| Silent Pool | 01 Apr 2014 12:16 p.m. PST |
…10,000 tin soldiers stood up to my shoulders. And all that I knew was, the hole in my shoe was… Well, a studio actually and the tiny soldiers are plastic. Ever wanted to know where old plastic soldiers go to die? link Now, do you wish you hadn't thrown away all your old Airfix soldiers? |
TimeCast  | 01 Apr 2014 12:35 p.m. PST |
More pretentious blx from the art world… …yet the same people will look down on a beautifully painted miniature as a toy and will not consider it art. Hey ho. Barrie |
| Glengarry5 | 01 Apr 2014 1:01 p.m. PST |
It would be nice to think this was an April fools joke… but it's not, it's art… |
| John the Greater | 01 Apr 2014 1:04 p.m. PST |
That actually looks pretty cool. I'm guessing at its maximum extent my collection of Airfix soldiers was about 2,500. I bagged them up in groups of 100 and sold them at a yard sale. Sold out almost immediately to neighbor kids (thus fostering another generation of this madness). |
| RavenscraftCybernetics | 01 Apr 2014 1:37 p.m. PST |
I dont see any "Hey, Steve!" figures =( |
| Yesthatphil | 01 Apr 2014 1:45 p.m. PST |
Yep .. no problem with that .. It might make somebody stop and think for a moment … BTW, Barrie, as it happens most artists I know do not have a problem with people who paint/collect toy soldiers and don't really consider one thing art and the other *not* art. But each to his own, I guess … that's what living in a free society is all about  ! Phil |
 Saber6   | 01 Apr 2014 3:01 p.m. PST |
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| MAD MIKE | 01 Apr 2014 4:51 p.m. PST |
Interesting how long the old matchbox poses have lasted. They have become almost the standard for dollar store soldiers |
| A Twiningham | 02 Apr 2014 5:26 a.m. PST |
My artist friends are mostly gamers themselves. One is my regular weekly Napoleonics opponent. |
| GoGators | 02 Apr 2014 7:46 a.m. PST |
That would be a large number of mold lines to remove. |
 Mserafin | 02 Apr 2014 10:14 a.m. PST |
I totally fail to see how this classifies as "art." I'm sure it's ony because I'm an uneducated barbarian. |
| PygmaelionAgain | 02 Apr 2014 5:54 p.m. PST |
That guy puts up 10,000 figure in a room that big and it's art? I have been stashing away figures for decades worth way more than those in a room nowhere near that size. By this measure, brother, I'm the entire renaissance in a soup spoon! |
| Mserafin | 03 Apr 2014 8:46 a.m. PST |
I expect it doesn't matter so much what is being "done" (laying out 10,000 plastic army men) so much as who's doing it that makes it "art." And when it comes to public art in Canada, my favorite piece is this one:
That one I can understand! |
