Opinions Vary: Pretentiousness, Thy Name Is Art
I don’t think I am postulating anything profound when I say a major aim of criticism is to evaluate a piece of art in a way that is enlightening (if not slightly edifying), allowing the audience to not only experience a fresh perspective on the value and meaning of that work in question, but also offering them a chance to see what that critic values in meaningful art. A review is as much an assessment on the reviewer who views a work of art as it is a review of the work. Sure, it may be a secondary source to the piece and, by extension, inextricably connected to the thoughts of the artist who created it, but the work of criticism instantly becomes a primary source for that critic who has those thoughts on that artist and art piece. First and foremost, we learn what that critic is thinking when we read criticism, enabling us to get into that person’s mindset (and the better the criticism, the more we want to stay there, or take those thoughts with us).
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Next Xbox launching with AT LEAST TWO PRETTY MEH GAMES, ‘RYSE’ and ‘FORZA.’
I know that it is cool to bash the Next-box Durascal 720 around here, if not all around the Internet at the moment. Creative directors making fun of people for not having the Internet, Steve Ballmer choke slamming interns for not shellacking his testicles properly — it’s been a goddamn mess. That said, I’m not particularly sweating the launch titles for the Microsoft TV Manipulator and Potential Game Player, since pretty much every system’s launch titles are snore-worthy.
‘GREMLINS’ x YOUR FAVE CELEB DRUG ADDICT = Butcher Billy’s latest.
Butcher Billy is back with his latest amalgamation. Homeboy has taken the drug-addled carcasses out of the Oozing Maw of Hollywood, and mixed them up with Gremlins. The result is a strange concoction of human-monster flesh, with most of the celebrities actually looking better than usual. Typically dope Butcher stuff.
Hit the jump to check them out.
WINKLEVOSS TWINS own 1 PERCENT of all Bitcoin. That’s uh, neat guys.
Those guys who hired Jesse Eisenburger to create Face-Book in that movie are trying their hardest to be relevant. Sure they didn’t get to own the Harvard Face-Space, but they own a considerable amount of Bitcoin! Listen, don’t get me wrong. Bitcoin is cool. However, this smacks like that time my Dad bought me an Atari when all I wanted was a fucking Nintendo.
Cosplay: PRINCESS PEACH PIN-UP. I must have ate a mushroom, things are growing.
Here is some glorious Princess Peach cosplay upside your head. When framed like this, it is pretty easy to see why Bowser kept snagging her out of Mario’s impotent hands. I’m not condoning it, don’t get me wrong. But I understand. (Oh lighten up.)
CAPTAIN AMERICA’S NEW COSTUME for second flick got the SECRET AVENGERS swagger.
Feels weird to call something a dude in the military is running around in a “costume.” Yet, that’s what we are up to right here. There is a good chance that Captain America’s costume-outfit-garb from Cap 2: Bro I Love You, Bucky has leaked. If the image in question is true then the outfit bares a resemblance to the outfit Rogers wore a couple of years ago as he was slinging missions in Top Secret Avengers Team 27.
More ‘MAN OF STEEL’ pics, and the film is without a major mythos point. GET ANGRY
I can already hear the cheesed-off dork faces that populate the creamier nerd places that I like to frequent. They are aghast at this latest reveal surrounding Man of Steel. They cannot – will not – accept a world in which such a deviation from the salted corpse of status quo is allowed. Me? I dig it.
‘FAR CRY 3: BLOOD DRAGON’ Reveal Trailer: SAUSAGE PANCAKES & CYBER HELL.
Oh, Blood Dragon. You’re directly out of my wettest of neon cyber-dreams. Directly. It is as though someone reached deep into my urethra with honey-fingers and yanked you out.
CISPA passes committee, the old BIG BROTHER INTERNET BILL heads to the House floor.
In case you’re wondering, friends: your dumb fucking privacy and freedom are never going to be worth more than money oozing out of the tentacles of lobbyists.
This! Is! Mad Men! – The Doorway
[This! Is! Mad Men! recaps the most recent developments of Don Draper and his lovable gang of sleazeball advertisers. In the spirit of the show, the post itself may very well be drunk. And sexist. Apologies ahead of time.]
Oh, Mad Men, how I’ve missed every aspect of your beautiful face, not even excepting the five o’clock shadow and booze-breath and tobacco stains.
AMC must know that we’ve been champing at the bit for more spiritual ruin on Madison Avenue, as they deliver a sixth season premiere guaranteed to sate even the most ravenous of televisional appetites. The Doorway never relents, using absolutely every second of its two-hour running time to remind us why love the characters. And how is this done, you ask? Why, by thrusting them into the midst of existential crises! Duh!
C’mon, let’s take a look at the last episode of Mad Men!
