runs as required Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 If we are assuming the classic "white cube", I'd have a double helix (in white) suspended down to door height (2M) with 0 or 00 gauge weathered steam trains endlessly ascending and descending but with Olafur Eliasson (he of the Tate Sun weather project) densely filling the space with clouds of deliciously oily smelling steam - only now and then can you glimpse the trains... but of course ....deafening full size steam sounds (complete with doeppler effect) totally dominate. title? "Heaven" .... that's where I'm hoping to be heading shortly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
APOLLO Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 Bit of a Yellowist myself !! http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/831942/wtf-is-yellowism-a-guide-to-the-obscure-movement-behind-the “Yellowism is not art, and Yellowism isn't anti-art,” “It's an element of contemporary visual culture. It's not an artistic movement. It's not art, it's not reality, it's just Yellowism. The main difference between Yellowism and art is that in art you have got freedom of interpretation, in Yellowism you don't have freedom of interpretation, everything is about Yellowism, that's it.” I think the Yellowists ruined the Blue Pullman though !!!! Brit15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
runs as required Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 Bit of a Yellowist myself !! How very Mellow dahling ! dh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 A number of models of GWR 4-6-0 locomotives, of various scales, suspended in the manner of a "mobile" above a baby's cot, but above a railway modeller, who is asleep in bed. This one is called "Castles in the Air".... That was a song by Don McLean, if I remember correctly. Maybe you could play that as background music to the exhibit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelly Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 A lone bus on a bridge... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted June 18, 2016 Share Posted June 18, 2016 That was a song by Don McLean, if I remember correctly. Maybe you could play that as background music to the exhibit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted June 19, 2016 Share Posted June 19, 2016 A load of people queueing for a dreary station toilet and one brightly dressed guy using the platform edge. With some form of sea monster in the ballast, definitely requires a sea monster. And maybe Batman just because. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Fitness Posted June 19, 2016 Share Posted June 19, 2016 Small generic end to end diorama liberally coated with a white egg based salad dressing and placed between two slices of bread. BLT with Mayo anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium mezzoman253 Posted September 26, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 26, 2016 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-37448948 Rob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted September 26, 2016 Author Share Posted September 26, 2016 What!!???? Actual artists muscling in on model train territory?! We need to enter some of the ones we devised earlier, to get our own back. Kevin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Parker Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 What!!???? Actual artists muscling in on model train territory?! Some of use have been there and done it. Even used Anthony Gormley's old van: http://philsworkbench.blogspot.co.uk/2010/05/eating-custard-doughnuts-in-gallery.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted September 26, 2016 Author Share Posted September 26, 2016 Cracking stuff, Phil. Not only that, but Hellingly was a very interesting prototype, and, having seen your layout, I know you caught it well. Personally, I wouldn't model that line, though, because the hospital was always spoken of by the older generation locally in tones that suggested darkness and tragedy, when I was growing up. Kevin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Parker Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 Personally, I wouldn't model that line, though, because the hospital was always spoken of by the older generation locally in tones that suggested darkness and tragedy, when I was growing up. Kevin All asylums were. Kids used to threaten others that they "would be sent to Hellingly" in the same way that around here it was "you'll be sent to Hatton". I was contacted by a nurse who described her first days there as a 16 year old. Apparently the noise from the patients at night was very unpleasent. However, at the time, a lot of people thought they were doing the best for the inmates. (I know that people ended up in asylums for having babies out of wedlock etc. but there were plenty of genuine cases) and who knows which of our current medical practises will be seen as barbaric in a hundred years time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
runs as required Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 Some of use have been there and done it. Even used Anthony Gormley's old van: http://philsworkbench.blogspot.co.uk/2010/05/eating-custard-doughnuts-in-gallery.html I clicked on your link but didn't find Gormley's van. AG called for volunteers to lie and be cast in something nasty at the Baltic here on Tyneside as a follow-up to his Gateshead Angel a few years ago. He turned me down, criticising my horrible Essex accent (true), but accepted my broad Ozzie mate - 'cos he came from Newcastle Queensland! I'd have withdrawn his artist's licence dh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 I really like this guy - Chris Burden - a US Artist who has already got them into various galleries. Well worth a Google. http://artobserved.com/artists/chris-burden/ Twist A gigantic floating turd! I can't imagine the Tate Modern going for that, can you?!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
34theletterbetweenB&D Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 What we first need are 9000 full boxes of Peco Streamline, and a floor space about 30 by 10 meters. We pile the boxes to show the present network route outline - Harry Beck style - with proportional heaping to represent the traffic density. Then we cover the floor around the piled boxes within an outline of Britain with 450,000 rail joiners. The difficult bit is the title. 'Network : Connections' perhaps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Coryton Posted September 26, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 26, 2016 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-37448948 Rob The funny thing is that while art critics will no doubt expend much effort on analysing aspects of this that I have no appreciation of, I'm just left wondering what a DBS freight engine is doing pulling two blue grey coaches. Possibly highly symbolic of something or other...and then again possibly not. (And of course I would never run similarly odd combinations on my railway...Caledonian pugs often pulled GNER Mk 4's, didn't they?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 A display of Peco Code 75 bullhead track (but, of course without any points), representing mankind's inability to change direction and, therefore, the ultimate futility of existence. On the other hand, an art installation at a model railway exhibition: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griffin Road Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 Some of use have been there and done it. Even used Anthony Gormley's old van: http://philsworkbench.blogspot.co.uk/2010/05/eating-custard-doughnuts-in-gallery.html I love the fact that the ' art nerds ' considered you to be part of the art installation - high praise indead ........a very interesting read . Thanks for sharing . Mike b Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Parker Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 I love the fact that the ' art nerds ' considered you to be part of the art installation - high praise indead ........a very interesting read . Thanks for sharing . Mike b It was a very interesting and enjoyable experience. A very different type of visitor to the normal ones looking at the layout. The design students brought round one day were fascinated by the typography of the luggage labels on display and we had a discussion about railway posters designed by well know artists of the day. No-one was condescending, in fact they really appreaciated the skills on show in that area. Mind you, the floor I was on was described in the Guardian review as "mostly naff". I did consider a t-shirt with that on but then remembered polari. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RMweb Premium Northroader Posted September 27, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 27, 2016 Kevin, you've obviously got your finger on the pulse in starting this thread, I read in the paper today about an entry for this years Turner prize, by Josephine Pryde, who is an obviously gifted artist, up there with Michaelangelo, who should be given the prize forthwith, no contest: Just in case anyone thinks us yokels down here don't have access to fine art, I'm putting forward this sculpture for the Tate model railway in art show: it's called, "Mummy, what's a web moderator?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shortliner Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 Ah, but one of the nominated exhibits for the £25,000 Turnere Prize this year is a model "railway to nowhere" and it is accompanied, in another room, by a 10 metre high sculpture of a pair of mans buttocks - obviously representing one of the less tasteful, mal-odorous visitors to a model railway exhibition - I think the world is going totally mad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted September 27, 2016 Author Share Posted September 27, 2016 Getting back to Post No.4 in this thread ........ Big Jim said: There would have to be a full sized 3D printed 'big Jim' statue. In post 6, he went on to say: it will have to be done in chunks. Is this, we ask, the first of those chunks? K Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Joseph_Pestell Posted September 27, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 27, 2016 BBC Breakfast did a report from Tate yesterday (presented by Charlie Stayt). They looked at several pieces of art but did their best to ignore the buttocks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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