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McFadden's Cold War

Started by biggytitbo, September 21, 2018, 07:50:20 PM

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biggytitbo

Undoubtedly one of the great chroniclers of our troubled times is the twitter account - https://twitter.com/Coldwar_Steve

Coldwar Steve produces profound works of art that synthesize the spirit of the UK as it struggles through the second decade of the 21st century.

I think this is one of his finest masterpieces, the second in a triptych of related works:



https://twitter.com/Coldwar_Steve/status/1042015031167262726

So wired into the zeitgeist is Steve's work that even before I had had time to properly take this work in I knew, as if by premonition, that Sergei Skripal was in the image. After about 10 glorious minutes of discovery I found him, and it was just perfect. Steve is a reflection of the psyche of 21st UK and he will be remembered in future years in the same breath as Turner, Blake and Bacon.

mothman

Don't get it. At all. There are many reasons why I left Twitter, but people retweeting these cackhanded unfunny photoshop collages definitely played a part.

Blumf

https://twitter.com/Brut_Stilgoe
QuoteBrutalist Stilgoe @Brut_Stilgoe
Brutalist Water Towers with Richard Stilgoe.

the

I like the rousing falsified effect of assembling current political and cultural playaz into an exaggerated mid-20th Century British social tableau.

What I don't like is the way it's been assembled in that 'self-conciously craply montaged' style that eg. Glebe uses to worm out of committing to the unreality of the tableau. The artist is obviously deft enough to have weaved the whole image into one texture that forms a convincing simultaneity. But they're too chickenshit to commit, probably under the incorrect belief that the faces will be muted to the point of unrecognisability if not presented in the same lighting state as their syndicated photographs.

7.5/10

Shit Good Nose

Like mothman I'm arsed mate, cigs with the OP, but that Brutalist Water Towers with Richard Stilgoe that Blumf linked to is a thing of genius.  It's the specificity of both the person and the subject, isn't it, rather than a random collage of disparate celebs.

biggytitbo

The collages aren't random though, he always picks celebrities that are perfectly matched in their incongruity, like a great comedian doesn't just choose random words to mash together, noel fielding like, they choose words that sound inherently funny together. There's something profoundly correct about the recurring appearances of Kim Jong Un and Pat Butcher together, for instance.

Shit Good Nose

I still prefer Stilgoe in front of a brutalist water tower. (appreciate it's the same guy)

Epic Bisto

I love McFadden's Cold War. A quick scroll through that link always leaves crippled in hysterics. The Sistine Chapel should have all its walls (and the roof) painted over and replaced with these photos.

shiftwork2


Phil_A

I noticed the use of "Guilty" Ron Hayward in his football line-up, which did make me wonder if he was one of us. Unless there's another forum out there that's as obsessed with Ron and his furtive porn habits as we are?


Epic Bisto

It's way too much of a coincidence. There was a ton of collages involving Little & Large when their CaB presence was at its peak.

Paul Calf

Quote from: mothman on September 21, 2018, 07:58:49 PM
Don't get it. At all. There are many reasons why I left Twitter, but people retweeting these cackhanded unfunny photoshop collages definitely played a part.

There are tweets every day imploring you to return.

Shit Good Nose

We also had a Gaffney flap a few years back.

Hmmmm.....

mothman

Quote from: Paul Calf on September 22, 2018, 10:25:17 PM
There are tweets every day imploring you to return.

I think I've hurt somebody's feelings.

Shaky

I follow McFadden's Cold War on a Twitter account I rarely use these days (thus making me cool but not too cool). It only really works when it's pared down to Steve and a couple of others, I think. Filling the shot with lots of figures isn't very funny as you spend most of the time actually trying to work out what the fuck you're looking at.

buttgammon

Quote from: Shaky on September 23, 2018, 12:54:21 AM
I follow McFadden's Cold War on a Twitter account I rarely use these days (thus making me cool but not too cool). It only really works when it's pared down to Steve and a couple of others, I think. Filling the shot with lots of figures isn't very funny as you spend most of the time actually trying to work out what the fuck you're looking at.

Agree with this. The best ones are just Steve, Kim Jong-Un, and maybe Dec (as in 'Ant and').

I also used to follow something called UtterPhilth, which was basically photoshops and occasional videos of Phil Mitchell stuff. They were great for a while, but degenerated into juvenile fart jokes and the like.

biggytitbo

Interesting story behind the cold war Steve account too.

Robot DeNiro

Quote from: biggytitbo on September 23, 2018, 09:47:11 AM
Interesting story behind the cold war Steve account too.
Go on then...

I saw this last night, the story behind the photo of Cilla he always uses - https://twitter.com/BeCo74/status/511615528017068032

hermitical

Quote from: Phil_A on September 22, 2018, 09:51:23 PM
I noticed the use of "Guilty" Ron Hayward in his football line-up, which did make me wonder if he was one of us. Unless there's another forum out there that's as obsessed with Ron and his furtive porn habits as we are?



Ron makes an appearance in Brutalist Stilgoe's pinned tweet

Blumf

No Bruice though (that I've seen)

Blue Jam

#20
Seen UtterPhilth on Facebook? EDIT: Ah, I see buttgammon has:

https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1701724256771684

http://www.utterphilth.com

I'm not sure I get these either but I like this:

https://youtu.be/gi_p-0rEZO4

Consignia

Ha, those UtterPhilith things are excellent. How can you not watch ArseEnders and not chuckle?

rasta-spouse

I'm really enjoying this McFadden feed. Thanks for the rec. Although for a while I thought the Phil Mitchell cut-out was Toby Young, and that added to my delight.

Wet Blanket

I thought they were amusing at first but once you've got the gist of it it gets a bit like someone telling you the same joke over and over again.


rasta-spouse

Quote from: Wet Blanket on October 01, 2018, 01:37:26 PM
a bit like someone telling you the same joke over and over again.

I can't tell if you're setting me up for a Lee slam or not.