{"id":7080,"date":"2011-06-10T13:22:38","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T20:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/?p=7080"},"modified":"2011-06-10T13:36:06","modified_gmt":"2011-06-10T20:36:06","slug":"write-like-a-pretentious-artist-the-arty-bollocks-generator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2011\/06\/10\/write-like-a-pretentious-artist-the-arty-bollocks-generator\/","title":{"rendered":"Write Like a Pretentious Artist!  The Arty Bollocks Generator!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7081\" style=\"width: 305px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/WernerHerzog.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7081\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7081\" title=\"WernerHerzog\" src=\"\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/WernerHerzog-295x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"295\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/WernerHerzog-295x300.jpg 295w, https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/WernerHerzog.jpg 710w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 295px) 100vw, 295px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7081\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">German film director, Werner Herzog.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>If you simply must hang your work in a gallery, then here is the tool you&#8217;ll need to make just the right impression on your viewing public: <a href=\"http:\/\/10k.aneventapart.com\/Uploads\/262\/\">The Arty Bollocks Generator<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;ll flawlessly create your entire artist&#8217;s statement for any truly serious and irreproachably artistic endeavor.<\/p>\n<p>Some samples:\u00a0 <em>&#8216;My work explores the relationship between the tyranny of ageing and skateboard ethics.&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;As shifting phenomena become frozen through emergent and personal  practice, the viewer is left with a statement of the limits of our  world.&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Please be serious, donate to a charity, write a manifesto, and for god&#8217;s sake go to a gallery for some bloody education!\u00a0 Then take yourself to see a fine German movie&#8230; film, I meant &#8216;film.&#8217;\u00a0 Okay?<\/p>\n<p>Now <a href=\"http:\/\/10k.aneventapart.com\/Uploads\/262\/#\">get going<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And for further sublime examples of pretentious statement-making, try <a href=\"http:\/\/roguefilmschool.com\/\">Werner Herzog&#8217;s film school<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you simply must hang your work in a gallery, then here is the tool you&#8217;ll need to make just the right impression on your viewing public: The Arty Bollocks Generator. It&#8217;ll flawlessly create your entire artist&#8217;s statement for any truly serious and irreproachably artistic endeavor. Some samples:\u00a0 &#8216;My work explores the relationship between the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[138,1497],"tags":[2510,354,362,1924],"class_list":["post-7080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazing-things","category-funny-2","tag-art","tag-gallery","tag-herzog","tag-statement"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7080"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7084,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7080\/revisions\/7084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}