Minicap: Work of Art Fiat Challenge

13 Comments

1. 1
   kczar
   Posted December 1, 2011 at 1:08 pm

   Someone got run over by a car again!

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   SexyPanda
   Posted December 1, 2011 at 1:27 pm

   Haha, ouch!!

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   lestermaddox
   Posted December 1, 2011 at 2:03 pm

   I wasn’t happy with Simon this week – I really liked where Michelle was going with her idea and then he just totally gobsmacked her.

   I also wanted to yell at everyone that the challenge was to use the car parts in your artwork – not to make a piece of car art. The idiots who kept saying “I don’t know anything about cars” were driving me nuts!

   Plus, the wrong person went home. Stupid judges.

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   crankyguy
   Posted December 1, 2011 at 2:28 pm

   the wrong person went home. Stupid judges.

   From here on out, anytime anybody besides the untalented, word-scribbling skank who shall not be named goes home, then the wrong person went home.

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   themiki
   Posted December 1, 2011 at 3:32 pm

   I’ve been waiting and waiting because they showed that clip of Lola getting photographed naked in the long preview that’s been going around since episode one aired. I knew she couldn’t possibly go home until that happened, so even though I could give a crap about seeing that talentless skank naked, I’m so so happy that the naked episode is next week. Please, for the love of all the talented people out there trying like hell to make a name for themselves, send home the twatwaffle who I could outdraw using only my feet. Grrr…

   So so happy with the winner this week though. ***grins***

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   2muchbravo
   Posted December 1, 2011 at 4:00 pm

   Yeah, even though the loosah’s piece kinda sucked balls, I soooo wanted someone else *ahem* to go. I’m happy for the winner though.

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   vallegirl
   Posted December 1, 2011 at 4:31 pm

   I don’t blame Simon for people listening to him. He gives his opinion but he doesn’t say “do this, don’t do that.” It’s usually pretty open-ended so while he can be both complimentary or critical he allows the artist not to second guess him/herself. If the work is supposed to reflect the artist and he only comes in a some midway point, they should be able to see how and where he may or may not be getting it.

   Especially with the loser. He never said “This is awful, do something else,” he said “Really think about whether or not this is the piece you want to do.”

   And while I’d love to see Lola take a hike next week, Jerry is completely smitten with her and had a sad that she (as well as Michelle and Kymia) were the bottom three. He said in his blog that he asked the producers if they could have a re-do and bring in Dusty and Young to reconsider the bottom three.

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   ohralphie
   Posted December 1, 2011 at 5:19 pm

   Interesting episode – I really enjoyed seeing the creative process unfold for most of the artists.
   Anyone else feel unending pity for Lolas father? That roadtrip to the Grand Canyon must have been an unmitigated bitchfest for the ages (full of sighs, muttering and rolled eyes). That poor, poor bastard.

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   itchy
   Posted December 2, 2011 at 2:49 pm

   I liked the winner’s piece (are we allowed to give the winner/loser’s name yet). I also appreciate that she finally broke free of her same old-same old. My favorite this week’s was Dusty’s, but that’s probably because I’m really drawn to text (which I’ve been working on lately) and I liked the sparseness (he didn’t need the stack of tires though).

   I get really jealous seeing all the equipment and access to materials they have. It’s like a playground. I can picture getting lost in there.

   Which is why that bitchface gal gets my goat…she’s just floundering. From what she’s revealed of herself, I get the impression she’s been surrounded by creative types (or at least, surrounded by people who glom on to creative types) and she mistook that for being a creative type herself.

   I found Kymie’s crack about her not being able to draw very interesting… I suck at drawing but have never let that stop me from creating. I’ve just had to find different ways of going about it (while secretly wishing I do magical things with a pencil too).

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    maryedith
    Posted December 2, 2011 at 3:14 pm

    I thought Jerry’s remarks to Michelle were kind of asinine. So, because she was in a car accident she “should have” (I’m so SICK of him saying that) done a piece that reflected that in some way? First of all, how totally unimaginative is that? And literal-minded. Second, if I were a judge I would have “expected” Michelle to have a tough time with that challenge instead of “expecting” her to “blow me away” with something deep and heartfelt. Surely real artists don’t work to order in that way? I’m not saying her piece didn’t suck, but I am saying Jerry is a shallow little prick who seems to expect artists to work to order.

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    maryedith
    Posted December 2, 2011 at 3:17 pm

    @itchy — I personally think you can say who won. It wasn’t just in the comic.

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    vallegirl
    Posted December 2, 2011 at 3:40 pm

    @itchy – Dusty had to include the tires because they were tasked with including a car part in the actual work. I liked his piece, too (I really love Ruscha, so I like seeing text as art) but I think the requirement to use a car part ended up working against the piece as a whole. I still think it should have been in the top group.

    And I think Kymia’s comment about Lola had more to do with the person who was tracing as opposed to tracing itself. The one successful piece Bayete did in my opinion was his animated gif of the butterflies, which he created by tracing the butterflies from his children’s piece, but I don’t know if Lola made it plain that her “unique hand” (as Jerry calls it) at drawing is a function of her tracing images.

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    maryedith
    Posted December 2, 2011 at 4:16 pm

    I call foul on Lola’s tracing, too, but I must admit she gets a lot of expression into it. I think she can draw; she just can’t come up with an idea of her own to draw. Which does mean she sucks anyway.