Hey, I’m doing in-person studio visits in Savannah tomorrow (Tuesday April 2). Send me an email to bradtroemel@gmail.com with your work, links, attachments. I’ll check out the first 10 I get and choose 3 I’m best suited to have a conversation about. I’ll send a confirmation email with location and time afterwards.
2024-04-01 23:56:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey, I’m doing in-person studio visits in Miami. Send me an email to bradtroemel@gmail.com with your work, links, attachments. I’ll check out the first 10 I get and choose 3 I’m best suited to have a conversation about. I’ll send a confirmation email with location and time afterwards.
2024-03-28 16:24:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Graphic design by Anson Nguyen
Video outro by Jak Ritger
Song: Sky Ferreira - Everything's Embarrassing (u_tra remix)
Research chemicals:
1. What Was The Hipster? a collection of essays by N+1
2. You Know It When You See it by Dayna Tortorici
3. What Was The Hipster? by Mark Greif
4. Youth Mode by K-Hole
5. The Still-Wild, Semi-Habitable McKibbin Lofts by Matthew Sedacca
6. How To Live With Bed Bugs by John Wilson
7. Was The Hipster Really All That Bad? by Ben Davis
8. Aziz Ansari's Other Music Sketch (2006)
9. Worker = Hipster by Rob Horning
10. Hooverville Williamsburg by Rob Horning
11. Resenting Hipsters by Peter Frase
12. Williamsburg history timeline by Steven Kurutz
13. Meet Your New Boss by Claudine Ko
14. The Last Relevant Blogger by Brian Merchant
15. Americans are losing faith in the value of college. Whose fault is that? by Paul Tough
16. What's the difference between art, design, and memes? by CRLS / The Hipster Runoff
17. Rock as real estate by Ian Svenonious
18. How NPR Killed College Rock by Ian Svenonious
19. The College Payoff: More Education Doesn’t Always Mean More Earnings by Anthony P. Carnevale, Ban Cheah, Emma Wenzinger
20. What Is Sea Punk Music? by MTV
21. Why The Hipster Must Die by Christian Lorentzen
22. Hipsters and the death of cool by Sarah Barmak
23. Young Artists Find a Private Space, Only Without the Privacy by Cara Buckley
24. The Hipster Handbook by Robert Lanham
25. Subculture: the meaning of style by Dick Hebdige
27. The Indie Sleaze instagram account
28. Old Vice articles instagram account
29. Pitchfork review of A.R.E. Weapons
30. PROOF (2008) - by moi
31. my interview with CRLS from the Hipster Runoff
2024-03-18 19:15:48 +0000 UTC View PostNo cultural figure was issued their death certificate as many times as hipsters. For 15 years, hipsters were the skinny jean-wearing boogeymen who enraged the world by crossing the wires between irony and earnesty, individuality and conformity. Hipsters were the canvas onto which everyone projected their conflicting ideas about what was wrong with young, college-educated people living in the city.
Many presume hipsterdom died off, but they’re wrong. The social habits hipsters created are the background software we’re still running on today. The idea of being an amateur connoisseur of culture, someone who obsesses over news updates about their niche interests and micro-celebrities they passionately argue about with strangers, someone who eats well because it tastes better and is better for the environment, someone who wears well-researched vintage clothes, someone who’s relentlessly critical of the aesthetic decisions made by those most similar to them – today, this isn’t someone, this is everyone. We’re all hipsters now.
For this report, I’ll try to pinpoint what the slippery word hipster means by untangling each of the four eras of hipsterdom and how they changed over time. To do so requires looking back at the origins of hipsters in the 90s when Americans were granted digital access to culture just as the service economy encouraged us to commodify our lifestyles. I’ll recount the rise and fall of the companies that defined this lifestyle –from Pitchfork to Vice Magazine to American Apparel– to understand the relationship between hipsters and their corporate representatives. With the onset of social media, hipsters found it necessary to represent themselves and were heavily influenced by the Hipster Runoff and Party Photographers. From here, I look at the public’s hatred of hipsters for real and imagined reasons. Finally, I describe the mid-2010s transition from The Hipster of yesterday into The Activist of today and what the Indie Sleaze revival says about both.
