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utilitymonstergirl) wrote2023-11-12 09:03 pm
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Lightning Round 2
Brockhampton - BUZZCUT FEAT. DANNY BROWN (Music video)
I love the way this uses CGI and Deep Dream-style image morphing to convey the queasy, everything-in-a-blender feel of internet culture, an evolution of how clipping. used grainy GIFs for their wriggle video. They've made good use of image-morphing in other videos, too: what is the range of People Who Do Not Exist who still read as Kevin Abstract or JPEGMafia? This is the kind of art culture I want to see around AI art, and hopefully we can get more once there's less hype and money around it all.
Femtanyl - CHASER (Album)
A tight, harsh jungle EP that leaves me excited to see whatever she does next, and early signs of that are promising too.
HEALTH - DISCO4 :: PART I and DISCO4 :: PART II (Albums)
Two great industrial-metal albums stacked with guests that range from Perturbator and Nine Inch Nails to Backxwash and Ho99o9 to Ada Rook and 100 gecs. It's fascinating to see how they play off of HEALTH's sound and each other; MURDER DEATH KILL (HEALTH, Ada Rook, PlayThatBoiZay) whips absolute ass, and makes me excited for more cross-pollination between hip-hop and Bandcamp trannies. (See also: Backxwash, CENSORED dialogue, and SOPHIE's production for Vince Staples.)
(God, that was a lot of weird capitalization to track.)
Hexi Wing (Devi McCallion) - In The High Towers Of The Black Quartz Castle (Spoken-word recording)
A lovely erotica piece with fun sensory details, goofy tangents, and smooth production. I’d love a sequel, but am happy to see what else Devi has done in the intervening time.
Porpentine Charity Heartscape - Cunt Toward Enemy (Web serial), Cyberqueen (Browser game)
A toxic gay romance expressed through creating and defusing bombs. It's set in roughly the same world as Serious Weakness (discussed here), but with a different emotional flavor to its torture-yaoi - we're in airport-thriller land, with all the tension and terror that entails.
Like Asscastle (discussed here), Cyberqueen is an old cut that's nasty, short, and formatively important to a lot of people. I love how there's one token bit of text-adventure puzzle-solving at the start, before the only choices are the order in which you'll be defiled and rebuilt.
Vernor Vinge - A Fire Upon the Deep (Prose novel)
This novel has a delightful sense of “how about Make-Believe Land can have whatever I want” - Physics and cognition work fundamentally differently in regions of the galaxy! A medieval society of psychic wolf-aliens who can Voltron their consciousnesses together! A galactic internet that’s formatted exactly like early-90s Usenet! I’m midway through and excited to see where everything’s going.
Vince Staples - FUN! (Music video)
The dead-on recreation of Google Earth Street View is brilliant (note "Norfy" and the "Call the Police" button); a master class of editing with very sharp points on his hometown's surveillance and commodification.
I love the way this uses CGI and Deep Dream-style image morphing to convey the queasy, everything-in-a-blender feel of internet culture, an evolution of how clipping. used grainy GIFs for their wriggle video. They've made good use of image-morphing in other videos, too: what is the range of People Who Do Not Exist who still read as Kevin Abstract or JPEGMafia? This is the kind of art culture I want to see around AI art, and hopefully we can get more once there's less hype and money around it all.
Femtanyl - CHASER (Album)
A tight, harsh jungle EP that leaves me excited to see whatever she does next, and early signs of that are promising too.
HEALTH - DISCO4 :: PART I and DISCO4 :: PART II (Albums)
Two great industrial-metal albums stacked with guests that range from Perturbator and Nine Inch Nails to Backxwash and Ho99o9 to Ada Rook and 100 gecs. It's fascinating to see how they play off of HEALTH's sound and each other; MURDER DEATH KILL (HEALTH, Ada Rook, PlayThatBoiZay) whips absolute ass, and makes me excited for more cross-pollination between hip-hop and Bandcamp trannies. (See also: Backxwash, CENSORED dialogue, and SOPHIE's production for Vince Staples.)
(God, that was a lot of weird capitalization to track.)
Hexi Wing (Devi McCallion) - In The High Towers Of The Black Quartz Castle (Spoken-word recording)
A lovely erotica piece with fun sensory details, goofy tangents, and smooth production. I’d love a sequel, but am happy to see what else Devi has done in the intervening time.
Porpentine Charity Heartscape - Cunt Toward Enemy (Web serial), Cyberqueen (Browser game)
A toxic gay romance expressed through creating and defusing bombs. It's set in roughly the same world as Serious Weakness (discussed here), but with a different emotional flavor to its torture-yaoi - we're in airport-thriller land, with all the tension and terror that entails.
Like Asscastle (discussed here), Cyberqueen is an old cut that's nasty, short, and formatively important to a lot of people. I love how there's one token bit of text-adventure puzzle-solving at the start, before the only choices are the order in which you'll be defiled and rebuilt.
Vernor Vinge - A Fire Upon the Deep (Prose novel)
This novel has a delightful sense of “how about Make-Believe Land can have whatever I want” - Physics and cognition work fundamentally differently in regions of the galaxy! A medieval society of psychic wolf-aliens who can Voltron their consciousnesses together! A galactic internet that’s formatted exactly like early-90s Usenet! I’m midway through and excited to see where everything’s going.
Vince Staples - FUN! (Music video)
The dead-on recreation of Google Earth Street View is brilliant (note "Norfy" and the "Call the Police" button); a master class of editing with very sharp points on his hometown's surveillance and commodification.