Tao Lin, Schopenhauer, Art, Poodles and Xanax

TAO LIN HAS A NEW COMIC ART COLUMN CALLED “DRUG RELTED PHOTOSHOP ART” 

LINK 

the first piece is 

“Schopenhauer watching ‘Walrus sucks own dick’ on YouTube while absently petting his 2,000,000mg Xanax (specially ordered from Thailand) at 3:34 PM on a Tuesday in April after being put ‘on hold’ for the second time in ~40 seconds as he tries to reach the one person he knows at Harper’s, an editorial assistant who “really liked” The World As Will And Representation, to see if there’s any chance they want to send him anywhere—to write about anything—as his toy poodle, ‘ever aware’ that it’s ‘very similar’ in size/weight/color as the 2,000,000mg Xanax, suppresses uncontrollable crying successfully, to a large degree, owing to having licked the 2,000,000mg Xanax a few times, ~30 minutes ago, when Schopenhauer was at the doorway gripping the doorknob tightly while staring across the street thinking [what seemed to be ‘nothing’] after receiving his 3rd form-rejection in 14 months from Electric Literature .”

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I thought the art was nice. It was more realistic and he seems to have transgressed his hamster phase. His art continues to favor cyan blues and lemon, simplistic half-formed animals, wrinkle lines and sad, droopy eyes. I smiled at the picture on first glance, but then laughed ‘out loudly’ when reading the caption as an extended single sentence. The extreme 2,000,000mg Xanax and rejections from Electric Literature as a concept seemed both poignant and online indie-lit funny. I don’t know. The toy poodle is isolated both in description and pictorially as it yearns before the painting of itself alongside its master in Egypt. Did Schopenhauer have a poodle? … yes, yes… 

wikipedia: In 1831, a cholera epidemic broke out in Berlin and Schopenhauer left the city. Schopenhauer settled permanently in Frankfurt in 1833, where he remained for the next twenty-seven years, living alone except for a succession of pet poodles named Atman and Butz.

quote: “You are not a dog. You are human. A human. A human!!”

I also found something else here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/shaman683/3120381226/

Seems much less funny than Lin’s piece and not half as valid. I know nothing about art, but this poodle right here has nice balls. 

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