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i don't see anything wrong with either getting people to pay you ridiculous amounts of money to make surreal movies or getting in bjork's pants. actually they both seem like really good things to me. i honestly think if the media hadn't fawned over him so much, there wouldn't be this kneejerk reaction against him. back in 2002 when the cremaster show was at the guggenheim, and the films first screened, when he was just another obscure artist and not "that vaseline guy," everyone saved their contempt for damien hirst. now here's a guy who didn't just put a shark in a tank or slice a pig in half, he created an insane amount of sculpture, costume, lighting design, music, a whole inter-related series of mythologies, got richard serra to recreate 'throw' with vaseline instead of lead, climbed the atrium of the guggenheim while agnostic front and murphy's law thrash above him, filled an elevator cab in the chrysler building with cement, etc....
anyway, my only point is that he's just doing surrealism. straight and simple. watch un chien andalou again and tell me ONE thing that barney does differently aside from the scale and length of the work.
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