#late stage capitalism in the arts

[cassylvan]

i realized i never posted this on tumblr??? anyways here ya go tumblr

[shannonpurdyjones]

One side effect of my research for this novel being steeped heavily in textile history is my swelling disgust with modern fabrics.

Firstly they're so thin? Like most things you see in Old Navy or even department stores might as well be tissue paper?? Even some branded sports t-shirts I've bought in recent years (that are supposed to be 'official apparel' and allegedly decent quality) are definitely not going to hold up more than a year or two without getting little holes from wear.

This side of even two hundred years ago fabrics were made to be used for YEARS, and that's with wearing them way more often because you only owned like three sets of clothes. They were thick and well made and most importantly made to LAST. And they were gorgeous?? Some of the weaves were so fine and the drape so buttery we still don't entirely know how these people managed to make them BY HAND. Not to mention intricate patterning and details that turned even some simple garments into freaking ART.

I know this is not news, the fast fashion phenomenon is well documented. Reading so much about the amazing fabrics we used to create and how we cherished and valued them, though, is making it hard not to mourn what we lost to mass production and capitalism. Not just the quality of the clothing and fabrics themselves, but the generations of knowledge and techniques that are just gone. It makes me what to cry.

I need to get a sewing machine.

[warakami-vaporwave]

Netflix84

[danneroni]

📸 ALL EYES 👁️ ON YOU 📸

[theshampyon]

So a company called California Forever has apparently spent almost a billion dollars buying up 50,000 acres of land to build a techno-utopia. It's founded by the absurdly rich people involved in the creation of LinkedIn, GitHub, and more. they claim to have a strong, clear vision for what this environmentally friendly, liveable, walkable city will be. This is their concept art.

Notice something about it? Let's have a closer look at some sections of these.

Trees growing out of roofs. Paths and gardens that don't physically work. People blending into mush. Inhuman anatomy. Impossible architecture.

It's fucking AI generated.

These genius billionaires are spending their genius billions on a planned society and they couldn't even be bothered to hire an actual concept artist to draw something that looks physically possible, let alone something that represents an actual plan. They just threw some prompts into a random pixel generator.

These are our John Galts.

[troythecatfish]

[whereserpentswalk]

Someone used "ungood" to describe disney remakes and it's so perfect. "Bad" does not sum up the horrible soulless products created to only fulfil capitalist desires, using artists as tormented vessels, ungood captures it so well.

Artists with passion and vision create bad art. Bad art can have entertaining qualities, and value, and sparks of life inside of them. Teenage fanfic, and b movies, and a young musicians first attempt at smoke on the water are bad, and that's ok. Ungood art does not have the same saving graces as bad art. Ungood art is empty, not just failing at quality but devoid of it.

We need to start using the term ungood. Neither Star Wars episode one, nor Star Was episode nine are good movies, but they don't possess the same lack of quality. The "live action" Lion King movie, and Repo! The Genetic Opera might both be failures at putting musicals on film, but I know which one I'd rather watch, which one still has moments I love, and which one was made to make someone at Disney see a line go up.

[tilbageidanmark]

I saw this sticker a few months ago.

[bogkeep]

every day i'm tapping the sign

the sign: we didn't have a satisfying definition of Real Art before the advent of "ai" and trying to define it now only distracts from the actual problems

[muffinlevelchicanery]

@frontlinemedics on insta

[vintage-tigre]

[khepiari]

Just say that you lack creativity and are jealous of people who can express themselves with their chosen medium of expression. There are millions of ways and tools to express oneself, yet you chose AI to do your hard work, which is “the act of creating”. Feel ashamed, not proud.

[warakami-vaporwave]

Netflix84 v2

[danneroni]

📸 ALL EYES 👁️ ON YOU 📸

danneroni.etsy.com

[lastcatghost]

So in case anyone's interested, I know a cheap way to make your own stickers, imma do some with some political texts on them and post them up wherever.

If you get a roll of parchment paper, take a piece of clear masking tape and put it down anywhere, put a printed design or text over the tape you just put down, then put another piece of tape on top of the design. Then you can cut it out more defined, and now you've made a sticker

Imma make up a bunch of pieces of paper with this text on them, and make a shit ton of stickers to put up everywhere as winter progresses

[local-faun]

Oh, what’s this? Eevee wants to learn procrastination!