"The French poet Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) said, 'What is so intoxicating about bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure in being displeased.' The satisfying and exciting thing about liking things because 'they're so bad, they're good' is the brief euphoric ego swell that occurs while being so aristocratically irked. A connoisseur of kitsch unconsciously applauds his or her own cleverness at being able to appreciate qualities inherent in objects that are undetectable to simpler folk. A feeling of superiority creeps over us, derived from the knowledge that some people genuinely draw comfort from these tasteless objects; this lofty delight is equal to importance to the kitsch lover as the physical tawdriness of the object."
P. Ward, Kitsch IN SYNC - A Consumer's Guide to Bad Taste
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Thursday, 29 March 2012
Tuesday, 14 February 2012
Valentine's Day cards I've designed.
Have a cynical, ironic and emotionally detached Valentine’s Day! Yes, I’d really like a grossly sentimental and predictable artifact of consumerism please.
Above I’ve designed the kind of card I’d like to get (if I did celebrate said holiday, or actually had a significant other).
Another one.
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