tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post1108714987953162995..comments2024-03-27T00:32:29.877-07:00Comments on Photos and Stuff: Here's a Right Bloody Messamolitorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15743439184763617516noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-88808883546952795492016-02-15T07:03:36.549-08:002016-02-15T07:03:36.549-08:00I truly loved this. Brilliant and oh, so true.I truly loved this. Brilliant and oh, so true.Donhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00960303867805884580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-17472008633666366522016-02-14T12:22:34.139-08:002016-02-14T12:22:34.139-08:00Brilliant!!
Thanks for the link.
DavidBrilliant!!<br />Thanks for the link.<br />Davidmilldavehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01970560156979145583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-63758145993400658182016-02-13T13:18:41.588-08:002016-02-13T13:18:41.588-08:00@milldave:
Imagine if Donald Trump was a photogra...@milldave:<br /><br />Imagine if Donald Trump was a photographer, you say: http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2016/02/donald-trumps-guide-to-street.htmlJGhttp://audiidudii.aminus3.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-15059104631899200952016-02-13T01:02:31.727-08:002016-02-13T01:02:31.727-08:00Without googling, can you tell which of these is f...Without googling, can you tell which of these is fake?<br /><br /><br />"For a few years I’ve been collecting lumps of concrete, dug up in the London streets outside my studio, by-products of the ongoing construction boom in the city. I’m interested in the relationship of these human-made rocks to weight and (de)materiality."<br /><br />"A dead chicken obligingly seasons itself with canned peas in an ad for Bonduelle vegetables; a black cat gets masturbated by an electropneumatic sex machine/scratching post; a Third Reich–looking Minnie Mouse pulverizes a little boy’s ass with a nightstick near a sign that reads WE WANT MOTHERS."<br /><br />"If a protagonist were to be located in all three installations, it might be montage itself, which is problematized by the very fact that it meanders continuously across each triptych’s components, making discrete visual elements share space. To adroitly scan this sublime footage won’t feel unfamiliar to a contemporary viewer: In their shift toward digital images and multichannel installations, the filmmakers seem to acknowledge cinema—that boxed enclosure lit by a single screen—as an outdated site of entertainment corresponding to the very modes of industry and labor from which their work offers recourse."<br /><br />The answer, of course, is none of them - they all relate to "real" artists and "real" shows. <br />Patrick Doddshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02542212200114555054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-41156702061291831422016-02-12T12:46:25.244-08:002016-02-12T12:46:25.244-08:00This, however, is genuine young-person arty bolloc...This, however, is genuine young-person arty bollocks. I won't cite the source:<br /><br /><br />"I aim to investigate surfaces, but my gaze is bounced back or slides down, at other times it is sucked in revealing little. But what lies beneath? The attentiveness and rigidness of the process within which I work corresponds with the physical and psychological structures I am exploring. The mechanical eye follows the instructions... almost always. Rarely, when an accident happens, the machine surpasses itself and divulges its own limits."<br />Erickenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-63925223269827737552016-02-12T07:44:40.540-08:002016-02-12T07:44:40.540-08:00My business plan! Now everyone knows it!
My business plan! Now everyone knows it!<br />amolitorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15743439184763617516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-40667978936353772632016-02-12T01:38:00.527-08:002016-02-12T01:38:00.527-08:00!!Garyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15247144582377347587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-18321599591717936462016-02-12T00:36:28.201-08:002016-02-12T00:36:28.201-08:00True, my daughter has a friend who is in this leag...True, my daughter has a friend who is in this league. Unfortunately, her followers are all 12-14-year old girls, which <i>she</i> was when she started. Now she's 21... Problemo.<br /><br />Are you a Wondermark fan? It has a way of being uncannily relevant. See the latest:<br /><br />http://wondermark.com/c1197/<br /><br />MikeMike C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11279776665185060446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-50138879690553559122016-02-11T17:03:10.690-08:002016-02-11T17:03:10.690-08:00I suppose there's a broad spectrum of use case...I suppose there's a broad spectrum of use cases for instagram etc? I know I haven't any interest in it. I've got a pretty good idea of the kinds of things I could accomplish with it, and I don't want to accomplish any of those things, so, phew.<br /><br />On the other hand, there are people for whom one or more of those things are quite desireable!<br /><br />Probably there are a few people who have the idea that their jobs rely on being able to generate and maintain a following?<br /><br />Obviously there are those people with 100,000 or a million followers who are getting work based on that. If you're at that scale, you probably don't have to worry much about maintaining a following. You just keep doing what you've been doing, which is probably just to be a famous someone.<br /><br />There are also people with 10,000 followers who are selling books or whatever to those followers, they've built a sort of personal niche, which they do indeed have to manage with a bit of care. A medium sized following can definitely implode.<br /><br />A very small following doesn't matter.<br /><br />Are there people with really bush-league jobs who have medium-sized followings that they need to manage and massage in order to maintain their jobs? I dunno. It's plausible, but I have no exposure to it at all.<br /><br />If these people exist, Caroline might be talking about them. Maybe she's one of them?