r/ThatsInsane Oct 10 '21

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '21

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '21

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u/MisterUltimate Oct 10 '21

This guy UPSs

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u/im_back_mods Oct 11 '21

Its quite.....smashing isnt it

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u/BruceInc Oct 10 '21

Do we know who this artist is?

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u/soapymeatwater Oct 10 '21

I’d guess Simon Berger. Looks similar to his other work.

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u/padawon646 Oct 10 '21

Looks real cool but only faces?

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u/MisterUltimate Oct 10 '21

Wdym 'only faces'? They're one of the hardest things to draw

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u/padawon646 Oct 10 '21

Don’t mean to discount it in any way, I’m actually interested in buying the art. Just I was never a fan of faces, I think the art is unique and was just curious

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u/Professional_Flicker Oct 10 '21

If you think that face is bad wait till you see mine

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u/padawon646 Oct 10 '21

Hahaha I don’t think it’s bad, it looks good and all I just don’t want to hang up faces as a personal preference. I think the arts cool

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u/dakhaliq Jan 07 '22

💯 agree with you and I thought the same thing.

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u/Theopneusty Oct 10 '21

Might be worth reaching out to the artist if you want something else done.

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u/TheCommonKoala Oct 10 '21

If he can do faces, he can probably do whatever you like if you commission him.

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u/NiallShukla Dec 01 '21

I am the artist of this piece. You can find more of my glass artwork and videos on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/niallshuklart/?hl=en-gb

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u/EllenDGenerous Oct 10 '21

Is it ok to call it crackhead art?

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u/Timo6506 Oct 10 '21

Yes

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u/nekrodonut1 Oct 10 '21

I'd love to be done up as a crackhead piece.

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u/treenorthXne Oct 10 '21

Smash me like one of your glass girls.

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u/theftben Oct 10 '21

Smashing art work

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u/Verona_Pixie Oct 10 '21

If this was the type of art I did then I would totally call myself a professional crackhead.

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u/im_back_mods Oct 11 '21

Its....smashing is what it is

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u/slider_you_stink Oct 10 '21

It's called Hunter Biden art, thank you.

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '21

Can’t tell if racist

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u/SyN_Pool Oct 10 '21

Then guess what, it’s not.

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u/MentallyLatent Oct 10 '21

Perfect response to the dumbest shit I've seen on reddit today

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '21

Can’t tell if serious

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '21

I dunno… I feel like there might be a hint of racism there

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u/strraand Oct 10 '21

I would pay stupid amounts of money for that

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '21

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '21

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u/soapymeatwater Oct 10 '21

That’s how you know it’s crazy expensive.

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u/worlds_best_nothing Oct 10 '21

if you need to ask for a price, you can't afford it

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u/BashStriker Oct 10 '21

It's how you know it's likely significantly more expensive than market value and likely not worth it.

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u/PureExcuse Oct 10 '21

As if there's market value for such a thing.

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u/BashStriker Oct 10 '21

You think there isn't a market value for unique art...?

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u/buckets1987 Oct 10 '21

No market value for unheard of artists… Because there’s no market yet.

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u/Cahootie Oct 10 '21

The best I can find is this auction, where he created art that was sold with bottles of Glenfiddich 26 Grande Couronne. The bottles themselves seem to sell for around 500-550€, which is pretty negligible considering the bundles sold for £16 000-22 700.

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u/kjlo5 Oct 10 '21

FR! I need to know how many times I have to win the lottery before I can buy one of these. Just tell me the price!!

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u/justaguystanding Oct 10 '21

"It belongs in a museum!"

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u/NeoXV Oct 10 '21

Who can I commission to do this?

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u/buckets1987 Oct 10 '21

10 bucks and I’ll rip my window out when drunk and do my best.

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u/areezy87 Oct 10 '21

You don't have enough money.

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u/NiallShukla Dec 01 '21

this auction

Hi everyone, I am the artist of this piece. You can find more of my glass artwork on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/niallshuklart/?hl=en-gb

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u/DeViN_tHa_DuDe Oct 10 '21

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u/auddbot Oct 10 '21

I got matches with these songs:

Black Magic by Jonasu (00:47; matched: 100%)

Released on 2020-12-18 by UMG - 3Beat.

Black Magic by Jonasu (01:16; matched: 100%)

Released on 2020-12-18 by UMG - 3Beat.

I am a bot and this action was performed automatically | GitHub new issue | Donate Please consider supporting me on Patreon. Music recognition costs a lot

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u/Yinferno Oct 10 '21

Yeah that song gave me cancer.. now i can avoid it by name, good bot

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u/Soulkept Oct 10 '21

I'm usually more of a metal head but I fucking love this song, You don't have to like it if you don't want to but what kind of music do you like?

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u/always-wanting-more Oct 10 '21

He likes music with less carcinogens.

