i hope we both die
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- stewdio
I want to make websites that feel like this song makes me feel.
I'm not saying I want to make something visually similar; that's not my visual style. But the feeling. If the web really has expressive potential then that's what I want to do.
The web isn't just for selling things. It's not for collecting all your supposed friends into a fucking DIV box. I hate needing clients. I hate having to pay the bills. </rant>
- stewdio0
Mountain Goats
"No Children"I hope that our few remaining friends
Give up on trying to save us
I hope we come out with a fail-safe plot
To piss off the dumb few that forgave usI hope the fences we mended
Fall down beneath their own weight
And I hope we hang on past the last exit
I hope it's already too lateAnd I hope the junkyard a few blocks from here
Someday burns down
And I hope the rising black smoke carries me far away
And I never come back to this town again in my lifeI hope I lie
And tell everyone you were a good wife
And I hope you die
I hope we both dieI hope I cut myself shaving tomorrow
I hope it bleeds all day long
Our friends say it's darkest before the sun rises
We're pretty sure they're all wrongI hope it stays dark forever
I hope the worst isn't over
And I hope you blink before I do
And I hope I never get soberAnd I hope when you think of me years down the line
You can't find one good thing to say
And I'd hope that if I found the strength to walk out
You'd stay the hell out of my wayI am drowning
There is no sign of land
You are coming down with me
Hand in unlovable handAnd I hope you die
I hope we both die
- baseline_shift0
Into death lately, huh?
- Song was cool.baseline_shift
- Charles Manson is a tad lonely as of late... http://www.cnn.com/2…digitalN
- oops, maybe i should have mentioned Dr. Kevorkian instead.. ;)digitalN
- 23kon0
Sounds like you need to get yourself a job at a much more creative company. You only get them in big cities, where clients pay you money to do what YOU want and not what THEY want.
I mean things like daft installations, video and web stuff etc - that what you on about?
Yes, it would be amazing to be able to go back to the kind of projects that you got to set yourself at Art College - no boundaries, just doing something cool that you want to do.
Maybe you need to find yourself some extra spare time to concentrate on some projects of your own.
- stewdio0
@23kon I am my own company and I live in NYC so the client / bills rant is just the standard "I want more money and more time" rant that anyone and everyone could empathize with.
But my real point wasn't that I long for some magical job (because I'm trying to carve out a magical job for myself presently), but that I feel the web can be a powerfully expressive medium—and I want to help get it there.
There are some examples but they are few and far between. I don't think we have hit our stride yet with it as a medium. Movies, music, and literature have the power to make you cry. I'm not sure the web has really elevated itself to that sort of art form. And I'm not even sure what form it would need to take to do that "on its own" since the web is sort of a lash-up of video, audio, and text. Hyperlinking is its main characteristic so that's a good place to start, but the original suck.com is still the best example of hyperlink wit and that's from over a decade ago.
I don't know what the forms or outcomes might be, but I think the web can be emotive in a way that separates itself from other media. And I'd like to make expressive things within that framework.
- stewdio0
It's too bad the video won't embed. Just go to http://youtube.com and search for Mountain Goats - No Children. It's the animated music video version.
- erikjonsson0
i know what you are trying to say. i really do. but ive come to the conclusion that to be really moved to tears buy a beautiful piece of art. it has to be a passive experience. the interface supplied by the computer creates alot of fences for you to guard yourself to a reaction like that.
- version30
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- ukit0
Mountain Goats are a great band
- stewdio0
@erikjonsson You might be right. But imagine if you could figure out how to use those "fences" to create a compelling narrative. I have no idea how you might do it, but man . . . that would be the ultimate hack! :)
In the meantime though, I'll just stick to my multiple failed internet money shams. Like emailing god for only a dollar. (Yea. Atheist to the core.)
Email God
http://stewdio.org/emailgod
- stewdio0
No, but I wish I had had the foresight for that.