>> ^arghness:
>> ^brycewi19:
Pretty sure "artsy" and "Yahtzee" don't rhyme, bro.

Really? They do in my area of Britain.
Don't you have a piratey "Yarr!" at the beginning of "Yahtzee"?


I think it's "aHtsy" not "aRtsy"

>> ^brycewi19:
Pretty sure "artsy" and "Yahtzee" don't rhyme, bro.


Really? They do in my area of Britain.

Don't you have a piratey "Yarr!" at the beginning of "Yahtzee"?

Pretty sure "artsy" and "Yahtzee" don't rhyme, bro.

>> ^dannym3141:
>> ^dag:
Loved this movie. I learned a lot from watching it with the DVD commentary on. The vertical shadows created by the blinds in this scene are meant to symbolize prison bars.

Can you guess what this middle finger i'm sticking up means in reference to beret-wearing, flimsy moustacheo'd, artsy fartsy film students?
Just kidding, that one's ok.


Prison bars?

>> ^dag:
Loved this movie. I learned a lot from watching it with the DVD commentary on. The vertical shadows created by the blinds in this scene are meant to symbolize prison bars.


Can you guess what this middle finger i'm sticking up means in reference to beret-wearing, flimsy moustacheo'd, artsy fartsy film students?

Just kidding, that one's ok.

XBOX gets most of my attention, but they are all good systems.

XBOX and its XBL interface has pretty much defined modern console gaming. It has the most titles (both full games and downloadable), the most players and the quickest and easiest interface.

The thing I like best about the PS3 is that they are not afraid to take risks creating interesting and artsy downloadable games like Everyday Shooter and Flower. It also has a Blu ray player and a handful of good exclusives. Playstation Home (a virtual 2nd life style neighborhood) is a good idea, but they need to come up with a more interesting environment than a shopping mall. The worst thing about the PS3 is the system updates, which can take forever. They could also use more high quality exclusives.

Wii waggle is good clean, inexpensive, fun, and the system has a respectable amount of exclusives, not to mention a legendary back catalog. It's got some nice paripherals - guns, balance board, steeling wheel. It's online/multiplayer/friend interface is horrible.

Advantage Xbox

Almost seems like a dream place, except if all the stoners were the artsy types that shared books (like my friends) and had some mental stimulus.

-Le Petit Prince by de Saint-Exupéry, because it permanently shaped the way I look at (and interact in) any and all attachments.
-Vinnie the Pooh, because in it's simplicity it provided unique and oh-so-valuable insights on social norms and the psychology of friendship.
-The Hobbit, or There and Back Again, because it gave me the final nudge to become a true bookworm. I like to boast - at age 5 or 6, I read it cover-to-cover in about 9 hours (refused lunch and dinner until I'd finished ).
-The Catcher in the Rye - I guess the most straightforward and requires no explanation.
-A Hero of our Time by Lermontov, because it presented me with a fatalist byronic hero and gave me a clear idea of someone I was very much like and I DID NOT want to become.

and last but definitely not least:
-The Lord of the Rings to which I practically exclusively owe my English skills - I started Book 1 in 1999, I think, with the thickest available dictionary in hand, which honestly, at first had to utilize for practically every sentence but finished Book 6 (not a month later) having clearly surpassed my English teacher in vocabulary and speech fluency.

It has happened before and it will happen again (I mean this kind of Sift Talk), so I guess it was just a matter of time before I participated.

I only stated the couple of books that actually altered my life somewhat (I'm saying this because I always somehow got the impression other people made their lists based on how artsy/fancy their titles sounded, which I really hope isn't true in most cases among Sifters).
Anyway, I guess it's also worth saying that I read every one of these before the age of 15, which helps explain why and how they have influenced my life to some extent.

It's funny though - by the time I was 16 I'd also read and re-read Hesse, Huxley, Orwell, Dostoyevsky, Nabokov, García Márquez, Rand, Joyce, Vonnegut, Fitzgerald, Kerouac, Burgess, Hemingway, Rushdie and other "classics", but most some of these managed was to entertain me mildly (Vonnegut, Hesse, Huxley, Joyce - yes, I really did enjoy reading Ulysses), while I actually hated having to finish some of them (Orwell, Rand, Burgess).

P.S. Oh and I think I speak for us all when I say - Sagemind - WHAT. THE. F*CK??

>> ^Sagemind:
I have to give two lists!

FICTION:
Clive Barker - Imagica
David Farland - Runelords
Dan Millman - Way of the the Peaceful Warrior
Frank Hurbert - Dune
John Fowles - The Magus
Alexander Dumas - The Count of Monte Cristo
L Ron Hubbard - Battlefield Earth
Jack L Chalker - Lilith: A snake in the grass
Jacqueline Carey - Kushiel’s Dart
Jack Kerouac - On the Road

Its nice to be reminded every once in a while that they really are originally artsy-farts.

Fedquip was the one who indirectly dragged me into the World of Sift through his blog on AOL, so I will have to put him on top of my list. Snoozedoctor had a lot of good music sifts. And you can say a lot about Choggie, but I really miss all his quality artsy videos. I guess I will have to sift them myself now...

Otherwise, I haven't been a member long enough to get to know the vanished sifters through comments and conversation. Most of them disappeared before I joined.

I pay 105.798 USD for a 2MB connection in Kuwait. That's actually cheap compared to the 250 USD I used to pay.

Right now it's all fucked up because they did a huge promotional event and signed on a billion more users without expanding their available bandwidth, so I can't play MMOs and I can't download my filthy Cambodian por... artsy foreign films ignored by the Oscars.

i think you are missing the whole aesthetic of glitch music,

im not i totaly apreceat geting sounds out of random things and i can see the charm in that , but thats what you are doing when you are playing with a sinth on a pc ore when you are playing a gutar ore whatever as long as you apreach annything that produces sound with an open mind set you will be able to play with it and get interesting sounds. its just a fact that u get very little controle over the way these devices produce sound so yah its fun hititng scraping things in the enviroment to get sounds from them, but its not worth the hyp these people have bult into it.

say i go around hiting things and yah some things might make a sound i like which is cool and then id be like ohh how could i improve that ore use it to maintain my intrestead and eventualy you would probably invent an instrement,

i allso like the idea of geting an unintended sound from something that was designd to do somethign else now these people make it out to be some lade da artsy thing but the fact is the music industry asa whole has done this repeatedly and its a realy comon way for artists to generate a nesh for themselfs, like the tpan efect , ore bob marly playng the gutar in a unconventoinal way.

iv watched a number of documentries and know a cuple of people that do this stuff alot and thay feal like thay have to suport it in some strange way, its like limography in photography its fun and gr8 u can spend alod of mony on random camra bits but the fact is you can achive all the afects using photoshop, and infact at least with photoshop its intentoinal so thers an eliment of skill there, yes maby u just want a random afect and thats the charm but when that random afect costs alot of time and mony than it would to produce using othe rmethods. i would say the cheapest least time consuming method of achiving the same output is the best.

( if you like something on a subjective level fine i cnt argue that but if you have a conversation with that as the assumption all discourse is irrelevant)

i think you are missing the whole aesthetic of glitch music
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glitch_(music)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit_bending

its a little artsy in the sense that planned progression is not neccesarily a goal. maybe think improv meets aleatoric music

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleatoric_music

I made an artsy stop-motion video in high school set to music of the same band. In retrospect it was an awful choice of soundtrack.

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:
I think they mean PBS. NPR gave up on artsy fartsy along time ago.
(oops, I guess I shouldn't comment before watching the video)


Yeah, who feels stupid now?