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Apparently, some couple from Brooklyn has started a porn magazine, except they are saying it is 'authentic, vintage porn' instead of just the modern digital smutty stuff. I feel confused by different genres of porn that are based on aesthetical vibes, and not based on 'content.' Feel like all porn should be designed to 'get u off' and people who want to J.O. to a 'vintage feeling' picture of people having sex should just build a time machine and go back to the 70s or something. Wish ppl could appreciate big fake titties and high-resolution digital close-ups of vaginas getting 'rammed' by 10 inch penises.

S000 pissed at this 'entrepreneurial couple' for getting an NY Times profile for selling smut. Guess porn drives hits though, and it helps that they look like huge 'effing hipsters.' They seem to be the 'modern Brooklynite couple.' Wish I could be in that relaish :-(. bet they have 'sick' swinger parties.

They got some NYTimes profile piece that keeps comparing them 2/referencing Am Appy. Here is the intro that really helps u 2 'dive in' 2 their world:

“HOLD it.” Jonathan Leder was standing behind a tripod on the porch of a musty, wood-shingle house in West Kill, N.Y., pointing his camera at a 19-year-old model, Britney Nola, who was wearing nothing but an unbuttoned pink shirt from American Apparel and a pair of slouchy blue socks.

Might start some sort of porn magazine so I can be relevant enough to get an NYTimes writeup. Kinda jealous/sad.

Thought I had to do something 'honorable' to get in the NYTimes, but I guess now I can start some sort of drug dealership/porn company/ assassination firm, and as long as I am 'based in Brooklyn' and have some sort of authentic gimmick, I can get blggd abt.

Do yall <3 vintage porn or the 'big tittied fake stuff'?

Mr. Leder is no ordinary pornographer. Along with his wife and editor, Danielle, the bearded, flannel-wearing Mr. Leder is the creator of Jacques, an upstart adult magazine in Brooklyn that reinterprets vintage Playboy in the age of 3-D porn and GPS hookups.

Joined by a small but influential roster of new pinup magazines — published in places like Amsterdam and the Lower East Side — Jacques is offering a self-conscious throwback to the magazines of the late 1960s and early 1970s, before the days of silicone implants, Photoshop and streaming HD video.

Do u h8 niche, limited-run magazines that pop up even though the magazine industry is dying?

Rlly just want to be in a modern porn relaish. Feeling sad. I thought porn was supposed to keep u from needing a real human, but this couple seems to prove that you can 'love porn' with ur significant other, watch it 2gether, make it together, cum 2gether.

Here is a part of the article where a blogger talks about how important magazines are even though they are a blog in another format.

“As magazines become more-premium objects, they use the paper and the physical experience as part of the narrative,” said Andrew Losowsky, editor of the Magtastic Blogsplosion, a blog that chronicles the global magazine industry.

When was the last time u bought a magazine?
Is Jacques Magazine 'mad authentic'?
Will Jacques Magazine become the new Playboy?
Do yall <3 or h8 'hipster porn'?
Will Jacques Magazine find the perfect alternative breasts?
Do u watch pornography with ur partner?

Might buy their next issue which is apparently 'all AZN'

I wonder if Jacques Magazine even really needs to exist, or if I can just find a free soft porn tumblr.

Nevermind. Just watched this video. Came super hard [via cum imagery].

I guess I was over-thinking it and all porn is good porn.

Kinda wet, yall.

Is all porn the same?
Are these people 'visionaries' or just 'horn balls' who are trying to out-gimmick the world?
Is Jonathan Leder the new Dov Charney?
Do u think they are 'full of shit' or authentic artists?
Is pornography the 'master art'?
What is ur favourite kind of porn?
Do yall h8 this era of magazines becoming 'vintage' things that we are supposed to 'support'/'keep alive' as an 'art form'?
Would u rather read a porn blog, porn magazine, or porn streaming video website?

Should I close this post with an excerpt about nipples 'going soft' + needing ice to get them hard again?

Back at the shoot, camera finally loaded, Mr. Leder took several shots of Ms. Nola, who seemed to gain confidence as the day went on. Her posture seemed more self-assured, her gaze more direct. The photos were coming together, but Mr. Leder found his eye drawn to an unfortunate side effect of the summer heat. Ms. Nola’s nipples seemed to be wilting.

“Ginger, would you grab some ice?” Mr. Leder asked Ginger Ralph, a hairstylist, who returned from the kitchen moments later with a bowlful.

“It’s always the small details, you know?” Mr. Leder said.

