[0454] Underground Artist
└ posted on Monday, 11 February 2013, by Novil
A summary of the last eight polls which run on Sandra and Woo have been posted. There are now four new polls which appear randomly in the right sidebar:
- Which of the following longer story arcs did you like the most?
- What’s your favorite type of cuisine?
- Do you read the comments?
- How many newspaper comic strips do you read regularly? (including online archives and print collections)
- Larisa: Art is far from dead, Sandy.
- Larisa: Even in this day and age something as simple as an oversized ice cube can move the masses.
- Sandra: Interesting choice of words.
- Larisa: The key to success lies in invading the daily lives of people, in confronting them with art where they least expect it.
- Larisa: Now please excuse me. I have to become an underground artist for a while.
- Sandra: I’m often more amazed by the execution than by the result.
![[0454] Underground Artist](/comics/2013-02-11-0454-underground-artist.png "[0454] Underground Artist")
Wonder how Larisa’s parents will react when she gets home.
“That does it, young lady, we’re taking away your heavy vehicle operator’s license for a week!”
Landbark wrote:
And yet without art the world would collapse into a state of depression, that we would believe to be the norm, since we are unaware of the beauty that once was. It is one’s lack of appreciation that saps the happiness from their lives.
does anyone else find the lack of fire slightly counter intuitive here?
“Art is far from dead, Sandy.”
Maybe… but you will be, if you don’t manage to evade your public’s grasp…
…even though they should be glad that she isn’t making her usual statement, and installing a sudden fire…
The guy walking in the bottom is either after Larissa, or is convinced enough is his superhuman strength to punch out a gigantic block of ice.
in his*
Also, it’s more “break a gigantic block of ice”, rather than “punching it out”. My English is kinda funny today, yet I’m not amused.
Well, Larisa, as Nietzsche said, “Art, too, decomposes. Art is dead, art remains dead, and we have killed it.”
Nietzsche: That’s not what I said!
Larissa using ice? The hell hath freeze over.
How the hell did she even make an ice block that big?
Give the turtles my regards, Larissa. And dont’ forget to bring pizza
The next day, reports of flooded streets filled news channels as someone apparently left a large ice cube in the middle of the road and the authorities had no choice but to melt it after slowly moving it off to the side of the road with the bulldozer that had also been left behind, which was barely able to move the ice cube at all.
illeatyourself wrote:
It also seems that someone left a large message on the bulldozer saying “use the flamethrowers”.
Alas, Larisa’s latest work of art does not move the masses. Quite the opposite; it has brought the masses (and traffic) to a standstill.
“Larisa: Now please excuse me. I have to become an underground artist for a while.”
Later, bitches. I’m Batmannnnn!!!
^^ That’s how I would end my sentence if I was Larisa.
At least she’s doing her street art in the streets and not, say, on the route of an ocean liner. No one needs another Titanic…
Art will never die with the coming of the internet.
It will just include a greater number of cats in shoeboxes.
@ The Aussie Bloke:
Actually it would be fairly simple if the temperature never get above freeing. A shallow form add water wait for it to freeze raise the form repeat as needed.
Well, Larisa, that is one way to put traffic on ice. I think your audience is, however, giving you the cold shoulder. You might want to hurry up and go to ground there!
Art can not be killed, but artists can!
How could people be angry? it is smiling!
The truck driver is only angry because he can’t see the smiley face from ground level. 😉
Ice cube did move people. You can see them walking and gesturing, instead of sitting still in their cars. But true art is yet to be born. Once people come with their flamethrowers to melt this cube, resulting feiry death will be art by itself, art born from reaction to this art, and of flamey~ kind.
Ice cube’s thoughts: ‘Strike me down and I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine’ *grin
@ AckAckAck:
And I’m sure Larissa is the one who froze it.
From _The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy_
“Art: None. The function of ‘art’ is to hold a mirror up to Nature, and there simply isn’t a mirror big enough. See Point One” (Point One – Area: Infinite. From the introduction to the _Guide_)
Now, I know the characters are underaged. And they’re fictional.
But is it really WRONG that I keep perving on Larisa because she’s such a mischevious girl? I do have a known weakness for that sort of thing…
And, not that I have anything against fire, but it is refreshing to see Larisa working in a new medium…
To the stranded motorists, Mr Icy’s grin is cold comfort. ;-D
* Ducks and runs for cover *
Larissa is my favourite character. She’s just so random! Personally I think this comic shows a development in her character, as she explores the potential of mediums other than fire. We all know that ice is cooler!
