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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > Creative Convention > The Dorkroom > Inspiration
 
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digitalist
Nov 17, 2000


journey into Kirk's unknown


 I was thinking that The Dorkroom could use a low effort catch all where people could post things they find inspirational. Whether its a specific artist or a new series or exhibit they've produced (of any medium), TV shows, movies, music/videos, etc.. It could also serve as a directory for other threads that delve into what's shared here but more meaningfully. The book thread comes to mind, but it looks like that thread is archived at the moment and some of the others appear inactive, maybe we could breath new life into them. Your thoughts and suggestions are more than welcome, an actual thread title would be a good place to start.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxr-7O1Bfxg

Contest Threads


Photographers - Master Studies: Where We Try To Learn From Our Heroes - https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3943107

Books

Community Publications

Collobarations
The Thunderdome contest is over but I find collaboration helpful in cultivating inspiration, if nothing else maybe the idea could motivate more.

Yearly Best of

Hopefully this thread can become a helpful repository of inspirational fragments.

digitalist fucked around with this message at 18:44 on Nov 28, 2022

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digitalist
Nov 17, 2000


journey into Kirk's unknown


 Reposting this from the Printing thread, since it fits what I thought could be shared here. Although this is higher on the effort scale than would be expected.

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We have reached an unprecedented moment in planetary history. Humans now affect the Earth and its processes more than all other natural forces combined. The Anthropocene Project is a multidisciplinary body of work combining fine art photography, film, virtual reality, augmented reality, and scientific research to investigate human influence on the state, dynamic, and future of the Earth. 

The Holocene epoch started 11,700 years ago as the glaciers of the last ice age receded. Geologists and other scientists from the Anthropocene Working Group believe that we have left the Holocene and entered a new epoch: the Anthropocene. Their argument is that humans have become the single most defining force on the planet and that the evidence for this is overwhelming. Terraforming of the earth through mining, urbanization, industrialization and agriculture; the proliferation of dams and diverting of waterways; CO2 and acidification of oceans due to climate change; the pervasive presence around the globe of plastics, concrete, and other technofossils; unprecedented rates of deforestation and extinction: these human incursions, they argue, are so massive in scope that they have already entered, and will endure in, geological time.
https://www.edwardburtynsky.com/projects/the-anthropocene-project/


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYWCrsXXxQg

Some photos here, https://www.edwardburtynsky.com/projects/books/anthropocene

I own this book, so I could probably track down additional photos. Anyway, just brainstorming ideas.

edit: Here's a trailer to movie they produced,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikMlCxzO-94
it was a bad idea leaving us the with keys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbgnlkJPga4
This one is interesting, can help you think of the problem but from/in a more abstract, lateral way (long winded).

A podcast, after an episode not sure how they'll tie it into the theme above, or if it will even do that. https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/anthropocene-reviewed Entertaining enough and could be a source of inspiration.

This is from the book,

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"How Anthropo-scenic!":
Karla McManus
Concerns and Debates about the Age of the Human
There is a lot of talk about the Anthropocene. As we circle the drain, our greatest thinkers and provocateurs-including scientists and artists- are debating, disagreeing, and disrupting the concept of the new geological epoch, the literal Age of Human. When did it start? people ask. Who is responsible? Can we prevent more change or at least slow it down? Will naming it help? Some of this is just semantics, of course, a debate about the details, not the concept itself. Yet from another perspective, semantics-that, at times, dismissive term used to describe the practice of nitpicking-is at the very heart of the cultural understanding of human communication and meaning-formation. Words have power, after all, and those who wield them even more. When we argue about the basic meaning of a term-for example, does the anthropo imply human responsibility is equally shared?-we are making cultural decisions about what the Anthropocene will mean to people for years, maybe even centuries, to come. This is an important dialogue, even if it can sometimes come across as petty or schismatic. Perhaps the biggest question of all is one rooted in the dynamics of power: Who gets to decide the answers to these questions?

These debates are guided by the question of what it means to be human on the planet, when we have irrevocably altered the balance of the earth's systems: the hydrosphere, the biosphere, the pedosphere, the atmosphere. These changes are beyond physical; they have affected our cultures and histories, driven wars and alliances, shaped our economies, and influenced the way people have been enslaved, subjugated, and exploited, from the age of agriculture to the age of steam and the microchip. We have disrupted and altered our global climate, acidified our waters, triggered the mass extinction of biodiversity, transformed ecosystems that we rely on for life, polluted vast areas of land and water, all the while reproducing at a rate that requires more and more resources that are becoming scarcer!

The complexities and interdependencies of these systems are only now becoming understood, even while we change them irrevocably. How do we even begin to draw a line or plant a spike to say, "This is when it all started"?

You can find a lot of the photos on Edward Burtynsky's website,
https://www.edwardburtynsky.com/projects/photographs/anthropocene

digitalist fucked around with this message at 18:49 on Nov 28, 2022

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digitalist
Nov 17, 2000


journey into Kirk's unknown


 But you don't have to put the same effort when sharing, I found the following inspirational (gonna wear this word out),

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TpTKXyTlnE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-wEvzqdDZg

digitalist fucked around with this message at 18:50 on Nov 28, 2022

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Viginti Septem
Jan 9, 2021

Oculus Noctuae
Sounds like a great idea to me! Will start throwing stuff in here.

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