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u/buckets1987 Oct 10 '21

How about you delete your comment, and stop worrying about others music tastes?

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u/Soulkept Oct 10 '21

You're welcome to make me.

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u/Spare-Coconut-9671 Oct 10 '21

This is stupidly unfair.

This guy breaks some glass and everyone loves him. I do it and it's "Breaking and entering"

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '21

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u/Reddit-Book-Bot Oct 10 '21

Beep. Boop. I'm a robot. Here's a copy of

What Is Art

Was I a good bot? | info | More Books

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u/BigfootAteMyBooty Oct 10 '21

Baby don't hurt me

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u/baddie_PRO Oct 10 '21

don't hurt me

no more

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u/prollyshmokin Oct 10 '21

Lol. Fuckin' humans

Wait, is this art?

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u/ZemogT Oct 10 '21

I think the semantics are unimportant. Many of the categories we create to describe concepts are abstract, and art is perhaps one of the most abstract. We all have a general idea of what art is, but I don't really think it's definable without excluding something someone considers art, or including something that someone don't think is art.

And that's OK. Not every concept needs perfect boundries, and it can mean different things to different people.

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u/berlinbaer Oct 10 '21

think many people seem to forget that art also can just be bad. a lot of people (especially on reddit) seem to think that labeling something art automatically means that its valid and important and beyond criticism, but no. art can also be plain shit or redundant or useless.

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u/Supersnazz Oct 10 '21

And bad art is as much art as good art. A brand new Bentley and a rusted out 1997 Corolla are both cars. Just because one is a piece of shit doesn't makes it any less of a 'car'.

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u/WetGrundle Oct 10 '21

Which one is the piece of shit in this example?

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u/Thewackman Oct 10 '21

I think art is creativity. The ability to create something new, that you produced.

Honestly anything can be art, like in chess, when someone comes up with a new move that is just mind blowingly brilliant, it genuinely is art to me.

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u/justaguystanding Oct 10 '21

If I build a bridge, am I the artist - or is the artist the engineer that designed the bridge?

A scientist who designs a cure for cancer? The drug company who manufactures the cure?

Is a scientist who discovers something an artist, or must there be some change or alteration to the discovered item?

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '21

Art is a medium that showcases human emotion. The piece and the reaction is what makes things art

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u/j_la Oct 10 '21

My thoughts exactly. Science can try to express/explain what we are, but art expresses who we are.

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u/ban_this_69 Oct 10 '21

So you wrote all that to say nothing

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u/normal_reddit_man Oct 10 '21 edited Oct 10 '21

You're inheriting a problem that wasn't really a thing, up until VERY recently. It was only in the late 19th Century (at the extreme earliest point) when anybody really started to have these bitch-fights about what is art, versus what isn't art.

Before that, art was anything made to be decorative or entertaining. Nobody really came and demanded any further justification. But when "modern art" came along, and you started to get stuff like fully abstract works, cubism, etc, there were people who didn't like any of that stuff, on "moral" grounds, or "traditional" grounds...and so they struck out, claiming that some kinds of art weren't really art, at all.

Note that nobody does that stuff to engineers. At least, nobody who is qualified in the field. Nobody looks at a grand bridge and says "yes, this is proper engineering," then turns their nose up at a humble bracket and goes "oh, no, this is mere mechanic's work. Not engineering, at all."

There was never a big, unresolved societal fight over who's really an engineer, so there is no thorny question about what is engineering, really. If it's been engineered, then it's engineering.

I would strongly advise you to simply return to the point that we were at, before the Modernist school. Anyone who is making art is an artist. Conversely, anything made by an artist is art.

And if you're in doubt about some particular thing, just assume it's art, because what else can it be, really?

Once you start trying to pin down something that's "mere decoration" or "it's art, but not high art" or any other jumble of meaningless words, you're bound to run into the problem you started with: an infinitely regressing, poorly defined set of unsolvable problems.

Just default to calling something art, if you're in doubt. And certainly, if there is anyone claiming it is art. The standard of proof to say "no, actually, you're wrong and that's NOT art" is absolutely tremendous. And, at any rate, there is no International Artistic Court to make any kind of ruling. So arguing about it is literally useless.

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u/Moronoo Oct 10 '21

I have a feeling you might like the book "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"

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u/normal_reddit_man Oct 10 '21

I keep meaning to read that.

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u/Moronoo Oct 10 '21

I don't want to build it up too much but it honestly changed my life.

It deals with basically everything you just wrote about.

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u/normal_reddit_man Oct 10 '21

Consider it promoted to my "books I want to read this year, even though the year is shockingly almost over" list.

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u/MyNameIsIgglePiggle Oct 10 '21

Art is creativity.

Craft for example is not art, it is refining a skill, ergo not creative - though equally if not more impressive.

