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The reason ffffound is shit, is not because it in itself is shit, but rather that it facilitates the mediocre in the production of more homogenised mediocrity.
I like to draw upon a wide field of influence direct from the source, perhaps an idea would come from a book I had read or from a painting I saw in a gallery or museum. Perhaps I saw a documentary on Seagulls in 1992 and in it there was a funny anecdote about people believing it good luck to be crapped on by a seagull. Perhaps that fits nicely.
What fffound does is offer the completely vacuous and inane a way in to 'ideas' and to 'styles' that do not concern them. Like magpies they like shiny things. They don't know why but they collect these shiny things and like monkeys they mimic what they see, like parrots they repeat what they hear. It's mindless replication for no reason other than "it's cool". Suddenly everyone is a conceptual artist or a graffiti writer, a sculptor and a poet. Suddenly we all have something to say, so lets spell it out in neon and put it in a field of corn.
- yes. yes. exactly. *strokes chin_salisae_
- *twiddles hair
*sucks pinkie finger_salisae_ - and honda rips off another artist's 7 year self-inspired project_salisae_
- don't let this fool you into thinking I produce anything other than pointless, mediocre ephemera however.max_prophet
- *seagulls threadmax_prophet
- come on, who cares?magnificent_ruin
- I don't like trendy parasitesmax_prophet