What do yall use when ur nipples go soft but ur shooting some vintage-feeling porn self-portraits of urself?

From what I understand, high resolution digital photography is 'mad overrated', and modern humans associate 'vintage looking photographs' with authenticity. Many buzzbands choose not to utilize a hi-res photo, and instead choose to go 'lofi' because it makes their brand look authentic before u can even stream an MP3.

Do u like bands who have album art/mp3 photos that look 'vintage'?
Is it more alt to look like ur from the past instead of from the future?
Do buzzbands need to 'give up' on trying to inspire listeners to feel like they are entering nostalgic zones?

This is basically the 'thesis' of the article. Most other sentences attempt to explain what particular album covers look like + what 'aesthetic' they achieve:

A lot of indie artists lately have felt something similar, it seems. Artists who sound about as different from each other as Vampire Weekend and the Dum Dum Girls have embraced the look and feel of old, amateur photography, often featuring images of childhood and family. Stuart McLamb of the Love Language found a great image of his mother-- literally beaming in the unintended glare of a too-hot flash at night, and thought it the perfect album cover.

Wonder if I still need to go to design school, or if I can just browse indie blogs to learn abt modern bloggable aesthetics.

Wonder if bands are going to have to stop using vintage photogs in case their 'go mainstream' and some old lady from the 1940s decides to sue them for using her polaroid.

Here is some paragraph where the writer talks about 'getting turned on' when he first saw the Contra album cover because his peen 'gets hard' 2 vintage photographs:

Last September, a photo of a girl with a blank expression and a popped collar appeared online without any context. A few people assumed it was a viral ad, but most were drawn to it for reasons they couldn't quite place. Some combination of the girl's wide-eyed, deer-in-the-headlights stare, the Polo logo on her shirt, her slightly open mouth, the pinkish tone, and muted palette of the photograph suggested it was a "found" picture, or maybe a long-forgotten entry into Andy Warhol's Polaroid series. As it happened, the photo turned out to be the cover art for Vampire Weekend's second album. A few months later, an equally evocative, slightly older, and more private seeming snapshot of a woman, caught off guard while getting something from her closet, adorned the cover of the Dum Dum Girls' first LP I Will Be. As with the Contra photo, the questions arose quickly:Why her? Who is she? Why this photo?

Do u miss the Contra 'viral marketing' era?
Sad it turned out this way [via h8ing Kirsten Kennis].
Maybe there is a 'high legal risk' associated with stealing photos from the past.

R u 'bored' when u see another lofi photograph on an album cover? Does it make u think the album is gonna 'be awesome' [via inspiring nostalgic images of youth], or do most albums with lofi art end up 'blowing'?

Album art has long been a crucial multimedia component of popular music-- often the first image we associate with the sounds, its representational role makes it inherently evocative, a symbol

Here is some other 'deep' analysis sentence:

...these photographs echo back through the past few decades of indie and DIY culture as it intersects with amateur and art-world photography, changes in technologies, and shifting ideas of public and private. The evocative quality of an image presented without context, it turns out, makes for a interesting dialogue point between indie's aesthetic past and present.

Sigh.... H8 our evolving society. Wish we could just live in our ideal vision of the future, but never forget the chill vibes of the past...
H8 how technology makes information/mp3s more accessible, but 'cheapens' moments that we once thought were meaningful.

Here is some paragraph where they drop the terms 'chillwave' and 'Animal Collective' just to get u interested.

The music Greene and a handful of others are making has been called "chillwave," an appropriate coinage for humid, groovy stoner tunes, which surf the tides of lengthy afternoons and evoke the dreamlike feeling of melting into the earth under an unforgiving sun. Greene shaped Washed Out's vibe after relocating from South Carolina, moving back in with his parents, and getting married. In other words, he's evoking through his music and album art photography the quiet domestic life of the 2009-2010 indie/DIY creative class-- think Animal Collective's "My Girls", "Bluish", and "Brothersport".

Here's some other paragraph that says 'chillwave' like 100x:

And most of all, we hang. Greene's good friend, South Carolinian chillwave exemplar Chaz Bundick records as Toro Y Moi. The cover of his EP Leave Everywhere features a photograph of Bundick fueling up at a truckstop, taken with a disposable camera by his friend Christy. A bit later, when Christy discovered her friend was using her snapshot as an album cover, she took to her blog and posted a wonderful little evocation of chillwave, not as a type of music per se, but a specific lifestyle that merges real-life obligations with the desire to stay deliriously young. "Chillwave is when you're at a South Carolina beach with friends and while wading in the ocean far, far from the shore someone asks 'we need to head back soon?' And you have work in the morning, an 8 a.m. meeting maybe, but you emulate the quiet ripple of the tide and you say 'naw, we'll make it back,' and you're right. You do make it back. And you even have time to wince for a photo your friend takes with a disposable camera at the gas station, and you're so chill you'll even put that crappy photo on the cover of your 7" record people still call 'chillwave' the very next summer, and it looks good."

