DC to Daylight posted:

I'm definitely not trying to pick on you, but I think this is an interesting sentiment that many people share.

Rhetorically - what is the difference between craft art and fine art? Quality? Subject matter? Skills used? Materials? Why draw a line and where?

Literally A Person posted:

Well I don't know art but I know what I like. So what I like is art. *frames big titty anime figurine*

Turbinosamente posted:

For some reason it's a media based line drawn in the sand. The craft arts are metals, wood, fibers, ceramics, and glass. Drawing, painting, and stone sculpture are fine art. Illustration is.... whatever? A lot of the confusion stems from about the late 60s through the 70s when the definition of art became "whatever you want it to be" so Literally a Person is correct with their joke. The 60s is also about the time when performance art got big and artists start purposefully pushing the envelope and you wind up with poo poo like this:


Bruce Nauman, Failing to Levitate in the Studio, 1966
I believe Nauman's deal was he deemed anything he did in his studio to be art, which includes actions like awkwardly flopping off a chair.



Both of these are by Piero Manzoni, the titles are Artist's poo poo and Artist's Breath from like 1961 and 1960. And yes he had his actual poo poo canned and at one point the balloon was indeed blown up with his breath in it. I hear some of the cans have exploded due to bacterial build up, and he did the balloon thing multiple times and they've all lost air by now. But again, it's all part of everybody collectively trying to redefine art and one up each other. Hell, you could argue it goes as far back as Duchamp's Fountain and the whole Dada movement if you wanted to.

The end result is nobody knows wtf art is anymore, and I'm going to blame it for a lot of modern and contemporary works being inscrutable.

Literally A Person posted:

Well I don't know art but I know what I like. So what I like is art. *frames big titty anime figurine*

Arivia posted:

Putting it in your cum jar is not “framing”

shame on an IGA posted:

art is anything created or modified by human intent that makes you feel feelings when you look at it

Art is whatever you can sucker rich patrons into paying you for

Turbinosamente posted:

For what it's worth that image of the canned poop I yanked off the Tate Modern's website. Everything is art, it's how well you sucker in people with your bullshit that makes it fine.

Turbinosamente posted:

Very nice bowl, I am a sucker for metal enameled stuff as well. How'd you come by it, auction?

fermun posted:

I collect Soviet space-themed lapel pins

I have somewhere around 100-150 more that I've been too lazy to organize into a display case and instead keep in my desk drawer and pull out and look at every week or two

GWBBQ posted:

Let's start with the lamps, which I sort of accidentally started collecting and refurbishing on account of living across the street from a thrift store. I'm going to pull images from online now since I don't have them all together and organized, and a few are disassembled. All but one are just desk lamps, my end table and night table lamps are mostly just old brass lamps.

I have 3 G440 Counterbalance Lamps, one by Tensor and two by either Zelda or Milano Dana. All use the classic Tensor design with a transformer that takes 120V and has a rocker switch for hi/lo settings using a 12V/50W bulb. They have UV filters over the bulbs to prevent them from sunburning you while using them all day. I'm probably going to keep the Tensor and sell the other two.


Ralph Lauren chrome swing arm lamp, some genius gave it to goodwill and I got it for $7.50 because they bent the switch. It needs a new socket and new shade, I'll be fixing it up and probably selling it.


Ottlie vintage brass/wood task lamp. My girlfriend is currently using it as a desk lamp.


Adjustable Pottery Barn task light in blue powder coat. I use it at the moment because it can clear the swing arm on my monitor.


Pottery Barn Rowan nautical-themed light/nightlight. Got it for a few bucks, once I move somewhere bigger I'll find a place for it even though it's a kids' product.


I just found a LumiSource Robyn today for $40 at the local Bed, Bath, and Beyond that's closing. No way am I letting go of this beauty.



