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DetrimentalMemories — Viva la Nirvana
Published: 2006-11-11 22:53:15 +0000 UTC; Views: 2433; Favourites: 40; Downloads: 63
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This is a random piece that I've been in the process of creating for a long time now. It all started when I just could not finish a really dull book that I'd picked up at a yard sale years ago. Being one who has always adored the aged look of older books, I decided to do something with this otherwise useless collection of paper and ink. I tore a few dozen pages out of the book, brewed/stained them in tea (Liptons) and, WHA-LAH, I have that wonderful look of aged-paper that I had desired to achieve....Fast foreward a few months later...
I'm sitting in my mother's room as I'm reading the newspaper and low-and-behold, whom do I see staring back at me upon the otherwise benign collections of info-tainment? THE Kurt Cobain! Now, if you do not already know this, I am a Nirvana junkie (no pun intended), I am a Nirvana freak. So, unwilling to pass up a *rare* opportunity to salvage a photo of the beloved grunge-rocker, I gleefully tore the full-page article out of it's otherwise media-fodder destiny. Oh, the JOY of seeing Nirvana in the limelight once again! Albeit, due to that drug-using THING known as *cringes* Courtney Love. *shutters*
Anyways, with the article in hand, I spend the next hour vehimently cutting, pasting, and adjusting various elements of my work-in-progess until *drumroll*, my latest psudo-artwork is complete! Ah, the revelry!
"...seen alot out there, but don't be scared-- who needs actions when you've got words." - Plateau by Nirvana
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EEEEEEEE! I have a hoodie that has that picture of Nirvana on the back! 
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Aye! Thanks, mate.
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I like it a lot.
I've recently taken up an infatuation with Nirvana/Kurt Cobain.
I wish I coulda met him while he was still alive.
It's a shame, what he did, really.
Your artwork's really good, though.
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Thanks for the
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of course!!
I love the aged paper
in the background.
It woulda been cool if you
found paper with
Nirvana lyrics.
Like from RAPE ME.
[[bestsongever]]
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Yeah. But instead I just turned a shitty book into really cool art. It would've looked a lot better if I'd used a foreign book (i.e. German or Russian would be awesome). Hehehe.
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Yesss. because then
a lot of people wouldn't know
what it says!!! and
it'd be kinda more "mysterious"
or something I'm not sure
of the word I'm looking for.
cool idea, though.
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Exactly! Hehe. Great minds... XD
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hahaha.
yessss.
we do have great minds
because both of our minds
love nirvana.
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Kurt Cobain is my God. As a fan of the collage look, as well as Nirvana being my absolute most favourite band of all time, this most definitely requires a
Next time you do something like this, try using scanned pages from his journals, if you can find a copy somewhere or you own one, because a lot of them have a great "aged-page" look.
Collages like this one are something I'm planning on working on this summer (yeah, I'm Australian so we're heading into summer now).
By the way, your Kurt-with-the-cat DP was my MSN userpic for a very long time, and it's one of my favourite pictures of Kurt.
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Wicked XD
Kurt is also my God. Hehe. I tell people that I'm a polytheist, my gods are: Kurt Cobain, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon, and the like. My church, in contrast, is the library. Hehe.
As a matter of fact, I do own a copy of his 'journals'. To delve into the mind of a musical genius is too amazing for words-- that's what it's like when you flip through his journals.
Greetings from above the equator! Cheers & Thanks for the +fav
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I love the way that even just flicking around random pages of his journal produces the most interesting inspiration for different things.
This year I've had a photocopy of that picture of the weird mutant alien thing breaking apart the world to show its' heart stuck up in my locker, and every time people walked past they usually said "Did you draw that?", and I'd reply "No, Kurt Cobain did."
I'll never forget the time that some dumbwit, after I'd finished explaining who the true artistic talent belonged to, stared at me for a few seconds, open-mouthed and said, completely seriously: "You know Kurt Cobain?"
Oh God, I wish I really had known him.
I guess now all that anybody can hope to do is know his work and hope his daughter doesn't come to a similar end (which seems incredibly likely, given who her mother is).
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Yeah. It's amazing how he was just such a well-rounded artist, music-wise and drawing-wise.
I wish I'd known Kurt. Or at least got to meet him. I was only four years old when he died. His death took with him a certain feeling of... light.
Now our world is just abysmal, music-wise, with shyte like rap and the like-- since when has the degradation of women and the exploitation of sex and drugs been so fashionable? I just don't get it.
Kurt'll always be here in spirit. One day I hope to visit that bridge on the muddy banks of the Wishkah. T'would be nice.
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I was also four when he died... I wish I'd known who he was while he was still alive. I've often wondered what he would have been like today if he was still alive. What the music scene would have been like if he was still alive. What the world would have been like...
It's always been an aspiration of mine to go and see that bridge on the Wishkah too. Actually, I just want to go to America for starters... 
Modern rap music isn't music - I admit that rap it itself is a form of poetry, but it's a shame that it's a form of poetry that's been applied to sexual degradation. At its core, rap's not a bad thing. It's just the present form of rap that converges upon our radios and current culture, the rap that speaks of glorified chauvanism, the "pimps" with their "hoes" and "bitches" that has turned the form into something not worth anyone's time.
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Very true. Hmm.. maybe one day there'll be massive amounts of people that go on pilgrimages to the muddy banks of the Wishkah. XD
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I bet there probably already are.
We can't be the only two crazily manic devout Nirvana fans in the world...
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Yeah. Hehehe. ^-^
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Wishkah, here we come!
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YAY! ROAD TRIP! Hehe.
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Love! is it a solvent transfer or a photoshoppie? or an unadultered collage, in which case: good cutting! I never worked out what Plateau was about after hours of wondering its one of my favourites out of the acoustics... anyhow good works~!
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It's is an unadulterated collage! Woot. I used pages from a shitty old book that I had, cut them up, pasted them onto a small piece of posterboard, then used a Nirvana photo clipping from the newspaper and wha-lah! ^-^
Thanks
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It's Great as for the description as the piece itself. It's just easy to find this oddly appealing.
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