rodriguez

How much Velveeta did you eat this week, Scooter?

In fact, I am really mac.

knowing how to craft something and becoming an expert at it gives you credibility. people ask me to design things for them because i know about why colors work together, i know how the eye reads letterforms in different typefaces, i know how the subtle differences in paper weight affect someone's experience with interacting with a book or a poster. and on a large scale these things don't really matter. however they do on a small scale, and the large scale is the accumulation of all of this. if a society, in the end, is simply the sum of any moron's opinion about film, tv, paintings, plays, books, architecture, food, product or interior design, etc.,.. then the direction it heads with its arts and crafts and social norms will be mediocre at best and god awful more than likely. keeping an ideal in place, a sense of perfectionism and a standard that even might be impossible to reach will still be able to balance that out and allow people to dream big and try for everything. the media and the cultural experiences that are shared throughout america are incredibly important because it is, in fact, the only thing that impacts us all outside of government. then again, you sort of come off as a self centered prick and so i doubt you really care about much "big picture" ideology, which is probably why you'll be content if the world ends up the way mike judge pictured in "idiocracy."

got erection?

really though, criticism is give and take. as someone who makes art type things, i've always been weary of critics as a whole. but i was talking to my friend josh the other day about how, while he and i have quite a gap in opinions on movies, i'd probably value his over anyone else's that i know. because he watches a fuck ton of movies, and does it for the sake of digesting the art and asking questions. that type of insight is necessary. i mean, look at how many morons in the world liked the new transformers movie. it's bad enough the thing made a fuckton of money so they'll greenlight whatever michael bay wants to do next, but if we totally abandon any sort of critical discourse done by those who understand what something means within its context, we're basically throwing the baby out with the bathwater when it comes to furthering art as a society. america already hates "elitism" enough. but the idea of people actually "getting it" is incredibly important to maintain, or else real life will just become a parody of the internet, instead of the other way around (and there are some serious, serious signs like youtube videos on cnn and twitter being covered as real news that it is headed that way REAL fast).

in school i never got through a single class without talking about how journalism is about to die / is dying / should not die. the publishing industry is even moreso on most fronts (journalism is more important than publishing mags but still). the cool thing about the internet is it gives a lot of people a voice, but the worst thing about it is that even though a few will succeed where they would have otherwise failed, most who succeed wouldn't have in the traditional sense because they're no good and/or have other things going for them (like that bitch who was hot who had that vlog for awhile and got a job at CBS because of it, but was a total moron). i never have been a big fan of magazines, but it is a shame to see them die off because they do give a sense of accomplishment to things. anyone can be in a blog post, because the internet is free. the fact that printing a picture on a piece of paper costs something implies that there is merit and talent involved on every aspect (from those creating to those being created). if magazines fold into the internet, suddenly there's no difference between the new yorker and the weekly world news. again, there's so much potential for the internet, but the fact remains that a majority of those who dictate content control have little to no actual idea what they're doing. that's why people used to go to school, to have a specialty. i am sure that mac would be real pissed if any of us walked into his kitchen and started sticking our paws in ingredients, saying we all knew how to make the best food. and then started throwing it at each other, saying ours was better. that's basically how the internet is for everything in regards to publishing right now. tangibility is essential for growth, for aspiration, for quality. editorial control, while a complete downer for folks like me who just want to do whatever, does assure (generally speaking) output will have attention to detail and be authoritative. i don't know. we're all fucked.

that's my mother's cat.

better?

26, with an MA in art and design? really?

feel free to browse: http://www.threechords.org he was posting on that (my) forum before he came to vinylcollective. the quote at the top of the page - "a message board wasteland"-is taken ad verbatim from one of scott heisel's articles.

maybe if he was doing real journalism that's one thing, but do you guys all have like a collective band envy where meeting dudes who play guitar for a living in mid-level shitty 1000 capacity venue acts is cooler than you can ever aspire to be? i would hate to think that my life will never be more cool than talking gossip about "alternative" bands and "alternative" styles while eating velveeta.

i'm in the midst of writing an essay about self loathing music in america and how it went from nirvana to this during my time as being part of the target demographics, and how nirvana was self loathing due to a feeling of complete unimportance, nothing mattered and the individual had little to no place, whereas these suburban kids now are incredibly self-important due to the change in technology that focuses more on the individual, they believe their grief is the grief that should be heard, as opposed to ignored. it's still being roughed out, but one of the points i am also working on is that since nirvana, the money has only grown, the houses grown, the suburban sprawl grown, and that there is even less identifiable culture in any place these kids live. so the lyrics, empty and vacant, the music totally shallow and the fashion obsessive, mimic the culture they're used to right now, one that those of us in our 20s (or those of us who were never that rich) managed to escape ever so slightly.

thanks for your uninformed opinion.

this is an innocuous little contest, guys. heisel has done his fair share of mud-slinging - much worse than this thread. and i'm serious about the painting. plus, i'm giving away a prize. i've shown a few of these paintings at exhibits, and the general consensus was nothing like what Micheal 3000 wrote.