Angus (left, and I suppose right) tries a Faceswap
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Picasso on Snapchat, as imagined by the author
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Lowest common denominator forms of humour and communication have reached bold and bizarre heights. Millions of Vines are uploaded everyday, all of them sharing perpetual, trance-like qualities associated with psychedelic film-making. Videos litter the Twitter feeds of funny football accounts featuring dancing manifestations of gargantuanbobble-headed Premier League managers. Last year one of the most-shared videos on the internet featured a 6ft man insidea giant water balloon– a video that was also soundtracked by a William Basinski style ambient soundtrack.We haven't just normalised the weird, we've turned into something basic. We now exist in a time where the most culturally unadventurous people on your timeline are expressing themselves with short videos of goats screaming; where your mum is trading faces with your dad and sending it to your aunty; where you can communicate embarrassment with a pictograph of a monkey covering his eyes and nobody will bat an eyelid.
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