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Tuesday 28 February 2012

transgressive intent.-idea piece-subject to edit.(graphic links-nsfw).

 GG Allin was an infamous punk singer known for flinging his faeces at this audience, Franko B is an artist who cuts himself allowing copious amounts of blood to drip on to a prepared stage.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ic6fOEkpiko
 Both people use transgressive actions but come from different positions. What about Jubal Brown the canadian artist who vomits on paintings http://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/08/weekinreview/no-stomach-for-art.html
, or the English artist Millie Brown who does the same but on her own canvass.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dZ5BtZkIR4&feature=channel_video_title

How do we define the intent versus the action  to determine it's value?.
I will be making art on this theme using both collage, video art and drawing.



Friday 24 February 2012

Android sex toy coming soon.-subject to edit.

This is a rough sketch for a larger piece i will make exploring the notion of the morality and free will.
I was watching this film

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95ycTnlH0AU&feature=related
Cyborg2 starring Angelina Jolie before she was famous, in it she plays a character who is programmed to be a prostitute and an assassin. It is a very simple movie, but the comments below by viewers led me to begin to think about this problem of morality.
Now we could argue that this is just online bravado, anonymity brings out the worst in people because we become separated from the checks and balances of  peer approval.
But i think regardless the moral question the film raises is worth discussing.

Technology is changing, it is changing the way we live and think and communicate. As robotics become ever more sophisticated it is inevitable that someone will build a robot for sex.
We already have these life like passive full sized love dolls.With it's own bizarre fetish scene.
From the doc i watched a lot of the men live with the dolls as wife, they can see sex workers but they choose the passivity of latex. No human interaction.

I wonder about the morality of using a sex doll once it becomes realistic, at what point are you actually condoning sexual slavery?.
Even if the machine is just responses with no recognized sentience, the idea of wanting a realistic rendition of a human that is passive is ugly.

I have yet to find evidence of women using sex dolls in hetero situations.

What are you thoughts on this issue, please leave comments.
Thanks.



Juliette Tumelyetes art work and ceramics and glas..

http://www.jtmenoidejos.lt/
This is Juliette Tumelytes art blog, please check it out. She is a very talented drawing artist, and painter and has lots of work to view.
I love her pieces.

Thursday 23 February 2012

Might Morphin teenage mutant organised crime.-subject to edit.

Just something interesting, i typed Mafia and Yakuza in to Google images and found the highest viewed images are for video games alongside the images of the criminal organisationsand their  cultural signifiers.
A cultural signifier is just a symbol that identifies a particular language, country or culture. For example one might a string of onions, we identify as France, or in this case tatoos for Yakuza, and hats and tommy guns for mafia.
Advertisers use signifiers all the time, as a shortcut to your emotional identification with a  fake history of a product they are selling. I made art on this theme.
http://sundersartwork.blogspot.com/2011/09/sincerity-integrity.html
This is a fairly fun blog about signifiers, a good beggining guide to start your interest.
http://philmon.blogspot.com/2008/02/cultural-signifiers.html

analysis: With shows like Sopranoes, The Wire and the less complex Dexter and the immersiveness of video games that parallel and parody  this culture of violence and reward the image of organised crime and criminals has never been more prevalent. And now with the internet, rumour and bravado can take the place of facts and history in the minds of  those easily impressed.
This, i think is very similar to the culture and mindset of the real life criminals, who we are told play the same games and watch the same movies that we do. Unaware of the irony of their position. And now are allowed when they they finish, to sell a book on their crimes, star in documentary's all for an eager public already having lived their life by proxy  through the games and tv shows.
One could argue , and it has been said , that this fascination with criminals is a delayed and frustrated primordial response to the flight and fight instinct.
Organised crime operates like a business, much like the business we see today dominate our cultural landscape,and they use the same tactics of cultural signifiers to develop an emotional connection.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ezk0e1VL80o   This dodge ad i thought was a snl spoof at first.It's signifiers are egregious  and only worth watching for the humour value.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6LZc5eCgAI&feature=related  : Mcdonalds ad trying to identify an emotional connection by entering your personal history. Do you see how they are grabbing at your memorys?. What they want to do is develop your history to include Mcdonalds.

If you have thoughts on this topic, please leave a comment, anonymously if you want, you don't need a blog to do so.
Thanks .

Sunday 19 February 2012

The reply girl and reply boy.-subject to edit.

