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Muckraker  Posts: 341 Joined: 15 Jul 2008    | oh my god... $15 million! nevermind the fact that, presuming he has any, he will have to hide it away if he has friends round...or maybe not, maybe their all freaks... i do wish i had that much money to spend on utter crap tho... |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2113 Joined: 15 Jun 2008    | Lifesized pornography eh? |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2210 Joined: 2 Aug 2006     | I actually saw the artist covered in some popular magazine, years ago. Apparently, he's a massively famous artist in some (apparently wealthy) circles. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2800 Joined: 7 May 2008     | Jesus monkey-loving christ! What the hell is wrong with people? |
On the Record  Posts: 6467 Joined: 24 Apr 2008    | I have no regrets. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 2210 Joined: 2 Aug 2006 | Apparently, the point of the piece is actually to mock the otakus/hentai-lovers, and not really to be Hentai itself. At least according to my interpretation of this excerpt from the artist's Wikipedia entry.
So, the statement of those pieces is not, "Hey, this gets me off, how about you?" It's more like, "Can you believe there's actually a subculture that gets off to Anime parody and funds an industry based on it? That's so freaking ridiculous, I'm going to make a life-sized one, twirling a lasso of his own sperm, just to clarify how ridiculous it is." |
BANNED Posts: 12958 Joined: 30 Jan 2008 |
Apart from not coming to the Escapicon? User was banned for: Poll: What is your opinion on the Metal Gear Solid storylines?. (Permanent) |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1931 Joined: 9 Sep 2008    | With that kind of money, I'm sure you could find some strumpet willing to undergo the plastic surgery required to live your fantasy... as well as affording the plastic surgery itself |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 900 Joined: 24 Jun 2008     | *Head Implodes* |
On the Record Posts: 6467 Joined: 24 Apr 2008 |
You heard me. A question, my dear Indigo, wherefore did you stumble upon this site and it's rendered plastic bounty? |
BANNED Posts: 12958 Joined: 30 Jan 2008 |
A fair question. Observe -http://www.biggercheese.com/ User was banned for: Poll: What is your opinion on the Metal Gear Solid storylines?. (Permanent) |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 58 Joined: 11 Dec 2008     | *fap fap fap* ... What? |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 631 Joined: 22 Dec 2007     | Those things look really fucking creepy, not to mention sick in about 30 different ways. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2901 Joined: 3 Jan 2008    | Okay I don't even have a problem with Hentai or Porn (Being a Major (Admitted) Pervert) and I still think that's anything BUT erotic, mentally scaring YES. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 780 Joined: 14 May 2008     |
But that doesn't make it any less freaky, creepy or ridiculous. |
Copy Clerk Posts: 58 Joined: 11 Dec 2008 | You know what I'd want to see? Picasso's version of hentai. Just for kicks. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 145 Joined: 16 Aug 2008  | Man Takashi Murakami rules, I love that dude's work. From memory that piece is called 'My Lonesome Cowboy'. As someone else mentioned his work parodies the shallow emasculated contemporary otaku culture. But it doesn't just mock them, at some level his work often contains empathy for his subjects which I think is interesting. Not many artists (or people for that matter) can simultaneously ridicule, abhor and empathise with something. As for why it sold so high? Simple, he's one of the most important contemporary artists in the world right now.
