visual poetics a la dump.fm
Notes for talk at Sunview Luncheonette, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY, Sat, Feb 27, 2016
http://dump.fm/
http://dump.fm/fullscreen
http://dump.fm/directory
http://dump.fm/p/grass/15521612
http://dump.fm/p/illalli/15462066
http://dump.fm/p/yo_matty/15544093
http://dump.fm/p/tommoody/15508205
https://www.tommoody.us/archives/2015/08/26/geo-scramble/
https://www.tommoody.us/archives/2015/09/09/sketch_l7-cootie/
http://dump.fm/p/foot/15545446
http://dump.fm/p/sidonie/15495736
http://dump.fm/p/maxlabor/15341599
from the tumblr of ckcker
At the risk of spoiling a good joke by analyzing it, this
sequence of five found photos encapsulates the tragedy and
stupidity of our silicon valley-made, plato's caveman world.
The randomness of image search meets clickbait buttonpushing
mechanics, hollowing out the already hollowed out. There is
a kind of algebra, or set theory, at work here: three images
of cheapened sadness (the abashed celebrity at the moment of
crisis), fear (the bloody hollywood FX head), and yuks (the
parked domain meme reenactment), forming an emotional triad
that must be offset by not one, but two, creepy goalie masks
in order for layout feng shui to be achieved.
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