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who knew, franks Emo....?

  • 02.12.2008 4:10 PM PDT

hatas wanna fight me

the interview was hilarious

  • 02.12.2008 4:22 PM PDT

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not mention that winner gets recon!

  • 02.12.2008 4:28 PM PDT

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It's lovely! Once my dad gets back home tomorrow, I'll be sure to place a bid!

  • 02.12.2008 4:29 PM PDT

Check it when i spit it, Lick it how i writ it

thats sooooo funny

  • 02.12.2008 4:33 PM PDT

If you want my autograph, I'll need either a pen or some snow.

im currently the high bidder on the auction at $2450. hopefully i will win ^_^

  • 02.12.2008 4:54 PM PDT

If you want my autograph, I'll need either a pen or some snow.

*sigh* already outbid. going for $3000. ^_^

  • 02.12.2008 4:56 PM PDT
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Posted by: OPTIMO PIMPN420
Seriously who would pay good money for this junk? Just because they put it up on bungie.net with some "famous" artist they think its going to sell for a bunch of money? Haha, if you buy this childish "art" you must really love.... halo?

And did someone seriously call this 'Priceless' LOL
If i drew a Ninja turtle, it would come out looking exactly like this, I guess there is an artist in all of us.


It's for charity d-baggins! It's not about the art, its about having a heart. You're probably that guy I hear every single night in MM that obviously has no REAL friends and therefore uses the faceless online gaming forum to try and show what a "nice" guy you really are. Do you always have something negative to say? I bet you do. I know you're kind. Try to find happiness before it kills you.

  • 02.12.2008 5:25 PM PDT
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LOL, Frankie.

  • 02.12.2008 5:28 PM PDT
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I hope people realize that winning that auction is a legally binding contract. It would be so foul to back out of it.

Here is a true story. My son, when he was six, was in a 'kick-a-thon' charity at his Taekwondo school. He had been doing martial arts since he was four. You take pledges based on how many times you can kick a pad at waist height in three or five minutes. My brother, who is a competitive bicycle racer, wanted to pledge, and threw a few kicks to estimate how many the boy would do. He figured about thirty a minute, then his nephew would get distracted, tired, whatever. So he said, "Well, I can afford about $100, so lets say a buck a kick."

By the night of the event Johnathan had close to $10 riding on each kick. I was in for a buck each too, and the rest were all a dime, twenty-five cents. So they start off by asking which kids wanted to do three and which five. Johnathan thought a second and said, "Five minutes."

Now, Johnathan does not only do martial arts. At this time, we had a small trampoline in his playroom and a big one in the yard. Daily, he and his baby brother spent maybe an hour jumping on trampolines. You go out and jump on a trampoline for an hour. He has quads like a frog.

They lined up opposite an advanced student holding a pad. Johnathan was looking at his pad like he wanted to melt it with laser vision. The Grandmaster shouted "GO!"

Read this aloud, almost fast enough that you start stumbling at the end: tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap. That was the rhythm of Johnathan's kicks. It was like a click track for an Industrial Metal song, where they put the BPM on the CD liner. And it did not slow down. And he did not get distracted. Tired? He could have done it for a half hour, besides, he got a leisurely three second break when they switched legs every fifty kicks.

In five minutes, he reeled off 318 kicks. That is approximately $38,000 per hour, not bad for a six year old. My brother had a rictus frozen on his face, and all I could do was shake my head at him and mouth, "I had no idea." Most of the kids got in the area of 100-200 kicks, some others also cracked 300. There were a lot of stunned parents wondering how they were going to ask their neighbors and colleagues to cough up not $20 or $30, but maybe $70 or $100 when they went to collect.

Grand Master was signing off all the count sheets with a big, s--- eating grin. He does this every couple of years, and no one ever expects what the little kids can do. I think they earned well over $25,000.

  • 02.12.2008 5:54 PM PDT

were it so easy...

I think that the frangible, crumbling nature of soft pastels perfectly reinforces the reflection of capitalism's decay under the onslaught of the corrosive commercialization. As the chalks fracture and turn to dust on the canvas, so too does the very act of rendering the image. The artist tumbles into the piece, just as the piece surges up into the artist. The sheer dirt of it is ironically cleansing.

LMAO. That is hilarious. If i had the money, i would totally buy it

  • 02.12.2008 5:57 PM PDT

I'm a serious dude, so what?

clearly he lop-sided symmetry is intended to draw attention to the signature. only the greatest of artists can make a piece entirely about themselves without ever appearing in it.

bravo,
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  • 02.12.2008 6:44 PM PDT
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my favorite part was the "asymmetrical qualities."

  • 02.12.2008 6:50 PM PDT
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Rembrandt's got nothing on you, Frankie. You guys should hang it in an Art Museum.

  • 02.12.2008 7:29 PM PDT
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The good thing about art and literature is that everyone gets to interpret it the way they want. While Frankie thought of it primarily as a symbolic gesture of the decay of capitalism, I thought it clearly represented the shift from humanity's naturalism to a more materialistic society.

The most stunning feature of the work of art is the background: this orgy of brown, green, red, pink, and other colors represent the various facets of our natural life. The brown earth, the green trees, the red sky - they're all represented. And yet, the background is a swirl. The natural life is not in order and is in fact in a disarray. Nature is decaying around us and through it all stands Mister Chief, symbollically representing a mechinated life.

Mister Chief wears man-made armor, and is a man himself (note that the term man is used as a catch-all for human beings, and does not have any sexist characteristics attached). His solid lines and clear form among the chaos that is his background are in stark contrast, and tell strikingly how far mankind has sunk into the black pit of materialism. Even Mister Chief himself recognizes this, and greets it with a look of pure shock and speculation. He is not happy.

