earlier versions of humans were favored in the natural selection to have more offspring, and that's why we all have the big brain we have now. The only reason we don't see evolution in action, actively growing or shrinking our brains now, is that it's very slow. People are generally taller now than they were 3 generations ago - that's evolution in action. Taller people have more offspring, therefore we get taller on average - that's evolution by natural selection.

How does that not make sense to you? It makes far more sense to me than "god did it" or "it happened by chance" which are essentially the same argument.

>> ^cybrbeast:

@<a rel="nofollow" href="http://videosift.com/member/westy" title="member since July 25th, 2006" class="profilelink">westy
As opposed to the refinement of aluminum from ore, the recycling of aluminum is quite efficient, so it's not that wasteful. Also it's for an art piece.
Was Michelangelo wasteful of the beautiful marble slab when he sculpted David?


well in this instance i think a huge slab of metal with slighty beveld edges would actualy have been more of a spectical than the end product due to the fact its not something we see often.

in the time david was sculpted it would have been the hight of technoligy/ablity to make the human form like that where as now we can work stuff using computers to an unbelievable level of detail its not really a spectical to see something like that formed. ( i mean there is just as much spectical in a CG model as there is in the real world cutting of it)

The thing is the end result of what he did to this table was not something mind blowingly original and the end table is haedly the most practical of tables having a ditch in it. granted for some person some place they would love the form of this table , but i think there are probably thousends of people that given a chance to have there 3d model /cad drawing turned into a phisical object would have ended up with something as nice if not nicer looking but allso more practical.

@westy
As opposed to the refinement of aluminum from ore, the recycling of aluminum is quite efficient, so it's not that wasteful. Also it's for an art piece.

Was Michelangelo wasteful of the beautiful marble slab when he sculpted David?

Check out Julian Beever's work. He's the Michelangelo of anamorphic art. This is just placing stuff on a projected picture.

I have been waiting to see that for years. I remember, even as a small kid, sitting on the floor yelling, "No! You're letting them get away! Just use your swords. Come on!" Then, years later, I caught a rerun of some of the later episodes and Michelangelo had these little turtle-shell hook things instead of his nunchucks. Lame.

The paintings it is based on, thanks to basilisk on Reddit:

• Last Supper by da Vinci
• The Birth of Venus by Boticelli
• The Anatomy Lesson by Rembrandt
• On the right, Girl with a Pearl Earring by Vermeer; on the left one of the Portraits of Henry VIII by Holbein
• The Raft of the Medusa by Géricault
• The Death of Marat by David
• The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo

• The Son of Man by Magritte
• Composition with Large Red Plane by Mondrian
• one of Frida Kahlo's self-portraits
• Portrait of Dora Maar Seated by Picasso
• The Scream by Munch
• The 1899 self-portrait by Van Gogh
• Ten Marilyns by Andy Warhol

• Gabrielle d'Estrées et une de ses soeurs by unknown
• Maestá by Cimabue
• Salome by Caravaggio
• Olympia by Manet
• Liberty Leading the People by Delacroix
• Portrait of the Journalist Sylvia von Harden by Dix
• The Kiss by Klimt

• La Mariée by Chagall
• Las Meninas by Velázquez
• One of the Sunflowers by van Gogh, probably the Third Version

ummmm, that was Michelangelo's statue of David, not of Mars.

>> ^RedSky:
Michelangelo rolled over in his grave at your use of 'Art'.


I've seen much worse 'round these parts..

Michelangelo rolled over in his grave at your use of 'Art'.