I am sure, by now everyone has heard of reply girls.

The reply girl phenomenon is located, though not exhaustively contained, on You Tube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tlyb8GWvHo0
The link is to 'The Reply Girl'  one of the more notable reply girls. She has at least five channels.And is the most loathed.

A reply girl is a young attractive woman in a low cut top, with the camera aimed at her breasts.The reply girl videos are based on giving an opinion on a trending news story, viral video or celebrity. 'The reply' in most cases is a simple review, with questionable content, often giving a very simple description of events

.Since they use tags aimed at people searching for these  popular topics, and they wear low cut tops in the thumb nails this means they get very high views.Because they exploit the search terms on YT, and wear revealing clothes and offer no real content they are loathed.Most users of  You Tube to dislike them and accuse them of  wasting their time.




Reply girls i believe is simply evolution in action , never has the term 'nature abhors a vacuum' been more apparent than on the internet. Where already you have a curious world with its own rules, terminology and online creatures. Hackers, both malicious and criminal are the sharks forcing business and public to develop greater understanding of anti virus software and how to operate online. Trolls are like the smaller , vicious fish that trail sharks, feeding of the weaker fish, trimming the herd. Developing a more streamlined , savvy population of users. Reply girls are simply animals that spot a safe spot to feed and burrow and exploit it, displaying colorful camouflage to attract nourishment.

There are women who make clever, interesting videos , yet use some of the tactics of reply girls. One example of this is the internet celebrity Laci Green.  Currently i believe, a law student funding her degree though being a You Tube partner http://www.youtube.com/user/lacigreen/featured  . She definitely does not make reply girl videos, hers are well researched and edited with entertaining, intelligent content. Yet she does make sure that she wears a low cut top *, and aims the camera at her breasts in every video . This again is just evolution in action, colorful  wings to attract the nourishment.Something advertising, and films utilises all the time.

*she stopped doing this.


There are men who do similar, this time with no ability to attract female views ( in my research women tend to view men who are handsome, play musical instruments, or sing) they adopt the technique of conning,using fake thumbnails and titles alluding to either sex or popular search terms. When the viewer clicks the thumbnail they get, instead, a male reply girl. Or reply boy. Egregious examples of this are:


And SealLongShot. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dChqOK_HFUM&feature=related
All reply boys get  the same invective from viewers as reply girls.
Since males do not have breasts  and none of them have good looks, the reply boys have to utilise cunning to get nourishment, in this case mass marketing of fake thumbnails which offer movie trailers, clips from tv shows or popular news items. Instead they offer the same level of banality as reply girls, since their intention is to trick to you to watching their clip. Even for a few seconds to get the view and make money.

I intend to make art on this, the level of  deception reply girls and boys use is used in advertising, propaganda and in the natural world. It is used in literature in the form of metaphors, innuendo and subliminal in movies and music. Albeit on a more sophisticated level.

Thanks for reading. Please leave comments if you have them, id love to hear your thoughts.


Monday 13 February 2012

THE CUCKOLD PHENOMENON.



  Bizarre sub culture of the cuckold.
I had researched this after planning to make art on the cuckold as portrayed in art, linking it to my Messalina project.
It always appeared to me as racist, this black people as primitives, the men who act as knowing cuckolds describe themselves as being wimpy, unable to do anything but watch.
It is very bizarre, is it a fetish that can only exist so long as we have racism?.
Kind of like the violence in porn, or how many times we see women get kidnapped and tied up in movies. Jessica Alba seems to get tied up a lot!.
When sexism finally goes , will we see the end to all this fetish in movies?.
I’m still not sure what to do with this, i set the Messalina project aside for now till i can think how to proceed.
Anyone have an ideas?.

Tuesday 7 February 2012

Musings on authenticity.1


This what art college has done to my brain.
I see something such as this, and i cannot help but think it might be an art piece. I have come across artists who have done things like this. Left a series of photos about someone in distress, that are completely staged.
They will stick to the narrative completely and either not answer back or keep in character to monitor the reactions of others.
What do others think?.
Is it real or fake?.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ardentattenuation/sets/72157622753950201/with/4134580829/
It hardly matters really because of the discussion it raises about the notion of authenticity. In the internet age we all share out lives and thoughts, the anonymity, which is a false belief, replaces the confessional. Replaces the talking we would have with friends. We live in a world of disconnection, we do not talk to neighbours since we no longer rely on them for information, for support. We have no common bond, no tv shows we would all watch together, the internet has fractured us from our community at the same time as it has bonded us to a displaced, shifting  online diaspora.
 Why am i looking at this womans life, i have no concern for her, i view her sufferings almost dispassionately. I know nothing of her. Yet at the click of a button i can access her most intimate moments in life.
  Of course it is intimacy viewed at a distance,  we are looking at strangers who open their lives. And as suported by the first paragraph, we are open to manipulation.
People become their own online propoganda.

If you have thoughts, comment. Thanks, i would love to her your views.

Saturday 4 February 2012

English actor director producer.

http://voicesbychance.blogspot.com/
I am a big fan of this talented director and actor. Please check his blog for  his work and acting.
Movies are going to change from this guy.

Friday 3 February 2012

Can be like Warhol and Basquiat and be that commited?.-celebrities in art, celebrities as art.=work in progress.

I am surprised this has the number of views it has, i suspect it is due to the title.Ultimately the idea for the rough draft photoshop was an investigation in to the nature of advertising in art, (that i was intending to return to later) something Basquiat and Warhol both created art about in their careers.

 I photo shopped images of Kim Kardashian and Amanda Bynes on to an Amazon screengrab of a yoghurt maker. The masturbation subtext of the joke being obvious. But i was interested in the way female celebrities use sexuality to sell films , books, music or themselves. Kim K got famous because she released a sex tape with a minor singer who was only  known for being the brother of a more famous celebrity Brandy. Who now is a judge on American Idol


 Prior to the sex tape she was known for being the girlfriend of athletes, and no one had heard of her family.
Amanda Bynes career in to adult roles stalled despite starring in a series of underwear photo shoots in mens magazines. But her face and images, now she is having a public breakdown, are appropriated by artists and the media and anyone with a computer.

Basquiat created an alter ego Samo (pronounced 'same-oh') with  artist Al Diaz while they were in highschool. The word Samo stands for 'same old shit'. Basquiat turned Samo in to a street guru, littering buildings and shops with meaningless aphorisms and affirmations like 'clap your hands and say yeah' that mirrored the bill boards and posters he grew up with.

Leading us to question the nature of advertisements ourselves and our relation to them. Increasingly advertisers have moved beyond the simple selling of the benefits of a product and now wish to establish an emotional connection, using something called signifiers. Buy this product and buy this lifestyle, buy this product and be this person. Basquiat himself now is a celebrity, albeit a dead one and his image is appropriated. (I shall research who owns his estate)



Ironic since Warhol and Basquiat among others were artists who sought to subvert how the media viewed them as artists and celebrities.


Various street artists have used celebrities in art , with the celebrities features far removed, in the artists hands, from their original source. We can see this effect with Shepheard Faireys Andre the giant.
In which the french wrestlers face is pressed in to a tight frame, the white relief almost abstract, the image is threatening. Large bold letters offer a single instruction. Is it a critique of government propoganda or corporate manipulation.
In any case, artists were now taking the images of celebrities they are deluged with, and using them the same way the celebrities themselves do. The images of celebs become product of a corporation, like Tesco towells, or own brand loo roll generic enough to be cheap, different enough to sail under copyright.

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Thanks for reading- work in progress.

The Three Wishes test.-Critical thinking.


I was on a psychology forum  when i came across an interesting post, that gave me a chance to engage in critical thinking and analyse the hidden meanings behind the responses.

Someone posed the  question ''what would you do with three wishes?''. They sold it as a narrative, that you found a genie in a lamp (for genie we can think God, Fate). The narrative had rules: you had could not wish for extra wishes, or more genies, this was to pin people down to making interesting, diverse responses. If people type 'unlimited wishes' then there is no further need to elaborate. However, i found a commonality between the responses and so I filtered them down to three, which covered , broadly, most of the posters replies.

The three most common wishes were:
1.I want people to have sex with me.  -             Sexual attractiveness, potency, rape fantasy- power over  others, domination.
     2. I want no harm to come to my loved ones.-       The ability to detain fate (natural process), control.

     3.Immortality and power.                                      Narcissism, god complex, fantasy of success.

It becomes interesting to examine the hidden motive behind this fantasy of gaining power and to think about what this says both about the respondents to the question and to the psychology of human beings.

