Folks; A quarter of a billion dollars
What can ya say 8-?
It’s Los Angeles, folks.
FantasyLand.
"art oriented" high school. What is that?
ROTFLOL!!!
$230 million for a high school for losers and street performance artists? Sheesh!
Folks; A quarter of a billion dollars
Oh!
I was wondering how somebody got permission to put up a water slide across the freeway from Our Lady of Angels Cathedral.
It’s for us English Learners.
You should see our new libraries, they tore down the 1950’s libraries and built new 1950’s libraries. UGLY. I guess you have to be Mexican to appreciate them.
It’s ugly as hell, the spawn of the Frank Ghery school of architecture, with twisted metal and massive gaps in the structure.
Great - now we have that expensive roller coaster right across the freeway from a cathedral that looks like it was made out of sheets of plywood.
It would have served the students better had they been in a drab building, with a good northern exposure, mind you, and that money spent on giving them a far better education than the dreary and pedantic fools that are most art faculty.
Were I to be in charge of such an art school, much of the curriculum would be devoted to art history and recognition. A second part would be in the skills need to reproduce the great art of the past. The third part in transcending just the manipulation of the known, to achieving truly creative inspiration.
For this third part, the students would need an understanding of things not usually associated with art, such as science, mathematics, and statistics. The underlying purpose of this would be to expand their media to include phenomenology and illusion. To restore a respect for art as a form of magic.
Great art must in some way be hypnotic, not just complex. It must be able to fixate a viewer, and compel them to ask how was this done?
Today, much of art is crude efforts at basic emotional stimulation. To make the viewer feel something, usually out of just element recognition. To a great extent it is meager efforts to be offensive, with crass references to politics, religion, and pop culture.
Those of you who have visited a better city science museum have seen much better examples of proto-art. Imagine converting some of this phenomena into art of enjoyable illusions? Art which does not answer the viewers question of “how did they do it?” Art which tickles the senses and the mind and creates a sense of wonderment.
This is what ancient cave paintings did. And it is no wonder that they are still seen as the first works of art in the world.
Visitors who see the works of an artist should be as fixated as if they had been given a tour of the inside of a UFO. Every detail must be scrutinized and puzzled over, a mystery that might not ever be solved. Magic.
Ok, I have to admit there is a place for art and Los Angeles is a place that puts art to practice. It may be Architecture, Industrial Design (were they design products), Entertainment (theme parks and show props), or just plain old art.
Art is exciting, I can remember a guy I thought was some derelict walking into work and in two days there was a marble looking King Neptune.
Disney has free classes for employees and as everyone knows, they are tops.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus