LARPing and A.V. Club comments are better examples of folk culture today.
― Michael J. Fuxxx (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 18:59 (twelve years ago) link
animated gifs are better examples of folk culture today
i can agree with this
― sarahell, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 18:59 (twelve years ago) link
I agree w/ dwh also agree w/ sarahell agreeing with me
― iatee, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 19:00 (twelve years ago) link
But they're not -- they're just, no, it is a different dynamic. Perhaps it's condescending, but it isn't co-opting or appropriation in the way that term was orginally used
yeah, sure, its a weak position really. but i mean the folk culture argument is p peripheral and im annoyed that i let bait me into it
― Lamp, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 19:05 (twelve years ago) link
"there is no fucking way that anything that airs on tv - except on local access community channels maybe - is folk anything"
america's folkiest home videos!
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 19:07 (twelve years ago) link
so would this make tim and eric awesome show folk-art or at least some simulacrum of folk-art?!?
― kurwa mać (Polish for "long life") (Eisbaer), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 19:11 (twelve years ago) link
(jesus, this is like i'm back in a 1990s-era 400-level english/comp lit criticism class)
― kurwa mać (Polish for "long life") (Eisbaer), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 19:12 (twelve years ago) link
i think tim + eric's stuff is obv very influenced by folk art, but i don't think it is folk art itself
― Mordy, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 19:17 (twelve years ago) link
tom goes to the mayor was folk art, at least when it was a crappy web thing by two dorks, though that doesn't violate the "not-on-tv" rule.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 19:32 (twelve years ago) link
once you are a product being sold by a major international corporation to consumers throughout the world, i think you are no longer folk art. if you were folk art before that happened, you have likely being co-opted
― Mordy, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 19:35 (twelve years ago) link
been*
i am kinda o_O at a definition of "folk art" that would include Youtube videos like "I Don't Want My Pizza Burning" and anything by wendyvainity (though it makes sense).
― kurwa mać (Polish for "long life") (Eisbaer), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 19:37 (twelve years ago) link
It's totally folk art. Whether one's prescriptive and unevolving view of folk art allows them to accept it as such is a whole other issue.
― Woodsy The Allen (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 19:42 (twelve years ago) link
total derail but anybody who likes folk art should go to the Smithsonian American Art Museum to look at the folk art collection especially
http://americanart.si.edu/images/1970/1970.353.1_1b.jpg
― Nicholas Pokémon (silby), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 19:43 (twelve years ago) link
^^ mostly cardboard and tinfoil
― Nicholas Pokémon (silby), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 19:44 (twelve years ago) link
Nine times out of ten, I prefer folk art to Fine Art.
― Woodsy The Allen (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 19:47 (twelve years ago) link
so much coruscating schizo-religious weirdness
― Nicholas Pokémon (silby), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 19:50 (twelve years ago) link
otm so much
― Mordy, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 19:51 (twelve years ago) link
yeah me too
― You big bully, why are you hitting that little bully? (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 19:51 (twelve years ago) link
can we talk abt decoupage next?
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 19:52 (twelve years ago) link
Ugh, I could never take decoupage seriously, what with all of these obnoxious decoupage fans commenting on decoupage websites and dressing up like decoupage to go to their decoupage conventions. This has nothing to do with anxiety induced by a perceived threat to the rickety scaffolding of my precisely-curated Cool Guy identity. Because I can assure you that it will take more than the mere acknowledgement and passive acceptance of that which lies outside of my Sphere of Snobbery to send my sense of self collapsing into the void. I assure you.
― Calvin Coolranch (Deric W. Haircare), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 01:00 (twelve years ago) link
I was about to get all huffy bc I did some decoupage in high school, lol
we could make this the clusterfuck of the century
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 01:20 (twelve years ago) link
what, are we inviting chaki back to the board for this thread?
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 02:28 (twelve years ago) link
I WAS JOKING
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 02:30 (twelve years ago) link
too late it's already happening
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 02:33 (twelve years ago) link
oh great. thanks vegemitegrrl. :/
― Mordy, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 02:35 (twelve years ago) link
fffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 02:38 (twelve years ago) link
anyway you helped Mordy so don't blame this all on me. YOU'RE ALL PART OF THIS.
http://www.drunktiki.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/release-the-kraken.jpg
― Mordy, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 02:40 (twelve years ago) link
hahah
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 02:40 (twelve years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wdUUzdxMlqk/TT-MtXmq7PI/AAAAAAAAAQg/YMH5WkIpYpU/s1600/tumblr_l65hrhz5NP1qzdgx0o1_500.jpg
― aka vanilla bean (remy bean), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 02:43 (twelve years ago) link
I can't decide which kraken is cuter
I'll take them both
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 02:43 (twelve years ago) link
Huh, I was confusing "decoupage" with "decolletage."
― Office Tebow (Leee), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 03:39 (twelve years ago) link
irl lols
dying over here
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 03:40 (twelve years ago) link
xp - the latter is relevant to some people's appreciation of Mad Men. The former is a derail.
― sarahell, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 03:47 (twelve years ago) link
It would make for the first derail in this thread, afaict.........
― Calvin Coolranch (Deric W. Haircare), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 03:52 (twelve years ago) link
VegGrrl has used both words in the last two days! No joke: Yesterday I saw her post about "decolletage" on the Mad Men thread and asked my wife what it meant. When I found out, I said, "Huh. Why did I think it had to do with interior decoration?" Then, this afternoon, I saw her post upthread and was like "Oh, that's why!"
― Cuba Pudding, Jr. (jaymc), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 04:23 (twelve years ago) link
I like french words starting with "de" I guess
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 04:35 (twelve years ago) link
or boobs + collage
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― the outlaw josie mccoy (some dude), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 13:13 (twelve years ago) link
jeepers i love all these shows. impossible choice!!!
― omar little, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 16:26 (twelve years ago) link
Can't believe it's taken someone this long to admit it.
― hot and brothered (Eric H.), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 17:19 (twelve years ago) link
thinking omar little should vote for the show that gave him his dn
― Mordy, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i loved little omar van zandt on the sopranos
― some dude, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 17:41 (twelve years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Thursday, 5 April 2012 00:01 (twelve years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Friday, 6 April 2012 00:01 (twelve years ago) link
good results
― some dude, Friday, 6 April 2012 00:41 (twelve years ago) link
I think I'm the only person on the planet that couldn't get into The Wire.
― Darin, Friday, 6 April 2012 00:42 (twelve years ago) link
like...The Wire is exactly twice as good as Breaking Bad, 2.4 times as good as The Sopranos and 6 times better than Mad Men? yeah, that sounds right.
― some dude, Friday, 6 April 2012 00:44 (twelve years ago) link
does The Wire improve significantly after season 1?
― Darin, Friday, 6 April 2012 00:46 (twelve years ago) link