In Need of a Social life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Glad you thought of joining our rocksoc

You won't regret it

Enjoy your time with us ^_^

That's a heck of a lot of smileys right there. Never fear, not all of us are prone to 'lollage'. Unless you're really in to that sort of thing.

Either way, welcome to the Rock Soc. We are awesome, so now by association so are you.

Ey oop, our kid!  Fine art, eh?  Me too... welcome.....I'm sure you'll have fun

its even more interesting that there seems to be a regular trip down to Nottingham, you should really try rock soc pub crawl they do before going clubbing. start in The Speakeasy (their meeting place) then to The Langtry (very good real ale) then to The Bell (also has good beer!) then The Salutation (try the black pearl if its on) then to The Trip to Jerusalem (oldest pub in country built in the caves under the castle!) from there to The Pit and Pendulum (Goth theme pub) drinks are bloody expensive but has a cool vibe darkly lit with gargoyles, iron maidens, maniacal and other weird stuff. oh and tell NTU rock soc before you go down next. the old farts who are still there from when i was there are a good laugh. lol

oooo............ Fine Art!!! 

 I was the only fine art student on my old rock soc lol what is it that you do? 

Very little at the moment, cos I've broken my hand :-/  But when I've got use of my hand, mostly conceptual/installation/sculpture and photographic collage.   

You? 

well i did the most usefull thing at uni installation sculpture...... now i do casting and a bit of painting. but i have plans to resurect my gallery for the saltaire arts trail next year. heres my very out of date deviant page http://weasleywez.deviantart.com/ to see what im on about.   

hello hello

I'm not around often, but I will however be at the spice quarter meal on tuesday.

Hello I have just finished my post grad course, although the opposite to you, I started in Leeds and then went elsewhere. I also do what is possibly the most opposite to your course (astrophysics).

I'll be back in Leeds soon. I will. I have to! 

YO. In Canada. Back at Chistmas. Can't help social life for time being.

astrophysics wasn't that alien to me its what my ex did lol i ended up living practicaly on the science campus having to try and keep up with her and her mates....... it didn't work.  

 My partner is a physicist...although he designs and builds lasers for a living at Southampton Uni.  Despite being an artist, I did both quantum physics and astronomy ad planetary science modules with the Open University.  I take most of my art inspiration from science these days...my current fascination is medicine and discarded sciences....

it gets even more intresting your partner is in my home city. yes thats right im from southampton..... well Lymington its just a bit further down, but was born in the city.... god its changed since i left, i went down a year or two back and almost got lost i was just glad the city walls were still there.      

hey there

Yeah, I know Lymington...I was in Soton for 9 years until I moved back to Gods Own North And to be honest, Southampton was in desperate need of a revamp. It was a bit run down.  I'm just annoyed they got an Apple Shop in West Quay mere weeks after I left!

Art is very alien to me, I can't do anything artistic to save my life!

except for sandwiches, making sandwiches is artistic.

Oooh, that's true. I'm good at making sandwiches. With flags.

nothing like a good sandwich

I doubt that..... everyone's an artist...

Oh you're one of those are you?

Sorry, I'm doing an aesthetics module at the moment (I study Philosophy) and am trying to grasp exactly what makes the "works" of Marcel Duchamp, Damien Hirst, etc "art". Apparently, the context has something to do with it

Duchamp never claimed to be an artist.  He preferred 'technician'.  His fantastic contribution to the art world was to trick the audience into beleiving they were seeing art.  In a fantastic sleight of hand, he turned the audience into the artist.  There's an essay you'll probably have to read called something like 'the strange case of R.Mutt' which is rather wonderful.  it sort of expains everything

Hirst on the other hand is a charlatan.  The titles of his pieces are far more revealing than the pieces themselves.  In that respect, the physical presence of is art is an abject failure.

So there. ;-)  

Well done very well put. Just don’t get started on Michael Craig-Martins "An Oak Tree" because we could be here a while discussing semiotics.....

Haha!   I'm not going near that with a ten-foot pole, lest my brain explodes from a fevre derived from apoplexy!  :-D

And why the cod mediaevalisms, I wonder?