Competitive eating/ watching binge eating/ eating challenges is a phenomenon that I would argue is the perfect combination of hedonism and gluttony but also the capability to surpass the human norms. Does the impressively excessive nature outweigh the feelings that compel us to remain with in the realms of health and recommended amount of food […]
Outsider artists aren’t merely shown along side high art, they are high art. They simply have a label attached designating them as outsiders. They are still being defined as outsiders even now, even though outsider art has reached the point of at least being known by the late majority, if not by the ‘laggards’ as […]
There is room for the argument that dead artists impede more on there art than those who are alive. A lot of artists that are alive keep their process, sketchbooks and behind the scenes details private, whereas when people die these private collections and workspaces and houses are bought to the forefront as the last […]
Death is an odd phenomenon. It is so far removed from anything we can experience and ever really feel that it can only ever leave a void. There can be no understanding of it, and I think that any form of understanding would be detrimental. If we knew the feeling, we would never live because […]
In the final chapter of his book Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism? Zizek has suggested that there is now an anxiety that stems from a fear of not being seen. Is it the actions that are important or is it the fact that they are viewed that renders them important? This question to me has an […]
The occurrence of memories and the memories of possible futures rip through the present. Like a shard of light in the dark. Without these thoughts we are blind, left unaware of our own desires. In order to forget we must remember, we have to remember what we want to forget. We only ever see the […]
Be fucked up but sell it. We are in a time where everything must be sold, not just sex, not just beautiful but the fucked and the ugly. You can be anything but, please, god, sell it. That is the message of today. In all popular culture there has been a move away from the […]
Come Back To Earth 