New Aesthetic
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- i_monk0
The futurist thread reminded me of this thread.
- monospaced0
Immediately reminded me of these "statues" installed along Park Avenue in NYC. These are simple, nearly-FLAT, metal sheet statues with shades painted on them to trick the eye into thinking they're both very 3D and moving contrary to the light source. Even up close they're extremely convincing, right up until you touch them.
- severian0
wankfest
- sherm0
too much bla bla bla
make with the animated gifs already
- utopian0
rambling on and on... all about nothing.
- i_monk0
It's over now, everyone go back to what you were doing.
- Horp0
"nothing more than the usual need to make something out of nothing... writers with nothing better to do trying to make sense of (codify, identify, what-have-you) a torrent of non-related material"
This is pretty much my job description.
- pr20
Separating images from their original meaning and re-purposing those for ones own needs is definitely a sign of current times.
Take this fund-raising mood trailer we just made:
Half of the shots were direct re-makes of found photographs. But the re-purposing went further - we took actual images (with permission of the artists) and gave new meaning to the images by simply changing their context - all the sudden photographs of tree trunks stand for new planets being born... But it doesn't end there. Some meaningless time lapses and even someone's test of their new slider found its use transcending its original pedestrian origins. None of the above would be possible "back in the days."
- pr20
Ever so often having spent an hour or so looking at fantastic things collected by this blog or another i keep on thinking that we are living in extraordinary times - never before were humans exposed to so much wonderment as it is now. This overabundance of quality stuff (yes, filtered through the lack of time necessary to make any meaning out of that wonderment) has to have a profound impact on our perception and psyche.
- mydo0
this guy makes some pretty good points. I'm not sure if i'd invite him to dinner though... the end of the essay is worth a read.
"Our hardware is changing our lives far more profoundly than anything that we ever did to ourselves intentionally. We should heed the obvious there, and get used to that situation. We should befriend one another, under that reality. We should try to see what that means.
People have tried such things before. The Surrealists once valorized the “imagination of the unconscious.” But, as the Situationists pointed out, a generation later: the imagination of the unconscious is impoverished.
Valorizing machine-generated imagery is like valorizing the unconscious mind. Like Surrealist imagery, it is cool, weird, provocative, suggestive, otherworldly, but it is also impoverished.
That’s the big problem, as I see it: the New Aesthetic is trying to hack a modern aesthetic, instead of thinking hard enough and working hard enough to build one. That’s the case so far, anyhow. No reason that the New Aesthetic has to stop where it stands at this moment, after such a promising start. I rather imagine it’s bound to do otherwise. Somebody somewhere will, anyhow."
- i_monk0
So... it's tech-augmented or tech-referential (including glitches) design/art?
- ukit20
I'm skeptical that there will ever be another big overarching movement, things are just too fragmented these days. And people seem less willing to spend time listening to or reading other people's essays.
Having said that, how does Pic of the Day fit in?
- biusness0
As a newbie, my first impressions –
1) Annoying name
2) It says it's "NOT a movement" but an "investigation/tumblr looking at technologically-enabled novelty in the world". Is this just a high-brow FFFFound/Pinterest then?
3) The tumblr is actually quite interesting, maybe a visit-once-a-week bookmarker.
4) XVideos watercolours, come on, you can't dislike that
- autoflavour0
the new aesthetic is like the new ipad..
there will be a new one next year
- fadein110
i retract the above statement - interesting
- fadein110
i retract the above statement - interesting