everything *is* terrible (hat tip Graham Harman)

If you lack the patience for the payoff, you can just fast foreward to the five minute mark.  The only nice thing I can say is that Richard Dawkins' big sweaty head floating around reminds me a little bit of Neal Diamond album covers from the 1970s.

I don't know what the morality of mocking this is. On the one hand, one should in general not pile on people willing to humilate themselves in the service of art. . . On the other hand, Dawkins can be a little bit mean himself.

My feeling about most sports (obviously excepting for the sport of kings, professional wrestling) is that if it's not worth doing, it's not worth doing well. Reasonable people disagree about whether this applies to people randomly moving balls around on fields. But I think we at least can agree that if something is not worth doing, it's not worth doing badly.

And the installation is startilingly reminiscent of the weird infomercials from late at night television in the 1980s when cheap video had replaced film. It's also very similar to the awful period in the early 90s when for your MFA performance in a graduate dance department you could do a video project instead of actually choreographing something. As with the T.V. shows, the technology was uniformly washed out and ugly. A universe where all of the light is flourescent. I don't want to visit such places ever.

And now it's much easier to do this kind of thing with computers and memes and whatnot. Feh. Am I missing something?