  • 02.12.2008 7:38 PM PDT

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lol i just finished reading it. worst.book.ever. and I had to write a 15pg book analysis thing on it.

  • 02.12.2008 8:03 PM PDT
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Nice & a Noble Cause too. You guys are truly a class act.

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@ Concordance, Very well said sir!

  • 02.12.2008 8:15 PM PDT

Posted by: Daggart
Posted by: OPTIMO PIMPN420
Seriously who would pay good money for this junk? Just because they put it up on bungie.net with some "famous" artist they think its going to sell for a bunch of money? Haha, if you buy this childish "art" you must really love.... halo?

And did someone seriously call this 'Priceless' LOL
If i drew a Ninja turtle, it would come out looking exactly like this, I guess there is an artist in all of us.


It's for charity d-baggins! It's not about the art, its about having a heart. You're probably that guy I hear every single night in MM that obviously has no REAL friends and therefore uses the faceless online gaming forum to try and show what a "nice" guy you really are. Do you always have something negative to say? I bet you do. I know you're kind. Try to find happiness before it kills you.


Epic man, I truly wish I could own these sad folks* NEARLY as good as you man. (not sarcasm)

BTW, what is wrong with Frankie's Art? I know it isn't the mona lisa or anything, but it is well done and done with passion and a sense of purpose. I wouldn't pay so much for it (Not that I don't see the value, really, just that I can't begin to afford it.), but it is for a good cause, and honestly I doubt that the auction is going up so much because of Reconz.

Awesome stuff, Frankie, I love the mock interview too! (it... it was mock right?)

*Xbox Live "flamers"

EDIT: ok, my part of the message doesn't directly pertain to the flamer I inadvertantly quoted, rather it is a general statement to all of the people bashing the portrait.

[Edited on 02.12.2008 8:41 PM PST]

  • 02.12.2008 8:35 PM PDT
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Posted by: Daggart
Posted by: OPTIMO PIMPN420
Seriously who would pay good money for this junk? Just because they put it up on bungie.net with some "famous" artist they think its going to sell for a bunch of money? Haha, if you buy this childish "art" you must really love.... halo?

And did someone seriously call this 'Priceless' LOL
If i drew a Ninja turtle, it would come out looking exactly like this, I guess there is an artist in all of us.


It's for charity d-baggins! It's not about the art, its about having a heart. You're probably that guy I hear every single night in MM that obviously has no REAL friends and therefore uses the faceless online gaming forum to try and show what a "nice" guy you really are. Do you always have something negative to say? I bet you do. I know you're kind. Try to find happiness before it kills you.


Epic man, I truly wish I could own these sad folks* NEARLY as good as you man. (not sarcasm)

BTW, what is wrong with Frankie's Art? I know it isn't the mona lisa or anything, but it is well done and done with passion and a sense of purpose. I wouldn't pay so much for it (Not that I don't see the value, really, just that I can't begin to afford it.), but it is for a good cause, and honestly I doubt that the auction is going up so much because of Reconz.

Awesome stuff, Frankie, I love the mock interview too! (it... it was mock right?)

*Xbox Live "flamers"

EDIT: ok, my part of the message doesn't directly pertain to the flamer I inadvertantly quoted, rather it is a general statement to all of the people bashing the portrait.


Thanks buddy. I love showing these jerks for who they really are. Honestly though, after reading through the website link for the foundation to which this auction is for, my heart went out to the people that knew this fine young man. I wish I met him before he moved on. I was literally tearing up when I was reading some of the tributes and especially the fathers story about his trip to Bungie studios. That guy is a real hero in my books, and Frankie and the rest of the Bungie crew are some of the best people I have never met. Class acts as far as I'm concerned. My hats off to you guys for not only providing the world with such great games to entertain us, but they also take time to recognize the real heros in this world. I had a really good friend die of cancer at far too young an age myself and the stories on the foundations website brought a lot of those old memories back for me.

If I had the money to donate, I would. I know that's easy to say, but when I hear a story about someone so young that fights such a brave battle and keeps their spirits up until the very end, money really doesn't seem all that important anymore. To everyone that takes the time to go to the foundations website, I challenge you to evaluate the way you treat the "faceless" people online from this day forward. Lets show each other a little more <3, shall we?

Cheers,

Daggart

  • 02.12.2008 8:52 PM PDT
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very well said

  • 02.12.2008 9:11 PM PDT

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What really surprises me is the amount of artistic intellignece that Frankie shows in that interview.

I mean, I knew the guy was intelligent; there is more lurking under his facade than just muscle and meat (or, for obsessive fans, flesh and faith), after all, it generally shows through in the weekly updates (not saying that Luke is dumb), but I had no idea whatsoever that he had such an in-depth understanding of not only art, but the inherent psychology that can be applied to each and every piece of art you see.

Sometimes it is really nice to be surprised like this.

And, it's great to see the painting being used for a noble cause. After all, Frank could have just sold it for himself, and some weird (but still nice, probably) basement-hermit would have bought it.

Me? It's a nice piece, and I'd pay for it, but not a ridiculous amount. $250 max, and I've got twice that in my pocket right now.

  • 02.12.2008 9:29 PM PDT

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Last time I got shot I got a purple heart, Mabey this time I'll get a purple lung, then I can start to build my own purple person and he'll be my friend.

sounds like frankie is a fruit... lol jk looks good!

  • 02.12.2008 10:16 PM PDT
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Frank's idea about art is jokes. lol.

respect, peace out
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y not get an artist to draw a decent picture ? have the bungie developers sign it n auction it off, than some picture my little cousin could of drawn, good luck wif it anyway

  • 02.12.2008 11:01 PM PDT