Visual Art Oct 14, 2010 at 11:02 am

For the love of god.

Jen Graves
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1
If only she had just arranged some random objects on the floor instead. *Then* we'd have something.
yelahneb on October 14, 2010 at 11:06 AM Report this
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This is like cocktail party chatter from "Six Degrees of Separation." High farce. And you're welcome.
Jubilation T. Cornball on October 14, 2010 at 11:08 AM Report this
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OK, I've got to say, I couldn't imagine WHAT had Jen so flipped out, and then I watched that damn video, literally gagging the whole time. I don't know what I hated more: the fawning or the beaming parents. Where are these people from?---I'm betting the South.
attitude devant on October 14, 2010 at 11:13 AM Report this
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He's really good with that sing-song "It's not the POLICY, it's NOT the policy, it's not the POLICY" stuff. He did everything but put his fingers in his ears and start shouting "la la la I can't hear you".

Man's senile, of course.
Fnarf on October 14, 2010 at 11:14 AM Report this
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got to keep the hausfraus titillated. if it wasn't an 8 year old, it would have been a chimp, or an elephant. or chihuly.
Max Solomon on October 14, 2010 at 11:15 AM Report this
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agreed, ms. graves. agreed.
AmyC on October 14, 2010 at 11:18 AM Report this
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I would like to punch that entire family.
Rotten666 on October 14, 2010 at 11:18 AM Report this
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Uhhh Fnarf? Hello?
attitude devant on October 14, 2010 at 11:18 AM Report this
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What the hell? When I clicked on the video, I got Rachel Maddow talking about a John McCain clip. Goddamn it.
Fnarf on October 14, 2010 at 11:24 AM Report this
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I was wrong. Las Vegas.

I smell stage parents --- this kid's gonna be the gallery version of Britney Spears.
attitude devant on October 14, 2010 at 11:27 AM Report this
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What makes you vomit? The TIDE commercial? Lauer's haircut? Oh...
Timmytee on October 14, 2010 at 11:29 AM Report this
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God damn internet. I dunno what that was about. Now I see the painting prodigy. When you're eight, you're not culpable for that kind of attention-seeking; your horrible parents are for rewarding it. Her paintings are all right, for eight. They belong on the classroom wall, hanging under the sheets of cursive letters. What her parents don't realize, of course, is that by parading her around like a prodigy, they are killing off any chance that she could ever actually become a real artist. Her parents should be executed.
Fnarf on October 14, 2010 at 11:30 AM Report this
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Could you POSSIBLY post SOMETHING about what this crap is about instead of just a naked link to an URL with no idea of what it's about, forcing us to sit through an asinine Bud Light ("tastes like piss, but shittier!") ad before getting to some crap we don't care about?
jambalaya on October 14, 2010 at 11:31 AM Report this
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See? You hate art and girls. I knew it.
Rich Jensen on October 14, 2010 at 11:31 AM Report this
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I agree with @13. I didn't have to put up with the commercial, fortunately, but a simple 5-word description about what the video will be about is just a matter of courtesy to your readers, especially for those readers who can't watch videos at work or don't have sound.
kcrobinson on October 14, 2010 at 11:34 AM Report this
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She's very talented for 8, yes. Maybe I'm being snobby, but you can express something with art, which takes it beyond just technique. At 8, what does she have to express? Her parents should let her be a kid.
urn on October 14, 2010 at 11:50 AM Report this
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Fake.
Betsy Ross on October 14, 2010 at 12:17 PM Report this
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All I see is a Bud Light commercial.

It was a stupid commercial.
dwight moody on October 14, 2010 at 12:35 PM Report this
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Vomit FTW.
BearNecessity on October 14, 2010 at 12:40 PM Report this
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must resist urge to kill
fugatone on October 14, 2010 at 12:53 PM Report this
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I vomited at the tide commercial. The little girl is certainly talented but her parents should be taking her to other places and showing off the paintings somewhere else and not on some morning/daytime abc/nbc/cbs show.
Simone on October 14, 2010 at 1:01 PM Report this
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The Crest Whitening whatever commercial made me barf ("HES SINGLE!!!! AND I'M MEETING HIM IN TWO WEEKS!!! BETTER WHITEN MY TEETH!!!"). I couldn't even get through twenty seconds of the actual video.
Prettybetsy on October 14, 2010 at 1:04 PM Report this
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Sounds just like Jen Graves as a child.
on October 14, 2010 at 1:08 PM Report this
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@13 and 15: Sorry. Next time I will describe even if just briefly.
Jen Graves on October 14, 2010 at 1:19 PM Report this
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Eeeeewww barf, that little kid is so full of herself and it is obvious the parents are pulling the strings on the whole thing. Also, I want to slap whatever fuckwhits are buying her "art" and feeding into this. She's going to grow up and be one of those kids that goes to art school and throws tantrums during critiques when people call her out on her bullshit.

I was a bit of a "child art prodigy" and I'm happy my parents encouraged me by getting my art supplies, signing me up for classes and helping me enter all those kid art contests I won instead of pulling out the stage parent shit.
Ratatoskr on October 14, 2010 at 2:09 PM Report this
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She just called her mom "My mother".

Jesus.
Spork on October 14, 2010 at 2:35 PM Report this
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In twenty years little Autumn here will be making yonis out of yarn and selling them on Etsy.
Fnarf on October 14, 2010 at 2:48 PM Report this
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That so much seemed like an Onion News Network video.
blackhook on October 14, 2010 at 3:56 PM Report this
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Wait, the little girl doesn't vomit? Damn, I'm disappointed. I was hoping for another Balloon Boy moment, in which the kid could no longer maintain the lie in front of the cameras.

Yeah, the little girl is making art, so long as art is merely applying color over large photo-based images.
midwaypete on October 14, 2010 at 4:03 PM Report this
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*Hurl*

I couldn't get past about 30 seconds of it.
Reverse Polarity on October 14, 2010 at 4:47 PM Report this
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Sorry to say, but I'll bet she got a good whipping when they all got "home." That was an awful performance.
rob! on October 14, 2010 at 5:08 PM Report this
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I for one (and apparently the only one) was delighted!
Quincy on October 14, 2010 at 8:37 PM Report this
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The first thing I got was a commercial about cartoon bears getting pieces of toilet paper stuck in their hairy shitholes. I couldn't imagine it getting worse.

This is the type of couple who keep their old college 101 Art History books on their coffee tables to impress their friends.
CommonKnowledge on October 14, 2010 at 8:37 PM Report this
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Future Stranger Genius Award Winner.
CATSPAW666 on October 15, 2010 at 9:19 AM Report this
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I presume you are vomiting at the part where Lauer asks how long it took her to make it and follows up with "not that it matters because it's about the product not the process." That's when I lost it.
yoko on October 20, 2010 at 5:19 PM Report this

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