this is my roommate todd

me on the sofa. (sorry im abit of a hoarder)

feeding my pet lunch (he's shy)

these are so great thank you lmfao

Hmm. Notice how in all these examples, real people are being paid for their work.

quickly! answer me my riddles three! are the following people artists making art:

• henry darger, when he cut up and traced magazine pages (including other people's illustrations) to make his paintings and collages
• literally any musician who has ever directly sampled someone's music to use in their own work
• a guy at home doodling on a piece of paper, for which no money has ever been paid or will be paid

"Real art is when it's the result of someone's labor-power being exchanged for currency', and other anti-capitalist takes.

most of you are too young to remember this but when photography was invented in the 1800s we had to have these exact same boring arguments for decades about it too. not me though I remember like it was yesterday. anyway im fuzzy on what happened next but i think eventually everyone pretty much decided the guy who pushed the button on the magic picture making machine was allowed to call himself an "artist” even though he personally wasn’t painting the daguerreotype onto the glass and everyone agreed this was a form of “cheating” and “theft”