Grimes/Claire Boucher thread

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jesus christ
https://niftygateway.com/collections/warnymphvolume1

davey, Monday, 1 March 2021 17:49 (three years ago) link

omg this shit is terrible, it's like if wyland stopped painting humpback whales and started making 3d renderings of space babies, this is what we would get
https://res.cloudinary.com/nifty-gateway/image/upload/q_auto:good,w_800/v1614181985/Max/Grimes/Newborn_3_f8zgk5.jpg

davey, Monday, 1 March 2021 17:55 (three years ago) link

it's like angela from the office entered into a goth phase and redid the jazz babies poster in maya 3d, lmaoooooo

http://theofficecom106.weebly.com/uploads/6/0/4/4/60449985/3753068.jpg

davey, Monday, 1 March 2021 18:12 (three years ago) link

Musician makes mediocre artwork shocker

stuck in the version layer (morrisp), Monday, 1 March 2021 18:23 (three years ago) link

alright wiseass, u can dismiss the art itself but are u not impressed by grimes's revolutionary incorporation of blockchain technology into the commercialization of her work? does nothing impress you?

davey, Monday, 1 March 2021 18:32 (three years ago) link

and really tho, u think this is merely mediocre? not, say, catastrophically tasteless?

davey, Monday, 1 March 2021 18:33 (three years ago) link

Since you asked - I don't personally care about this shit, and don't get why ppl come here to clown on her every time she does something mildly cringy (or is accused of something by association).

stuck in the version layer (morrisp), Monday, 1 March 2021 18:39 (three years ago) link

i understand. i love a lot of grimes' music. she's very often brilliant. i think people have been unduly harsh towards her, too. i wouldn't be in here to diss some shit i thought was just mildly cringy.

everything about this stunt grosses me out: the vaguely specified charitable committment, the lazy deviantart quality of the work, the blockchain gimmick. i don't get worked up about the politics of the art world very often, but this shit strikes me as deeply cynical and it disgusts me and i wonder if it's not almost a little evil.

davey, Monday, 1 March 2021 19:08 (three years ago) link

NFTs are extremely embarrassing and every other musician who expresses interest in them should be clowned on just as much

ufo, Monday, 1 March 2021 21:14 (three years ago) link

Half of my twitter timeline is either musicians clowning on NFTs or Mat Dryhurst defending them

change display name (Jordan), Monday, 1 March 2021 21:20 (three years ago) link

new all purpose headline to be used going forward for anything grimes-related:

GRIMES DOES VERY STUPID THING THAT SOME MAY SAY ISN'T STUPID

"How can she possibly need more money", said one fan when asked about the development.

Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Monday, 1 March 2021 21:42 (three years ago) link

this feels like first dave matthews band album's magic eye cover

sell her Dior (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 1 March 2021 22:04 (three years ago) link

if people bought magic eyes for $250,000. maybe they did?

sell her Dior (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 1 March 2021 22:05 (three years ago) link

davey otm that this work would be most appropriately installed on the side of an office tower or two on the way out to the airport

difficult listening hour, Monday, 1 March 2021 22:19 (three years ago) link

my take is that NFTs are dumb in many ways, not the least of which is the giant energy suck that is crypto mining that underpins the transactions

on the other hand, the “art” aspect pretty much cut out the middleman when it comes to artistic works as money laundering instrument and if anyone wants to get that money, have at it

mh, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 13:06 (three years ago) link

Art’s ugly, but the real joke is people paying for that shit.

A percentage of the proceeds from the WarNymph NFT sales will be donated to Carbon180, an NGO dedicated to reducing carbon emissions.


This is the most objectionable part of the whole thing.

scampless, rattled and puce (gyac), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 13:23 (three years ago) link

Pretty horrendous if true.

scampless, rattled and puce (gyac), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 13:27 (three years ago) link

jesus

Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 13:38 (three years ago) link

The part about energy consumption in this case is a fallacy, since these NFT's are hosted on the Ethereum blockchain which does many many many more things than just host NFT's. That would be the same as complaining about the energy usage of banks or Amazon Web Services.

Marty8501 (Marty Innerlogic), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 14:58 (three years ago) link

why wouldn't you complain about those things?

rob, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 14:59 (three years ago) link

Would complain if Grimes released album only available to new bank of america accounts

sell her Dior (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 15:02 (three years ago) link

The part about energy consumption in this case is a fallacy, since these NFT's are hosted on the Ethereum blockchain which does many many many more things than just host NFT's. That would be the same as complaining about the energy usage of banks or Amazon Web Services.


