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cockydoody asks: I love that movie. That picture reminds me of a lot of Indiana and Illinois. There are all these quarries that make very unnatural looking canyons and tiny deserts in the middle of suburban neighborhoods or forest preserves. It seems very futuristic to me.

Yes, yes, yesh.  I used to visit family in Hammond, IN when I was very little I remember scenes like this.  I mostly remember playing on the dunes by one of the Great Lakes and seeing hang gliders.  The fact that I have old photographs with that hard color sheen to remember this by probably explains the nostalgia value.

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thefoldout: I’m one dynamite dude. You know that feeling when you find an image and you’re like, “I bet this is already a meme.  It has to be.”  So you do a brief search and find that it is indeed a meme and you think about how prevalent TV nostalgia is and then you think about when Fabienne Lassere said that Americans always talk about TV shows as some sort of shared experience.  Then you go and look at her website to see if she’s done any work lately that was a cool as her old work and if there are any pictures of her on google images because she was just so fetching back when you were her student.  Then you get pissed at how EVERY SINGLE ARTIST doesn’t allow good size images of their art on the internet because they’re all wrapped up in this bogus notion of rarity and originality and aren’t aware that they’re just producing commodities. And then that truthfulness of that makes you sad.

thefoldout:

I’m one dynamite dude.

You know that feeling when you find an image and you’re like, “I bet this is already a meme.  It has to be.”  So you do a brief search and find that it is indeed a meme and you think about how prevalent TV nostalgia is and then you think about when Fabienne Lassere said that Americans always talk about TV shows as some sort of shared experience.  Then you go and look at her website to see if she’s done any work lately that was a cool as her old work and if there are any pictures of her on google images because she was just so fetching back when you were her student.  Then you get pissed at how EVERY SINGLE ARTIST doesn’t allow good size images of their art on the internet because they’re all wrapped up in this bogus notion of rarity and originality and aren’t aware that they’re just producing commodities.

And then that truthfulness of that makes you sad.

(Source: frankrhymes)

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Pulp - Countdown (Extended Version)

I just started reading Owen Hatherley’s Uncommon.  I have to say this has to be my favorite Pulp song.  Brings back a lot of memories from my first year of art school.

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I used to hang out at the reservoir when I was in high school.  There were some nice rusted structures there.

I used to hang out at the reservoir when I was in high school.  There were some nice rusted structures there.

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