art is a waste of time; reducing suffering is all that matters

I assumed it was tbh

The part about exclamation marks is sincere, everything else is satire.

haha!

but seriously, haha

even as a fan of dizzyingly long sentences i have to confess that going through my drafts changing half of the commas to full stops improves my writing tenfold.

https://www.e-flux.com/journal/45/60100/international-disco-latin/ been a while since i read this article but it was good iirc.

how to artist: have parents/family with money/clout, unless you're 'an exception to the rule'

https://i.pinimg.com/236x/30/0b/ac/300bac7815ef0aad0f57f326a8e690d9--los-simpson-the-simpsons.jpg

But who is it that is willingly writing porn here?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/29/rediscovering-natalia-ginzburg

From these griefs, suffered when she was just beginning to write, Natalia learned that unhappiness, though it feels quite powerful, doesn’t always help one write well. As she said in her essay “My Vocation” (1949):

When we are happy our imagination is stronger; when we are unhappy our memory works with greater vitality. Suffering makes the imagination weak and lazy. . . . A particular sympathy grows up between us and the characters we invent—that our debilitated imagination is still just able to invent—a sympathy that is tender and almost maternal, warm and damp with tears, intimately physical and stifling. We are deeply, painfully rooted in every being and thing in the world, the world which has become filled with echoes and trembling and shadows, to which we are bound by a devout and passionate pity. Then we risk foundering on a dark lake of stagnant, dead water, and dragging our mind’s creations down with us, so that they are left to perish among dead rats and rotting flowers in a dark, warm whirlpool.

Change the “we” to “women,” and that’s basically what Virginia Woolf said in “A Room of One’s Own,” twenty years earlier. Women, if they want to be artists, should stop sloshing around in their emotions. No doubt that statement disappointed many female writers at the time Woolf made it, and it is probably not popular even today. (I wonder what the male-female ratio is in those courses on writing “personal essays.”)

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/09/23/whats-the-point/

And what is that truth, the truth of art, that freeing blade, that slaking drink in the desert of the world? It’s this: You are not alone. I am not I; you are not you. We are we. Art bridges the lonely islands. It’s the string that hums from my tin can, over here looking out of my little window, to you over there, looking out of yours. All the world’s power over us lies in its ability to persuade us that we are powerless to understand each other, to feel and see and love each other, and that therefore it is pointless for us to try. Art knows better, which is why the world tries so hard to make art impossible, to immiserate artists, to ban their work, silence their voices, and why it’s so important for all of us to, quite simply, make art possible.

^ michael chabon

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/18/health/dorothea-buck-dead.html

By concealing both her psychiatric history and her forced sterilization, Mrs. Buck was able to enroll in 1942 in a private art school in Frankfurt, where she learned pottery. She worked as a sculptor and taught art from 1969 to 1982 before being overcome by the lingering revelations of mass murder of mental patients by the Nazis, and by what she found to be continuing mishandling of the mentally ill in modern-day Germany.

“These hidden medical crimes and the unchanged degrading and inhuman German asylums disturbed me deeply, although I could have used my concentration for my artistic work,” she wrote on her website. “As a sculptor, I lived on public commissions in Hamburg, which could only be gained through competition. When, in 1965, my last bronze objects were placed, I stopped this work. As long as there was no elementary humanity, art seemed less important.”

artists are pitting bots that steal artwork to sell t shirts against disney's copyright practices this rocks lol https://t.co/tkMWjNLqtA

— leon (@leyawn) December 4, 2019

omg

https://www.artforum.com/diary/sarah-nicole-prickett-and-kaitlin-phillips-on-2019-art-basel-miami-beach-81599

why is everyone such a giant piece of shit

EDIT: out of the thousands of people mentioned and quoted in that piece, a handful are not a giant piece of shit. why is nearly everyone such a giant piece of shit

everything about that is terrible

i also can't stand either writer who reported it so i'm not sure why i read it lol

i think a partial yet not satisfying answer to your question karl is "cocaine"

everyone is, in some way, tripping balls with huckabee

why is nearly everyone such a giant piece of shit

they weren't born that way, but they are bent that way

tried to read this but it was increasing my suffering

even iggy pop comes across as just another old white guy who just fucking die, in the article

I lol’d + googled “richard mumby”

There are a ton of reasons to hate on my town but I do luxuriate in the remarkable distance it puts between my family and whatever that article is about. Like, we have some free museums open to the public, and you can catch an opera at the Kennedy Center. AFAIK there’s no dinners for everyone who spent $50,000 at Balmain, or big ideas about exhibits devoted to Britney. Just nerds and trained killers and spies, for miles around.

