Tate Modern - Sunflower Seeds - Ai Weiwei

[tobiosnmakky]

i like this video

[jeremychuable]

@tobiosnmakky Glad you like it!

[tobiosnmakky]

@jeremychuable i think the song was fitting too, and you have a good camera

[Gddsntplydc]

We are all sunflower seeds just wait to become a beautiful sunflower :)

[Hayashigame]

the music is stupidd

[jeremychuable]

@Hayashigame "You can please some of the people some of the time,..."

[Hayashigame]

@jeremychuable I don't think it fits. Do you?

[jeremychuable]

@Hayashigame Actually, I remember now - YouTube didn't allow me to use the original music I picked (for Copyright reasons, presumably). So I picked one it allowed me to...

[WorldlyMusi]

If you want to know more, this is how they are made: /watch?v=PueYywpkJW8

[guimine]

Too bad people were forbidden to stroll around in it for "health" reasons.... Walking on it, feeling the "crunch" under your feet, hearing it, was as much part of the experience as seeing it and conceptualising it....

[tobiosnmakky]

@guimine i think it would have been good if people could just sign a health waver and walk on if they wished rather than just no allowance to.

[jeremychuable]

Honestly, seeing some of the comments here, some people need to take a proverbial chill pill. Perhaps naively, I went to test my camera out and the Tate Modern was free and had stuff going on...and perhaps naively, I hope that someday you'll invest all that energy and conviction you have into making the world a better place instead of spreading hate online.

[SelamatArtist]

If we can get the USA Marines to paint half the number of sun flower seeds we will be assured the world will have more peace.

This project is a blatant affront to humanity and as heartless as the harvesting of bear biles.

The chinese govt should make Ai count each and every seed so that he will know the suffering and insult he has inflicted on the poor rural folks. Their ancestors produced porcelians of great value but today reduced to producing seeds like a robot. Demeaning.

[guimine]

@SelamatArtist Yeah you're right: Making shoes for "Nike", fake "Dior" products or leveling characters for WoW 24/7 is so much enhancing.

[HelmetBlissta]

What an outrageous waste of energy and resources , who ever did this should be locked up.

[jeremychuable]

@HelmetBlissta I see what you did there!

[guimine]

@HelmetBlissta It is called art :)... but some people don't get it. It's ok. The real waste of energy is for you to have typed a comment on something you obviously know/understand nothing about,... or for us for having read it.

[HelmetBlissta]

@guimine Good points

[AmericaRuinsYou]

i dont get it, whats so interesting about a bunch of sunflower seeds on the floor?

[jeremychuable]

@AmericaRuinsYou Aside from a discussion about 'what is art', you realise they aren't real sunflower seeds and consist of about 100 Million hand-crafted porcelain art pieces, right?

[liamleahy]

@AmericaRuinsYou You should also watch the Tate video on his process. They represent different things including what the Chinese people used for subsistance during the cultural revolution. If you still don't get it, watch "Ai Weiwei, Without Fear or Favor", also on youtube. I think you can take something away from this, not that art is as literal as you fully "get it" or not at all.

[redword2007]

@liamleahy

This man is an unprincipled self-publicist whose work has no artistic merit. He is lionised by the western media for political purposes.

[guimine]

@liamleahy Didn't know that video... Monsieur, Thanks for further enlighnting me on this marvelous, exceptional artist. :)

[artzest]

wonderful, emotional, inspiring video:) Thanks!

[jeremychuable]

@artzest Thanks! - you're welcome!

[kupfernikel]

nice video, especially for everyone of us who cant go to that expo

[jeremychuable]

@kupfernikel Glad I could bring the expo to you to enjoy!

[jeremychuable]

Thanks for the comment - I used the YouTube AudioSwap function and can't remember what tune I picked..sorry!

[astratton22]

nice! what's the song you're using?