People do complain about those things, and those things are used for a lot more good than blockchains.

scampless, rattled and puce (gyac), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 15:14 (three years ago) link

Boooh, blockchains are bad! (absolute nonsense)

Marty8501 (Marty Innerlogic), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 15:29 (three years ago) link

That would be the same as complaining about the energy usage of banks or Amazon Web Services.

while some of the money dried up over the past four years, we institutionally incentivize companies to use “green” (quotes due to the credit-trading nature) energy. of the multiple reasons I live not far from multiple large data centers (not AWS but several of the other big names) is my state’s power grid is 40% wind energy and they can sign deals with the power company to say they’re sourcing 100% of their energy from wind

nearly all companies brag when their facilities are LEED certified. whether or not that helps in marketing, idk

mh, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 15:31 (three years ago) link

the other day I read about a LEED-certified detention centre for asylum seekers

rob, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 15:35 (three years ago) link

The part about energy consumption in this case is a fallacy, since these NFT's are hosted on the Ethereum blockchain which does many many many more things than just host NFT's.

I speak with some level of authority, as a person who used to work with/for ppl in the Ethereum foundation, that sarahell is correct and none of the current applications remotely justify this sort of energy consumption.

stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 15:40 (three years ago) link

kinda wish I could beam that Grimes art page back to satoshi so he/they could see how this shit panned out

stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 15:44 (three years ago) link

Boooh, blockchains are bad! (absolute nonsense)


Grimes simps never not at it

scampless, rattled and puce (gyac), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 16:01 (three years ago) link

something very disquieting about spelling boo with an h

rob, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 16:03 (three years ago) link

a stank of hoob about it

sell her Dior (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 16:07 (three years ago) link

Also if you don't specify the percentage you're giving to charity then everybody knows it's going to be 0.001% of fuck-all.

Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 00:59 (three years ago) link

I think blockchain is good for small-scale things where the number of tokens needed and the number of transactions are both low. For instance, property records in a smaller city.

The issue is with consensus being a big issue with... idk, blockchain is terrible as used now and if you can get some tokens without mining just do it and cash out. Everyone should cash out on weird shit people trade, and as many people as possible, because shit is weird as hell out there

mh, Wednesday, 3 March 2021 02:43 (three years ago) link

basically any time I think about this for more than two minutes I go from pensive thoughts to "fuck it, cash out if you can get cash and never talk to me about blockchain again"

mh, Wednesday, 3 March 2021 02:44 (three years ago) link

otm

sell her Dior (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 03:30 (three years ago) link

This is the stupidest fucking shit I've ever seen.

Complete peak mania.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 06:26 (three years ago) link

https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/record-labels/9535316/grimes-columbia-records-deal/

Continuing in a streak of lameness.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 6 March 2021 18:12 (three years ago) link

two months pass...

lmao please what the fuck is grimes talking about pic.twitter.com/mrFuH4Ouvb

— Olivia Little (@OliviaLittle) June 3, 2021

peace, man, Thursday, 3 June 2021 11:24 (three years ago) link

she really never advanced beyond the "first time i got stoned out of my gourd in the freshman dorm" phase huh

Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 3 June 2021 14:06 (three years ago) link

deciding when to not take someone seriously on political and social issues is something that’s lacking in our current marketplace of ideas

music, music videos, etc. seem fine but ol’ grimey’s world view is basically tumblr + skimming wikipedia articles

mh, Thursday, 3 June 2021 14:32 (three years ago) link

I’ve been feeling like I woke up in the movie Idiocracy for a couple of years now.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 3 June 2021 15:08 (three years ago) link

Where is grimes content, that seems to be a twelve year old girl. (n.b. I have never knowingly seen or heard her speak before.)

I was born anxious, here's how to do it. (ledge), Thursday, 3 June 2021 15:08 (three years ago) link

Why is there a Reebok logo on her nose?

80's hair metal , and good praise music ! (DJP), Thursday, 3 June 2021 15:35 (three years ago) link

Maybe they're sponsoring her on TikTok.

o. nate, Thursday, 3 June 2021 15:38 (three years ago) link

lEt'S bE rEaL eFoRcEd FaRmInG iS rEaLlY nOt A vIbE

things repeat forever and there never is a remedy (Austin), Thursday, 3 June 2021 15:41 (three years ago) link

fuck this grifter.

things repeat forever and there never is a remedy (Austin), Thursday, 3 June 2021 15:43 (three years ago) link

over a certain income/wealth level it should cost you 100k per published take on any social media format

intern at pelican brief consulting (Simon H.), Thursday, 3 June 2021 15:54 (three years ago) link

Love it when a millionaire married to a billionaire lectures on "true equality".

a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 3 June 2021 15:58 (three years ago) link

Huh, she reminds me of anglo Montrealer girls I worked with in a call centre 20 years ago.

Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Thursday, 3 June 2021 16:46 (three years ago) link

Grifter implies that she’s getting something out of this. She’s just dumb.

Joe Bombin (milo z), Thursday, 3 June 2021 16:52 (three years ago) link

Elon prob has a few investments or w/e in AI

self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Thursday, 3 June 2021 16:56 (three years ago) link


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