<br /><br /> amolitorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15743439184763617516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-54804747794847785432016-02-11T14:48:44.294-08:002016-02-11T14:48:44.294-08:00You may be right, I have as little to do with soci...You may be right, I have as little to do with social media as possible, but my feeling is that they are a sweet-tasting, habit-forming poison, which most creative people would be better off without. Daniel Milnor had some interesting things to say about the liberating effect of just saying "no"... Sometimes a refusal to take part <i>is</i> a revolutionary act.<br /><br />MikeMike C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11279776665185060446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-26032814193029187052016-02-11T14:02:17.189-08:002016-02-11T14:02:17.189-08:00To be honest, I couldn't make much sense of wh...To be honest, I couldn't make much sense of what she's saying about social media.<br /><br />She seems to suggest that artists are being forced to participate, by austerity? So that dropping out of social media might be an act of rebellion, a revolutionary act?<br /><br />I'm not sure if that's where she's going, and if it is I'm pretty sure it's wrong. I mean, it might apply to her and her friends, I suppose, but as a generalization it is at best far too broad.<br /><br />I think there a category of successfulish artists who are embracing social media, not under duress but because it comes naturally to them and because it works, for some value of 'works'.<br />amolitorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15743439184763617516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-82057528969843259772016-02-11T13:43:58.043-08:002016-02-11T13:43:58.043-08:00Well, maybe. Artists are never very at home with w...Well, maybe. Artists are never very at home with words or concepts, though it seems they feel obliged to grapple with them. But her actual argument with regard to social media is not entirely dissimilar to your own in the recent post "Capitalist Inversion".<br /><br />Yes, it is annoying when people airily appropriate real issues that you care about as mere ornamentation, but if you're a campaigner you'd better get used to that... Watch Bernie Sanders's supporters melt away after he loses the nomination.<br /><br />MikeMike C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11279776665185060446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-65093205175402015972016-02-11T13:19:43.359-08:002016-02-11T13:19:43.359-08:00I'm probably most annoyed because gender issue...I'm probably most annoyed because gender issues, class issues, and Thatcherism are real things. There's a bunch of genuine problems here, real issues, and Caroline had nothing to say about them. She's using them as slogans to indicate her status.<br /><br />amolitorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15743439184763617516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-35363812253044120422016-02-11T13:15:05.368-08:002016-02-11T13:15:05.368-08:00A curious reaction (yours) to what is an interesti...A curious reaction (yours) to what <i>is</i> an interesting piece, albeit expressed in the complacent cliches of bien-pensant artspeak. Your outrage seems factitious to me. I like the idea of "zero-hours creativity", for example.<br /><br />Her worst crime in the piece -- for me -- is not knowing the difference between "complimentary" and "complementary", but then I'm a card-carrying pedant.<br /><br />MikeMike C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11279776665185060446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-41179162428774334382016-02-11T12:54:27.466-08:002016-02-11T12:54:27.466-08:00In response to your post and in part to Henry, we&...In response to your post and in part to Henry, we'll be reading such things again, and again, and again for the next forty years!<br />The planet experiences cycles and so does Man.<br /><br />I have to smile at the article written by the 'teacher', as I have endured the political system she espouses for much of my life; also Thatcherism.<br />Which one has survived?<br />Which has been entirely discredited (see the Eastern Bloc)?<br />It strikes me that, when such people are not being heard, they form themselves into their little communes, in the hope that others will see their self-importance and self-proclaimed worth.<br />For me, it's one more addition to the cycle.<br /><br />And I thank the Gods that I have no children to be taught by this person.<br /><br />Now then, here's a thought:what if Donald Trump was a photographer/artist?? <br />Imagine the comments then!<br />Regards,<br />Davidmilldavehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01970560156979145583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-57299776304104443162016-02-11T11:39:54.619-08:002016-02-11T11:39:54.619-08:00"My work explores the relationship between ge..."My work explores the relationship between gender politics and recycling culture.<br /><br />With influences as diverse as Kafka and Roy Lichtenstein, new variations are generated from both orderly and random narratives.<br /><br />Ever since I was a pre-adolescent I have been fascinated by the essential unreality of the zeitgeist. What starts out as triumph soon becomes corroded into a dialectic of defeat, leaving only a sense of nihilism and the unlikelihood of a new synthesis.<br /><br />As momentary phenomena become transformed through emergent and critical practice, the viewer is left with an insight into the possibilities of our future."<br /><br />There! Fixed it for you.<br /><br />(from artybollocks.com)Thomas Rinkhttp://www.picturesfromthezone.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-44913053572488348492016-02-11T09:57:40.452-08:002016-02-11T09:57:40.452-08:00May I summarize?
1. Those who can't do, teach...May I summarize?<br /><br />1. Those who can't do, teach.<br />2. Circle jerk.<br /><br />(As much as enjoyed this piece, I do find it slightly depressing that this sort of piece still needs to be written).Oldwinohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06546428931999701295noreply@blogger.com