From Warren Ellis
"Why doesn't alt culture exist? Perhaps because it's been devoured by the mainstream monoculture. It's a hungry bastard, after all, and it'll choke down anything that'll fill its stomach.
"That we see things in Hollywood movies and tv now that were limited to experimental film twenty years ago is only the nature of the beast. It's not an evolution of Hollywood culture -- it's simply the beast widening its diet because it's eaten everything else in reach. You might not like the look of that weird foreign food, but if there's fuck all else on the table and you're still hungry, you'll gnaw on Korean film, Dutch film, Thai film and any other goddamn thing.
"And you can yank "Hollywood" out of that equation and replace it with fashion, music and half a dozen other things. The DIY-ambience in portrait photography that this very site [SuicideGirls] pioneered is now meaningless because it's everywhere."
"That we see things in Hollywood movies and tv now that were limited to experimental film twenty years ago is only the nature of the beast. It's not an evolution of Hollywood culture -- it's simply the beast widening its diet because it's eaten everything else in reach. You might not like the look of that weird foreign food, but if there's fuck all else on the table and you're still hungry, you'll gnaw on Korean film, Dutch film, Thai film and any other goddamn thing.
"And you can yank "Hollywood" out of that equation and replace it with fashion, music and half a dozen other things. The DIY-ambience in portrait photography that this very site [SuicideGirls] pioneered is now meaningless because it's everywhere."