Erik Stinson
I was born at a Seattle Washington hospital in December of the year 1987, to my mother, Julia, and father, William. My mother was math and science teacher. My father was a mechanical engineer for an airplane manufacturer.
PR Today, 1928: Vice Magazine in The New Yorker
There is this all-consuming article in the New Yorker about the frequently confusing, possibly acceptable hipster-media-capitalism of Vice Magazine (the TV show), in the current cultural context. The talk of the town seems to be that Vice has sold out better than anyone else, that not selling out is failing, and that authenticity is for the poor or the soon-to-be-rich. Progressive political will, funded by corporations, and fueled by boring white-guy-Brooklyn hedonism, is the only mindgame in town.
Enter Edward Bernays: the man behind the men behind the reason you feel something when you buy something. The guy who sold soft Freud to hard markets.
STEEP DREAM
ALL OVER THE NEW GESTURAL POETRY.
The Internet taught children to design themselves in a white space. Now, they are to create in that space. This burden. Laughter.
Appropriation was the first mimetic. The late remix, post-DJ culture of the 20whatevers sidevolved into a romance of the weird and origin-less. Repeat, offend, react. Horse eBooks, PT Cruiser, drugs, fetishes about whispering, shitting, looking into a new blank digital void. But it lasted only as long a generational breath. Weird Twitter rose and fell like a bird in a harsh wind.
I SEE U GIRL: The Elegant Blindness of Masculine Mimetic
Unified gaze theory? Would that be called Tunnel Vision Theory? Or just tunnel vision? Hegemony about Hegemony? As a man, I’m allowed to talk about everything, while understanding very little.
Theory: what we have developed is a kind of tunnel vision for the sake of re-producing culture and economy. You know of this post-Marxist system; I will not write of the components in a more clear way than has already been written by others.
We remember: The Gaze was a perfect piece of gender-biopower technology, a software that everyone wanted to run, a software that reproduced itself onscreen, without showing how it was made. Tickets sold themselves. Sex-less sex. War-less war. READ MORE >
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February 27th, 2013 / 11:14 am
February 27th, 2013 / 11:14 am
Barely Inside The Machine
Good Work For “Evil” Corporations
During the first five years of my career I lived in total squalor. I had been arrested twice and faced multiple charges in different states. The quarrelsome women I had surrounded myself with had all vanished to the margins of society, a caste I had inhabited for as long as I could remember. Somewhat of a petty criminal and drifter I decided that pure beauty must become my new mantra. The old bohemian ways and derelict charm gave way to sartorial pursuits and exquisite eastern landscapes.
Jon Leon, The Malady of the Century (2012)
At the beginning of the last decade there was a kind of moral fad in parts of the United States that spread almost immediately to the capital cities of Europe. The age old Anglo-European taboo of handling money was shoved offstage by the sheer force of events in the financial world, clearing the way for a new money culture.
Michael Lewis, The Money Culture (1991)
Downsize
Nobody at my job lives in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Most people live in Manhattan or New Jersey. I can’t really imagine what they spend on rent, let alone at bars and in restaurants. Nobody pays what I pay for a two bedroom apartment. I pay almost nothing. Everyone at my job lives paycheck to paycheck. I wonder why. They certainly make more money than I do, as I am one of the most junior people at the company. I make almost nothing. Maybe my lifestyle is shitty. Whatever. READ MORE >
HBO’s hit TV show GIRLS: what it should mean for everyone
I feel an enormous (and delicious) pressure to write about the hit TV show GIRLS, now on HBO, every Sunday. I have been told by my editors that women read, watch TV, and purchase “added value” products. I was surprised to learn that anyone still does these things. READ MORE >
Fwd: Hipsters of Brooklyn (NY) / RealityTV / NonUnion
| Casting Notice | |
| Project Name: | Hipsters of Brooklyn (NY) |
| Project Type: | Reality TV |
| Rate/Compensation: | na |
| Requesting Submissions From: | New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico |
Role Type: Principal
Gender: Male or Female / 19 to 32 / All Ethnicities
Description:
For HIPSTERS ONLY (a Hipster is not “Hip Hop”): They typically live in Williamsburg and are overeducated, snobbish, androgynous, intellectual, liberal, artsy, trust fund kids and dress funky…or at least fit this prototype! We are looking for great CHARACTERS…Hipsters that have HUGE personalities: If you are an obnoxious jerk and curse often please show this. If you are snobbish and mean please show this.
THE FEELING OF DIGITAL RELEASE
DO YOU LOG IN HERE OFTEN BUY LINK
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Happy Holidays from Erik Stinson and the Sense Europa Team
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[attached screenshot] [maybe but some holly on it… make it holiday themed]
This is a post to celebrate the release of my fifth book of self-published office hardcore and the release of the equally narcissistic (but highly necessary) digital version of Sense Europa magazine.
Do You Login Here Often? is a book of poetry addressing _______(_._)________ . Scroll to the bottom of this post to view the trailer for the book, which was directed by the smooth, modern, and enigmatic Adam Humphreys (Shitty Youth, 2012 link) , who worked in collaboration with Oakland based coder and web designer Mitch Trale on the unique and embeddable player. To read more about the book go to (link).
Sense Europa is the only European Men’s magazine published in New York City. The third issue features contributions from McLean Gordon, Dod Hamilton, and the inimitable Slash Lovering. It was put together lovingly by myself, Jackie Jackie Chiquoine, Dan Stuckey and IEJ. You can download it here (link).
A retrospective of previous book trailers for my works is live at Adam’s blog.
We hope you enjoy these pre-holiday treats and look forward to a productive and interesting 2013!
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“Reading” is a word that can become a search term. At one website, it is possible to search for only animated images, given a specific word or phrase. These remind me that everyone looks different when they read. Reading is an activity with a necessary 3rd person visual component. I don’t really understand how someone can look like they are reading. It is like those people who try to look like they are paying attention during a meeting,
www.shopgoodwill.com
Gleaming with the inconsequential, my constant interest in the literature of the obscure grows. Meanwhile, we all shrink and decay into our modern selves, over-popularing each other’s realities with endless nonsense records of our existence. People seem to disappear into websites. The litany of modern life. The digital record: always forgotten but never gone. The Internet is a hyper-intensification of my impulse to explore the absurdly irrelevant, the abjectly marginal. Everything on the internet just sticks around like a bar friend, drunk at a house party. A funny costume from the 90s and there hyperlinks you won’t touch. Sweaty skin under the light in the living room in a bad photo from the time before good digital cameras. 2.1 megapixels. The web content is profoundly un-useful. It fades into this extreme distance from relevance, but yet never totally decays. This is the asymptote of doom literature, the heating-up of total irralvence, in a context of viral-seeking buzzworthiness. The 0 views, 0 comments culture that I seek, very nearly condences on one particular commerce site.