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What I am seeking is not the real and not the unreal but rather the unconscious, the mystery of the instinctive in the human race-Amedeo Modigliani

A Marble is a Marble

I laughed so hard I about peed my pants when I saw this on a friend's blog a few months ago. It is very similar to what happened several times in art classes with nude male models. There's a story I've yet to tell about one model.




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1omncINsgE

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Comments

Darko 5. November 2009, 22:39

:lol: :lol: :lol: I couldn`t believe it :faint:

Andy Wilson 5. November 2009, 22:42

:yikes: :yikes: :jester: :jester:

scott cumming 5. November 2009, 23:28

action reaction... lol hilarious.

der Wandersmann 5. November 2009, 23:31

LOL

Phantom2 5. November 2009, 23:45

:lol: :lol:

*pulls up a stool and waits for story*

Linda 5. November 2009, 23:50

:lol: :lol: :lol: Great! Reminds me of someone I know! ROFLMAO!

PainterWoman 6. November 2009, 00:10

Darko and Andy: I couldn't believe it either and I actually snorted when laughing.

Scott: There were a couple of women in the class who dressed kinda sexy but not like this woman.

P2: You might have to sit on that stool for quite some time. The model I have a story about is on FB. I don't want him to find me talking about him.

Linda: In my art classes, they either had drapery going across the model or nothing at all.

Linda 6. November 2009, 00:32

No marbles, huh? Well, it would have been bad with nothing. I remember you telling us about the guy on FB.

Phan The Hieu 6. November 2009, 00:34

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
This video is uploaded by my friend darkking :smile:

PainterWoman 6. November 2009, 01:19

Linda, no marbles. Yeah, he did it on purpose.

Billy: That's where I saw it and just happened to think about it today. Couldn't resist posting it.

Dacotah 6. November 2009, 01:24

:lol:

Suntana 6. November 2009, 03:21

For a while there, I thought that with it being a YouTube, I was going to have to opt for having someone describe what happened. But, when I saw it was only 1 minute and 17 seconds ... and when the woman walked in, I figured, Now I HAVE to see this one out. :lol: Too funny! :jester:

PainterWoman 6. November 2009, 03:40

I forget you can't watch the long YT vids but glad you could see this one. It really looks like at art class but I'm positive it was set up. There are no marbles in art class. Probably a skit on SNL or some other late night comedy show.

Linda 6. November 2009, 03:44

I think you are right Pam, because that guy's face looks very familiar to me. Pretty sure he's an actor. Definitely female actor===the boobs are bought.

PainterWoman 6. November 2009, 03:47

Benny Hill would have had a skit like this. That show was nuttier than a fruitcake.

Linda 6. November 2009, 03:56

And I dearly loved it, but not quite as much as I liked Monty Python. Was discussing this with Graham recently. He doesn't like Monty Python---says he doesn't find it funny. It tickles me because it's so insane.

Edward Piercy 6. November 2009, 19:16

LMAO.

The moral: Women always make a man lose his marbles.

scott cumming 6. November 2009, 20:33

:lol:

i posed for a class a few times in my teens... without the benefit of marbles... all it took was a draft of wind and i was pointing at the ladies... very embarassing :lol:

PainterWoman 6. November 2009, 20:43

Linda: Can you believe the only place I ever saw a Monty Python skit was when someone posted a video from YT.

Ed: Oh I could say the same about men. p:

Scott: I posed many times for classes and workshops and I was in my fifties. Never nude, however. A costume of some sort was required. Since I had lots of odd clothing, it was great and paid better money than many of the PT jobs I had.

Angeliki 7. November 2009, 04:31

ahahahahah :lol: :lol: :lol: hahahahaha I LOVE THIS!!!!

PainterWoman 7. November 2009, 07:50

dW, Carol and Angeliki: Glad you liked it. I love the look on the guy's face when the first marble goes rolling out. I hesitated at first posting this. It's not my usual.

Seeing the art class though makes me want to take one again just to be around my kind of people. There's always a camaraderie in the air. A studio workshop would be the best though, no instructor there. Just someone to oversee it and take your money for payment to the model. I might find one to take next year.

Linda: I sorta miss Benny Hill too. He was always so nutty and the mischievous expressions on his face were priceless. The model's expression in the above video reminded me of him.

Linda 7. November 2009, 08:04

You're right. No one could look so dorkily lascivious! Do you know, though, he died peniless and alone, a recluse.

PainterWoman 7. November 2009, 08:17

I had no idea. That's really sad. Either he didn't manage his money well or he had a thief for an accountant.

Lois 7. November 2009, 13:57

:lol: It gives the expression, "losing your marbles" a whole new meaning!

Linda 7. November 2009, 20:02

I don't remember for sure, now, but I think his manager cheated him out of his money. Would have to look it up. They did a documentary about him.

PainterWoman 7. November 2009, 22:39

Ah thank you Graham! Now we have names for the people in this skit. Did their show get axed because it was too risqué?

der Wandersmann 7. November 2009, 23:47

Wow! A fishing show! The telly equivalent of Siberia! I have been caught into watching a few of them on our local outdoors show ... These fellows who have maybe $50,000.00 of equipment and still can't outsmart a fish. I think it takes an equivalent intellect to watch and enjoy these things.

Hmmm ... on second thought, that should make them the most-watched progs on the tube!

daxonmacs 7. November 2009, 23:50

I saw this before, on my.opera, must be at darkking's as mentioned above.
Hilarious, and indeed a high Benny Hill percentage.

