Bl**dy students- part 2

[Famous Graham]

Conian said:

'yes yes to the unappreciative eye it does look as if i've written HA HA I'VE GOT 100K FOR DOING A POO on the walls in my own st, but if you look deeper, it's about the sadness of kittens affected by war....'

[Ben Hughes]

sleep envy said:

Vidal Baboon said:

There are plenty of man made objects- bridges, towers, ships, planes that weren't designed by a bi-polar tt that throws paint at a canvass like a fitting eplileptic with a brush selotaped to their hand.

by and large they mostly look boringly functional

a world influenced entirely by engineers?

no thanks

ORLY?

[sleep envy]

YA RLY

hence why I said by and large

[Plotloss]

A perfectly fit for purpose piece of engineering is beautiful because of it's application of thought.

Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder after all.

[sleep envy]

sexy

[dxg]

sleep envy said:

dxg said:

sleep envy said:

Vidal Baboon said:

DJC said:

Except a civilised society needs art and culture as engineering and engineers sure as hell dont contribute much to that side of things.
At least arts students and arty types are interesting.

I think you need to look a bit harder at the things designed & built by engineers.

in what way?

This way:


Designed by engineers. But is it art?

Edited by dxg on Saturday 13th November 13:42

I think you'll find that 'design' was produced by a creative and then engineered to make the concept work

nice try

Okay, then.

What about this: Engineering or art?



If I recall, every pane of glass is uniquely shaped because the courtyard wasn't quite square.

Edited by dxg on Saturday 13th November 17:11

[sleep envy]

I personally know the architect who came up with the concept

keep going

[Plotloss]

I'm glad you've finally come out of the Phillipe Starke contemporary wardrobe though.

Do you need details of my shirtmaker?

[sleep envy]

sure but can I keep the square glasses and record bag?

[Plotloss]

You can't get past the barriers at Old Street Station without them can you?

[sleep envy]

they hand them out free to the day trippers

[theironduke]

A lot of what Brunel built is stunningly beautiful aswell as fucntional....can't think of anything Brunellian that is "dull" actually.

[Plotloss]

A lot of what Brunel did was because he could not because it was strictly necessary.

Maidenhead Bridge for instance.

[sleep envy]

theironduke said:

can't think of anything Brunellian that is "dull" actually.

as ploters said 'beauty is in the eye etc, etc' but if you think the roayal albert bridge isn't dull...

[Wills2]

BigBen said:

This is strong evidence in favour of my argument for art degrees requiring fees of £22k per year to be paid and engineering to be free....

Spot on.

[rypt]

Colonial said:

Still, I'd rather be in a room full of art students than a room full of accountancy or engineering students.

They redefine the words tedious and dull.

What is your beef with engineering students?

Half of us party harder than the arty types anyway, and can actually string 2 sentences together about current events

[sleep envy]

Wills2 said:

BigBen said:

This is strong evidence in favour of my argument for art degrees requiring fees of £22k per year to be paid and engineering to be free....

Spot on.

erm, just to point out the obvious a car based web forum mainly populated by technical types will generally favour their own background

it's hardly an unbiased representation

[davemac250]

sleep envy said:

Wills2 said:

BigBen said:

This is strong evidence in favour of my argument for art degrees requiring fees of £22k per year to be paid and engineering to be free....

Spot on.

erm, just to point out the obvious a car based web forum mainly populated by technical types will generally favour their own background

it's hardly an unbiased representation

Have you tried palletheads.com then?

[sleep envy]

Tell me, why did you buy your alfa?

[davemac250]

Ahead of the time engineering.

All round disc brakes.

5 speed box.

Twin cam engine

The ability to embarass more modern machines.

The handling.

But, absolutely not the looks.

They grew on me.

Now, my Velocette I got for the looks.