#jerrypyramid

[everythingisterrible]

We have about 25,000 copies of Jerry Maguire on VHS. Please help find the rest and either bring to a live show or mail them via usps media mail to PO BOX 50825, Los Angeles, CA 90050. One day soon we will build a great pyramid in the desert where all Jerrys will live together, protected from this cruel world. Join the movement. This the most important thing. Photo by Jim Newberry

[itcamefromthevcr]

Card carrying member! #JerryPyramid (at Iam8bit)

[pardeemonster]

ATTENTION Los Angeles Jerry-lovers! Want to buy a brick from my personal #jerrypyramid in order to help build the REAL #jerrypyramid? I made 25 limited hand-embellished bootleg VHS copies/cases of Jerry Maguire that will be available TONIGHT exclusively at @iam8bit gallery for the insane #jerrymaguirevideostore opening created by my spirit animals at @everythingisterrible666.

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Jerry Maguire Video Store! #📼 #jerrypyramid #helpmehelpyou #eit #everythingisterrible (at Iam8bit)

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Hyperallergic: Show Me the Money! Collective Fundraises for Pyramid to House 14,000 ‘Jerry Maguire’ Tapes

Everything Is Terrible!, “Jerrys” (photo by Jim Newberry)

LOS ANGELES — In an alt-facts world that gets more bizarre with every passing day of this new administration, absurdist art that plays on America’s obsession with entertainment provides temporary comic relief. “The Jerry Maguire Video Store” at iam8bit gallery was one such project. For just over two weeks, the walls and shelves of the makeshift store were lined with 14,000 VHS tapes of the hit ’90s Hollywood film Jerry Maguire, donated by people over an eight-year period. Now the collective behind the installation, Everything Is Terrible!, wants to do something even more absurd: raise $400,000 to build a pyramid in the desert to house of all those copies. That’s four times as much money as a group of artists in LA recently raised for the ACLU for an actual political cause.

It may sound like a high estimate for a tomb-like pyramid that will exist only to house a bunch of VHS tapes, but according to Everything Is Terrible! Creative Director Nic Maier, architects, engineers and builders told him the figure was actually on the low end. Originally, the group wanted to put the tapes on the outside of the structure, but quickly killed that idea after realizing the printed Jerry Maguire images would be almost immediately destroyed. If the collective raises the funds, the pyramid will be about 35 feet tall, with a 50-by-50 footprint. Bathrooms and $100K worth of cement will be a large part of the cost, though Maier notes that they won’t know the final figure until they pick a location and work with local authorities and zoning laws. A place in Joshua Tree wouldn’t be the same price as one in Palm Desert, Death Valley, or Palmdale. The southern California desert is vast.

Absurdist art like this makes one wonder about creative coping strategies and self-care as Trump attempts to destroy America. If the President and his administration kill us all by provoking war with Iran or China, or just destroy the planet, a pyramid in the desert could theoretically be the last thing standing when the aliens come to claim this charred, circular, floating mass we once called Earth. Perhaps the pyramid will be built and then forgotten and then revived in the future, like what happened to the Calico Ghost Town, which serves as a reminder of the days of silver mining. But what’s the environmental impact of creating such a synthetic structure in the desert?

“This structure will be built in line with all the laws our world has created,” says Maier. “I do find it curious that we don’t ask ‘why?’ or ‘how will this impact our environment?’ when a Target gets built or a million Blu-rays and iPhones get produced — all of which are destined for landfills within the eight years that it took to deliver the Jerrys to us.”

It would be, as Everything Is Terrible! says in its statement, an epic monument to America’s consumption — the same consumption and greed that could very well ruin our planet.

“The bottom line for us is that we wish to hold up this random yet beautiful object that has been deemed trash as a holy relic of our world,” says Maier. “We will build this structure, and it will insert a brief moment of absurdity and wonder in a mostly drab and terrible mess.”

Design for #JerryPyramid by Bureau Spectacular for Everything is Terrible!

Design for #JerryPyramid by Bureau Spectacular for Everything is Terrible!

Design for #JerryPyramid by Bureau Spectacular for Everything is Terrible!

Design for #JerryPyramid by Bureau Spectacular for Everything is Terrible!

Design for #JerryPyramid by Bureau Spectacular for Everything is Terrible!

Everything Is Terrible! is fundraising for its Jerry Maguire pyramid on GoFundMe.

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[jimnewberry]

Here's a #portrait I shot with the inimitable and lovely Carol Brown, flanked by @everythingisterrible666 operatives among a sea and pyramids of #VHS #Jerrys. The Jerry Maguire Store is open through January 29th, be sure to stop by...closing party Sunday night. . . . . . . #JerryPyramid #art #videohomesystem http://ift.tt/2jksUMf

[everythingisterrible]

This is a true believer! We love you Rob! Keep them sweet, sweet Canadian Jerrys flowing!

Please bring your Jerrys to an EIT! live event or mail them to PO BOX 50825, Los Angeles, CA 90050!

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Beware the media man

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Get ready for some MIND BLOWING COMPUTER GRAPHICS!

Video by Mr. Murf

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2 Minute Body and Soul

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TOM CRUISE WORSHIPS SATAN! WE HAVE PROOF!

Watch the unbelievable footage that we uncovered! Tape courtesy of weeknightrewind on IG!

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[everythingisterrible]

Denver! The Jerry Maguire Video Experience is open today! DON'T MISS THIS! Just 4 days left! 1432 Market St.

[everythingisterrible]

EIT! spring cleaning sale! Up to 50% OFF beanies and hoodies plus a new limited edition Jerry Bear beanie! Get urself something nice: https://shop.everythingisterrible.com/collections/apparel