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Watch a full size Rover 75 clay model get demolished going off a 10 metre ramp in Cannock Chase - 30-09-2017


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If you want to know whether something is art, there is no better guide than Grayson Perry's Reith lectures, I think it's the second one where he gives his own rules for how to tell if you're looking at art or bullshit. They're on the iPlayer for free download and are fantastic.

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What they doing with it all now? Bin, art gallery or roffel?

Bin I think.

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Aww they should have sent it to China saying it was some kind of prototype

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If nothing else, they broke the mould with this stunt.

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I can't believe no-one has got a pun about the clay being fired in yet.

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Why not hammer a smaller clay 75 over a 75?

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The health and safety doesn't look up to much- they're lucky they didn't kiln anybody.

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The funniness level of these 'jokes' follows almost exactly the profile of the ramp used in the Rover stunt.

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At what point? I kept trying to see if I could spot myself as you do but didn't see anything.

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Some arsehole did a full page spread on this in last week's Classic Car Buyer. 
 

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I can smell that clay from here. I still find bits of clay from my Cov Uni days on CD cases I took into the studio. That sulphurous tang takes ages to leave your nostrils.

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Erm...shouldn't it have smashed into a million tiny clay pieces?  Wasn't that the statement? That was hardly even a Cat D. Salvageable, unlike...

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What a cracking effort. As other people have said more of that 30k will have been ploughed back into the local economy, from the crane operators to the riggers so far from wasted no matter the result.

 

I'd guess as it wasn't fired that's why it didn't shatter? Perhaps a dull thud rather than a big crash is more fitting as a way of representing the impact on the midlands economy? That's the fun with art someone does something odd and leaves us all to come up with our own theories.

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If you want to know whether something is art, there is no better guide than Grayson Perry's Reith lectures, I think it's the second one where he gives his own rules for how to tell if you're looking at art or bullshit. They're on the iPlayer for free download and are fantastic.

http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/radio4/transcripts/lecture-1-transcript.pdf

 

http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/radio4/transcripts/reith-lecture2-liverpool.pdf

 

You can read them too if you cant be faffed listening to a Transvestite potter from Essex.

 

 

This idea that Duchamp put forward that anything could be art that he decided was art, intellectually I think you know people engaged with it a bit. Not everybody liked it, I can imagine at the time, but it took quite a long time for people to really kind of get up on that idea and really get going with it. And it was in the 60s when it finally really came to fruition. And artist Robert Rauschenberg in 1961, he was asked to paint a portrait of a gallerist there called Iris Clert. And in response to this request, he just wrote a little telegram back to the person. He said, ‘This is a portrait of Iris Clert if I say so’. (LAUGHTER) And that was a work of art

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If that is art then Hensford Hills is the fucking national gallery.

 

There is and should be a massive difference between ART and an EVENT

Art is timeless, without boundaries and speaks of craft and skill as well as invention and imagination

 

 

That was 5 seconds of a car rolling slowly off a ramp that P T Barnum would have jeered at, as if at a third rate side show.

 

As you may guess, I am a tad disappoint.

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If that is art then Hensford Hills is the fucking national gallery.

 

There is and should be a massive difference between ART and an EVENT

Art is timeless, without boundaries and speaks of craft and skill as well as invention and imagination

 

 

That was 5 seconds of a car rolling slowly off a ramp that P T Barnum would have jeered at, as if at a third rate side show.

 

As you may guess, I am a tad disappoint.

 

Yep.

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