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Hello,
            I'm currently enrolled as a film student at NYU. Of course this means I'm a vapid self-righteous cunt! Just like those asslapers on Inside the Actors Studio sans the public humiliation of getting beat down by that overrated sychophant, James Lipton.

            Please fawn over me and my fucking retarded concept! Beat my head in with a shovel. Bury me in the earth!

Sincerely,

A. Bigfucking Shithead

Check out the above link; be careful to eat around the Fucking Tripe: NYU film student Paula Carmicino wanted to make a movie. A movie with fucking. Real Fucking.

Why Real Fucking? Because she's too fucking stupid to think up anything of real consequence so she does what every other blowjob hack has done: thrust Sex into the mix and feed on the hype, the goddamn harpy.

Concisely the film was going to be of two people having actual sex in a lecture hall, intercut with (I assume the same two) people going about their normal lives. To wit: "The whole concept of it was to compare the normal behavior of people in their everyday lives versus the animalistic behavior that comes out when they are having sex."

To sum it up in one word: *YAWWWNNN*

How is this any different than what Britney has done on her last album, with Madonna at the MTV Music Awards or Christina?

Nothing. Nothing except a degree or two of temperature. Brit n' 'Donna's lip lock was a scandelously Victorian show of carnality. If Aguilera would've ripped down Madge's skivvies and started lapping at her gash, Carmicino would've had to upped the ante.

Instead the New York Times fans the flames of a Non-Issue to excite the waning cultural "With It" libidos of a bunch of Baby Boomers. Really, only in the NYT would this be news worthy.

GOD! Rereading the damn thing it becomes obvious on how the student, her teacher, and anyone else within 100 paces struggles for more of the Media Spotlight, More Airtime. Errybuddy's just gotta show how "down" they are. How THEY TOO have nothing wrong with the carnality of two asses slapping. What was it Maude Lebowski (The Big Lebowski) said? "A common misconception about feminists is that we hate sex. I find that it can be a zesty, refreshing exercise." The two pages of this article consist of a half dozen or so real world people reiterating the same thing.

But cut away all that masturbation and your left with the theme of this student film... and you see how fucking moronic it is.

For fuckssake! What is the difference between this and the Hair-semen scene in There's Something about Mary? JESUS! And that has the benefit of actual comedy and pathos! Not some overripe artsy hokum. And the fact is There's Something about Mary was smart enough to realize another thing: the idea is at best a Piss Idea. The time it takes you to take a piss is about as long as the idea is worth entertaining.

"Huh, yeah, I guess we do act differently when we have sex as compared to regular social interaction. Yeah, it's kinda animalistic."

And you know what? Sex isn't the only thing: drug addiction, gluttony, exercise, fighting. They all show the base crude beast underneath. And there are a billion fucking movies, half of them made by David Cronenberg, that explore the concept better than this fucking trustfund douche.

500 million sex acts occur every fucking day. Everybody above the age of 7 fucking knows about fucking. To a point it is no different than taking a shit: so goddamn universal that it is without any intellectual bouyancy. Thinking about it more than we already do is an insult to my cultural dollar. The only reasonable difference is there's a use for watching other people have sex: that it's good to wack off to. But she ain't making beat-off material, she's making "art".

To show it is an exercise in mindnumbing boredom. I cide The Gaping Maw: "There's a reason Mapplethorpe rhymes with Crapplethorpe. Pornography which falls short of its promise to deliver a true ejaculation is the functional equivalent of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. A Jennifer Lopez album. A Gap ad. It's the last thing on Earth a serious masturbator need ever consider."

You want a fresh concept? Some NYU film student produce a documentary of the Murder of Paula Carmicino by a Fellow Film Student. You could have a great groundswell of organization, of planning, of the actual attack. The brutal kill captured in multiangle Digital Video; the frames replayed over

and over

in all its grainy authenticity.

Shit, you'd even be trodding on new ground: Art as Overt Foil to Accepted Social Law and Mores. Cinema Verite meets the New York City District Attorney's Office. At what point does the artistic statement succumb to its own scope? Is Art a justification? How can we work Postmodernism into the dissertation summary?

I'm not lying. Someone should float this idea.

Naturally I expect a credit as a Creative Consultant. Oh, and three points on the gross. Not that I expect much of a film distribution deal. That's why I want ownership on the film itself. When the networks spool it endlessly on the hour I want a goddamn dime. Big Three nightly news? A fucking QUARTER.

Yeah... money in the bank all for the life of one stupid dink. Life would be peachsweet if it worked with such karmatic timing.

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  • Can you point me to someplace I can download the pr0n-err-art?
    • Heh. That's the beauty of this article: the movie hasn't even been made. It's all vapor. Girl is on her way of developing the all-hype/no-substance posture that has dominated the fine art scene for the last three decades.
  • You know, the idea of free speech is based in morality. However, the left (including and especially the NY Times) seems intent on putting certain issues (like free speech) apart and above decency, the very basis of morality.
    What they don't realize is that by eliminating the basis, you eliminate the foundation and thus the thing itself.
    Just because I CAN say anything doesn't mean that I SHOULD say it.
    Consequently, a University has a place to step in and point out that porn is not, in and of itself, art.
    It m
    • Just because I CAN say anything doesn't mean that I SHOULD say it.
      I think you have morality confused with tact.

      the left (including and especially the NY Times) seems intent on putting certain issues (like free speech) apart and above decency
      Fallwell vs. Hustler already tried that arguement. It didn't work with The Supreme Court.

      If she was a real artist she could have found a way to get here point across without showing intercourse.
      • I think you have morality confused with tact.

        What's the difference?

        Fallwell vs. Hustler already tried that arguement. It didn't work with The Supreme Court.

        That's within the context of society. Presumably, a University (which usually has its own code of conduct, etc.) would provide instruction along these lines.
        I don't think Columbia wants to be known as 'The Porn Institute', although I may be wrong.
        • From Merriam-Webster (capitalization is theirs not mine)

          tact
          1 : sensitive mental or aesthetic perception
          2 : a keen sense of what to do or say in order to maintain good relations with others or avoid offense

          morality
          1 a : a moral discourse, statement, or lesson b : a literary or other imaginative work teaching a moral lesson
          2 a : a doctrine or system of moral conduct b plural : particularmoral principles or rules of conduct
          3 : conformity to ideals of right human conduct
          4 : moral conduct : VIRTUE

          To underst
          • Morality stems from Ethos, a way of living one's life.
            Tact is a sense of how one should behave with others, a seriously large part of life. We are, after all, not islands.
            In my mind to separate tact from ethos is impossible since it is so inherent in who one is, moral actions (see definition 1c) resulting from said 'way of life'.

            Most people think of moral as 'right and wrong' without giving any credence to the notion of comportment or its role in self-actuation. (I'm about to use the term reification and
          • a keen sense of what to do or say in order to maintain good relations with others or avoid offense

            conformity to ideals of right human conduct

            conforming to a standard of right behavior

            It seems to me that perhaps there may be some overlap there...

            IMO, tact flows from a certain view of morality. Else, what is tact based on?

            • Yes, there is some overlap in certain contexts.

              I view tact as presentation and morality as part of a system of beliefs. There are tactful ways of presenting ones moral beliefs and there are tactless ways.

              Bombing an abortion center is not the most tactful way of asserting one's morals.
  • Sorry, mr wolf, this is grad school. I expect nothing LESS. This whole isht, in my mind, is true excellence. She hasn't even PRODUCED anything yet! However, BUZZ has been generated. This is the best lesson for all those film school fux who plan on being the next spike jonez by getting high and filming their own face for hours on end ("this is the part where snot was coming out of my nose...I think I did a great job capturing the moment").

    Next time, she should talk, not only to her professor, her entire c
    • Did anyone else break out laughing when they mentioned the fact that Malvo is a Matrix fanatic? Maybe he should flip signs and say "Trenchcoat Mafia D.C. reprazenna!" Consider him lucky: due to his arrest last year he missed the last two turds in the series.
  • sure it's art. but it's stale art that's been repeated. that's part of the trouble with the academic art world. college students believe that their ideas are new. they don't realize that every artist in the world, scratch that, every human in the world is faced with the same basic human condition.

    why hasn't anyone made art this direct? because it's the most obvious, least thought provoking way to approach the subject. once people get over the shock value, there are few layers to peel back. that gets
    • I guess it is technically 'art' but I have this suspision that that was an attention-grabbing event (both for the artist, giving herself hype, and the NYT, to find a non-event to talk show how down they are for the first amendment). I really doubt that she even intended to make the film.
      • there's a good chance you're right. attention whoring is as big a crime as anything i mentioned. well, i guess it isn't so bad if the art you're making relates to the people whose attention you're scrambling after. but that wouldn't apply to this situation either.
  • How about a piece about the repititious drivel coming out of high-school intro to art classes? How spoonman failed to impress the last time you saw him playing on the sidewalk?
    How about going to some crappy open screening [slashdot.org] where amateurs bring in their homemade short videos and pointing out the poor quality [slashdot.org]? Wait, that was me- never mind...

    From the article:

    He compared that to a filmmaker committing arson for a movie about firefighters.

    I love these sorts of arguments- conflate the inobtrusive with the

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