Milton Keynes's First and Finest Art Biennale Festival

[ratchetkoala]

[stappard_]

Moment of silence please for the soon-to-be-demolished The Point, easily one of the rubbishest buildings in the world (and therefore worthy of our love)

[ratchetkoala]

Moment of silence please for the soon-to-be-demolished The Point, easily one of the rubbishest buildings in the world (and therefore worthy of our love)

@stappard_ What is this glorious mecca? Why is it being demolished? Is the only way to escape the futility of destruction to never bring anything new into this world?

[pirxthepilot]

why'd you choose MK, just out of interest?
also, it's Milton KEYNES

[stappard_]

Moment of silence please for the soon-to-be-demolished The Point, easily one of the rubbishest buildings in the world (and therefore worthy of our love)

@stappard_ What is this glorious mecca? Why is it being demolished? Is the only way to escape the futility of destruction to never bring anything new into this world?

It was the UK's first multiplex cinema when it opened in the mid 80s, but it turns out that this particular edifice was just, like, the reception or something, and the actual screens were in a shed round the back. A request for the building to be saved by Historic England was rejected on the grounds that it is "in essence, a large industrial shed unit". I used to see it when I went shopping with my mum in my youth and thought it looked well cool, and assumed they did laser tag or something in it.

[ratchetkoala]

[pirxthepilot]

my former intern got offered a job at an MK gallery ,possibly the one in the first picture, but waffled because... milton keynes. (to put this in context, there are no paid entry-level art world positions at all, anywhere). to a londoner it's always going to seem a comical place, but i feel a bit bad for it now i know the whole rest of the world laughs too.

[ratchetkoala]

to put this in context, there are no paid entry-level art world positions at all, anywhere

Unsure if you are rolling with the theme of despondency or actually believe that.

[pirxthepilot]

i'm just going by what whiny millennials say to me, but they do say it a lot.

[ratchetkoala]

@pirxthepilot when are you going to contribute to the Milton Keynes's Biennele, thx

[pirxthepilot]

got no mad photoshop/meme-generation skillz, however @bels manages elements of my online persona (idk why, he just seemed to want to), dude pls knock out something suitably ironic, thx

[bels]

@pirxthepilot

[ratchetkoala]

[pirxthepilot]

this is good, but the only downside for me is that i have to fetch my own coffee these days, so 'despair' is probably too strong a word

[ratchetkoala]

this is good, but the only downside for me is that i have to fetch my own coffee these days, so 'despair' is probably too strong a word

does this mean you're going to fire @bels and hire me instead?

[pirxthepilot]

eh i can't do it, last time i told him it wasn't working out he just stood by the gate for two whole days 'til i relented.

Spoiler:

[ratchetkoala]

Lambargiela, 2016
Dedicated to @Mellownyellow, with feverish 90s love.

Spoiler:

[mellownyellow]

@ratchetkoala I will print this and hang it in my house and above my workstation as a symbol for the futility of it all. Long live mk

[ratchetkoala]

Full size: The Game Movie Poster

Credit: Thank you to @Pirxthepilot for the I N S P I R A T I O N, and to @Bels for allowing me full photoshop reign over his life.

[pirxthepilot]

so turns out a sometimes-gr8 director (clue: "attack ships on fire off the shoulder of orion") visited biennale and really liked my (previously unknown) friend's work. has asked to feature it in upcoming film. now i have to do my best saul goodman and negotiate over fees etc.

[tomsfood]

wrong img whoops

[can-]

want more.

[tomsfood]

heres the source @can- https://www.thewire.co.uk/galleries/rave-flyers-1991-1993

expost tech-yes

[Stolsdos]

@tomsfood
here's a album of detroit flyers

and texas ones from a while back from here http://www.paperbuddha.com/flyer-gallery/:

[ratchetkoala]

want more.

"but it will be given rejuvenation -- mended, repainted and tidied up to last another hundred years"
time to fire up photoshop

[ratchetkoala]

things have gotten progressively dire, lads

[rjbman]

A City Locks Down to Fight Coronavirus, but Robots Come and Go



is this art?

[kickingthefly]

never liked this thread much tbh, why denigrate regional art scene? i fully support provincial galleries (but obviously never visit them)

[ratchetkoala]

never liked this thread much tbh, why denigrate regional art scene? i fully support provincial galleries (but obviously never visit them)

why haven’t you responded to my email from last summer

[kickingthefly]

A.J. (who is the art world's biggest star rn) credits his whole career to adobe bridge here, surprised some enterprising #marketer should pick up on this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnXCHVy6CGU&t=243s