457 Comments for Roseville State School

Ogre SMASH!

Yes....*sob* ~Me left me. Me left ~Me. I'm so confused. Anyway, Rich, the work of Mr. Witkin's that I was lucky enough to have been exposed to? If I had to give it a name, I would call it "Corpse Pornography". Motts, I promise, cross my heart, I will not stray again!!! Rich, I LOVE reading your comments, though. Your words are poetry to my ears, as the village, town, city-wanna-be, that I reside in is not possessive of a lot of culture.

In some ways Witkin's work is comparable to Damien Hurst and others in the pickled cow business... art to shock, for the sake of it in many cases. Witkin's stuff is actually quite clever in some instances but unneccessarily icky in many more. IMO his best work is the photoshopped images involving live (hence consenting) people not the charnel-house, gut-churning yuckiness... However unlike Hurst Witkin actually seems to have a talent...

Ok I'll shut up and stop trying to be an amateur art critic now ;-D

Barbara, I skimmed some of the info on Mr. Witkin. If I remember correctly ( after I hastily exited one of his sites while screaming), he gets permission from people working at morgues (not in our country) to use their...um..."people" for props. He may be brilliant to some, but his work leaves a me with a mental bad taste.

Yeah, I took a look at some of his stuff...he's talented and artistic, its just not my medium. Stuff like that usually doesn't bother me extremely much, but that really did haunt me. What I wonder is where he gets his, er, "props."

Joel Peter Witkin frightens me. I like morbid stuff, but he is just plain too morbid. His is the stuff of nightmares.

Joel Peter Witkin is amazing.

Awesome. This is just awesome. It's great to see nature taking these morbid turns.

Twug,
I know he is a photographer of morbid things, but I don't get the dare itself, Why would it be risky to email him this shot?

Hya, ~Me! If you look on the net, it appears Mr. Witkin is a photographer of the morbid. Dead bodies and parts of dead bodies seem to be popular subjects of the artist. I guess, some people are into that sort of thing. It could induce nightmares for me, if I delved too deeply. I will just stick with our Mr. Motts. He makes me happy as a clam!

I am sorry, maybe it is the blonde hair but, I don't get the point ofthe dare.


Someone PLEASE fill me in.

...and NOt like that, I mean with info.

You say that as if you totally glossed over the comment Motts wrote.

E-mail this photo to Joel Peter Witkin, I dare you.

Rank!

reminds me a little of h.r. giger, maybe? with a tiny bit of patrick woodroffe mixed in. or at least it looks like a base of one of their surreal works. does that make any sense? if not, please forgive me. i am an unfortunate sufferer of severe adhd.