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2019-12-12 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Large bronze sculpture showing a young black man in a hoodie on a horse is unveiled in Richmond - permanently installed to 'speak back' to people looking at Confederate monuments in the city

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Posted by Skidmark 2019-12-12 10:45|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ] Top

#1 From the guy who brought us the confusing Obama sitting in the weeds painting, we get the hoodie is the same as a confederate uniform.

And with nappy dreads. Can't be black without nappy dreads or something.

Posted by swksvolFF 2019-12-12 11:43|| 2019-12-12 11:43|| Front Page Top

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-12-12 11:53|| 2019-12-12 11:53|| Front Page Top

#3 Cool. Fight it out with competing artwork. I'm totally fine with that. I support it. In fact, I *love* it. Soooo much better than the alternatives.

Posted by Secret Master 2019-12-12 12:40|| 2019-12-12 12:40|| Front Page Top

#4 Shitshow, Shitty Talent-free "Art" edition.

If your arguments don't convince, then create crap art in public spaces.

8-story murals with Greta as the Madonna, or a baby dressed as a cop and brandishing a loaded handgun, on the sides of buildings in downtown San Francisco.

Stupid and ugly sculptures of a homeboy on a horse.

Obscene tributes to trannies, pr0n, crucifix-in-urine.

= The Shitshow's Retarded Younger Brother's Attempt at Self-Expression

Posted by Lex 2019-12-12 14:15|| 2019-12-12 14:15|| Front Page Top

#5 Don't forget the childrens' wear. The 'slut' t-shirts, talent shows and self objectifying reality TV.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-12-12 14:24|| 2019-12-12 14:24|| Front Page Top

#6 No matter what you guys say, battling artwork is by definition civilized. And I vastly prefer it to fighting it out in streets a la Munich circa 1920. Which is the direction we've all been heading in lately.

Posted by Secret Master 2019-12-12 14:55|| 2019-12-12 14:55|| Front Page Top

#7 Meanwhile, on a separate issue politically correct game developers fearful of alienating muslims ruined the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare franchise. Not that I can play it for the life of me, but I loved watching the thing.

Free Expression is Fragged

Posted by Dron66046 2019-12-12 15:13|| 2019-12-12 15:13|| Front Page Top

#8 I'm with you Secret Master.

The monument equivalent of putting an action figure on top of a My Little Pony...OK.

Haven't seen baby cop but the Greta, oh the Greta, they avoided the chin up looking away classic communist pose, but managed to make her cross-eyed, a very powerful symbolism I doubt the painter was going for..

Posted by swksvolFF 2019-12-12 15:16|| 2019-12-12 15:16|| Front Page Top

#9 Reference Time Greta, chin up, looking away, leg forward in movement, background in turmoil yet not a flay of hair. Classic communism pose.

But Kansas, don't those posters usually have something about the subject which is hyper-physical, something beyond the real world, like shoulders twice as wide and hands three times normal size?

Look closer at that photo. What do you suppose the chances are of nailing that shot first try and in between waves? She stands there for anything longer than that first wave and she is wet, yet no wet marks, no beads of water, nothing. Then, with a breaker like that, the wave would be getting some assist from the wind. I see no wind flutter in the clothes or the hair.

Not nearly as decisive is the camera angle. Squeaky is not very tall, and here we have a focus at mid height, a hip shot. I'd have to be sitting down to get that shot - sitting on the cold wet rocks trying to get a good look. To be fair, digital cameras have remote viewing so maybe on the camera is that height. Maybe its all hi-def video and they picked an image. But it all makes the feet look awkward to me, that forward foot especially awkward for the task.

I ask which is more likely, a very impressive rushed first shot on a windy rocky noisy shore and getting the lighting perfect, or in a green room with her foot on a baseball and taking direction to get just the right amount of Mussolini chin?

Posted by swksvolFF 2019-12-12 15:54|| 2019-12-12 15:54|| Front Page Top

#10 Ride like you stole it.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2019-12-12 16:49|| 2019-12-12 16:49|| Front Page Top

#11 Not Bee?

Posted by Bobby 2019-12-12 17:20|| 2019-12-12 17:20|| Front Page Top

#12 Agree that putting up with the stench of public Shite-Art is preferable to maiming and killing each other.

Sort of like suppressing a gang rumble with massive stink bombs.

Posted by Lex 2019-12-12 17:40|| 2019-12-12 17:40|| Front Page Top

#13 or in a green room with her foot on a baseball and taking direction to get just the right amount of Mussolini chin?

Trim around her image in a photoshop app, place it on a stock or personal background of choice, fiddle with sizes until you have your effect, paint shadows and highlights to match the background. No need for an actual green room anymore.

Posted by trailing wife 2019-12-12 17:47|| 2019-12-12 17:47|| Front Page Top

#14 Indeed. I had to dink around with the magnetic lasso and even with a high contrast background, most time I spent zoomed in and polygoning the pic.

The difference between my fist PS and current is astounding.

Posted by swksvolFF 2019-12-12 18:23|| 2019-12-12 18:23|| Front Page Top

#15 Got me. I called this one as the Bee.

Posted by Nero 2019-12-12 19:50|| 2019-12-12 19:50|| Front Page Top

#16 Given the fluid and stupid nature of our modern world, it is an easy mistake to make, Nero.

/pedantic graphics nerd mode on
With a green screen (or any solid color background), modern graphics software makes it simple to cut out an image without all that laborious clicking and masking by hand. Quite nice for detailed work like hair and such. Once the background is gone, compositing that image into another scene is easy, although the devil is in the details when it comes to matching lights, colors and shadow.

No need for an entire green room, even for video. Portable green screens come in many sizes. You just need one large enough to frame your subject. Add some tracking markers so you can move the camera and you are well on your way to Fake City.

Long story short, photographic evidence ain't what it used to be.
/end

Posted by SteveS 2019-12-12 21:02|| 2019-12-12 21:02|| Front Page Top

#17 I don't want a civil war, or even a rumble, but this is still shore that's shitting up our neighborhoods. I and a hundred other parents have to stare at this shit every week in SF.

It's ugly, stupid, offensive, demeaning.

It makes me feel like I'm in a slum that's been taken over by Chavistas or Bolsheviks. I have learned to avert my eyes, but it still sucks. It's an assault on the visual senses.

/rant

Posted by Lex 2019-12-12 21:31|| 2019-12-12 21:31|| Front Page Top

#18 Beware ye of citizens' vetoes,
Of night-riding wingnut banditos,
Of kitschy meme vectors,
PC disre-specters,
And... tee hee... that hoodied dude's Cheetos!

Posted by Zorba McGurque3382 2019-12-12 21:43|| 2019-12-12 21:43|| Front Page Top

#19 I believe Day-Glo is the shade you're looking for, you nutsy peckerwood Russian Supremacists. So help me, if I were trigger-rich (or totally judgement proof), I'd put up a re-ward.

Posted by Zorba McGurque3382 2019-12-12 21:48|| 2019-12-12 21:48|| Front Page Top

#20 I'd need about 30 cans of it.
8 stories talk x ~50m wide

Posted by Lex 2019-12-12 23:23|| 2019-12-12 23:23|| Front Page Top

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