No One Belongs Here More Than You

Indie Snobbery 101: Prof. Rob Gordon

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HEY! I finally made hi-res versions of this poster…..now with new styles/colorways based on different Jarmusch movies.

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“Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.”

— Lester Bangs

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I always thought Debord would’ve hated the internet. I wonder what he or Jean Baudrillard would think of—so help me God this is the last time I use the term—”social media” sites like facebook, twitter, tumblr or sites like ffffound or even wikipedia. Isn’t this all spectacle? Aren’t we just communicating through a simulacra of images and condensed descriptions? Things once told in books are now told in articles. Works featured in museums and galleries instead whisk through our thoughts like signs passing by a moving train. Courses taught by professors are suddenly abridged into 140 characters or less. Phone calls and letters reduced to status updates and instant messages. 24 frames a second projected on a screen, now diminished to 480x270 pixel 256-color animated gifs, or compressed jpegs. 180 gram vinyl to 128-bit mp3’s. Obfuscated profile images and avatars, a depiction of our personalities.

Like Debord himself said, “all that was once directly lived has become mere representation.”

Are we not living Plato’s Allegory of the Cave right now? (ie: The Matrix, Cronenberg’s eXistenZ, John Carpenter’s They Live, or pretty much any Phillip K. Dick movie adaptation)

Does this mean science fiction authors were “onto something” or maybe they were “on” “something”?

More importantly, if a tree falls in the woods and no one tweets or blogs about it…did it ever happen?

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I read the book GONZO a while back and even posted a couple grainy iPhone pics of some of the pages. The book is definitely more visual than anything, but it is well-designed and has some pretty awesome photos of Hunter (most of which he took himself), along with giant quotes and serves more as a vibrant coffee table book than an in-depth biography. Anyways, it’s a pretty good look-through and I would love to own it but until then, here’s another quote from the book.

The Price Of Being Young

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“You are lucky to be one of those people who wishes to build sand castles with words, who is willing to create a place where your imagination can wander. We build this place with the sand of memories; these castles are our memories and inventiveness made tangible. So part of us believes that when the tide starts coming in, we won’t really have lost anything, because actually only a symbol of it was there in the sand. Another part of us thinks we’ll figure out a way to divert the ocean. This is what separates artists from ordinary people: the belief, deep in our hearts, that if we build our castles well enough, somehow the ocean won’t wash them away. I think this is a wonderful kind of person to be.”

— Anne Lamott

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Yes Tumblr needs more Paul Rand

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“This is what’s wrong with the world. Everything is explained now. We live in an age when you say casually to somebody ‘What’s the story on that?’ and they can run to the computer and tell you within five seconds. That’s fine, but sometimes I’d just as soon continue wondering. We have a deficit of wonder right now.”

— Tom Waits

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“The most difficult thing in the world is to reveal yourself, to express what you have to. As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail. You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all.”

— John Cassavetes, 1959

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Hunter S. Thompson
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1955