#Art + Commerce

[maggiecheungs]

Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) dir. Chantal Akerman // Emily Wilson's introduction to The Odyssey

#jeanne dielman #jeanne dielman 23 commerce quay 1080 bruxelles #chantal akerman #the odyssey #emily wilson #classics #books #women directors #web weaving #ellis reads #literature #ellisedits #parallellis #she's odysseus AND penelope. to me <3 #also maybe calypso and/or circe #also maybe it defeats the whole point to compare jeanne dielman to a homeric epic! but maybe it doesn't #or maybe i'm comparing the homeric epic to jeanne dielman and not the other way around 👀 #anyway this film IS truly incredible. i love art.

[philyaoi]

i think every dnp project should be given art analysis and critique. dan's internet support group series is of course satire on advice columns and blogs that arent actually helpful, and also a reflection on the words dan himself needed to hear or wished he'd heard when he was younger. phil is not on fire is a love letter to queer joy, to perceived sexual deviance, to the way you felt when you were young, staying up really late with your closest friends and the most asinine shit making you giggle because you're so sleep deprived. dont even get me started on tatinof and ii i could be here all day

#more accurately: i think ALL internet content that is created with purpose and intent should be treated as art #that doesnt mean all of it is good art no most of it is just commerce #but even the most mindless shit has like. some sort of thought process to it. and dnp ESPECIALLY have thought put into everything they do #myrambles

[teyvats-worst-hero]

Asked my friend to name a random Genshin character and turned that character into a villain.

He chose Xingqiu!

#leaned more into the “second son of the Feiyun Commerce Guild thing” for this #yes he still has Chongyun’s charm #Pick whatever implications are the most interesting to you #genshin #genshin impact #xingqiu #my art #genshin fanart #genshin xingqiu #genshin au #genshin redesign

[sofysta]

Bourse de Commerce ~ Paris

#Art #bourse de commerce #paris #museum

[garadinervi]

From: Edith Dekyndt: ‘L'origine des choses’, Bourse de commerce – Pinault Collection, Paris, February 8, 2023 – February 19, 2024 [© Edith Dekyndt]

#art #mixed media #exhibition #edith dekyndt #bourse de commerce #pinault collection #2020s

[autisticaradiamegido]

day 26

someday if i can figure out how the hell people get these things made i would like to do some little destiny & malice acrylic charms. i think those are so fun. and while i mostly want them for Myself i figure that if i DID figure out the process, i should maybe open up the option to anyone else that might want them, soooo...

informal poll: if i figure out how all that works, would any of y'all be into that, and approximately how many of you?

#day 26 #year 5 #my ocs #destiny chainsaw #malice winterfang #i know i've said i don't really like the idea of commissions and this isnt like a PROMISE or anything #i still have a lot of research to do before i commit to a shop of any kind #BUT. i think like a redbubble or something in that vein might be a manageable project #i mention stickers specifically because that seems like a very manageable thing to produce and ship even if i didnt go through like #a service to do so #particularly because i dont think id get a TON of orders for my niche OCs lol #but if i got some practice with something small like this it MIIIIGHT help me build up to making things for a larger market like... #say... well you know what i'm about over here lmao #we've basically all but gotten the official blessings of the powers that be to make homestuck merch without fear of reprisal at this point #ANYWAY that would be a ways off and be a much MUCH bigger project both artistically and in terms of like #me learning how Online Commerce works from the seller end. #BUT I HAVE BEEN CONSIDERING IT. and it seems to me that it would at least be relatively simple to sell like. prints of old art maybe #i dunno! like i said i'll see how the poll shakes out while i do a bit more research

[christinariccidaily]

What up fam it's me ya girl Hope and I'm high off my tits watching Speed Racer (2008) projected at about 80" on a bedsheet

And it's OUR GIRL

#its about art over commerce #the wachowskis #christina ricci #speed racer

[zenodotus-0010]

This whole video (and Saiki K in general) have me thinking about the similarity between my experience as someone with selective mutism and Saiki's whole... thing.

