Feel free to ask questions about: 1. My viewpoints 2. my aesthetic philosophy 3. Training and discipline 4. Addiction advice 5. Hell, my personal life (I’m an open book)
Oddball question but what’s your opinion on ARG’s (alternate reality games)? I feel like they occupy a corny YouTuber gen Z place in the culture currently and haven’t had any kind of sincere or relevant project yet but actually have huge artistic/intellectual potential. I’d love to see someone with talent and vision develop this stuff. With your knowledge of art/performance art I’d love to know your opinion.
I don't know much about this but it sounds fascinating. I still think there's so much room for evolution in the gaming industry that isn't being met. Alan Wake 2 is the only 5th generation game that felt like such.
Agreed about Gen 5, your commentary is what made me want to play Alan Wake 2. But I’m not talking about video games, I’m talking about for example what NIN did with Year Zero. It’s usually a mixture of marketing, art, and performance along with real world research that blurs reality. Reznor left multiple USB’s in bathrooms that were part of his ARG — usually these games are cryptic and spread out across the internet. So a clue may be on a Twitter post or hidden inside a string of text. Maybe it gets left at a thrift store and it always presents itself as real. Across this kind of stuff a narrative gets formed. Blair Witch was kind of a proto-ARG letting people believe it was real and leaking out copies of the film before an official release.
It’s kind of performance art mixed with internet tools. Just seems like an interesting form to me.
1. Favorite current MMA fighter and favorite bodybuilder? (Top three if one is too hard)
2. When was the last time that a work of art made you weep?
3. I’ve always been a fan of intense, heavy music, even on the more experimental side, but I find that some of the artists you’ve recommended (Whitehouse, Atrax Morgue, etc) are interesting but too abrasive and unforgiving for more than a brief listening experience. Was there a eureka moment for you when that stuff “clicked,” or was it immediate?
What would the sexy transgressiveness of alt-right culture combined with the rigor of post-Stockhausen classical aesthetics look like? Is there a future for this?
Oddball question but what’s your opinion on ARG’s (alternate reality games)? I feel like they occupy a corny YouTuber gen Z place in the culture currently and haven’t had any kind of sincere or relevant project yet but actually have huge artistic/intellectual potential. I’d love to see someone with talent and vision develop this stuff. With your knowledge of art/performance art I’d love to know your opinion.
I don't know much about this but it sounds fascinating. I still think there's so much room for evolution in the gaming industry that isn't being met. Alan Wake 2 is the only 5th generation game that felt like such.
Agreed about Gen 5, your commentary is what made me want to play Alan Wake 2. But I’m not talking about video games, I’m talking about for example what NIN did with Year Zero. It’s usually a mixture of marketing, art, and performance along with real world research that blurs reality. Reznor left multiple USB’s in bathrooms that were part of his ARG — usually these games are cryptic and spread out across the internet. So a clue may be on a Twitter post or hidden inside a string of text. Maybe it gets left at a thrift store and it always presents itself as real. Across this kind of stuff a narrative gets formed. Blair Witch was kind of a proto-ARG letting people believe it was real and leaking out copies of the film before an official release.
It’s kind of performance art mixed with internet tools. Just seems like an interesting form to me.
Trent likely needed this because no one remembers a single track on that record
Thoughts on the work of comedian Conner O'Malley, if any?
Unique taste in women
Earplugs at a punk/metal show: Yay or gay?
1. Favorite current MMA fighter and favorite bodybuilder? (Top three if one is too hard)
2. When was the last time that a work of art made you weep?
3. I’ve always been a fan of intense, heavy music, even on the more experimental side, but I find that some of the artists you’ve recommended (Whitehouse, Atrax Morgue, etc) are interesting but too abrasive and unforgiving for more than a brief listening experience. Was there a eureka moment for you when that stuff “clicked,” or was it immediate?
1. Current? MMA is Strickland. Bodybuilder probably Nick Walker or Hadi.
2. Rewatching Brokeback Mountain with wife couple weeks ago, after Jack's episode on it
3. I think the eureka is that it's not music to be enjoyed. It just is. It's an endurance test.
What would the sexy transgressiveness of alt-right culture combined with the rigor of post-Stockhausen classical aesthetics look like? Is there a future for this?
The alt right’s transgressigvness has broken, in its wake is a rigid antifa-esque disciplinary mechanism. I can’t see it being future forward at all