So crack open a can of Sparks and join me as we dig into hipsters' legacy—not as an exercise in nostalgia but as a way of understanding how they shaped the culture we live in now. This is The Hipster Report.
video edit by Jak Ritger
song Sky Ferreira - Everything's Embarassing (u_tra remix)
2024-03-16 16:23:22 +0000 UTC View Post
trust me this one is gonna be a doozy
2024-02-28 16:17:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey gang, I'm currently writing two of these reports with plans to release one of them very soon.
Which are you most excited for?
2024-02-01 00:20:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello,
if you're available to do a studio visit in person from the hours of 4:00 - 7:00 pm EST on Friday January 19, then send me an e-mail with a link to the work you'd like to discuss and any other relevant attachments.
my e-mail is
2024-01-15 18:54:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey gang, I just re-uploaded the AI report with corrected audio so it doesn't sound *as much* like a 2014 rekt compilation. I accidentally turned the gain up too high while recording, so after this mistake we'll be back to the crystal clear iMovies I'm renowned for.
Some have asked about uploading the report to Youtube instead of Patreon. Neither are perfect options. Youtube has demonetized me and I'm currently at 2/3 content violation strikes for attempting to upload past reports. Unfortunately Patreon doesn't currently allow TV casting but I also don't have to worry about the video being taken down abruptly because it has an image of Pepe in it.
Anyway, I want to thank everyone here for your support in 2023. I really appreciate the opportunity to be able to do what I do, so thank you for believing in me. I had a lot of grueling fun writing the Left Can't Meme, Post Internet, Literalists, Cloutbombing, and Artificial Intelligence reports this year, I hope you enjoyed them too. Moving forward I have every intention to hustle even harder in 2024 than I did in 2023.
WAGMIWWG1WGA,
Brad
2024-01-03 23:53:21 +0000 UTC View PostResearch chemicals:
1. every Rob Horning essay about AI, including but not limited to
2. Misinformation reloaded? Fears about the impact of generative AI on misinformation are overblown by Felix Simon, Sacha Altay, Hugo Mercier
3. Mean Images by Hito Steyerl
4. Geoffrey Hinton profile by Jonathan Rothman
5. The Completion by Bifo
6. Swap Meat Blob Job by Sam McPheeters
7. Alignment Fraud by Charlotte Fang
8. the Yeerk thread mentioned
9. Potemkin AI by Jathan Sadowski
10. Art As Experience by John Dewey
11. Unmasking the Seven Fallacies of AI Art by Mike Pepi
12. Self Design and Aesthetic Responsibility by Boris Groys
edited by Jak Ritger @ja_ak_rtgr
graphic design by Anson Nguyen @anonson
additional images by @cabronfiber
2023-12-31 17:00:11 +0000 UTC View Postedited by Jak Ritger @ja_ak_rtgr
graphic design by Anson Nguyen @anonson
additional images by @cabronfiber
2023-12-31 00:33:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello,
if you are available to do a studio visit in person from the hours of 3:00 - 6:00 pm CST on Saturday December 16, then send me an e-mail with a link to the work you'd like to discuss and any other relevant attachments.
I'm gonna look through and try to find 3 people whose work I'm best equipped to offer feedback on.
I'm going to review the first 10 emails I receive then choose 3 from that pool.
my e-mail is
2023-12-14 01:39:20 +0000 UTC View Post
recorded this weekend, coming soon
2023-12-12 01:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello,
if you are available to do a studio visit over Zoom from the hours of 12:00 - 5:00 pm EST on Friday November 3, then send me an e-mail with a link to the work you'd like to discuss and any other relevant attachments.
I'm gonna look through the applicants and try to find 5 people whose work I'm best equipped to offer feedback on.
