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Sometimes you will be talking candidly to a friend, and they will let loose something sincere in their actions or the way they speak or in what they say. I love these moments. Every time this happens, I learn to respect each of my friends more, reguardless of what they say (and I have known some pretty twisted people). Anyways, a friend of mine showed me this website for this art project that somebody was doing, where they left these blank postcards in a gallery and people were expected to write a secret that they have never told anybody on it, and mail it back to the gallery (or something like that). Some of them are suprisingly candid and dark, although a few too many women saying "I am totally straight but I want to fuck my best friend" Anyways, here is the link; |
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these are nice. the abortion-one made me feel queesy. but I can't believe that people actually did all the artsy stuff on those. |
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Well, the first couple ones were for the show, the rest are actually sent in to the website. This kind of stuff really appeals to artsy people. Even when they don't sign their name, they still look for attention, methinks. I also think the guy only posts the interesting ones. |
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href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/296/2612/1024/s9.jpg" target=blank>Monoid./a> |
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I think a lot of the artiness takes away from the impact the message could have. I think I'd rather see just plain handwriting on a card. that said, the abortion-one had an impact on me because of the text combined with the colours. I also like the one below, although I do still think most would be stronger if there's no distractions. it kind of makes it look too planned, makes it feel undirect. |
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wow, fantastic idea. there's some good stuff in here. |
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yeah, i think so as well. |
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this one, for example, hits home because of the simplicity: |
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We need to get this person in contact with monoid. |
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awesome |
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JINX! |
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Some of these really are quite... i want to say shocking but it's not the right word. |
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I think you'll find that should read: "I G0T pWN3D!!!11!!" |
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some of them do give you a little jolt. |
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You must've cheated somehow. That's the only answer. |
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Woah |
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this is the best link anyone has ever posted |
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this reminds me of this more voyeuristic "found art" book by . it's called, "DEATHSENTENCES OF THE POLISHED AND STRUCTURALLY WEAK" i've got it. it's really intense at times. highly recommended even if you don't like negativland's music. |
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that's a good example - the message is heavy, but the idea that someone sat down and chose a colour for each word kind of dampens it for me. |
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I totally agree. But the artsy ones are also the more standard of responses, and it ends up making the more boring ones stand out more. Especially when they say something like "I talked someone into suicide". |
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that's true. and some of the artsy ones are nice too. good work posting this one. :) |
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These are quite interesting, but the way they've been put together makes them feel a bit "sloganeery" to me... like some half-arsed jenny holzer or something. That said, i still enjoy seeing things like this, it's a nice little insight i suppose. I remember a film by Gillian Wearing that went along similar lines, she placed an advert in loot asking for people to be filmed confessing their secrets wearing disguises. One man slowly confessing how he had been in love with his sister for 30 years was horrifying, just so human. That was awesome, this is just quite cool. |
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I like some of Jenny Holzer's work. with her it really hangs on the text used, I think. |
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Thats negitivlands found object in car project? That was a really fascinating idea. I never actually had a chance to see it, but the idea has always interested me. Thnx for reminding me about that. Qrter; Yeah. Sometimes you can have something artsy, and valid at the same time. Thnx :) There is this artist exhibiting in this gallery next to my apartment that finds things in alleyways, referbishes them and puts them back, then takes a picture. The neatest one was a picture of clothes all scattered about beside a dumpster, then the next picture they were washed ironed and folded, but placed in the same place. I love stuff like that. |
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I kind of like her stuff myself, i think it has more impact outside of the gallery because you're not expecting to find it on a billboard or a neon sign or something. With this, it's just a link to a website, it doesn't really make me stop and take pause (like finding a postcard / artwork like this would in real life). Mmmm. Arty. |
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it's kind of hard to not recognise Holzer's work as art though. it looks very... mmmm. arty. |
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Her early stuff was just like "lost cat"-style posters i believe... i think the billboard thing was a bad example. I actually like her work before she calmed down a bit and went into gallery gubbins, precisely because it doesn't look very arty. |
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