Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Josh Keyes Collision at David B Smith Gallery



cold sterile petri dish approach to subject matter, seems to satisfy the group it's aiming for, laboratory assistants I think?

5 comments:

  1. Kind of like an info-graphic that you'd expect to see in the Natural History Museum or a really dull 1970's nature encyclopaedia.

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  2. did you know there used to be millions of buffalo in north America. the natives used them for many things, almost no parts of the animal went to waste. and as there were so many of them they could never kill more than they needed, so they (the natives) were living in harmony with nature. which I guess makes them like other animals, which is what us humans were before we started making limited edition vinyl toys for single men to poke up their bottoms.

    Anyway, the great, great, great grandfathers of these men with plastic in their poop-holes traveled to north America, where they were very happy to kill lots of buffalo to eat, and use their skins in various ways. Then they realised that if they wanted to control the natives (and by control I think they meant "wipe out") they simply had to kill as many buffalo as possible. At this stage, as they were killing large numbers, they would only eat the tongues of the beast, which at the time were a great delicacy. Things got so bad that, once the railroads were built, they would just shoot the buffalo as the train rolled by, leaving them to rot at the side of the tracks. One day, when America was down to the last 500 or so buffalo someone thought they better do something to protect them or they would die out, hence there still being buffalo today in the 21st Century.

    Maybe this story explains why one of the buffalo is looking over his shoulder in a slightly nervous fashion at the smaller, faster mammals, just the kind of small beasties which some believe did in the dinosaurs...

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  3. Yes Dave, we did know that. They even made a Simpsons episode about it, is that where you learnt about it?

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  4. No, I read it in a book. I don't have a television and haven't seen an episode of the Simpsons since December 2008. I remember, because it was in French, and Homers voice in French is hilarious

    It's come to something when they make comedy television shows about mass murder. Next thing you know they'll be getting street artists to direct the opening titles



    Question: When you say "we", I assume you mean "I" - or did the world vote you as their spokesman? It must have been a tv vote, as I don't remember being asked. Can't even remember seeing any "Vote For Anonymous" posters either. Did Obey design them?
    Anyway, with that in mind, I think you're actually full of shit, as there are some people in the world that have never even heard of buffalos, let alone seen a television, let alone seen that episode of the Simpsons, so how can "we all know that"???

    DUHHHH!



    I don't think you're really anonymous, I think you're really RJ from Vandalog. That's the kind of thing he'd say without thinking it through before hitting 'post comment'. Don't you have exams to study for? Get off the internet and back to the books kid!

    I'm going to. Got another book to read. x

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  5. did you know there used to be millions of buffalo in north America. the natives used them for many things, almost no parts of the animal went to waste. and as there were so many of them they could never kill more than they needed, so they (the natives) were living in harmony with nature. which I guess makes them like other animals, which is what us humans were before we started making limited edition vinyl toys for single men to poke up their bottoms.

    Anyway, the great, great, great grandfathers of these men with plastic in their poop-holes traveled to north America, where they were very happy to kill lots of buffalo to eat, and use their skins in various ways. Then they realised that if they wanted to control the natives (and by control I think they meant "wipe out") they simply had to kill as many buffalo as possible. At this stage, as they were killing large numbers, they would only eat the tongues of the beast, which at the time were a great delicacy. Things got so bad that, once the railroads were built, they would just shoot the buffalo as the train rolled by, leaving them to rot at the side of the tracks. One day, when America was down to the last 500 or so buffalo someone thought they better do something to protect them or they would die out, hence there still being buffalo today in the 21st Century.

    Maybe this story explains why one of the buffalo is looking over his shoulder in a slightly nervous fashion at the smaller, faster mammals, just the kind of small beasties which some believe did in the dinosaurs...

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