True but that's still kinda the point. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1404 Joined: 27 Jul 2008 | Is it just me, or does the spiky-haired statue vaguely resemble Cloud Strife from Final Fantasy 7? And yes, this is depressing. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 770 Joined: 7 Jan 2008    | Someone needs to explain me the appeal of Hentai. I see the popularity is growing outside of Japan, and in the early hours, nowadays there are as much TV Ads for downloadable Hentai Videos as there are for Hotlines with "real" (*snicker*) Women. But i don't fucking understand it. I can see why some people like porn, and why some people have weird fetishes, but i cannot understand how it can make someone horny when he's imagining to fuck ink on paper... |
BANNED Posts: 12958 Joined: 30 Jan 2008 |
I noticed that too, and I'd never even played the game.... User was banned for: Poll: What is your opinion on the Metal Gear Solid storylines?. (Permanent) |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 2210 Joined: 2 Aug 2006 |
Bottom line, just as different people enjoy playing different kinds of games, different people will have different turn-ons sexually as well. I think the appeal behind your average anime chick is because they're drawn with thoroughly unrealistic curves - proportions way out of whack with reality but in sync with the libido. The unblemished (to the point of shining) skin and mature-yet-young appearance similarly break reality while poking the libido. (Women already had it hard enough competing with supermodels, tough luck if they find themselves up against a skilled artist's imagination!) The imagination of the abuser of this medium must be adequate to overlook not only that said objects of affection cannot manifest physically, but also to overlook those freaking giant saucers they call eyes. (Personally, I'm somewhere in the middle - a hot anime chick can be conceptualized as racy for me, but looking one in the face is a turnoff.) As for those who are into really screwed up stuff (massive tentacle invasion, severed bodies) my guess is that they're probably trying too hard. If normal sex is that boring for you, your libido's probably running on empty - take a break! But, again, different turn-ons for different folks, it's hard to say where my judgment is justified. Authorities would draw the line at harming others, so it's probably a good rule of thumb that if you plan otherwise it's time to seek help.
In the magazine article about this article I read way back when, there was a very similar piece covered in the story which actually was identified as a parody of Cloud Strife. This "boy" is either a different piece, or the artist dropped the Cloud Strife parody under threat of Square-Enix lawyers. ;) |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1419 Joined: 12 Sep 2008   | If your ejaculate is swirling around you I suggest you see a doctor or lay off the shrooms. |
BANNED  Posts: 3535 Joined: 11 Oct 2008   | Pornography is a multi-million industry? On other unrelated news, elephants have trunks. User was banned for: FUN FORUM GAME THX FO PLAYIN :3. (Permanent) |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1764 Joined: 22 Oct 2008    |
Did you even read the article? One single statue sold for 15 million. |
BANNED Posts: 3535 Joined: 11 Oct 2008 |
I did. Now I'll ask you, did you even read what I wrote? How does that counter act what I said? I mean COME ON, remember that toast that looked like it had the face of Jesus on it? User was banned for: FUN FORUM GAME THX FO PLAYIN :3. (Permanent) |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1764 Joined: 22 Oct 2008 |
Wouldn't it be a multi-billion industry? |
BANNED Posts: 12958 Joined: 30 Jan 2008 |
Yes, but that was Ebay - this is Sothebeys, they're not supposed to deal with shit like this. User was banned for: Poll: What is your opinion on the Metal Gear Solid storylines?. (Permanent) |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1649 Joined: 26 Nov 2008 | Look, I am sure that it's been said. But both of those figures are really friggin' disturbing... and that goes past the normal idea of what disturbing is here. Holy crap. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3949 Joined: 7 Nov 2007 | Just... Why? You could hire alot of prostitutes for that kinda money. |
Press Junketeer Posts: 457 Joined: 17 Feb 2008  |
So they're not paying 15 million for a type of fancy pornography, they're paying 15 million to be mock those pathetic different people and they're stupid ways. If this is one of the most important artists of modern times then culture is dead. |
BANNED  Posts: 4378 Joined: 21 Aug 2008   | lol wapanese are so weird User was banned for: Microsoft and the World Domination of Gaming&Communication. (Permanent) |
Beat Writer  Posts: 161 Joined: 10 Sep 2008  | THIS IS AWESOME! |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 730 Joined: 29 Feb 2008  | Who pays for hentai when the internets about. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 104 Joined: 17 Nov 2008 | He must have an OTC complex where he must own everything. |
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http://www.alafista.com/2008/05/17/figure-auctioned-for-15-million-usd/ (Most definitely NSFW)
You say art, I say unreasonably proportioned anime figures ejaculting and lactacing quite frightening shapes.
This is wrong on so very, very many levels. Like - how is this art? Why would Sotherbeys stock this? How on earth did it reach $15.6 Million? One of the worst is that these things stand about 2 1/2 meters tall - up to the average human head height. So, the perverted bastard who payed for them is going to have his guests face to face with "lassos" and "Ropes"
The mind does reel at it, and the stomach does churn.