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pseydtonne · 3815 days ago · link · · parent · post: Does this picture make you uncomfortable? Why or why not?
I'm not uncomfy. Then again, I spent years looking for a vinyl copy of the Dead Kennedys "Plastic Surgery Disasters" so I could have the 24-page Winston Smith collage book. The sad thing is that it's making me think of "King of Birds" by REM, where Stipe turns Newton's words around: "Standing on the shoulders of giants leaves me cold." It looks so Eighties, too: X-Acto hand work on the outlines, the abrupt lines on the rephotographed limbs, the posterization, the flat colors. I'm not hatin', either -- I miss this style. It makes the viewer feel like it's a snapshot, a slice of an event, instead of a composite. If Peter Max had a political brain, he still couldn't hit this.