Lesson: Beaches give people the worst ideas

So then, I guess you must you live in Alexandria, or right near it.

Xpost Don't shit on Bette Midler yo

El Tomboto can and prolly will answer this but no, El Tomboto emphatically does not live in Alexandria

I was mistaken. That's what I get for playing at Where's Waldo with an ilxor.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/06/t-magazine/romantic-relationships.html

Q: Can you help with art suggestions for my severe fear of engulfment when it comes to being involved with someone romantically? This leads me to miss out on opportunities to be with really great guys with whom I connect initially. — Elizabeth, New York City

A: In some ways I am the wrong person to answer this question, as all my life I have willingly gone headlong in search of engulfment. Of course there’s fear. If nothing is at stake — if there’s no risk of grief and desolation when you come out the other side — how can you ever really feel anything? To be wholly dissolved and lost, whether in another person or in the presence of a work of art, in a spiritual encounter or in a greater cause: This can be dangerous, but also freeing — an escape from the prison of the self. You should not be able to walk away unscathed, which is to say, unchanged.

Nothing to do with the thread subject, but you can put a hell of a lot of skin in the game and risk plenty of grief when you come out the other side without seeking "engulfment". That sounds rather unhealthy to me. The words to describe what I seek are more on the order of "complete engagement with and commitment to" my relationship.

i think a primary objective of much art, and a silver lining of darker art, is reduction of suffering by reminding us we're not alone, or simarly, "the only one"

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/18/opinion/sonny-rollins-art.html

When I go to the museum and I look at a piece of art, I’m transported. I don’t know how, or where, but I know that it’s not a part of the material world. It’s beyond modern culture’s political, technological soul. We’re not here to live forever. Humans and materialism die. But there’s no dying in art.

wow

eating breakfast is a waste of time; reducing coronavirus infections is all that mattera

tom morello, 1992 pic.twitter.com/jBHKMJKVZ1

— chelsea (@cheIseahaynes) June 6, 2020

is sex important or is reducing suffering all that matters
is ilxor.com important
are hot dogs important

has hip hop helped reduce suffering of those who feel suppressed, powerless, trapped, unheard

the cure helps me especially when I was younger

i like that tom morello quote tho it does little to explain audioslave

well, in 1996, there was no indication they were going to happen.

I know ilx likes to ride for this dude and ratm is alright but his singer-songwriter material is some of the most execrable music I have ever heard

why are you always such a wet blanket, paul ponzi

perhaps he is suffering

does that mean that we have to

yes, if are we sentient

One man's suffering is another man's reverse schadenfreude.

his singer-songwriter material is some of the most execrable music I have ever heard

Singer-songwriter music is a pestilence.

except when it's the best stuff ever

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/08/magazine/what-do-we-mean-when-we-call-art-necessary.html

The prospect of “necessary” art allows members of the audience to free themselves from having to make choices while offering the critic a nifty shorthand to convey the significance of her task, which may itself be one day condemned as dispensable. The effect is something like an absurd and endless syllabus, constantly updating to remind you of ways you might flunk as a moral being. It’s a slightly subtler version of the 2016 marketing tagline for the first late-night satirical news show with a female host, “Full Frontal With Samantha Bee”: “Watch or you’re sexist.”

I LOVE music. I’ve essentially dedicated my life to it.. but no song has ever changed the world, not even “We Are The World”

— mrk (@MerkSays) June 17, 2020

false

What the hell is “changing the world” anyway