09-09-2017, 06:15 PM
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#8401
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Calgary
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All star Chris Kelly is on a PTO with them now
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09-09-2017, 07:05 PM
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#8402
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Norm!
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Originally Posted by FireGilbert
I don't get it. Is it supposed to be an army captain's uniform because he is the captain?
I get the one where McDavid is stomping on the Flames player. Oilers fans have a massive inferiority complex with Calgary. I also get the one comparing McDavid and others to the stars of the 80s. Oilers fans love reminiscing about the 80s. This one makes zero sense though, am I missing something?
It's a good marketing ploy for the radio station though. Oilers fans love anything related to the team especially if it involves McJesus.
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So Conner joined the Village People? I don't get it.
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09-09-2017, 07:07 PM
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#8403
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Franchise Player
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McDavid is currently exiled in the Saint Helena of the NHL.
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09-09-2017, 07:32 PM
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#8404
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Franchise Player
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All these paintings and renditions are beyond creepy.
But even more than that, they demonstrate that it goes way beyond fandom to idolization with far too many of these Oiler fans.
Just horrific.
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09-09-2017, 07:43 PM
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#8405
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Enoch Root
All these paintings and renditions are beyond creepy.
But even more than that, they demonstrate that it goes way beyond fandom to idolization with far too many of these Oiler fans.
Just horrific.
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Its ok man.
Some people just don't understand art.
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09-09-2017, 07:47 PM
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#8406
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Maple Bay, B.C.
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I think I understand art and that ain't it.
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09-09-2017, 07:51 PM
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#8407
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by dash_pinched
I think I understand art and that ain't it.
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It's art. It's just very, very bad art.
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09-09-2017, 07:57 PM
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#8408
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Powerplay Quarterback
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I'd like to see this hit a million views before we lock it up and start a new chapter
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Originally Posted by oilboy2
This deal is DONE, im not sure what the worry is. Heatly is an Oiler, just some paperwork to get done. This isnt another Nylander incident
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09-11-2017, 06:22 AM
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#8409
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Aug 2016
Location: Calgary
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I saw the headline to this article and immediately thought "of course this has to be in Edmonton" and low-and-behold, it's MacEwan University.
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/a...erboardfbcaads
"A Canadian university transferred more than $11 million CAD (around $9 million USD) to a scammer that university staff believed to be a vendor in a phishing attack, a university statement published on Thursday states."
Staff at the University thought the Nigerian prince was a legitimate vendor I guess. E=NG
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09-11-2017, 07:23 AM
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#8410
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Franchise Player
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I love how it's mentioned in every post the artist made, that the Edmonton Oilers won't get back to her.
I'd love to be a fly in the wall of Oilers HQ as the picture makes its rounds.
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09-11-2017, 09:12 AM
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#8411
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: The C-spot
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jay Random
It's art. It's just very, very bad art.
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Just because somebody painted it doesn't mean it's art.
"The imitator is a poor kind of creature. If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of artists would be the photographer."
– James McNeill Whistler
Now, if the painting were a subversive way of showing the way Oilers fans creepily idolize a teenager, then it would be art. Or if it were a larger commentary on sports fandom in general as being the same kind of tribalism that militaries kill each other over, that would be even moreso.
But it's not.
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09-11-2017, 10:15 AM
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#8412
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Backup Goalie
Join Date: May 2017
Location: Calgary
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Chiapet's interview with TSN he states that Russell is a top 5 defenseman in the league and Coiler fans are now thinking they got quite the "deal". Chiarelli is the perfect GM to lead that franchise into disaster by signing overpriced talent to long contracts that nobody else will touch without Edmonton retaining salary for years to come. The next GM is going to have quite the mess to clean up.
And any Coiler fan that thinks that painting is "art" probably has some of McJesus's hair under their pillow that they hold at night.
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09-11-2017, 10:20 AM
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#8413
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: The Bay Area
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Five-hole
Just because somebody painted it doesn't mean it's art.
"The imitator is a poor kind of creature. If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of artists would be the photographer."
– James McNeill Whistler
Now, if the painting were a subversive way of showing the way Oilers fans creepily idolize a teenager, then it would be art. Or if it were a larger commentary on sports fandom in general as being the same kind of tribalism that militaries kill each other over, that would be even moreso.
But it's not.
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It's a great example of 'kitsch'. Someday it may be considered art, but today is not that day.
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09-11-2017, 10:25 AM
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#8414
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Five-hole
Just because somebody painted it doesn't mean it's art.
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True… but it sure as hell ain't interior decorating.
