Tumblr Post About Monty Jesus And A Framed Fly Is Peak Art School

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mattstaff
Oct 20, 2018 10:00 PM EDT

Sounds like a real cool place...

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    Text - My school created a God. I am a student at an art university. There is an infamous building on our campus, called "Montgomery House" or more commonly, "Monty." Monty is the building for animation, game design, special effects, sound design, and basically everything that requires highly powerful, highly specialized computers and software. The building is infamous for a couple of reasons. It's located pretty far away from any other building, for one. The building itself used to be a coffin
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    Text - the "monty majors" have to spend a lot of time there. A lot. It is not uncommon for somebody to spend more than a few days exclusively within the sunless, dark walls of Monty. If you go to the building, it is not surprising to see students sleeping on the floor, on the few chairs available, on the computers. Some bring sleeping bags and rations. Some just forgo sleep, buy espresso shots and work. The entire building just smells of coffee and sweat. It really seems like an exageration, but
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    Text - files to render, or the computers to work, began to offer prayers to Monty Jesus. Soon, they began writing their prayers and taping them next to the painting. The wall is now covered, completly plastered, in prayers to Monty Jesus for things like "Fix the wifi" and "let me live through finals" and more simply "help me." Candles have been added. Literal candles are placed around Monty Jesus in hopes he will help them. This is how religions are born. Monty Jesus is considered a "joke", but
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    Text - Religion, spirituality, didn't stop being relevant. It didn't stop being something people need and want, and have the desire to create. It's still happening, and it always will as long as their are people. The spirit of creation, new deities and new worship, is alive and well today and should not be ignored simply because it is "new" or "a joke." kaible Monty Jesus is Real and Strong and Our
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    Text - Friend beyoursledgehammer SCAD is such a weird and magical place. artistic-ape As soon as I saw "Monty" | knew this was about my school metalheadequestrian I go to this school and I can confirm he is real. Another weird happening that oCcurred in the dorm adjacent to Monty is the smashed fly incident. Basically, someone smashed a fly on the stairway wall in the dorm and, because no janitor in this building ever bothers to thoroughly clean the place, the fly stayed there for a good few wee
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    Text - wrote "ART" next to the fly with sharpie, and a few days after that, someone made a tiny frame and name tag to accompany the art piece ART Monty H. Gomery The Folly of Man smashed fly, wall 4 in x 3 in
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    Technology - Eventually some fool took this beautiful art piece down, and someone wrote a goddamn article about it in our school newspaper THE SCAD Daily ALL ABOUT THE BIG WORLD WE LIVE IN EXCLUSIVE NEWS TODAY Authoritarian Regime Destroys Modern Art Locals were surprised to see that the popular work The Folly of Man" by Monty H. Gomery had been destroyed by the SCAD regime. Monty H. is well known for challenging the state through his work. In an interview conducted ART earlier this year, Monty
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    Text - which prompted several students to erect a mini shrine on the stairwell in honor of the smashed fly. Art school is truly a magical place. animentality Your school is a microcosm of how human culture develops, incredible.
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