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"this sellout manual serves only the lazy and small. Those who bestow sellouthood upon their former heroes are driven to do so by, first and foremost, the unshakable need to reduce. The average one of us - a taker-in of various and constant media, is absolutely overwhelmed - as he or she should be - with the sheer volume of artistic output in every conceivable medium given to the world every day - it is simply too much to begin to process or comprehend - and so we are forced to try to sort, to reduce. We designate, we label, we diminish, we create hierarchies and categories."

"I put the shirt on and it fit fine. I couldn’t stop smiling. The whole thing was so damned surreal. Here I am in a Paul Smith changing room trying on a shirt that features a design element stolen from my Flickr site!"

superfans who try to look like their favourite singer/band

"Hussein Chalayan created six mechanical dresses that would transform from one era to another, using embedded technology and smart wires"

"_____ is the new black" is a catch phrase and snowclone used to indicate the sudden popularity or versatility of an idea at the expense of the popularity of a second idea. It is also the origin of a snowclone of the form "X is the new Y"

"(...) Tasrill Sieyes, the Resident who had made Duchamp's legendary painting come alive, (...) this abstract avatar was only the beginning-- or rather, the summation in a long career of abstract avatars as a medium of expression."

I ARE A MO ? anyway, very goatse logo