Comments on: Art & Copy http://www.effzehn.de/sidm/2009/08/22/art-copy/ Stuff that was probably relevant for the former Digital Media programme in Bremen. Mon, 25 Oct 2010 07:32:50 +0200 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Andre http://www.effzehn.de/sidm/2009/08/22/art-copy/comment-page-1/#comment-402 Andre Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:33:43 +0000 http://www.effzehn.de/sidm/?p=497#comment-402 "they are good, because we still can choose what to buy. no ads would mean no choice." Mh, that is a tough analogy and I don't know if I would say that, too. Would "no ads" mean that there aren't still ways of gathering information about some product you need? But I guess advertisement is a very natural part of a capitalistic culture. In other means, it's like the puffer at the market but only using mass media. Speaking of capitalism. The aforementioned Michael Moore's newest movie is called: "Capitalism: A Love Story". P.S.: Yeah, the design update was long due. I never was happy with the old one so I choose a very simple new one. There is still room for improvement though ;-) “they are good, because we still can choose what to buy. no ads would mean no choice.”

Mh, that is a tough analogy and I don’t know if I would say that, too. Would “no ads” mean that there aren’t still ways of gathering information about some product you need? But I guess advertisement is a very natural part of a capitalistic culture. In other means, it’s like the puffer at the market but only using mass media.
Speaking of capitalism. The aforementioned Michael Moore’s newest movie is called: “Capitalism: A Love Story”.

P.S.: Yeah, the design update was long due. I never was happy with the old one so I choose a very simple new one. There is still room for improvement though ;-)

]]> By: valderama http://www.effzehn.de/sidm/2009/08/22/art-copy/comment-page-1/#comment-401 valderama Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:19:57 +0000 http://www.effzehn.de/sidm/?p=497#comment-401 another issue of this type of documentaries is, that at times the borders between facts and fiction are blurry. for the sake of entertainment again, i guess. regarding ads: they are bad, because they manipulate. they are good, because we still can choose what to buy. no ads would mean no choice. sounds a bit "democratic"...? ps: i like the design-update for sidm! another issue of this type of documentaries is, that at times the borders between facts and fiction are blurry. for the sake of entertainment again, i guess.

regarding ads: they are bad, because they manipulate. they are good, because we still can choose what to buy. no ads would mean no choice.

sounds a bit “democratic”…?

ps: i like the design-update for sidm!

]]> By: Andre http://www.effzehn.de/sidm/2009/08/22/art-copy/comment-page-1/#comment-399 Andre Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:56:53 +0000 http://www.effzehn.de/sidm/?p=497#comment-399 Nice saying. And interesting interpretation. I think the role of advertisement is a tremendous one, and, which is quite common sense, at least in the USA, that there is too much advertisement. Advertisement is in a word: Manipulation: It wants you do things you actually don't want to do. And superficiality: it's not about consume in general, it's about what you consume. It provides you with a false identity. In that way I can absolutely sign the trailer. What I am afraid of is the nonchalance those polemic documentaries (I haven't seen Art&Copy yet, I mean movies starting with Michael Moore over Supersize Me to the last recent one I saw, Religulous). They all speak a language of entertainment, serving a relaxed and passive mind, in a very similar way to that of what they are criticizing. And I don't know if that leads to a valuable deliberation towards a certain topic instead of a polarization. I don't think so. Nice saying. And interesting interpretation. I think the role of advertisement is a tremendous one, and, which is quite common sense, at least in the USA, that there is too much advertisement. Advertisement is in a word: Manipulation: It wants you do things you actually don’t want to do. And superficiality: it’s not about consume in general, it’s about what you consume. It provides you with a false identity. In that way I can absolutely sign the trailer.
What I am afraid of is the nonchalance those polemic documentaries (I haven’t seen Art&Copy yet, I mean movies starting with Michael Moore over Supersize Me to the last recent one I saw, Religulous). They all speak a language of entertainment, serving a relaxed and passive mind, in a very similar way to that of what they are criticizing. And I don’t know if that leads to a valuable deliberation towards a certain topic instead of a polarization. I don’t think so.

]]> By: valderama http://www.effzehn.de/sidm/2009/08/22/art-copy/comment-page-1/#comment-398 valderama Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:51:37 +0000 http://www.effzehn.de/sidm/?p=497#comment-398 hey :) i just thought, that this movie has an anti-consumeristic attitude in general ... and then i was wondering, if this view on the problems of current capitalism is just again a pessimistic view or if it this actually changes people in a way which is maybe not good. i am unsure about ... but i definitely sympathize with this quote: "best things in the life are not things":) hey :)

i just thought, that this movie has an anti-consumeristic attitude in general … and then i was wondering, if this view on the problems of current capitalism is just again a pessimistic view or if it this actually changes people in a way which is maybe not good.

i am unsure about … but i definitely sympathize with this quote: “best things in the life are not things”:)

]]> By: Andre http://www.effzehn.de/sidm/2009/08/22/art-copy/comment-page-1/#comment-397 Andre Mon, 24 Aug 2009 09:23:59 +0000 http://www.effzehn.de/sidm/?p=497#comment-397 Hi valderama, do you mean that those two words are the answer to the questions of the movie? Hi valderama,

do you mean that those two words are the answer to the questions of the movie?

]]> By: valderama http://www.effzehn.de/sidm/2009/08/22/art-copy/comment-page-1/#comment-396 valderama Mon, 24 Aug 2009 07:47:03 +0000 http://www.effzehn.de/sidm/?p=497#comment-396 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-consumerism , culture pessimism? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-consumerism , culture pessimism?

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