jclel

May 14

15 best Louis CK AMA answers

This makes me feel like I am old. It also makes me feel like I am studying an alien artifact…what does this thing mean? I truly don’t understand it. I didn’t look into the origins of this work, because I was afraid of the vortex I might fall into. So is it art? I don’t know, without context it is impossible for me to engage fully with an image. Is that human nature now? Because everything is meta? The only clue I have is below, written by someone who clearly has no interest in the history of animation, unless they are so self aware that they are pretending not to know that these are Disney characters in some faux naive attempt at Warhol’s art of cool. Because I went to an IMPORTANT art school, I knew people who played that game. It seemed to really work for them at the time, but that was then and this is now. It’s always hard to visualize what constitutes a particular era while you’re in that era, it takes about a decade for objectivity to crystalize in public opinion. The 1990s were like the 60s only with slackers, the 1980s were about parties and money, etc…The aughts of the 21st century, the early 2000’s, to me are typified by a snarky self-referencial post-post modern sense of humor. The meta-hipster. You know who they are. What would define the times we’re living in now? Post-everything? Are young people meta-hippies? I have no idea…I am fascinated by Tumblr for this reason. The images you come across, the comments, the whole deal; divorced from context, they become meaningless, chaotic. Which is why this whole thing is funny to me. Every post has the possibility of being taken by a complete stranger and presented in any way they choose. If I told you this was my creation, what would you say? It isn’t, by the way, I honestly just stumbled upon it. But I could tell you anything I wanted to about this, and then it would be reblogged and reinterpreted by an unknowable number of people regardless of the time I put into explaining myself. The variety of bullshit cliches happening in my work (one of my projects is this blog, so I consider this part of a piece) currently is staggering, to me. I am observing you observing me observing you. I am blogging about blogging about blogging. How tedious. How gimmicky. It’s funny because it’s true, it’s funny because it’s not true. And it’s only true because I think it to be true. Well, I’m exhausted. Thanks, whoever posted this frightening thing and then forced me write about it. Thanks a lot. I didn’t even look up the origin of this thing and I fell into the vortex.

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