We need to get away from the idea that the word ‘art’ is somehow a guarantee of quality, and get back to the recognition that there is good and bad in art; that it can be skilfully done or poorly; that it can be well conceived or trite; that it can convey a striking idea or emotion, or a dull and banal one. The portrait of McDavid is poorly done, trite, dull, and banal, but there is nothing in principle to distinguish it in kind from good portraiture. It is merely a low and kitschy abuse of what is inherently an artistic medium.
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09-11-2017, 10:36 AM
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#8415
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Acerbic Cyberbully
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: back in Chilliwack
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Realistic
Chiapet's interview with TSN [B]he states that Russell is a top 5 defenseman in the league and Coiler fans are now thinking they got quite the "deal"...
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When I first skimmed your post I read it as stating that Russell was a #5 defenseman. My initial comment was going to disparage the Oilers for having to start their #5 defenseman way up the depth chart at #3.
After reading your post more closely, I am now uncertain about whether you misheard Chiarelli, because in what universe is Kris Russell better than 98% of all NHL blue liners? This is borderline lunacy.
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09-11-2017, 10:45 AM
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#8416
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: The C-spot
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jay Random
True… but it sure as hell ain't interior decorating.
We need to get away from the idea that the word ‘art’ is somehow a guarantee of quality, and get back to the recognition that there is good and bad in art; that it can be skilfully done or poorly; that it can be well conceived or trite; that it can convey a striking idea or emotion, or a dull and banal one. The portrait of McDavid is poorly done, trite, dull, and banal, but there is nothing in principle to distinguish it in kind from good portraiture. It is merely a low and kitschy abuse of what is inherently an artistic medium.
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I agree in general, but I don't agree that any portrait is "art" because it is in the same category as portraits which are art. I think that what is art is not merely a category exercise, as that admits way too much which is clearly not art, and therefore there must be some other determining factor.
For example, if I take a selfie of me sitting at my work desk (and not working...), simply because it is a photograph does not make it art, even though photography is an artistic medium.
What I would say is "artistic" is something that has non-zero artistic merit. That could be in technique, uniqueness, message, subversiveness, or any number of things. That portrait has, in my view, zero artistic merit and is therefore not art.
The great thing about art though is that others may disagree, not only whether that portrait has any artistic merit, but whether that is an appropriate way to determine whether something is or is not art, and even what counts as artistic merit.
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09-11-2017, 11:04 AM
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#8417
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Vancouver
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09-11-2017, 11:08 AM
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#8418
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Loves Teh Chat!
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Realistic
Chiapet's interview with TSN he states that Russell is a top 5 defenseman in the league and Coiler fans are now thinking they got quite the "deal". Chiarelli is the perfect GM to lead that franchise into disaster by signing overpriced talent to long contracts that nobody else will touch without Edmonton retaining salary for years to come. The next GM is going to have quite the mess to clean up.
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Seriously!??? Can we get a link to this interview?
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09-11-2017, 11:14 AM
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#8419
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First Line Centre
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mean Mr. Mustard
The thread is more of a rivalry type thread - when it involves trying to disparage a city and gain internet points off of someone's death, it reeks of a complete lack of tact. Making jokes about someone's death, particularly in this context, isn't funny or edgy, it is just being an ass.
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When pointing out a high murder rate in Edmonton, do you think this is saying Edmonton is no good because it is full of people getting murdered?
Pointing out Edmonton's murder rate shows that Edmonton is no good because it has more murderers than others. The victims are not being made fun of.
No one is getting internet points off of someone's death.
I think we'd all like to live in a place that didn't have violent crime. Violent crime makes it a lesser (or "no good") place to live.
Last edited by Eric Vail; 09-11-2017 at 11:21 AM.
Reason: punctuation
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09-11-2017, 11:26 AM
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#8420
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In the Sin Bin
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Torture
Seriously!??? Can we get a link to this interview?
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http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/video/why-chia...nder%7E1204758
I had to go listen to it myself. About 42 minutes in is where he talks about Russell. The paraphrase by the poster above was a very poor one. Mackenzie asks about Russell and how come the analytics community and the people who watch the game disagree so much on Russell's value. What Chiarelli actually says is that according to the Oilers software and their own internal analytics is that they made a stat about zone exits and according to this Russell was one of the top 4-5 defensemen in the league at zone exits or outletting the puck.
The interview is interesting in that Mackenzie asks a lot of hard questions and Chiarelli stutters and "ummm"s a lot. Every time I hear Chiarelli, Benning and Treliving speak its obvious we have the sharpest one of the bunch.
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