I'm going to review the first 20 emails I receive then choose 5 from that pool.
my e-mail is
2023-11-01 18:39:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Design by Anson Nguyen
Video outro by Jak Ritger
Research chemicals:
if you're coming to upstate art weekend and want to chat about your work, sign up here:
please only sign up if you're positive you're coming to upstate art weekend and can make the time
please send me the work/statement you want to discuss in advance
here's the link:
Hello,
if you're available to do a studio visit over Zoom from the hours of 12:00 - 2:00 pm EST on Sunday July 16, then send me an e-mail with a link to the work you'd like to discuss and any other relevant attachments.
I'm going to review the first 10 emails I receive then choose 4 people whose work I'm best qualified to help out with
visits are 30 mins long
my e-mail is
2023-07-14 16:36:59 +0000 UTC View Post
graphic design by Anson Nguyen
video outro by Jak Ritger
Research chemicals:
Satanic Panic: The Creation of a Contemporary Legend by Jeffrey S. Victor
Cancel Culture and Other Myths by Kathryn Lofton
The Fascists by Academic Fraud
Art Is Not Therapy by Jasmine Hu-Hollingshead
In Praise of Filth by Garth Greenwell
I Don't Wanna Grow Up (and Neither Can You) by Gretchen Felker-Martin
The Vulgar Wave by Paul Skallas
It’s All Over Justin H. Smith
The Internet Is Made of Demons by Sam Kriss
Intimacy and The Machine: on Godposting by Biz Sherbert
Subliminal Jihad: Aquino Pt. 1
PCU, 1994
The Satanic Panic - Historical, Mythological & Social Origins by Esoterica
The Coddling of the American Mind by Jonathan Haidt
Satanic Panic propaganda classics:
newest report drops Monday June 26 2023!
video by Jak Ritger
2023-06-22 14:59:15 +0000 UTC View Post
graphic design by Anson Nguyen @anonson
video montage by Jak Ritger @ja_ak_rtgr
Research chemicals:
Experiments in Art and Technology (1967-1994)
System Esthetics by Jack Burnham (1968)
Software: information technology and its new meaning for art curated by Jack Burnham (1970)
A Report of the Art and Technology program at LACMA by Maurice Tuchman, Jane Livingston (1970)
The Multimillion Dollar Art Boondoggle by Max Kozloff (1971)
Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972 by Lucy Lippard (1973)
Art and Technology: The Panacea That Failed by Jack Burnham (1980)
NET ART ANTHOLOGY by Rhizome
Dispersion by Seth Price (2004)
Spirit Surfing by Kevin Bewersdorf (2008)
Surfing Clubs: organized notes and comments by Marcin Ramocki (2008)
Post Internet by Gene McHugh (2009)
In Defense of The Poor Image by Hito Steyerl (2009)
The Image Object Post Internet by Artie Vierkant (2010)
After Art by David Joselit (2012)
The Accidental Audience by moi (2013)
Athletic Aesthetics by lil ol me (2013)
2011: Art and Transmission by Michael Sanchez (2013)
Surf Club Catalog by Paul Slocum (2016)
What Is Influence? by Caroline Busta (2020)
2023-04-03 16:33:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, I've been HUSTLING to get this new report done as hard as humanly possible but given the length of the Post Internet Report (1 hour, 20 minutes) and the sheer volume of images of different artists' work (closing in on 800 slides as of now), it's just not gonna be possible to be completed by tomorrow.
So, I'm gonna keep editing it over the weekend and it'll be out on Monday April 3!
2023-03-30 21:01:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello,
if you're available to do a studio visit over Zoom from the hours of 5:00 - 7:00 pm EST on Thursday January 26, then send me an e-mail with a link to the work you'd like to discuss and any other relevant attachments.
