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Will Stereotype
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fall in love? 10 8.33%
have a transcendent life altering experience that elevates their consciousness to a higher state? 14 11.67%
take some cool photos? 7 5.83%
get jumped and sent to the hospital by furries? 32 26.67%
waste his time and money? 57 47.50%
Total: 120 votes
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The Atomic Man-Boy
Jul 23, 2007

Pentecoastal Elites posted:

trudging from tent to tent in the stinking mud, doing my best to ensure that every meta product manager has fresh water, a full belly, and empty balls. we're all taking care of each other here :)

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The Atomic Man-Boy
Jul 23, 2007

Mr Hootington posted:

A couple of hiosphere posters believed the ebola thing lol

I mean it's highly unlikely that a monkey-borne disease would make it's way all the way from the Congo to VC freaks with no intermediate infections.

But it's not too early to hope for a Christmas miracle.

The Atomic Man-Boy
Jul 23, 2007

Arguing about metal lashings and structural integrity misses the fact that a bunch of VC people thought it was artistic to stack a bunch of IBCs in the mud, and people thought it would be cool to climb on it. No part of it was cool or interesting.

The Atomic Man-Boy
Jul 23, 2007

Gumball Gumption posted:

Also most of those kooky art folks have always been right wing rugged individualist types. That's really the thing with hippies, that whole philosophy is about believing yourself to be some flavor of magical ubermensch.

Something about anarchist projects starting out as vaguely anti-capitalist, then getting co-opted by capital with no push back whatsoever, then sending the cops to run over people protesting your mud orgy seems incredibly on-the-nose.

The Atomic Man-Boy
Jul 23, 2007

Gumball Gumption posted:

Apparently burners just drop all the trash they take out on the nearest town. https://www.kunr.org/nevada-california/2019-09-06/trash-and-burn-the-mess-after-burning-man

If you want to keep the barren wasteland pristine, dumping your trash on the filthy poors locals is the only alternative.

The Atomic Man-Boy
Jul 23, 2007

Al! posted:

i mean from an art historical perspective this isnt saying the thing you think its saying. abex was seen as a uniquely american movement, directly opposed to the old world french salon style of painting that was still very much what people thought of when they thought of "a painting". theres also a lot of other postwar stuff going on in new york that gave rise to the loose collection of artists known as abstract expressionists.

now if you want to tell me that the cia invented the category id be willing to listen but youd have to talk about the cia's relationship to clement greenberg, which doesnt seem to be in that article. this is a little different from "the cia invented abstract expressionism".

a lot of this is covered in "the painted word" by tom wolfe, which is a quick read

It didn't need to "invent abstract expressionism" to shape the professional art culture. They just needed to financially support something that wasn't communist, and slopping random blobs of paint on a canvas is as free of ideology as you can get.

Art movements don't exist in a vacuum, they are largely a result of the tastes of their buyers and the desires of their patronage networks, which is why every painting in the middle ages was either a scene from the bible or the portrait of some fopish dandy lord, that's who had enough money buy a painting.

See also: A Ukrainian phoenix in the burning man.

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The Atomic Man-Boy
Jul 23, 2007


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