Remember the blink tag? Does it ever seem like you visit a website with so much going on that it’s difficult to concentrate? Today we have animated flash advertisements that strategically place themselves over the content, demanding a cognitive spurt to find the close button and overcome the annoyance. Why is it that advertisers seem to think that by annoying us, or tricking us, that we will find their product interesting and worthwhile?
3 June, 2008
2 June, 2008
Artnoxious : At the Intersection of Pretension, Egomania and Temporal Abundance
Given that we live in a society of exuberant excess, it’s only inevitable that somewhere along the long, dreary path of the soul, we find those who would use our patterns of communication to judge, delineate and define in a way that is not accessible to the casual observer, only after much study and socialization, can one break past this intellectual exclusion and access the intention going into a given work, which, to my great distress, supersedes the varied interpretations of that work in an ephemeral triumph of individual arrogance over group experience. In short, it’s Artnoxious.
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