The first one was probably more of a younger persons wish, a lot of students use the site.
1.all women want to have sex with me.

There were a few responses from women, but they tended to focus on physical improvements,such as movie star looks or perfect body’s. as did a lot of the men (thought penis size in their case was one of the most common responses). This really meant they wanted to feel more attractive to people, and by intimation, less lonely.

 The next most common wish was family orientated, summed up best as:
2. i want no harm to come to my loved ones 

Some of the replies wanted to bestow wealth and health on their family, some wished for diseases to go away, for fathers and mothers to return. For rifts to be healed. Having family and friends gives us a sense of identity, a society within a society in which we have those valuable checks and balances that allow us to feel needed and wanted.
The third was divided in to two , one philanthropic, one narcissistic. They can equally be best summed up as:
3. World peace, no war or poverty.

This can be linked directly with the ‘no harm to loved ones’ in the number two wish. We could argue that the observer expectancy effect comes in to play here. The ones who post tailor their responses to put themselves in a good light in the hope of receiving peer approval. Which can then, be held in corollary with number one. ‘I want people to find me attractive’.
3.a immortality

Finally we come to the narcissism of being an immortal. All the responses under the umbrella term qualified their wish with good looks, and a perfect body. Some held rationale about how the prolonged life would give them time to build wealth, become a famous valuable asset to the planet.
We can now draw a line linking the three wishes, which i believe can be summed up  in this statement.
I wish for people to like and love me.

I noted apart from the odd Caligula like rant, most people wanted genuine affection from others should they attain this plateaued   position of fame, good lucks and pro longed life.
Thanks for reading, if you have comments you can do so anonymously if you wish

Thursday 2 February 2012

The Three Wishes test.

I was on a psychology forum just idly perusing, when i came across an intresting post. 
Someone asked the initially cliche question what would you do with three wishes. They sold it as a narrative, that you found a genie. That you had could not wish for extra wishes, or more genies. The responses could be filtered down in to three, each wish being a compendium of various responses within the same desire.
The first one was probably more of a younger persons wish, a lot of students use the site.
1.all women want to have sex with me.

There were a few responses from women, but they tended to focus on physical improvements,such as movie star looks or perfect body’s. as did a lot of the men (thought penis size in their case was one of the most common responses). This really meant they wanted to feel more attractive to people, and by intimation, less lonely.

 The next most common wish was family orientated, summed up best as:
2. i want no harm to come to my loved ones 

Some of the replies wanted to bestow wealth and health on their family, some wished for diseases to go away, for fathers and mothers to return. For rifts to be healed. Having family and friends gives us a sense of identity, a society within a society in which we have those valuable checks and balances that allow us to feel needed and wanted.
The third was divided in to two , one philanthropic, one narcissistic. They can equally be best summed up as:
3. World peace, no war or poverty.

This can be linked directly with the ‘no harm to loved ones’ in the number two wish. We could argue that the observer expectancy effect comes in to play here. The ones who post tailor their responses to put themselves in a good light in the hope of receiving peer approval. Which can then, be held in corollary with number one. ‘I want people to find me attractive’.
3.a immortality

Finally we come to the narcissim of being an immortal. All the responses under the umbrella term qualified their wish with good looks, and a perfect body. Some held rationale about how the prolonged life would give them time to build wealth, become a famous valuable asset to the planet.
We can now draw a line linking the three wishes, which i beleive can be summed up  in this statement.
I wish for people to like and love me.

I noted apart from the odd Caligula like rant, most people wanted genuine affection from others should they attain this plateaued   postion of fame, good lucks and pro longed life. 
Thanks for reading, if you have comments you can do so anonmously if you wish

Wednesday 1 February 2012

my youtube. with amorphous blob background.

http://www.youtube.com/user/sundersart?feature=mhee#p/a/u/1/dwAFnjPa5NQ

I have made work about the amount of violence on yt  that is without context versus the crackdown on genuine female nudity . The juvenile depiction of womens bodys is something i will be returning to. As an intial attempt to address this, i took the amorphous blob image from the Max Hardcore stendahl syndrome video and made it my background image. The idea being an enlarged image of a breast becomes unoffensive as it is reduced to abstract colours. So we are forced to re think what it is we find so dangerous.

Please visit my yt, i have some art videos on and will be making more. If you have yt, add me and i will always add back and leave  positive comments on your videos.