trenchant social commentary 2

well it's true

Re: the freeze frame in goole's linked twitter video; this might look like the most overwarn cliche of all time, but when I lived in Beijing I witnessed it in real life - or something worse I suppose.

https://haonowshaokao.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/140220121033.jpg

If you can't make out what it is, they've painted a downtown coal power station sky-blue with fluffy clouds, then painted on men with ladders painting the clouds.

I have no idea what sort of logic was behind this, but it was my view at work for a few months and it never stopped being bizarre.

file under 'weird satire'

There isn't a lot of satire in Beijing, especially 50-foot-high satire painted on government infrastructure

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DDvPyFCW0AAboX_.jpg

pic.twitter.com/OnjIxhbIdf

— Julian Assange 🔹 (@JulianAssange) August 28, 2017

That one doesn't even 100% make sense. What does the lawnmower represent? What is the force that makes sure you keep using your phone?

The oppressive Capitalist hegemony

if you keep using your phone it's all good, if you look up your...head will get lopped off?

What is the parapet in the phrase head above the parapet. Who shoots the arrows in this metaphorical scenario

Is the chicken in the chicken/road joke a chicken or is it an allegory. What would the road be in this setup.

once you get your head mowed off you get a mower

Is the messed-up perspective also a metaphor?

julian assange is telling everyone to keep their pubic hair well-trimmed using a lawnmower

when I was little my mom would cut my hair with a flowbee which is basically a lawnmower

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DKBLAhFUQAEH5Z5.jpg:small

Completely transfixed by this. What incredibly creative dramatic talent pic.twitter.com/RnFz1ze9nI

— Felicity Morse (@FelicityMorse) October 22, 2017

hahahaha yesssss

'yoann bourgeois' seems a little on-the-nose

Have to admit that looks way more fun than most of this stuff.

yeah this is banky af but fun banky

I don't know what social phenomenon it's commenting on, trenchantly or otherwise, but it looks kinda cool.

yeah it's like it seems obvious and yet I can't put my finger on what exactly it's being obvious about so maybe it isn't obvious?

kinda workplace sisyphean imo?

but they're wearing beanies and no ties

it's called the mechanics of history so presumably some kind of history repeating itself thing

yeah trying and failing to make progress or something like that

specifically, mansplainy philosophy grads who where sportjackets with t-shirts and beanies and fail to make progress as they theorize annoyingly in a pub

you called?

haha

lol j/k

i have just been having a lot of *trenchant* thoughts about the nature of humans and human existence that i know are very sophomoric but feel hard to shake for some reason

such as, humans are really just animals maaaan. not even really intelligent animals

I've really fallen back on some of those lately myself, lots of waking up in the morning from a dream and questioning

sometimes I definitely think we are just idiotic animals with oversized hallucination machines attached

need to find the dream thread before I forget all the details, I had a weird one last night

#lads

what the hell is going on with ilx these days

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XebMEOmlP8g

putting my own bias lens on that parthenon trampoline piece, I figure it's about fancy white dudes always getting endless chances at climbing the ladder, no matter how many times their companies go bankrupt or they get caught doing felonious bullshit

Been trying to think of a decent Brian Trenchard Smith joke for months but I don't have what it takes.

chumbawumba “tubthumping” as a sculpture

“sculpture”

I like that you felt the need to name the band in case folks didn’t get the ref

we’ve all tried to attempt to forget

...

piiiisssing the niiight away

Well, that's them told

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DWggMYcWkAYUx7a.jpg

can't get enough of that linkedin website

Glad the image doesn't show the number of rt's because I fear it'll be more than I can take

My favourite thing about it is that he's made it in photoshop and then posted it on twitter

Otm. I bet it's champagne and caviar at the vimeo office tomorrow for being included

i wish i could quit my crippling addiction to uh... linkedin and uber wtf

more like FentanylBook