Another jerk of the year nominee
Via CityNews TV in Canada (hat tip – David F.):
His name is Thorarinn Jonsson, and he’s a student at the Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD) on McCaul St. He also says he’s something else – the man behind a bomb hoax that shut down an AIDS fundraiser at the Royal Ontario Museum and a busy section of Bloor St. West on Wednesday night. The prank cost CANFAR, the Canadian Foundation for Aids Research, at least $100,000.
Jonsson admits he didn’t expect the reaction his school project engendered and he didn’t know anything about the charity event going on near the laneway where his “art” was hidden. It consisted of a device that resembled a real bomb, with wires and a circuit board, stuffed into an LCBO bag. It was accompanied by a note that read “this is not a bomb.” But authorities couldn’t take any chances.
The 25-year-old remains relatively unrepentant about an escapade that also cost police hours of their valuable time and an equal amount in rustling up the necessary experts and equipment to defuse the phony explosive.
“I expected the police to immediately realize what they were dealing with,” he claims. Two videos surrounding the hoax were posted on YouTube, one here, the other here. One shows a girl going through the ROM when an apparent explosion takes place. Jonsonn calls it part of his final assignment for the school.
“I’m taking something that’s clearly a sculpture. It’s clearly not a bomb. But by taking it out of context and putting it into another context, by leaving it lying around … it suddenly takes on a different meaning.”
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jerk!!!!
They ought to sue him and see how funny he thinks it is when he’s paying the bill.
Obviously someone stuck in a September 10 world.
The jerkdom extends to the “educational” system that accepts or encourages such performance art as school projects. This type of idoicy does not occur in a vacuum.
Someone needs to remind this idiot that freedom of speech (or artistic expression) does not include the right to yell “Fire!” in a crowded theater.
And then he should spend at least a weekend in the county jail.
put him in the cell next to the lame brain that went into the airport with a circuit board flashing on her chest.
2 years and $250,000 fine.
Definitely a nominee, but might have a better running in ‘idiot of the year’.
I might still favor Bobby Caina Calvan for the jerk of the year award for the sheer arrogance.
Tough call, though.
and we know who Mother of the Year is also,,,, Mrs.Olympia queen of the moonies.
Ya gotta love the idiocy of these left wing moonbats.
Jackass of the Year sounds more appropriate.
I fear the day when one of these idiots does this performance art thing and receives a well placed .357 round into his/her body from a police officer who saw him/her as a true threat. What are officers supposed to do in that situation?(rhetorical question, of course)
So many to choose from, so little time.
I’m thinkin’ he’s going to get an F for this course.
It’s such a long year, and so many from which to choose.
I always vote for Chappaquiddick Ted.
He’s got seniority.
No, BAL, given the current environment in schools – particularly colleges – it’s going to be an A. Maybe an A+
I’ll see that with 5 years and $500,000 with the fine to reimburse the costs of the Police and the rest to go to the AIDS fundraiser. What a Dumas! Almost as smart as the twit from MIT and the art on her sweater (circuit board and blinking lights).
At least it wasn’t the old “yell fire in the theater” performance piece.
I would give him a C… & 1 to 3 if a first offence.
Art for art’s sake by any other name is crap.
I’d say that fellow is about two shakes short of a full martini.
The fact that he is curiously detatched from what he did makes me think he would be perfectly capable of carrying out something like that for real.
Conscienceless lout.
Well, at least it proves that “art” can survive just fine without my tax dollars.
It’s obvious he grew up watching OPRAH and learned the “I’m the Victim” lesson well.
Texhoma, He also mixed in a little Hillary to perfect the “I’m the Victim” act.
This is a new low even for the educational system or
what passes for the educational system these days.
These people that pull stunts like this always have
what they consider a plausible explanation. They just
cannot believe that anyone would be upset by their
“little pranks.” I mean, he had a note on it saying, this
is not a bomb. How many police personnel could have
been killed if that had been a lie and they believed it.
He should have to pay every penny of the $100,000.00 back plus some more just for being such class A idiot. The problem is, probably everyone he knows at the school is high fiving him,
and wishing they had thought of it.
Driving along the highway of life with two wheels in the sand…
Lout is right.
He stated from his mom’s basement.
Is it my imagination, or is his scarf remarkably similar to those worn by desert tribesmen?
The dude looks like a young Paul Krugman of the NYT, in the above pic.