Still to come: Random antiques, fine art, radioactive glass, nifty vintage electrical and mechanical stuff, space rocks, spaceflight hardware/memorabilia (not sure if they've finished building it, but this may include a cabinet of Apollo program mission control hardware I donated to a local museum), aerospace memorabilia including actual pieces of black Skunk Works planes, a supersonic bomber, and more (oh, the humanity!)

That's impressive. I may have a couple of duplicates from the Buran program I'd be willing to sell or trade if you're interested and would consider letting a Buran thermal tile go for the right price.

bird with big dick posted:

Wow I like your dining room where did you get that table

GWBBQ posted:

Still to come: Random antiques, fine art, radioactive glass, nifty vintage electrical and mechanical stuff, space rocks, spaceflight hardware/memorabilia (not sure if they've finished building it, but this may include a cabinet of Apollo program mission control hardware I donated to a local museum), aerospace memorabilia including actual pieces of black Skunk Works planes, a supersonic bomber, and more (oh, the humanity!)

That's impressive. I may have a couple of duplicates from the Buran program I'd be willing to sell or trade if you're interested and would consider letting a Buran thermal tile go for the right price.

bird with big dick posted:

Wow I like your dining room where did you get that table

GWBBQ posted:

Let's start with the lamps, which I sort of accidentally started collecting and refurbishing on account of living across the street from a thrift store. I'm going to pull images from online now since I don't have them all together and organized, and a few are disassembled. All but one are just desk lamps, my end table and night table lamps are mostly just old brass lamps.

I have 3 G440 Counterbalance Lamps, one by Tensor and two by either Zelda or Milano Dana. All use the classic Tensor design with a transformer that takes 120V and has a rocker switch for hi/lo settings using a 12V/50W bulb. They have UV filters over the bulbs to prevent them from sunburning you while using them all day. I'm probably going to keep the Tensor and sell the other two.


Ralph Lauren chrome swing arm lamp, some genius gave it to goodwill and I got it for $7.50 because they bent the switch. It needs a new socket and new shade, I'll be fixing it up and probably selling it.


Ottlie vintage brass/wood task lamp. My girlfriend is currently using it as a desk lamp.


Adjustable Pottery Barn task light in blue powder coat. I use it at the moment because it can clear the swing arm on my monitor.


Pottery Barn Rowan nautical-themed light/nightlight. Got it for a few bucks, once I move somewhere bigger I'll find a place for it even though it's a kids' product.


I just found a LumiSource Robyn today for $40 at the local Bed, Bath, and Beyond that's closing. No way am I letting go of this beauty.

JnnyThndrs posted:

Yes it does, I took the original B& W tube guts out of it and installed 27” CRT innards about 18 years ago, you can’t even tell externally.

I made a GBS thread as I was doing the conversion, but I have no idea what the title or even the year was.

JnnyThndrs posted:

GWBBQ posted:

Nice. Going by the bezel fit, is it a Zenith tube?

JnnyThndrs posted:

kreeningsons posted:

That tension/swag lamp is nuts. What’s the pink one keeping your snorks company?

GWBBQ posted:

GWBBQ and his GF are antique hunters, Goodwill employees ... don't actually hate us since we live across the street and are some of their best customers. This evening, we were in line, she asked me to bring a little wooden chest of drawers back and put it on the shelf, and I spotted a crystal whiskey decanter. I took a look at it, grabbed it

And screamed "waiiiiiiiiit." as I sprinted back to the register before adding it to the total and paying. I had spotted something on the bottom, a Val St. Lambert signature


I paid $15. It's 1950s vintage, and might be worth as much as $400.

JnnyThndrs posted:

I love/collect lamps/light fixtures too, although in a slightly different style than what’s been already posted:

JnnyThndrs posted:

Nice! I don’t think I’ve ever seen an orange box fan before.

JnnyThndrs posted:

Nice! I don’t think I’ve ever seen an orange box fan before.

Gripweed posted:

Really? It was extremely popular, lots of people still play Team Fortress 2

Trabant posted:

Boredom during The Plague somehow led me to collecting oddball electronics. Here are a couple of Seiko clock mini-collections.

for which I made a display case: