January 17, 2022

117. Your Self-Inflicted Artistic Purgatory

1 hour 2 minutes

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Lords:

Brad

@bradspendlove on Twitter

Check out https://twitter.com/so_writing, especially episode 6

Quil

Topics:

What superpowers like shrinking and invisibility suggest about how we conceptualize reality

Is there a point where you can call the silly things you make "art" and not feel like an absolute tool about it? Not a debate about what is vs is not art. But I feel weird if I make a bunch of bad music and call it "my art"

Stinky meat and stinky feet

http://www.stinkymeat.net/

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hamilton-if-it-was-sung-entirely-by-adam-sandler/id1382504305

Hope is a Thing with Feathers, by Emily Dickinson

https://poets.org/poem/hope-thing-feathers-254

Visual novels are neat, but I'm never sure whether they belong in my video game queue or book queue and therefore I rarely play them because I always think I could be playing a "real" video game or reading a "real" book

Cortical homunculus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortical_homunculus

https://www.etsy.com/listing/509252848/angry-little-friend-taxidermy-monster

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homunculus_loxodontus

Microtopics:

Accidentally agreeing to be on the show.

Doing nothing in Chicago.

Computer creativity.

Making an argument that a computer program is creative.

"Honey I Shrunk The Kids" as a philosophical text.

Using a set of mirrors to give yourself 360 degree vision.

Imagining additional colors.

Assuming the listener knows what cellular automata is.

A platonic dude in the way you would conceive of a dude.

Trying to find a game that uses cellular automata but it's occluded by search results for Conway's Life and Nier Automata.

The top four Live 'em Ups.

A game that left the world when Flash stopped being a thing.

Putting tremendous creative effort into a project but not being willing to call it your art because that would be pretentious.

Calling your bad music your "works" because they make ye listeners despair.

How you conceptualize the things that you make.

Attaching a label to the semiotic representation of a thing and thereby changing the nature of the thing.

Making a song in the amount of time the song takes to elapse.

Having done NaNoWriMo once and then being able to tell people you're working on your second novel.

Wanting to have the identity of being a creator.

Something that is cool to be and do.

How to make art that feels meaningful when you are surrounded by art that is way better than yours.

Ancient handwriting samples.

Doing psychic damage by singing the wrong words to a song.

Leaving a plate of meat in your neighbor's yard.

Deciding it's time to stop your science experiment and go to a doctor.

A storied history of people screwing up their bodies for the sake of internet points.

The melding of art and science.

Piss Christ and other works that are intended to annoy.

Trying to elicit a strong emotion but not caring too much which emotion it is.

What it takes to know Bennett Foddy.

The idea that heavy metal bands were trying to get listeners to kill themselves.

The euphemism treadmill and the inverted euphemism treadmill.

How come there are still kids if kids keep growing up??

Slurs in various stages of reclamation.

How there are stupid people out there and they're not bad people, they're just stupid.

Jabroni origins.

Replacing all your pejoratives with "ridiculous."

Mario running up the infinite euphemism treadmill saying successively more watered down swears.

The purpose of comparing an emotion to a bird.

What is a poem? A pile of lines about a bird.

Conceiving of hope as a bird sitting outside your window and waking you up way too early.

Enclosing poems in letters to your friends.

Making art for a person and sharing it just with that person.

Reading "Hope is the Thing with Feathers" in the Sick Sad World announcer voice.

Reading poems in a sarcastic voice and analyzing how it makes you feel.

Reading Emily Dickinson poetry in the voice of somebody begging for their life.

Whether Poe's Law is the sarcasm thing.

Whether Machiavelli was doing a bit.

A performance of the entirety of Hamilton in the Adam Sandler voice.

Getting famous for singing "All Star" and having to sing it for the rest of your life.

The realm between video games and books.

How the phone would be the perfect venue for a visual novel if it weren't for all the phone games.

Approaches to consuming media.

Watching half a movie and then falling asleep and eventually realizing that now there are at least five movies you've watched half of.

A library book from 2019 that you still haven't returned.

Mapping the size of your body parts to how much space they take up in your brain.

A Cortical Homunculus Funko Pop.

Shrimp Obama Magnet.

T-shirts about adrenal cancer.

Angry Little Friend Taxidermy Monster Sculpture Oddity.

Too good an idea to just let be a joke.

Symbolizing the emotions of people who wait at the dentist's office.

Max Rebo, the popular jizz-wailer.

Seeing the two tabs but not knowing the difference between them.

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January 17, 2022

117. Your Self-Inflicted Artistic Purgatory

1 hour 2 minutes

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early!

Lords:

Brad

@bradspendlove on Twitter

Check out https://twitter.com/so_writing, especially episode 6

Quil

Topics:

What superpowers like shrinking and invisibility suggest about how we conceptualize reality

Stinky meat and stinky feet

http://www.stinkymeat.net/

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hamilton-if-it-was-sung-entirely-by-adam-sandler/id1382504305

Hope is a Thing with Feathers, by Emily Dickinson

https://poets.org/poem/hope-thing-feathers-254

Cortical homunculus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortical_homunculus

https://www.etsy.com/listing/509252848/angry-little-friend-taxidermy-monster

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homunculus_loxodontus

Microtopics:

Accidentally agreeing to be on the show.

Doing nothing in Chicago.

Computer creativity.

Making an argument that a computer program is creative.

"Honey I Shrunk The Kids" as a philosophical text.

Using a set of mirrors to give yourself 360 degree vision.

Imagining additional colors.

Assuming the listener knows what cellular automata is.

A platonic dude in the way you would conceive of a dude.

Trying to find a game that uses cellular automata but it's occluded by search results for Conway's Life and Nier Automata.

The top four Live 'em Ups.

A game that left the world when Flash stopped being a thing.

Putting tremendous creative effort into a project but not being willing to call it your art because that would be pretentious.

Calling your bad music your "works" because they make ye listeners despair.

How you conceptualize the things that you make.

Attaching a label to the semiotic representation of a thing and thereby changing the nature of the thing.

Making a song in the amount of time the song takes to elapse.

Having done NaNoWriMo once and then being able to tell people you're working on your second novel.

Wanting to have the identity of being a creator.

Something that is cool to be and do.

How to make art that feels meaningful when you are surrounded by art that is way better than yours.

Ancient handwriting samples.

Doing psychic damage by singing the wrong words to a song.

Leaving a plate of meat in your neighbor's yard.

Deciding it's time to stop your science experiment and go to a doctor.

A storied history of people screwing up their bodies for the sake of internet points.

The melding of art and science.

Piss Christ and other works that are intended to annoy.

Trying to elicit a strong emotion but not caring too much which emotion it is.

What it takes to know Bennett Foddy.

The idea that heavy metal bands were trying to get listeners to kill themselves.

The euphemism treadmill and the inverted euphemism treadmill.

How come there are still kids if kids keep growing up??

Slurs in various stages of reclamation.

How there are stupid people out there and they're not bad people, they're just stupid.

Jabroni origins.

Replacing all your pejoratives with "ridiculous."

Mario running up the infinite euphemism treadmill saying successively more watered down swears.

The purpose of comparing an emotion to a bird.

What is a poem? A pile of lines about a bird.

Conceiving of hope as a bird sitting outside your window and waking you up way too early.

Enclosing poems in letters to your friends.

Making art for a person and sharing it just with that person.

Reading "Hope is the Thing with Feathers" in the Sick Sad World announcer voice.

Reading poems in a sarcastic voice and analyzing how it makes you feel.

Reading Emily Dickinson poetry in the voice of somebody begging for their life.

Whether Poe's Law is the sarcasm thing.

Whether Machiavelli was doing a bit.

A performance of the entirety of Hamilton in the Adam Sandler voice.

Getting famous for singing "All Star" and having to sing it for the rest of your life.

The realm between video games and books.

How the phone would be the perfect venue for a visual novel if it weren't for all the phone games.

Approaches to consuming media.

Watching half a movie and then falling asleep and eventually realizing that now there are at least five movies you've watched half of.

A library book from 2019 that you still haven't returned.

Mapping the size of your body parts to how much space they take up in your brain.

A Cortical Homunculus Funko Pop.

Shrimp Obama Magnet.

T-shirts about adrenal cancer.

Angry Little Friend Taxidermy Monster Sculpture Oddity.

Too good an idea to just let be a joke.

Symbolizing the emotions of people who wait at the dentist's office.

Max Rebo, the popular jizz-wailer.

Seeing the two tabs but not knowing the difference between them.

Support Topic Lords

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