Eyekhan, R gif, remixed
2 art ideas
"The Royally Fucked I Hate Fucking Videogames" Show. Have some specific pieces in mind for this show, all of which have previously been included in "Art and the Videogame" shows. This will be better: it will have passion, a point of view, and the name of the exhibition will not appear in any mainstream media review.
"PLUS SPACE: Maximal-as-Fuck Art." This will be a website with occasional exhibitions in real spaces. Double Happiness would qualify but the real reason for the site is so it could have text on its "about" page announcing that the gallery is not taking submissions at this time. This will make artists feel bad and they will want to be included all the more.
metastasized painting
artist unknown, via spermaduct.tumblr
Update: per CA, this is Markus Linnenbrink's work. I like this image but a little of this style goes a long way. Google Images pulls up dozens of Linnenbrinks ringing every possible change on this quasi-proprietary technique. That glomming onto a signature style based on some barely unique studio trick is what drives me away from painting (physical studio variety).
goals
Internet commenters generally outshine media hack pundits. Here is a comment from Salon letters:
Why stimuli won't work!
The trouble with our economy is described widely as a growing loss of confidence by consumers as they witness their housing values fall and their 401Ks atrophied. Before August 2007 and the decline in housing prices, before August 2008 and the collapse of the stock market and investment banks, the economy was not sound. As has been noted by observers of our economy, salaries and wages have not kept pace with GDP growth since the 1970s. Our trade deficits have been reliably larger year by year. Our borrowing has mounted hugely with our each military enterprise.We have an economy that produces mostly armaments and financial paper. Not many buyers for the financial paper any longer, and armaments cannot be eaten, worn, lived in or driven around town. They can be sold to other militaristic countries, and thus they are our greatest export.
Not until we start producing consumer goods of our own to fill the shelves of Wal-Mart and to sell overseas will our economy be healthy again. Stimulus is like adrenalin. It may keep the heart going for a while, but eventually the muscle dies.
-- Goedel
I'd take it a step further and say we have to break the whole cycle of consumption and waste that results in this year's must-have doodads becoming next year's landfill, with heavy elements seeping into water tables, etc.
And this line from Josh Marshall's blog (by David Kurtz) takes an anthropological tack:
Former IMF chief economist Simon Johnson makes the fascinating point that breaking the back of the elites is a critical stage in crisis resolution in developing and post-communist countries -- a stage we have yet to go through in confronting our own crisis.