If you haven't yet seen ExquisiteCorpse.net, you should. In a nutshell, here's how it works: I create a photoshop image, pass on a small portion of it to another artist, who builds his/her own image based on my small piece. He/she then sends on a small part of the new piece. Repeat 2 or 3 more times. In the end, the images are all combined into a whole. It's collaborative art.
Self-promotion: You can see the corpses I've worked on here (caution: boobies), here and here.
Anyway, controversy has erupted over today's corpse (which I also worked on).
Check it out, read the comments. I wonder if anyone has any thoughts.
Posted by jpoulos at May 28, 2002 04:48 PMSorry, John, but I just don't get it. That's just me, though, as I'm much more verbal than visual. You could have the Will Smith in, out, or upside down and I wouldn't have had a value judgment either way.
In that context, though, I thought "collaborative art" was what we were doing here - you know, you got a dozen or more "authors" with various and varying backgrounds and interests, who don't plan anything out ahead of time either as a group or even one-on-one, but we each make our own contributions and the whole thing becomes a (somewhat) consistent piece of work. Of course, now that I say that, I wonder if what you were really doing was accusing one of us of tossing a sideways Will Smith in the middle of one or more of your finely-crafted posts ... gee, if it was me, I apologize ...
Anyway, welcome back! Apart from the whole "no-monkeys" thing, I hope it was a good trip!
Posted by: yhbc on May 28, 2002 06:28 PMI think it's all a big competition to see if they can stun Zach into silence. Or at least brevity.
Posted by: kafkaesque on May 28, 2002 07:43 PMdon't plan anything out ahead of time either as a group or even one-on-one
Someone forget to cc the commish?
Posted by: kafkaesque on May 28, 2002 07:46 PMTo be perfectly honest, the fact that I agreed with Zach scares me.
Posted by: jpoulos on May 28, 2002 09:00 PMThey're complaining that the Will Smith guy didn't contribute properly.
Art has a right and wrong, now.
How convenient. It was always so confusing before.
I fucking hate people, by the way.
Posted by: dong resin on May 28, 2002 10:02 PMSomeone forget to cc the commish?
I knew it!
"You know what you are? You're all just a bunch of a-a-ar-ar-art fags."
- The Dead Milkmen, "Instant Club Hit"
I think that the Will Smith section alludes to his perpetuation of the notion that African Americans can only be successful as either entertainers or athletes, thus his "sideways" position. No wait! I think there should be more boobies and monkeys in it! Yeah!
Posted by: MarsCrash on May 28, 2002 11:29 PMI like it.
What do I like, you ask?
I like everything.
Posted by: stavrosthewonderchicken on May 29, 2002 12:25 AMheh, here's what I take from the comments alone: Zach is a pain in the ass who thinks much too highly of himself and his opinion. (Who apparently doesn't know how to spell "appalled".)
I saw no problem with the W.S. photo. I think it worked, in a way, by setting up a harsh contrast for the anger v angst subject.
Posted by: tj on May 29, 2002 03:53 AMAh, yes, trepanation. My second-ever MeFi link was about trepanation. Ahh...those were the days...
Moving up slowly
Nostalgia keeps
She's moving up slowly
Slowly
Moving up slowly
Nostalgia creeps*
*with apologies to Massive Attack
See, also:
U need another lover like u need a hole in yo head (baby, baby)
U know there ain't no other
that can do the duty in your bed, yeah
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