How did she even do that?!
I wish we had more nature [there is a conspiracy to eradicate all greenery it seems] than the stuff that is brought forth by “Professional Artists” that only “Professional Art Critics” can understand and interpret.
See: Voice of Fire … mommy, why is that painting of a giant orange stripe so important?
Or that series of “paintings” that are just a a grid of black dots on raw canvas that go from 2mm diameter to covering the whole canvas. An exercise in draftsmanship if it that.
Why that’s merely the second biggest ice cube I’ve ever seen!
Three questons. One: How did she get that big of an icecube? Two: How did she get the giant smily face on it? Three: Where did she get a Bulldozer?
Did… Larisa… steal… a bulldozer?….
Did the guy who wrote the first post forget that comics and cartoons are a form of visual arts? Without art all we would have are speech bubbles with no context of what they are being used in.
The Aussie Bloke wrote:
I don’t know, but I want to, so I can have a go at making my own next year and really baffle those who find it.
I mean, I could make a disc-like one that’s about 2-3 metres across and maybe as much as a metre high by using an inflatable or collapsible paddling pool/hot tub thing, and it wouldn’t be too difficult to separate from it’s mould once you’re done so long as you have a rope and a car stood on a reasonably grippy surface (the average person hasn’t a chance of moving even a 1-metre cube of ice, as it’d weigh the better part of a tonne). But something that size is a particularly applaudable effort. Did she wait for a properly-built backyard pool to freeze solid then lift it out with a crane and some kind of drilling equipment?
You’d need equipment strong enough to lift a medium truck, in any case… at an estimate, that block is about 2m high, 4m wide and 3m deep, or 24 cubic metres. If it was water, that’d be 24 tonnes; ice is a little less dense, but it still works out in the 20-22 tonne range, or about half that of a fully laden big-rig truck. Hence the bulldozer, which is a little small for this job if anything, but is probably helped by the inherent slipperiness of a large piece of ice sitting on a hard surface. The trucks and cars won’t be able to shift it out of the way.
However, this is a nice illustration of one infuriating winter phenomenon: Add a little white stuff to the environment, and people both forget how to drive, and suffer a strange bipolar disorder of the bravado. Either they’ll go way overboard and act like they’re totally invincible and possessed of limitless grip despite all repeat evidence to the contrary, or retreat into a meek ball of cotton wool and not take even the tiniest chance even if it can be easily demonstrated that there’s no real risk of harm. There’s plenty of space for all the pictured vehicles to carefully pick a way around that ice block, the drivers just need to stop freaking out and show a bit of common courtesy in working with each other. It could, after all, quite easily be a school bus that’s spun out and got grounded on a piece of street furniture…
tahrey wrote:
And in either cause, they should just stay off the bloody road!
Here in San Jose, my wife has a standing order – if it snows, chuck a sickie. I grew up with driving in snow, and I’d not mind taking her to work (she’s not as good in snow as i am, not much practise,) but there’s no way on Gawd’s Green Earth I can even BEGIN to trust these imbeciles out here – they’re already horrid when the roads are merely damp!
Drakefire wrote:
One: Already answered two or three times. Read the previous comments.
Two: flamethrower. (see answer three)
Three: She simply “borrowed” it from a nearby construction site.
JKelley wrote:
Now, I know the characters are underaged. And they’re fictional.
But is it really WRONG that I keep perving on Larisa because she’s such a mischevious girl? I do have a known weakness for that sort of thing…
I second this question.
How old is Sandra, Larissa, Cloud, Woo, etc. right now? Have been wondering that for a while, thanks.
@ alboix56:
Given semi rescent content, I would say at least 12, maybe 13. I don’t see high school level stuff yet.
Drone wrote:
¬_¬
The world is a pretty enough place without the need for any human efforts to synthesize subjects for asthetic consideration.
All of them with Woo • Irish • Only occasionally • Just this one.
@ Landbark:
But isn’t it our choice to acknowledge their works? I mean, the reason we waste our time with it is because we took notice of their work and used our time to pay attention to it.
don’t blame the gun, blame the guy who pulled the trigger.
Heh, 454 big block
Reporter: “interesting concept; what do you think about the execution of the artist?
“I’m in favor of it.”