I'm going to review the first 10 emails I receive then choose 4 people whose work I'm best qualified to help out with
visits are 30 mins long
my e-mail is
2023-01-25 21:56:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Graphic design by Anson Nguyen
Outro prod by Nick Vyssotsky
Outro music by No_4mat
Song title: 1992
Research chemicals:
1. Kill All Normies by Angela Nagle
2. 4chan: the skeleton key by Dale Beran
3. Chris Beiser thread on KONY 2012
4. Feels Good Man dir by Arthur Jones
5. TFW no gf by Alex Lee Moyer
6. Hillary Clinton candidacy page explaining Pepe the Frog lol
2023-01-16 19:14:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey gang, here's some updates:
1. The Greetings from Kekistan Report has been reconceived as THE LEFT CAN'T MEME report. I've been writing this one throughout November, but as you can imagine sometimes it's tough to finish a 10,000 word script, edit down, perform/record it, and video edit it with 300 images added in just a month's time.. so I'm aiming to have this one out by the end of December. I think it's the type of script that ultimately requires more time because it traces a history of liberal memes since 2012, explores the KEK "alt right" era of 2015-17, the #RESISTANCE era of liberal memes from 2017-2020, and the BLM summer of liberal memes.. all while asking what has/hasn't worked about them along the way. It's definitely the most in depth writing I've done about how I think memes work since The Accidental Audience, so I'm very excited to release it. It's been rewarding to sit down and try to answer questions like "Why are lib memes so long and wordy?" "What was up with everyone's brief obsession with GRITTY?" "Why hasn't there been a left equivalent to Pepe?" "What is the relationship between rw memes and TRANSGRESSION?" "How does a meme effectively PILL someone?" It's gonna be lit and epic.
P.S. I want to thank everyone who stays on as a Patron in the months in-between reports. When a new report doesn't go up every single month it's not because I'm taking 4 week long vacations to Ibiza, it's because the report I'm working on takes two months to make. Obviously people can come and go as they please, but it's nice knowing you all have my back to work on things a little longer so I can release more in-depth reports, so thank you.
2. To spread some Christmas cheer I'm gonna be sending out 50 more prints to random Patrons in December. Prints make great gifts so if you're a Patron and want to guarantee yourself a print use code DOPEASSPATRON20 to get $10 off. And who knows, maybe I'll even stuff an extra goodie in your December order.. 'tis the season! ;)
3. Also currently working on line edits for those who've sent me their writing. I've done preliminary reads of everything I've been sent and will have long form feedback for most of you by this weekend. I have mental room for maybe ~1 more person so if you want a line edit, bump up to the $50 tier and send me a .PDF. I'll get back to you ASAP
4. Just wanted to say how much I've enjoyed the most recent rounds of studio visits I've done the past few months. In November I spoke with 8 people and was really impressed with the ambition and scope of all your work. Moving forward, I'm going to continue doing the "email me your work first" method instead of the "first come first serve method" route because it gives me the chance to evaluate who I'm best equipped to offer feedback to. As a cheat code, I usually select people who send me a website link and a little description of their work along with what they want to talk about. It just shows me they care and are coming into the visit prepared, which always yields better results!
OK that's all for now.
:-)
hey i've got time/energy for 2 more line edits this month
if you're
-writing an essay for a magazine
-writing an artist statement
-writing an art historical/visual cultural/internet etc. thesis paper
bump up to the $50 tier and i'll read your paper and give you all the in-depth feedback i can
as i mentioned before, here's what I look to develop in an edit:
-a BOLD thesis statement. The first paragraph should immediately pique the reader's interest while establishing your intentions for what comes next
-CLARITY in every part of the writing. No nonsense, no wordiness, no repetition. Writing is meant to be enjoyed and understood by the reader, not bore them into submission
-overall CONSISTENCY. What are the core insights of this writing and how do they relate back to the thesis? Does the analysis make sense? Does the writing build to a clear conclusion?
bump up, send me your essay at bradtroemel@gmail.com and i'll get back to you ASAP
2022-11-29 18:08:51 +0000 UTC View Post