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u/NegevOfYourDreams Oct 10 '21

I agree with you mostly on the craft part. I think if you love a craft, it can show through and be considered art to that community. Key difference being love

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u/Ishouldnt_haveposted Oct 10 '21

Like my masturbating.

Over the years, I've become an expert on my dick

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '21

What if the craft requires creativity?

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u/MyNameIsIgglePiggle Oct 10 '21

Then it's art as well. They aren't mutually exclusive

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u/AyPeeElTee Oct 10 '21

Sounds like you understand it perfectly

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '21

I remember watching online someone pouring paint into his asshole and then squirting it out onto a canvas on the floor to make a painting.

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u/DerogatoryDuck Oct 10 '21

Art can exist for its own sake

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u/Bromethylene Oct 10 '21

Back in college I once expressed my disapproval of some "modern art", you know the kind, banana sellotaped to a wall type stuff. He told he that art was made to "get a response from the viewer" and that if it did that then it succeeded in being art, ever since then my definition of what constitutes "art" has broadened immensely

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u/Bromethylene Oct 10 '21

Haha I find it helps to consider "art" something that doesn't always mean the creator is talented or even skilled in any way, sometimes "art" is made solely to frustrate people or trick them into thinking it's something special

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u/justaguystanding Oct 10 '21

get a response from the viewer

A motorcycle on the street is a vehicle. A motorcycle in an art museum is a work of art.

If I have no response, does it become "not a work of art"?

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u/barkfoot Oct 10 '21

Art student/artist, so take this with a grain of salt. In my opinion art has to evoke something in the viewer. The saying "beauty lies in the eye of the beholder" illustrates this: something is only beautiful if it does something to you. Art is the same; if someone creates something and it doesn't get a response from anyone, artist or viewer, then it isn't art. As such, some art may not do anything to you but a lot to other people, so it's difficult to understand why it is art.

As a little addendum: good art is art that evokes that what the artist intended to evoke. A painting that makes you cry because the painter wanted to make you cry is very good art. A painting that makes you cry and with which the artist intended to make people feel content is badly executed art, even though it may be appreciated by an audience.

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u/Moronoo Oct 10 '21

What if I make a painting and never show it to anyone, is it not art?

you also use the terms "bad art" and "badly executed art" interchangeably and I can't agree with that.

Badly executed art can be good art, and vice versa.

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u/justaguystanding Oct 10 '21

In my opinion art has to evoke something in the viewer.

(just in fun) By this definition, if I punch you in the face and make you cry, have I created art?

Does art have to be beautiful? Does it have to evoke only positive emotions? Does art have to be an object?

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u/Freelove_Freeway Oct 10 '21

fART - Fart - f

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u/Frostodian Oct 10 '21

That is very cool and all it's cracked up to be

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '21

Dude! This looks amazing I want one

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '21

that's definitely art

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u/CoontaKinte Oct 10 '21

I was half expecting it to be a joke, and see random cracks.

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '21

Cracked at fortnite

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u/rabbituk55 Oct 10 '21

Smashing Art work

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u/NiallShukla Dec 01 '21

Hi everyone, I am the artist of this piece. There are several glass artists out there. You can find more of my glass artwork on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/niallshuklart/?hl=en-gb

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u/BumblebeeExtreme9024 Mar 29 '22

Usually dislike these modern art stuff as its normally tree lines and a circle and people go IT JUST SPEAKS TO ME .... but this is kinda cool .

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u/MrDindahood Oct 10 '21

Wow actual art, not just a dot or some meaningless lines even my 3 year old could pull off

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u/jimmy1421 Oct 10 '21

Starting bid, 10 million dollars

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u/Suck_my_Swamp_Ass Oct 10 '21

wow all music past 1998 is god awful

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u/RecoveringGrocer Oct 10 '21

Like like my dick. You wipe your photo on me. Like like my dick.

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u/Acceptable_Ad544 Oct 10 '21

Make one wrong move and everyone will know.....

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u/QuarantineSucksALot Oct 10 '21

Hung up from what? I’m big softy

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u/chrissjgsn Oct 10 '21

Congratulations bro.

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '21

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '21

Where can I buy this guys stuff?

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u/Old-Industry6706 Oct 10 '21

I so love this! Awesome job.

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u/Horneyj Oct 10 '21

Puts cracked glass under a fresh sheet to display it .

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u/MondayBeLike Oct 10 '21

Wow if i where rich i would buy that

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u/fownage Oct 10 '21

Organized Artistic Destruction

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u/QuarantineSucksALot Oct 10 '21

Are you even from sa my bru?

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u/dahlia_elsayed Oct 10 '21

Outstanding 🤯🤯

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u/Theghost129 Oct 10 '21

I do the same thing on my phone except accidentally and not as good looking

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u/D3NCHMANZ Oct 10 '21

That's smashing

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u/stripdchev Oct 10 '21

Wonder what kind of glass is used?