I have a “work of art” I’d like to try. I call it: Noose On A Tree
How noble will True Artists and universities think I’ll be?
This guy’s at least three degrees to the left of stupid.
I think you’re confused; this was a doofus student in Canada, not the individual in New Hampshire today.
Is anyone reminded of the doofus “ad campaign” for “Aqua Teen Hunger Force” last year in Boston?
…it’s called a hoax device… @$$hat.
“I expected the police to immediately realize what they were dealing with.”
It’s always up to someone else to figure out what these suckheads are doing. What he’s saying is it’s the fault of the police. He gets to do anything he wants and if it goes bad, it’s because others didn’t understand him. It’s always the same. The premise they live by is they are always right.
I have a different view of this clown. In the picture above he is wearing a keffiyeh. I believe that this “art project” was a dry run to test response times. Lock him up and run background checks on everyone he’s emailed in the last 10 years.
That’s exactly right.
He’s a free-lancer, shock-testing the system. Not that he plans to carry out an actual attack or is affiliated with anyone who plans to do so.
Its just how moonbats pay it forward.
Several options:
1. Strap him up in a cell and put a sign on him: “This is not a waterboarding session.” Videotape it.
2. Infest his little “Palestinian Solidarity Scarf” with fleas and make him wear it.
3. Send him an itemized accounting of the costs his stunt incurred to the municipality involved. Then garnish his financial aid dollars to pay for them. Post a little note on it to him:
“This is not your subsidized education benefit going ‘POOF’!”
4. Send the “artiste” to a work camp where his sole job is to clean motor pool tires with his snakey little tongue.
5. Better yet, have him do 18 months community service in an AIDS ward.
What else might prove fitting?
It used to be so easy to be an artist…you drew endless circles & straight lines, then learned to mix your color pallet, then rendered copies of the masters,then stayed dead-broke for decades,a little time in maximum-lockup always advanced things…you chased show after gallery show & bla bla bla…I don’t understand….perhaps I should have tried something more new-millennium….perhaps I had this whole “Art’ concept wrong?
Also from the article:
…the situation which didn’t exist until he created it.
My first act as president will be to appoint bear1909 to head the NEA.
Gotta love that post-modern rationale that art is as art does. There’s no form, no method, no boundaries and no justification.
That’s not art. That’s a public display of a lunatic mind — and not the creative type of lunacy either.
More on this idiot: He was was released from jail on $33,000 bail. WHO PAID IT? His lawyer said his client “hails from a high-profile Icelandic family and is in Canada on a student visa.” VISA SHOULD BE REVOKED, PERSON SHOULD BE DEPORTED BACK TO LOVELY ICELAND. AND HOW HIGH PROFILE CAN YOU BE IN ICELAND? The Ontario College of Art and Design has suspended Mr. Jonsson and his production class teachers pending an internal investigation. YES, HE HAS LOST HIS STUDENT VISA AND SHOULD RETURN HOME. “Teaching while an Idiot” should be an indictable offense.
He’s a free-lancer, shock-testing the system.
I agree. Canada is being set up for a terrorist strike. This was a “dry run.”
For my next art project I’m going to fashion out of wax a sparrow missle lookalike and then go hang out on the road next to the airport. Think anyone will notice?
(sarc)
You know it’s getting bad when leftists are now disrupting AIDS fundraisers.
More like asshole of the year.
Anus disruptus…?
Punish a genius, just because he didn’t schedule his latest creation for display at the museum? Such genius can’t be confined by such flippant necessities!
On with the bomb!
agreeing with Bear1909 here…
Especially the part about doing 18 months community service in an AIDS ward.
What an a$$hat!
@41: Of COURSE they’ll notice, Dave. You have to put a note on your art project explaining that it’s not really a missile. This is why you leave “art” to the professionals from “art” school.
I have an idea for an art project, too. Let’s take Thorarinn Jonsson out of the school context and put him in the jail context. By decontextualizing him from his current setting and then recontextualizing him in a different setting, he acquires new meaning through transformative process. This is from the Tantor school of art, my blue period, an art installation I call “When Art Is Crime Is Art”. My fear is that this piece will be misunderstood by Jonsson who may think himself merely a prisoner when he has actually become art himself. I am working on a subsequent installation for Mr. Jonsson called “Buster The Dominant Cellmate and His Bitch Thorarinn.”
I’m thinkin’ he’s going to get an F for this course.
nope, i’m guessing A