Is chillwave photography 'authentic'?
Can u call some1 holding a DSLR at a relevant show a 'n00b'?

Anyways, they go on to claim that gorilla vs bear invented the lofi aesthetic, both in terms of mp3s AND jpgs. Wonder if bands feel pressured 2 use a vintage photograph to get blggd abt on a visually stunning lofi blog:

The market for, say, out of focus M.I.A. Polaroids might be smaller than that for high-end photo-pit SLR images, and for Gorilla vs. Bear's Chris Cantalini, that's sort of the point. He respects professional photogs with nice cameras, but has no desire to compete with them. He lets the camera do a lot of the work for him-- he positions his subjects in particular locales and then relies on Polaroid's notoriously fickle relationship to light and color to do the rest. As a result, the pinkish hues, white borders, and "matte sides" of indie artists revealed by instant photography have come to define his blog's visual aesthetic. It fits perfectly with the music he most prominently features on his site, as well: a sort of ahistorical lo-fi that purposefully sounds out of time.

Wonder if gorillavsbear-core is not just a 'lofi' brand of music, but also a lofi photography aesthetic. When indie music dies, wonder if GVB will be 'the most important aesthetic designer' in the entire history of indie. [link]

Might just move to the Suburbs and chill with the Arcade Fire, creating a nostalgic image with the Adobe Creative Suite.

Getting kind of bored posting all of these excerpts. Kinda one of those articles that says a bunch of 'interesting sounding statements' and ur waiting for something 'revolutionary' 2 be said, but then u realize it is just about chillwave photography, and ur just like 'oh ya. Don't rlly even care. Shoulda just read the headline' and then kept searching p4k 4 new buzzbands:

Should I go to my local thrift store to search for rare vintage cameras, or should I just download the Hipstamatic app on my iPhone? Just want my images to look all lofi.

It also makes sense that tech capitalists would figure out a way to make digital photos look just like the snapshots your mother pulls out when you come to visit. Hipstamatic-- based directly off of the legendarily cheap, and long discontinued Instamatic-- is one of the most popular apps ever created for the iPhone. For $1.99, every photo you take can look a hell of a lot like it was taken in 1978-- the faded colors, the unpredictable light patterns, even the slightly askew border. When fleeting moments of our everyday lives are now more than ever before seen as fodder for extracting, showcasing, and archiving for others-- we are all Jandek-- it makes so much sense that we'd want these moments to appear as authentic and hip as possible. Amateur photography, meet pre-distressed jeans and iMovie's grain-and-flicker filter.

S000 crazy how we live in a modern world with hi-resolution cameras, but

Anyways, I guess the theme of the article is basically 'photographs represent memories. Indie album covers are photographs that represent moments frozen in time, kinda like pictures.'

It seems only natural then, that as technologies have helped render privacy and artistic mystique ever-rarer, and at the same time made it easier than ever to make and release music, that artists would look to the synthetic nostalgia of old photographs. It's right there in the DNA of so much indie music itself, really: taking the mundane facts of everyday life and reframing them as evocative shared memories.

Do u think bands need to quit with the lofi photograph album art bullshit?
Do u just want to live a life of leisure without any modern technology, just capturing moments with vintage cameras?
Should I ask my parents for a DSLR or for a rare polaroid camera?
Is the layout of the blog ALTERED ZONES the 'crowning achievement' of the modern lofi indie design aesthetic?

Should Gorilla Vs Bear 'sue the fuck' out of Alt Zones [via Kirsten Kennis]?
Should Pitchfork just make their blog a series of scanned writings + pictures just to look 'more authentic'?
Has technology 'ruined' photography/the internet/the indie buzz scene?
Do u feel like u 'get' indie more than ever after reading this article?
Are chillwavers/gorillavsbearcorers the 'future' of indie?
Is photography 'overrated' as an art?
Should more bands make GIF album covers?
Did Anco 'transcend' the album art discussion?
What is ur favourite album cover of all time?
Was it 'vintage' or 'commissioned art'?
Should Mountain Dew make a 'vintage' can 2 appeal 2 alts [via the blogosphere]?