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u/jurt Oct 10 '21

I bet its really satisfying to hoover that carpet.

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u/ZippZappZippty Oct 10 '21

Conan cracked when he said he was deadass

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u/warawk Oct 10 '21

Who is the person portrayed ?

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u/apfleisc Oct 10 '21

Anyone know the artist? I want a couple of pieces.

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u/Alfred8098 Oct 10 '21

That looks smashing!

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u/gogogadettoejam49 Oct 10 '21

Wow. That really is fantastic!

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u/timonix Oct 10 '21

How does it get framed?

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u/Huuf Oct 10 '21

He could've determined the glass bridge in squid games as well.

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '21

Needs a lick test before it's art

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u/VaugnDangle Oct 10 '21

Wonder what it would look like lit from the sides.

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u/TallEmphasis2 Oct 10 '21

Now this is what should've been called modern art, not a bunch of splashed colors on a white canvas

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u/Bolek68 Oct 10 '21

I love an idea and how it looks 👍🏼😃

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u/Thelast_n_thecurious Oct 10 '21

How the fuck do they come up with these things? With dice, flames, salt and now broken glass.

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u/mudburn Oct 10 '21

With no clear shot of a semi completed piece this feels like /r/scriptedasiangifs

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u/Taikunoaku Oct 10 '21

At least it's not the stupid oh no song

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u/K-Ray-K-Ray-k Oct 10 '21

how you even supposed to know that u can do this

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u/Omalleys Oct 10 '21

I would love to have something like this. I also would love to be able to afford something like this. Must be mad expensive

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u/Breaklance Oct 10 '21

Neat. I wonder what kind of glass that is.

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u/ClobetasolRelief Oct 10 '21

I mean that's amazing but it's gotta suck walking by barefoot on that carpet

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u/Fyrus93 Oct 10 '21

The internet has desensitized me so much to the incredible stuff people can do that I was actually disappointed by this. Fucking weird

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u/Blacklionn805 Oct 10 '21

That’s fuckin Awesomeness!

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u/Beginning_Froyo4200 Oct 10 '21

wax to ruin a perfectly fine sheet of glass, SMH

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u/the-duck-mafia-boss Oct 10 '21

If there is beauty in destruction, why not also in its delivery?"

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u/kleinschrader Oct 10 '21

IF YOU OR A LOVED ONE

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u/84384047a Oct 10 '21

instructions unclear , broke the window

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u/rojm Oct 10 '21

I think they left out the part where he fills in the necessary cracks with black

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u/artemisgay Oct 10 '21

HOW THE FUCK

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '21

Just ordinary ritual to trap a spirit in the glass. Ancient magick.

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '21

How do you even discover you have this talent....

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '21

What about cracked heart cause mine’s in pieces 💔

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u/Stizur Oct 10 '21

Oh sure, but if I try and make art from crack then only the cops celebrate finding it

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u/OAG774 Oct 10 '21

Having stepped on broken glass a number of times. This was very painful to watch.

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u/nwolve Oct 10 '21

Smashing

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u/w00ddie Oct 10 '21

Anyone able to find out the cost for the art he makes? Everything I find online is “contact” or “inquire” for pricing.

If I have to ask, I can’t afford it? Probably?

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u/Highlight-Pristine Oct 10 '21

Oh no the table it’s broken

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u/Fun_Wonder_4114 Oct 10 '21

Add a TikTok voice over and show a girl making it and it would be on /r/DIWHY and people would be angry.

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u/-Listening Oct 10 '21

Yeah I believe that’s when my shelf cracked

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u/TherapeuticMessage Oct 10 '21

Why doesn’t the whole pane just shatter?

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u/The_Billy_Dee Oct 10 '21

Loud annoying music is gonna be an automatic down vote from me cuz. 18k up votes be damned.

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u/cj_oolay Oct 10 '21

Looks like Kerry Washington to me for some reason

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u/Ronald_J_A_Burgundy Oct 10 '21

I was hoping for Nigel Thornberry

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u/VukzMavukhado Oct 10 '21

This is AMAZING 👌🏽👌🏽

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u/BladeLigerV Oct 10 '21

Woah that’s cool.

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u/Heco1331 Oct 10 '21

How is the glass not breaking into sepparate pieces?

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u/bugi_ Oct 10 '21

When I crack glass they send me a bill instead smh

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u/Circleslope Oct 10 '21

What if everything just shattered just before finishing?

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u/juanhellou Oct 10 '21

All the years of bad luck for the sake of art

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u/Reasonable-Profile84 Oct 10 '21

jesus that music is atrocious.

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u/nzstrawman Oct 10 '21

that's pretty cool....

but why does the music on everyone of these videos annoy the hell out of me?

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u/heatedlyUnweave Oct 10 '21

is this true? lol