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arcadian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-22-09 09:53 AM
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Destroy an original Picasso OR read Hamlet naked in front of live audience?
Let's say the Picasso is just a sketch worth a couple thousand dollars that you own, so it wouldn't be a criminal act, but it is signed. Hamlet naked is in a college auditorium that is standing room only.
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arbusto_baboso Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-22-09 09:55 AM
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1. Hamlet. I'm against destroying art of any kind.
Even if it's art that I don't particularly care for personally. It's about being civilized as opposed to being a visigoth.

Plus, I've got a really nice frame for a 42 year-old man, so I don't mind showing it off.
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arcadian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-22-09 09:57 AM
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2. Well, ya know, Picasso said ,
Edited on Fri May-22-09 09:58 AM by arcadian
"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction."
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arbusto_baboso Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-22-09 09:58 AM
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3. Yeah, but Picasso was a colossal knob.
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arcadian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-22-09 10:00 AM
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4. Yeah, my kid can draw shit with sparklers too.
Every 4th of July. :eyes:
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arbusto_baboso Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-22-09 10:02 AM
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6. I'm not slamming Picasso's art.
Even though it's not to my liking.

On a personal level, though, I have to agree with the song: "Pablo Picasso.....was an asshole!"
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-22-09 12:53 PM
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12. No, Pablo Picasso never got called asshole...
at least in New York
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peekaloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-22-09 10:02 AM
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5. Not edgy enough.
I propose eating paint balls and laxatives and attempting to replicate a Jackson Pollack work onstage.

Performance shart.
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surrealAmerican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-22-09 10:10 AM
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7. I'd rather see naked Hamlet with a full cast.
... and how often do you get a standing room only crowd for a reading of Shakespeare?
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-22-09 10:12 AM
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8. Hamlet.
If the audience can take it so can I.
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Gidney N Cloyd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-22-09 10:22 AM
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9. I'd set up a sheet of glass on stage and do a pressed hamlet. nt
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Blue_Tires Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-22-09 10:51 AM
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10. i'll do the buck nekkid thing...but NO Hamlet!
for me, Richard III, Henry V, or Julius Caesar
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hunter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-22-09 12:53 PM
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11. My lucky day!
I own a Picasso sketch and I'm reading Hamlet naked in front of an SRO audience.

You got any more of these predicaments?
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-22-09 12:54 PM
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13. I would make a bong out of Shakespeare's skull
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-22-09 12:58 PM
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14. What if I stood naked in front of that live audience reciting Hamlet while destroying an original...
Picasso.

That would make it worth my effort.
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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-22-09 03:57 PM
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15. If I destroyed a Picasso, people would remember me forever!
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