Did the instagram embed thing stop working?
Why don’t you tell us what it’s about? 😉
What's instantgram, some new fangled email system or something?
Why don’t you tell us what it’s about?
Drugs
or piles?
Without wishing to sound like a dick, please don't just blindly post links to other stuff without at least offerring some sort of opinion, reason, or comment as to why you think it's worth looking at. If I want to look at stuff on instagram, I'll look on instagram.
*and, full disclosure, I won't want to look at stuff on instagram
Makes you think....
Well I looked at it and found it weird, but I wasn't sure what it was all about. I won't bother looking again though.
Makes you think….
It's harder to make me think than most people assume.
thepurist
Well I looked at it and found it weird, but I wasn’t sure what it was all about...
You, obvs.
It’s harder to make me think than most people assume.
Just between you and me; it didn't make me think either.
I am as shallow as it is deep
cant believe i logged in to post this
Makes you think….
I'm currently reading Cal Newposts "Digital Minimalisation"
Has it got pictures?
You, obvs.
Well I tried to embed the Instagram posts, that didn't work, then STW totally crapped out and I couldn't go back and edit any more. Then I tried to upload screenshots to imgbox and embed them but that didn't work either. So it's been a great experience all round.
I think IHN could try a bit harder to sound haughty and condescending though.
It's just a funny bitter instagram account where a Welsh artist takes the piss mainly out of other arty types and English tourists/second home owners with T6s etc coming to North Wales.
This is the feed https://instagram.com/bedwyr_williams?utm_medium=copy_link
He's actually a pretty talented 'proper' artist also but I think these are just weird/funny little asides really.
I guess maybe it's a bit too close to the bone for some of you 😉
Has it got pictures?
Ironically, I'm reading it on a Kindle...
It's all about him?
takes the piss mainly out of other arty types and English tourists/second home owners with T6s etc coming to North Wales
T6 for sale, one careful recently shaved arty hipster owner, selling to fund buying vintage electric conversion motorcycle to stay ahead of the curve.
Hehe I think I'd probably be a target for his ire also, though no T6.
Edit: woo finally managed to post an image!
His stuff reminds me of David Shrigley's a little. It's the weird specificity of some of it that gets me.
I think IHN could try a bit harder to sound haughty and condescending though.
Get you.
It’s just a funny bitter instagram account where a Welsh artist takes the piss mainly out of other arty types and English tourists/second home owners with T6s etc coming to North Wales.
This is the feed https://instagram.com/bedwyr_williams?utm_medium=copy_link
He’s actually a pretty talented ‘proper’ artist also but I think these are just weird/funny little asides really.
I guess maybe it’s a bit too close to the bone for some of you
See, you can do it if you try.
But the emperor's got nothing on..
See, you can do it if you try.
He managed it 😀
See, you can do it if you try.
Funniest line in the whole thread. Good work
Every morning ,as I awake,I always take those first few minutes to appreciate what a perfect human I am.
Every morning.
[url= https://i.postimg.cc/ftLF8tdM/23759824-0-C42-4185-8-C6-E-2-BC7249-E5309.jp g" target="_blank">https://i.postimg.cc/ftLF8tdM/23759824-0-C42-4185-8-C6-E-2-BC7249-E5309.jp g"/> [/img][/url]
Shite! So it's just mocking people the artist deems to be worthy target of his wit. Hilarious!
This is what Wales Arts Review had to say, and I think I kinda agree:
Looking at the work, as a critic, you can’t help but feel you’re being asked where you stand. With the establishment? With the artist? Or with nihilism itself, in which case you stand nowhere. And if you think Williams’ work is shit, snide, artless, but you agree with his general sentiment, then are you left with nothing at all? Luckily, Williams’ work is not shit, and the snideness is a strength (and even what you might view as the “artlessness” has a certain poised craft to it). Even when one tile misses its mark, or is too obtuse, Instagram allows you to quickly move on and find a bullseye.
https://www.walesartsreview.org/bedwyr-williams-instagram/
The things he has issues with though seem to be mainly: people who own second homes, people who move to Wales who don't want to learn Welsh, narcissistic people, pretentious people. I don't think there's necessarily a suggestion that he's better than them just that he hates them anyway. I bet it does get pretty annoying for locals in north Wales especially right now with hordes of people in T6s visiting their second homes and talking pretentiously about the artisanal Reiki therapy business they're starting there (in English).
What's his username then?
Anyone that chippy has to be on here.
I guess when you are a permanent resident in a wilderness escape sort of place you get to see a constant stream of repetition from the visitors, for example some of his observations are strangely similar to the highlands.
people who move to Wales who don’t want to learn Welsh
What about Welsh people who don't want to learn Welsh?
I dunno, what about them?
Did the instagram embed thing stop working?
In a forum upgrade about 12 months ago. I'm expecting the quote function to stop working in the next upgrade.
Premier Icon
IHN
Full MemberWithout wishing to sound like a dick, please don’t just blindly post links to other stuff
I don’t think you meant to be a dick, and I agree with your sentiment, but I saw OPs post when it first went up and he did indeed have something to say but then it looked like the forum crapped on him and he got stuck in an edit.
Edit: just read the whole thread. dunno why me or the OP are singling out out IHN! This thread is a massive comms fail.
So it’s just mocking people the artist deems to be worthy target of his wit.
With a smattering of casual racism too!
In a forum upgrade about 12 months ago. I’m expecting the quote function to stop working in the next upgrade.
To be fair, baisc posting text is pretty flaky at the moment....
I don’t think you meant to be a dick, and I agree with your sentiment, but I saw OPs post when it first went up and he did indeed have something to say but then it looked like the forum crapped on him and he got stuck in an edit.
Yup! I edited to see if I could fix the instagram links, then tried to replace with imgbox links, nothing was working, then the site disappeared. That was a fun 15 minutes.
With a smattering of casual racism too!
I didn't see any racism? I'm also not necessarily saying I endorse all of his sentiments but I think some of his weirdly specific examples are quite well observed/wry I suppose, even if they are very bitter!
I've just spent 45 minutes reading them all and I offer this.
Middle aged English man snorts derisively and flicks his chewed off nail behind the radiator looking at welsh artist's instagram page whilst on holiday in north wales.
Are T6 owners a race?
'Tubby wannabe stunt cyclists discuss misanthropic Welsh artist awkwardly'
45 minutes of reading something you think is shite! 🙂
We find it weird that you make it all about you
How to make a scenic photo worse - include yourself in it.
How to make a video/TV worse - give more space/time to your talking face than the thing you're talking about.