I think people assume that he's been talking telepathically most of the times we as an audience hear him, but because the show actively contradicts that in a lot of places, (where people talk to him and seem to not hear the things he says telepathically, assume his intentions/feelings when he is thinking exactly opposite, etc,) I've always wondered if it was just that most people don't know anyone with selective mutism, and can't conceive of how we communicate outside of speech or sign. 

 Saiki, for all intents and purposes, is selectively mute. He doesn't talk verbally, and while he could communicate telepathically with people, and frequently does so with his parents and other psychic friends, as we see them having proper conversations instead of the usual one-sided ones he has with his friends most of the time, he doesn't. Maybe this is to conceal his psychic powers, maybe it is because he isn't very social, but he still spends most of his time not talking verbally OR psychically. And yet! He has a bunch of friends who care about him a LOT, and this is because... honestly, it's not that difficult to still have fun with people who aren't talking? 

 The way Saiki's friends socialize with him in the show is pretty typical and... honestly, if you have a friend who sometimes goes nonverbal and is totally fine, not in distress or anything, it's a really good guide on how to hang out with them! I think it's a little sad that there's a lot of simplification of Saiki's relationships when you assume that he regularly talks telepathically to his friends, when most of the time he doesn't! 

I don't know. The first time I watched Saiki K, it made me so goddamn happy to see a character like me on screen, and it was such a dream come true that nobody ever really questioned him on it, that here was a nonverbal character who didn't get socially isolated or asked a bunch of probing questions or have to use sign or notes or something to form these connections with his friends. 

#saiki k #the disasterous life of saiki k #the disaster of psi kusuo saiki #kusuo saiki #saiki kusuo #nonverbal #i feel so much with u saiki... we r both nd arospec bitches who don't talk... ily #anyway. #this post is brought to you by me procrastinating writing my speech on hypercommercialism. #again #it's a fun speech tho i might publish it on my main sometime #been reading a lot of smith and hobbes for it #even tho its mostly focused on post industrial revolution #and the development of advertising and the pervasiveness of commerce and capitalism in art and development

[baylardian-1]

I don't think Kathryn would get to indulge her bug cravings all that often. Kinda similarly to how some reptiles only eat live insects, I bet there's something more appetizing to her about live bugs as opposed to replicated nonliving ones. And Chakotay would have noticed this preference probably around their time together spent on New Earth in Resolutions and maybe Basics as well hehe.

So with that like, I think whenever they'd go and visit bazaars or alien markets or whatever on planets for supplies, she passes stalls or merchants selling live insects as like culinary delicacies and yearns a little but never indulges herself in buying any 'cause it's off-task and self-serving. And Chakotay would maybe see her craving a particular huge and wriggling buggy in a stall and he asks if she wants it and she's a little hesitant and reluctant for a variety of reasons, kinda embarrassed that she craves bugs to begin with, but he INSISTS she buy it. As a treat. :)

#i yearn for like alien merchant scenes like always haha #when i used to write >____> id do a lot of bar scenes and commerce stuff haha ITS JUST A VIBE #chakotay hates bugs!!!!!!! #theyre perfect for each other <3 #My Art #Threshold #AU #Kathryn Janeway #Star Trek: Voyager #Human #Chakotay

[triflesandparsnips]

Ways fans go 'splah'

I keep noodling about this thing where fandom gets weird after it receives new canon. And in the middle of writing a different post, I started wondering if it comes down to... cognitive dissonance.

Because to be a Fan means you love a Show (or Movie, or Book, etc.)-- right? Maybe because you felt the Show spoke to you and your experiences in particular, and helped you, and understood you. It's important to you. You form an idea of what the Show is, and who you are in relation both to the Show and to other fans of the Show.

So... what does it mean if, as you interact with new canon, you... don't love what the Show has done?

Suddenly the status quo that you've built for yourself has been upset; now you have to deal with change. With questions. Like: If you Don't Like an element of the Show, does that mean that you're... not a Fan anymore?

Does that mean that when you thought the Show spoke to you, you misunderstood it? That you were wrong?

Does that mean you were a Fan of a Show that doesn't actually exist, and now you've identified yourself (and your social interactions, and your recent history, and your own creative efforts, and and and) with this Other Show, and you feel trapped in that association?

