Comments on: Simile For The Camera http://window.punkave.com/2009/03/06/simile-for-the-camera/ Sun, 5 Sep 2010 07:30:38 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Julienne http://window.punkave.com/2009/03/06/simile-for-the-camera/comment-page-1/#comment-67126 Julienne Sun, 24 Jan 2010 12:19:06 +0000 http://window.punkave.com/?p=471#comment-67126 Hello. Very interesting Blog. Not really what i have searched over Google, but thanks for the information. Hello. Very interesting Blog. Not really what i have searched over Google, but thanks for the information.

]]> By: Rick http://window.punkave.com/2009/03/06/simile-for-the-camera/comment-page-1/#comment-66183 Rick Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:04:02 +0000 http://window.punkave.com/?p=471#comment-66183 Both really good points. Maybe I just want a new snake to start eating itself. I think what I am most reacting against is my quickness in turning to parody or vernacular because there is a faster audience buy-in. Godard is probably less filmmaker and more critic. I'm just trying to figure out which I am. David Foster Wallace said something really great about the inability of irony to inject anything new into an equation. It's the new warlord that knows all about overthrowing the old one and holding off the next, but never attempts to encourage social progress. Both really good points. Maybe I just want a new snake to start eating itself.

I think what I am most reacting against is my quickness in turning to parody or vernacular because there is a faster audience buy-in.

Godard is probably less filmmaker and more critic. I’m just trying to figure out which I am.

David Foster Wallace said something really great about the inability of irony to inject anything new into an equation. It’s the new warlord that knows all about overthrowing the old one and holding off the next, but never attempts to encourage social progress.

]]> By: jed http://window.punkave.com/2009/03/06/simile-for-the-camera/comment-page-1/#comment-66177 jed Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:56:58 +0000 http://window.punkave.com/?p=471#comment-66177 I think it's pretty much always been this way, since there was such a thing as culture. Any given film or work of art of music probably has more unique characteristics to it than it does characteristics in common with other works, but we tend to notice the 5 or 10 or 15 things that it has in common with the canon rather than what sets it apart. I think this is as true of bad art as it is of "good". That's why the notion of originality, to me, is so laughable. You have to work hard to make something unremarkable. In that sense, Godard is less original than say, some guy who made the Sci-Fi channel movie of the week about giant lizards. Self-consciousness tends to obfuscate true personality. or not. I think it’s pretty much always been this way, since there was such a thing as culture. Any given film or work of art of music probably has more unique characteristics to it than it does characteristics in common with other works, but we tend to notice the 5 or 10 or 15 things that it has in common with the canon rather than what sets it apart. I think this is as true of bad art as it is of “good”. That’s why the notion of originality, to me, is so laughable. You have to work hard to make something unremarkable. In that sense, Godard is less original than say, some guy who made the Sci-Fi channel movie of the week about giant lizards. Self-consciousness tends to obfuscate true personality.

or not.

]]> By: Nate http://window.punkave.com/2009/03/06/simile-for-the-camera/comment-page-1/#comment-66176 Nate Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:14:35 +0000 http://window.punkave.com/?p=471#comment-66176 If I'm reading this correctly, the snake will not ever stop swallowing itself, and no, we will not be released from this cycle. It is nature, and you acknowledged that. Striving to create something 'archetypal' as a conscious act is a product of going to art school; its what happens when art becomes art history becomes the history of art history. Rejoice in making the rad security patterns on the envelopes. There ain't a damn thing wrong with putting a little more radness in the day of envelope openers everywhere. If I’m reading this correctly, the snake will not ever stop swallowing itself, and no, we will not be released from this cycle. It is nature, and you acknowledged that. Striving to create something ‘archetypal’ as a conscious act is a product of going to art school; its what happens when art becomes art history becomes the history of art history. Rejoice in making the rad security patterns on the envelopes. There ain’t a damn thing wrong with putting a little more radness in the day of envelope openers everywhere.

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