#JR Bob Dobbs

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Some "Bob"

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Gotta say, while I love @mostlysignssomeportents' work, I think I gotta hard disagree with their sentiment that AI art comes "pre-corporatized/gentrified".

Like, that might be true if one treats the one-off images one sees as all you can do with AI art, but from what I've noticed in the people doing what I consider good work with AI art, from @teuthisdreams' work with collage on his most notable comic and general openness about his process, to the layering Shenanigans that @reachartwork does to avoid the Standard AI Art Artstyle, to @therobotmonster's use of good ol fashioned hand-done retouching and photomanipulation and advice on such, the singular image is not the primary artistic use-case for people serious about the tool.

Rather it is that AI art becomes art in its relational capacity, combining with other tools in the nature of Eisensteinian montage and collage, the latter being a bit ironic given the fact that AI on its own isn't really a collage machine like people think it is.

The same way that, say, some stock art for Apple stuff could become the basis for Jerkcity or a piece of stock art of a generic 50s-type guy became the notorious mock-religious-messiah JR "Bob" Dobbs, or how standardized sliders in a video game made the basis for The Final Pam or the Boy-Mayor of Second Life.

Even if the outputs are to be considered generic, the way they are used to relate to other things by the artist, and the way they relate to other things the artist has done, is the way art is found. The humanity is added in the editing and juxtaposition, especially if you're combining it with other mediums.

And I think the way we're trained to treat art as isolated; decontextualized snippets in an algorythmized feed is the actual problem that I think the fears around AI art as an artistic practice are around.

Now, there's a lot to be said about that, from the issue of how the way social media discourages archival/archive-binging is a far greater contributor to the depersonalization of art, to the ways in which algorithms hide artists who can't keep up with them and that needs to be a labor issue we push against.

I have a longer piece on the nature of this that I've got bouncing around in my head that I need to finish after Artfight and Kaijune-in-August at any rate.

But, I think I'll end with the fact that if you're looking for the grungy endearing grassroots jank that Doctorow feels is lacking in the uses of these tools, I think that the best place to look first would be at stuff like this:

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A couple of my ttcc ocs! I have another (Chuck A. Chu) who’s an old rusting cog train in an Abanoned scrapyard that honestly just wants to be left alone and nap. Ok the description makes it sound kinda goofy but it’s pretty sad lolllll

Fun fact the Greenwasher (my main and most developed ttcc oc) is based off of JR Bob Dobbs and has a god complex

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"Trumps Criminal Associates from A to Z”

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was boner pill bob inspired by jr bob dobbs

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A-T-3 246 Negativland - A Big 10-8 Place 

Negativland and The Residents have a mutual appreciation fro each other, they both ended up in San Francisco. The Residents are sampled by Negativland on You Don't Even Live Here from their 1987 album Escape From Noise, and contributed Perfect Scrambled Eggs to the Ralph Records anthology Potatoes, also in 1987. Peter Conheim of Negativland has been restoring The Residents film archive for Ralph Records

There are other crossovers, photos of the band don't appear on their records so unless you went to see them live Negativland were faceless, an anonymous band. Both groups seem to have a fascination with the radio, especially disc jockeys. The Residents made their 1977 Radio Special, Negativland's have sampled disc jockeys throughout their career most notoriously Casey Kasem on their litigious 1991 single U2. The title of their 1983 album A Big 10-8 Place refers to US radio's 10 code meaning "back in service." Negativland have been making their Over the Edge radio show since 1981 and it's still going

In Britain, as in the USA, Europe, and many more countries around the world there is no escaping the constant bombardment of audio and visual messages. In 1983 they would have been in our homes through TV and radio and in public spaces on billboards and piped music in shopping malls, car radios, etc. Now, in addition to this, we carry them about everywhere in our pockets. Negativland rightly call this 'noise.' In 1984 Negativland coined the term 'culture jamming' for their practice of taking audio messages, cutting them up and recontextualizing them

The image is of a giant trash heap of mass culture where every recorded sound is levelled and sat next to each other. It's audio pop art, the sound equivalent of Richard Hamilton and John McHale's 1956 collage Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing? Negativland's culture jamming sits radio disc jockeys next to advertising slogans, interviews with celebrities, recordings of sermons by preachers, political speeches, extremist speeches... anything and everything but as much as the band evade the limelight they are attached to 'personalities' people making more than their fair share of noise in the culture

"Eternal Salvation or triple your money back." Negativland are members of the Church of the SubGenius. CotS origins are similar to The Residents, they both came from conservative suburban Texas and were really into Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart. I've mentioned before how pizzagate/QAnon/the chans/the republican party borrow heavily from CotS, the insider messages and signalling, trolling. The Residents, CotS, Negativland, and associated media are all quite cynical but also humanist, they come from a place that wants to help you... the right-wing groups are exploiting this. Ironically the founders of CotS were obsessed with extremist pamphlets and the satanic panic, spoofing these is part of the joke. Right-wing conspiracies turn Donald Trump into a JR "Bob" Dobbs messianic figure. Unfortunately people don't know enough about the CotS to recognise Donald Trump as a false prophet, a preacher of 'false Slack' which according to the conspiracy would make his followers "pinks."

Negativland embraced new platforms in the same way The Residents did, they've been maintaining their website since 1995, almost thirty years now

They've had a massive cultural impact from the KLF's Chill Out album to the turntables of Kid Koala, to Cassette Boy, to Putin, Trump and the Barbie Movie (I've not seen it but from what I've heard it sounds like culture jamming for profit to me)

Negativland - A Big 10-8 Place, Pt. One

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Neighbors...

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Time to vote!

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Drop some “Bob” or kill me.

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The Story: Inside the Craziest, Most Conspiracy-Filled ‘Church’ in America

The Writer: Sandy K. Boone

“In Bob we trust”: Boone on her documentary J.R. ‘Bob’ Dobbs and the Church of the SubGenius

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Oh cool! There's a Subgenius movie at SXSW. "If Jim Jones could talk 900 people into killing themselves, we could talk 900 people into sending us a dollar," haha.

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Slack is back: "J.R. 'Bob' Dobbs and the Church of the SubGenius" trailer drops | Boing Boing

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UNWARRANTED BOB MANIFESTATION

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cabbage boy submitter here: i’m so happy people love him. i went back to buy him earlier today but he was already gone :( hopefully he’s in a nice place

I feel that sorrow I felt when shitterfrog’s submitter didn’t make the purchase and went back and he was gone. Someone out there is cherishing that dog.

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