Listen: I absolutely agree that it can hurt to find out that you've tied yourself tightly to a Show that has changed into something you Don't Like. And when it happens... sometimes fans react in one (or more) of the following ways to help resolve the cognitive dissonance of this change... to varying levels of healthy/socially acceptable, creating a lot of the absolute weirdness we see in fandom:

1. They deal with it.

That seems kind of easy to say, but... uh. Well, I can't think of a better way of saying it. Art changes; the fan changes with the art, or they do something else. They learn to say goodbye-- or maybe they learn to ride the metaphorical mechanical bull. Fans who have successfully incorporated this reaction have often diversified their fannishness across multiple fandoms.

It's a safe way to interact with a Show but it can, perhaps, lead to less of the vibrant immersive fannish joy that can come from being really invested in a fandom -- and then downplay or not engage with the real feelings of more invested fans. (Is this one of mine? Oh, definitely. I'm working on it.)

2. They decide the Don't Like element is due to a creative choice rather than personal opinion.

By which I mean, fans who go this route decide that the reason they Don't Like an element is not because they, uh, don't like it, but rather because there is a secret reason (that they've made up) that the Don't Like element exists. With this idea in mind, it's not that there's an actual change to the Show-- it's just that the fan must either wait to see it resolve back into the familiar or, alternately, put in effort to "figure out" what the Don't Like element is "really doing".

(This is where meta about "writing bad on purpose" and such may be familiar to some.)

By deciding that the Don't Like element is an intentional artistic choice that will eventually resolve back into the familiar Show, there's no reason to fear or question what the change means for the Show or the fan's sense of self. And like-- tbh, some of the best crack meta can come from visiting that mindset for a hot minute. But living there can lead to... significantly greater hurt later, particularly as more canon drops and the likelihood of the Show resolving back to its "original" form grows ever slimmer.

3. They decide that the element they Don't Like doesn't exist.

As in, didn't happen. Or did happen, but only by removing other elements to flip it from Don't Like to the more acceptable/palatable "creative choice" vibe from option 2. The cognitive dissonance is resolved by simply removing the element that would cause the fan to stop loving the Show.

And like-- I've certainly done this. There are episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer that I've decided just didn't happen. Also the first season of Parks and Rec. And pretty much any Marvel movie that doesn't allow for the 2012 Avengers tower fanon to somehow magically exist.

I even think that fanfiction and other remediating fanworks are an important extension of this behavior-- fix-it fics are a thing, and I love them. But I think it's crucial that those of us who do this kind of canon excision don't make our choices anyone else's problem. I don't stop other fans from engaging with the things I've elected to ignore; I also don't harass the creators/actors, because jesus fucking christ why would I.

4. They decide the Show they love is not, in fact, the Show they love.

So let's say the fan acknowledges that the Show has changed. They might even acknowledge that the Show was never what they thought it was. And with those two things in mind, some fans choose option 1... but some land here, in option 4.

Because! They think the Show they're a fan of does exist-- just not... on the screen. They love a Platonic Ideal of the Show-- what it should have been. What, somewhere, it is, except that outside forces changed it from the Ideal to the Imperfect.

What kind of forces? The usual suspects: Capitalism. Racism. Heteronormativity. Hollywood bullshit. Actors/writers/creative teams leaving the Show for whatever reason. Hubris. Fallibility. Ad nauseum.

But the Ideal Show (that maybe exists only in the fan's own head... but sometimes appears to be shared and envisioned by other fans too)-- that Ideal Show isn't subject to outside forces. It's completely divorced from the context that the Imperfect Show is being created in. The fan doesn't experience cognitive dissonance because they have, as with option 3, decided something doesn't exist-- but that nonexistent thing is the Show itself. The fan instead exchanges the Imperfect Show for the Ideal Show, which does not have and will never have a Don't Like element.

And like-- sure! Entire careers have been built on the back of believing that an Ideal should exist and replace the Imperfect-- Ed Brubaker is right there. Reimaginings of source material can fall squarely into this as well, particularly when they hit the public domain. Like every other option, this is a thing fandom does that, in some of its forms, shows why fandom is super neat.

