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Been watching a lot of stuff lately that touches on the intersection of geo-politics and the cyberization of the body (see Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, X-Files, The Shrouds, etc.)
So often people are really down on how complex and amorphous the plots can be but isn’t that the whole point?
What better reflects our reality than a messy shadow world brimming with malicious government and tech sector actors seeking to weaponize our bodies and minds? These stories aim for a certain realism and achieve it in their refusal to provide clean answers.
So often, there is no truth for us anymore. Everything is a false flag, everything is a psy-op, who does the smoking man really work for? We’re the victims and we can only grasp at half-truths and accept that we’ll never know. Yet in accepting that, we reach a deeper truth of another kind.
Apr 26, 2025
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“NOTHING IS TRUE, EVERYTHING IS CONTENT.”
by Colin Broadmoor
Made me feel human again
May 3, 2024
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My #official take is that AI art generally on the whole fucking sucks. 90% of it is uninteresting slop content by brain dead techbros who have no knowledge of art or why we value it.
HOWEVER!!! There is one use case where I think using AI in your art can actually elevate the work, and that’s if the art itself is in some way trying to say something about AI.
Luckily, there’s actually a lot of things to say about AI – referencing it in your work pretty firmly places it in the current cultural landscape in super powerful way.
Some examples (note that these all have pretty nihilistic / downright dystopian outlooks on modern society, maybe that’s also imporyant):
- Vegyn’s album under the Headache pseudonym
- some of the scenes in Conner O’Malley’s 103 fever short
Jan 16, 2025
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My friend Johnny sent me this article a few months ago and it’s been living rent free in my head. Reading it is like experiencing aphasia. It’s the written version of that image with no discernible objects. It made me feel like I fell asleep and woke up in a techno-thriller movie. BBC BA AND BOOTS ISSUED WITH ULTIMATUM BY CYBER GANG CLOP. What?It’s not the BBC’s fault. British readers probably understood immediately what this meant. But the feeling of disorientation I had in the moment was so powerful that it was exciting. It’s a “Spy Kids ass story” in Johnny’s words.
Jan 9, 2024
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Plastic Beach with a full orchestra and all the guest stars ✨🏝
Apr 22, 2025
Charli was right, it’s Cronenberg summer bitch. Even though his movies have consistent winter vibes, the amount and variety of bodies on display in the summer certainly makes it grotesque enough to be suitably Cronenbergian (?)
The Shrouds was excellent, his Interview mag feature was hot and there’s never a bad time to revisit his incredibly strong and varied filmography. Don’t sleep on the other Cronenberg boy either, his son Brandon has made two of my favorite mind fucks in recent memory with Possessor and Infinity Pool.
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That fuckin piano line goes so hard and gets stuck in my head every time + there’s a chicken on the cover 😤
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