Auto-Tune the News #8: dragons. geese. Michael Vick. (ft. T-Pain)
I’ve been around the production of some viral videos, and the production of a lot of live shows. People who don’t produce entertainment have no idea the work that goes into a tight 90 seconds.
These guys have done that, but they’ve done soemthing else, gone a step further. They’re doing it again and again, and each one is better than the last.
I realize that these videos are small amusements. I don’t want to call them inconsequental—all entertainment is inconsequential…that’s the point—but I think that the series of them coming out like this does teach a lesson. (A lesson for artists, I mean; the civics lesson that our federal legislature is ridiculous cannot be taught enough and could not be more timely.)
An artist (I’m not going to use the twee San Francisco word “maker”, which is stupid) is not the person who has done something awesome. They’re the person who will do something awesome tomorrow.
With Apple’s OS X Snow Leopard update shipping today, one can’t help but wonder what’s next.
6 months ago | Tags: apple osx
Why I’m bummed about my upcoming move to LA. (NSFW)
“Oh, you want proof I took Honors English in high school? Here, check out this unbelievably pretentious tattoo I got.”
“So…this is my thesis project.”
The subtext of The Jonas Brothers is an American morality horror. They were child performers at single-digit ages, indicating the tradition of greedy parents who use their children to obtain a fortune and vindicate their own professional failures in adult life. The Jonas Brothers wear purity rings, an ignorant contrivance of the same backwards, healthy sexual attitude-damning, radical evangelical culture that champions Purity Balls, a twisted ceremony where a father asserts his dominion over a daughter’s virginity and sexual freedom until a time of his choosing. The life of a Jonas Brother is never publicly presented to their fans as anything other than a life of material wealth and glamor. (And in fact, they reportedly made $62 million dollars in 2008.) And nothing about The Jonas Brothers suggests the rich ethnic diversity of America. The Jonas Brothers are a flagship weapon in the culture wars. They feign conservative social values while romping around the bizarre hyper-sexual Disney meta-verse where young kids dress like Madonna and Mick Jagger and live the rock n’ roll lifestyle, promising to America’s young, malleable minds a life of glamor and cool that can never be obtained, while diverting these child automatons from healthy creative engagement, imaginative play, and intelligent thought.
Look at this fucking hipster - “Has the rohypnol kicked in yet?”
Is it just me, or could this be sheely?