But... but the thing is, there's no such thing as art divorced from context. Even if the vision of an Ideal Show seems to be shared identically across oodles of fans, it's still subject to the personal context of every single one of those fans. Like, it goes riiiight back to why you become a Fan of the Show in the first place-- it spoke to you. It validated your experiences.

So there is no Ideal Show. There can't be. There's just the Show that we have-- or the Show that we create, in the real world (and then becomes subject again to all those pesky outside forces), to try and capture what our personal Ideal is.

Fans who go splah with the option 4 route mistake, I think, their Ideal Show for everyone's Ideal Show-- and then every criticism, every meta, every engagement with the Imperfect Show and its fans falls into piles of logical fallacies: that everyone is working from the same Ideal; that those who ignore the Ideal are doing so on purpose; that all Don't Like elements with the Show can be attributed to its failure to meet the Ideal rather than the fan's own preferences; that the Ideal is quantifiable, qualifiable, infallible and incontrovertible...

Maybe, at the end, option 4 is the one that really gets all of us. Because yeah-- I have an Ideal Show in my head. I bet you have one in yours, too. And it can be disappointing when the Ideal and the Imperfect don't align-- it can, in fact, create that cognitive dissonance I've been harping on this whole time.

But how we choose to deal with that disappointment... that's where the weirdness can come from. To both the benefit and ooooh yes, very much the detriment of a fandom that has survived long enough to start experiencing the cognitive dissonance of the Show fans imagine versus the Show fans have.

#are there more than four options? #probably #you should tell me them #fandom #why fandoms explode #maybe #but also why they sometimes go bananas amazing #cognitive dissonance #and suprise! #this is ALSO an essay about #art versus commerce #IT GETS US ALL IN THE END

[aviel]

Kimsooja at Bourse de Commerce

#Kimsooja #Bourse de Commerce #Installation #ART #Paris

[mudwerks]

Winter sports festival, Jr. Chamber of Commerce, Recreation Department, sponsors (LOC)

Iowa Art Project, WPA, 1940.

#Winter sports festival #Jr. Chamber of Commerce #Recreation Department #LOC #vintage #art #Iowa Art Project #WPA #1940

[distinguishedvision]

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Distinguishvis.redbubble.com

#just starting out #new shop #redbubble #startup #e commerce #poster #redbubbledesigns #tshirt #ecommerce #ai art #style #gift ideas #valentines day #love #lovers #i love you #love quotes #typography #valentines gifts #valentines aesthetic #happy valentines #romance #romantic

[garadinervi]

From: Edith Dekyndt: 'L'origine des choses', Bourse de commerce – Pinault Collection, Paris, February 8, 2023 – February 19, 2024 [© Edith Dekyndt]

#art #textile #mixed media #exhibition #edith dekyndt #bourse de commerce #pinault collection #2020s

[the-golden-vanity]

Homemade WW2 pirate flag made from scraps found aboard the submarine “Unbroken” by petty officer Frederick C. Sharpe, DCM (Distinguished Service Cross).

The bars on the left are merchant ships attacked, and those in red are the ones that sunk. On the other side are crossed cannons, and stars that represent merchant ships sunk with the deck guns. The crossed daggers represent the secret cloak-and-dagger missions undertaken by the “Unbroken”.

(Caption via lostfoundartny on Instagram.)

#pirate flag #world war 2 #world war ii #second world war #naval history #naval warfare #submarine warfare #wwii history #submarine #commerce raiding #folk art #vernacular art #sailor's handicrafts #naval art #piracy #pirates #pirate #piratecore #skull and crossbones #Instagram

[raoullemercier]

2024 Paris, Bourse du Commerce, Collection Pinault • Restauration et transformation 2017-2020 Tadao Ando architecte • Installation To Breathe — Constellation 2024 Kimsooja, dans le cadre de l'exposition Le monde comme il va »

#Art contemporain #Architecture #Paris #Collection Pinault #Bourse du Commerce