I need to get rid of this stockpile of tabs I’ve been accumulating, so here you go:
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Found this website about Lynch a while ago, and thought it was worth sharing. Not the best-written site, but the analysis is still critically-oriented and seems, for the most part, theoretically informed by auteur theory and psychoanalysis. I haven’t read the whole site, but from what I’ve read, I find the author’s specific interpretations of films a bit narrow. Still, it’s about Lynch, and it’s theoretically based, so I might as well share it.
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Another Lynch-related post. This time, Lynch doing some pop-style music stuff.
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Speaking of psychoanalysis, here’s an entertaining video regarding Kristeva’s theory of abjection, as explicated in her Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (Note: I used an Amazon link to present this text, but don’t but it from Amazon. Fuck Amazon for booting Wikileaks, as well as for its subtle censorship of LGBTQ literature last year). I haven’t read Powers of Horror yet, but I’m really looking forward to eventually getting around to it: the basics of the theory, which I’ve cursorily gathered from her book’s first chapter, “Approaching Abjection,” have played an integral part of my theoretical approach in many of the essay I wrote while working on my B.A., as well as in my recent analysis of Earl Sweatshirt’s “Earl” video. I particularly enjoy the way he drinks the milk at the end: it seems a fitting illustration of that delicate balance that theory-nerds know all too well, the balance between theory and praxis.
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Too much of a Calvin and Hobbes fan not to post this. This illustrator, Tim (user name “ninjaink” on Deviantart.com) , definitely draws from Bill Watterson, and I find this and his other works to be wonderful, too much Calvin-and-Hobbes-style to not post. Not only do his works draw from Calvin and Hobbes immensely, but a hodgepodge of other illustrators, mediums, and genres as well. Good postmodern fun. Compare, for example, the above picture to the Watterson original, if you have it/can find it, from which the above is taken nearly frame-for-frame (in the original, Calvin takes off his clothes pretending to be Tarzan, leaving them at Susie’s house, and walks home with Hobbes in the last frame instead). Good stuff indeed.
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"Meanwhile... Eeyore questions his luck after finding a new tail and unexpected consequences."
For more postmodern fun, check out Giant Hamburger‘s two web comics, “Alien vs. Pooh” and “The Poohing.” Definitely loled at quite a few of these frames.
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Some political graffiti/artwork. I’m not a fan of all of these pieces, e.g., the pro-Obama ones (I had high hopes when Obama was elected, and I’m glad he won rather than McCain; but, nonetheless, he has proved himself to be just another centrist and bureaucrat…). Still, some of these are quite intriguing, and my recently developed fascination with political graffiti makes this too intriguing not to post. My faves include (as labeled on the website): “Searching,” “Brian Haw,” “Vote for Nobody” (love this one), “Change Not Coins,” “Society,” and “Laser Guided Democracy.” Features a few from Banksy.
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This is beautiful. I only wish there was more of this here in the States. I find the use of paint-bombs, as opposed to, say, molotovs, particularly interesting. Consider the following:
“Never attack the system in terms of relations of force. That is the (revolutionary) imagination the system itself forces upon you — the system which survives only by constantly drawing those attacking it into fighting on the ground of reality, which is always its own. But shift the struggle into the symbolic sphere, where the rule is that of challenge, reversion and outbidding. So that death can only be met by equal or greater death. Defy the system by a gift to which it cannot respond except by its own death and its own collapse” (Baudrillard, 17).
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This site is in the process of transcribing all of Kafka’s diary entries from 1910-1923 onto a tumblr. Kafka and Tumblr: I’d say it speaks for itself. Via Sara at Cervinae.
Note: Sara hasn’t been posting to her blog too much lately, but you can also check her out at her Tumblr, on which she has been plenty busy posting awesome stuff.
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Works cited:
Baudrillard, Jean. The Sprit of Terrorism. Brooklyn, Verso: 2003, Print.
scribble, scribble, scribble... 