PainterWoman 8. November 2009, 00:15

Graham and dW: Now the golf show would be boring to me. Fishing shows...eh...I don't mind them so much. I've always wanted to try fishing once because it seems relaxing. But after seeing some of the fishing bloopers on Angeliki's blog, it doesn't look so relaxing.

Dax, I decided to post this because I was thinking about telling my story about an art model I dated along with it. But I lost my nerve about the story. He was a little too weird for me.

Linda 8. November 2009, 00:30

You did tell a story about you dating that model, Pam, a few months back. I didn't like him at all after reading that post.

I used to watch fishing shows faithfully. They are very interesting if you are a fisherman. I was.

PainterWoman 8. November 2009, 01:08

I posted on the bozo Safeway Parking Lot guy. I never posted on the model. I PMd you about him and mentioned him in comments somewhere. He really was a likable guy till I found out more about him.

Linda 8. November 2009, 01:29

May have been in comments or PMs. I remember him though cause I looked him up on FB.

daxonmacs 8. November 2009, 02:16

Pam, it sounds to me like you need to align your heart and mind, :lol:
I'm trying to stay polite here.

Well, lose that scrutiny an post about FB guy, you made us curious now, anyway :o:

Suntana 8. November 2009, 03:52

Peppermint, to the best of my recollection, Pam talked SOME about Model Dude in Comments and PMs, but on some lower level. It wasn't the all out, full blown, Not for the Weak of Stomach, No Holds Barred, Take the Bull By the Horns, Family Jewels on the Table exposé that Pam's been contemplating on doing. We haven't been exposed to all the extreme details that will epitomize the :insane: :eyes: :yikes: :no: Smileys.

Linda 8. November 2009, 06:25

Well, we will just wait for her tell-all expose' then. :D

daxonmacs 8. November 2009, 09:27

I understood she's looking for the pictures as we speak ... :right:

Suntana 8. November 2009, 15:30

I hear Pam is consulting with experts on this kind of story-revealing on what best journalistic principles approach to take ... Geraldo Rivera, Maury Povich, Jerry Springer and Howard Stern. p:

Linda 8. November 2009, 19:14

I fish for black bass, crappie and bream; also catfish. Or I used to till I moved to Smith Co. where all the women are wusses and fuddy duddies

PainterWoman 8. November 2009, 20:00

Well, when I think of fishing, it's sitting in a canoe on one of the quiet lakes in Arizona OR on the edge of a pier somewhere. Nothing big, no yachts, but just staring out into the ocean would be nice. Only been on a fancy fishing yacht once during an outing at a business function many years ago. Now that was exciting. Somewhere I've got photos of that but they're probably at my ex's.

P.S. I think the complete model story will stay submerged with the fish for a while. p: :devil:

Linda 8. November 2009, 21:00

Ah, shucks.

Fishing is relaxing, Pam. It can also be exciting. There is quite a good feeling when you catch a fish, especially using a lure, and then manage to get it in the boat.

My favorite times to fish were at night, and early in the morning. Everything is quiet, and in the mornings, there's a haze of fog over the water, and you hear the slap of the water against the side of the boat, and the sleepy call of birds just awakening, and fish jumping in the water to add a splash to the peacefulness. It's wonderful.

Darko 8. November 2009, 21:24

Originally posted by L2D2:

fuddy duddies


:lol:

Linda 8. November 2009, 21:30

Are you familiar with that term Dare? Probably can find in urban dictionary. Think I will go look

Darko 8. November 2009, 21:34

1. Fuddy-Duddy
an adjective used to describe a person that is being a downer, lame, boring.
Katie was such a fuddy-duddy last night at the party.


2.Fuddy-Duddy
A tall, somewhat "ogre-ish" young man who is to the utmost extent, a goofy guy. He is at times a slob, a fiend, and very stubborn. But, he is your good friend, and still manages to keep you laughing.
(you walk down the crowded school hallway and the one head that sticks out of the crowd is your goofy ass friend who seems to be standing around amongst the chaos, zoned out) "Dude man, look at you. your such a fuddy-duddy!"


I feel like number 2 sometimes :faint:

Linda 8. November 2009, 21:36

They have some definitions that I have never heard of

Darko 8. November 2009, 21:38

:lol:

Linda 8. November 2009, 21:51

Ha, guess you read them too! Never seen fuddy duddy used as in 2nd def. above----or the other definitions urban dict. gave either! :eyes:

For my purpose, 1st one will do. :D

PainterWoman 8. November 2009, 22:26

Originally posted by gdare:

your goofy ass friend who seems to be standing around amongst the chaos, zoned out


As an artist, I am continually zoned out.

'In the zone' is a better way of putting it. There have been times in the past when I've painted for hours and didn't realize it. I'd think only an hour had passed.

Ducie 9. November 2009, 06:27

:lol: I can't help laughing when watching this video. I really had never imagined before that things like this could happen in art classes :D

PainterWoman 9. November 2009, 15:40

Ducie, yes sometimes it happens. Not exactly like this with a bowl of marbles which is kind of ridiculous. Sometimes a model will have a sheet over certain areas but most often not.

For new students who have never seen another person nude, especially of the opposite sex, it can be embarrassing and a shock. The first couple of weeks of class, it is usually veeeeerrrrry quiet in the room. You can almost hear a pin drop.

Suntana 10. November 2009, 00:38

Has an Art Student of the opposite sex ever claimed to be very near-sighted and requested to be situated way closer to the model? :D

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