I hate art.

I love art. Really. I have been asked why my blog is called ‘I Hate Art’ many times. The truth is: I do not love all art out there and foremost I am concerned about all those objects that are called art nowadays. I think somebody has to draw a line and say “That is bullshit. That’s not art. I hate it.”

Chuck Palahniuk, Andy Warhol and I

Lately I have been smelling a lot.

Pablo Picasso and Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) was a German philosopher. In his early work The Birth Of Tragedy Out Of The Spirit Of Music he invents the Apollonian-Dionysian Concept. This concept has great influence ever since in the field of art, literature and philosophy.

This essay is about the interrelations between the Apollonian-Dionysian Idea and the work of Spanish painter Pablo Picasso (1888-1973). Picasso read Nietzsche and was heavily inspired by his work. In this work I wish to visualize Nietzsche’s presence in Picasso’s paintings, especially in his ground-breaking work Les Demoiselles d’Avignon which introduced Primitivism and Cubism and therefore deliberate Abstraction.

Americanism Revealed

Americans are afraid. Americans are scared of everything. They are afraid of car crashes, germs, terrorism, guns, robbery, rape, dirt, smell, strangers, enemies, diseases, falling behind, God, body hair, communism, rejection and infection.

A FEW THINGS ABOUT ME AND YOU

Who are you?

Are you what you possess? Are you the product of your genes? Are you the sum of what you created? Do you know who you are? And I got one more question for you: Do you really want to know who you are?

Roman Cops

Lately I’ve been to Rome and what I saw there inspired me for an alternative carreer: becoming an Italian cop.

Irish Pubs continued

I just wanted to back up the connection of Irish pubs and shit music once more:

Bench-Hi-Jacking

Spot a bench in a public place and steal it. Now, find the best place you're able to imagine and set it up there. The place where it used to be will be filled up with a new bench sooner or later.

Spread benches all over the country!

Hi-jack tonight!

Being asked for I.D.

You know what I’m talking about. When you’re something between 16 and 25 you’re the target group of I.D. fetishists.

Splash

Flash Mob Cologne: Waterfight pictures

A Man's Story

A man is searching something in the light of a street latern. Another man approaches him:

Getting and Becoming

Here is a simple formula:

GETTING = BECOMING

Here is my view on that:

Autobiography

a poem by A. Gray

Rubbish.

What to do with your rubbish.

Internship Generation

Yes, I did internships. Once, because I had to, and once because I wanted it. Internships are not a bad thing in the first place.

Rain

How many people decide to go for a walk as it starts to rain?

How to become an artlover

Who doesn't want to impress a lady or at least those sophisticated guys at dinner parties once in a while?

Input / Output 2

In 10th grade I was in physics class by Mr McDade.

This is the place

This is the place where all the junkies go

I introduce you to injection needles and aluminum foil

You smell the puddles of pee and nicotine-sponged cigarette butts

Under your shoes you hear glass from broken car windows is cracking

A terrifying solitude is in the air

This is where fallen creatures bleed

Let me show you the place where they charge $2.10 an hour

But if your raise your head you have the most beautiful view of the city

Suddenly you know we were made to walk on two feet so we can look up to the stars

And you finally feel free on 7th floor parking deck D

Experience

"Experience is not what happens to a man;

it is what a man does with what happens to him."

/'Texts and Pretexts' A. Huxley