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Loving the Loves of Your Loves

2021-12-01 · review / recommendation · John · 3:52 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Pop culture · mode: Advice & reviews · tags: self promotion

In a surprise Wednesday bonus video, John says loving the loves of your loves is a source of joy and connection, then celebrates Sarah's collage poems made from old women's magazines: their double meanings, old imagery made contemporary, kinship with Corita Kent and humor, now sold as charity note cards.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Surprise bonus video; loving the loves of your loves; Sarah's collages

  • ★ John calls this a special surprise bonus video on a Wednesday that he might delete later. (playful) — 00:00:00

  • ★★★ John says being a fan of things, especially things made by people you care about, is one of life's great pleasures: loving the loves of your loves brings joy and connection. — 00:00:00

    “Loving the loves of your loves”

  • ★★ Over the last year Sarah has been making collages, and John loves them. — 00:00:00 · Sarah Urist Green, Sarah Urist Green's collage poems

00:00:29 — Reading Sarah's collage poems: 'it works', old imagery made contemporary, Corita Kent, natural versus artificial

  • ★★ Sarah combs through old magazines, many marketed to women in the 1960s and 1970s, and takes images and words from them to form collage poems. — 00:00:29 · Sarah Urist Green, Sarah Urist Green's collage poems
  • ★★ Over a woman spinning through the air, the phrase 'it works' fascinates John: it can mean effective or effortful, and acrobatics of all kinds are wondrous and terrifying, as now feels. — 00:00:58 · Sarah Urist Green's collage poems
  • ★★★ John says the more you look at Sarah's collage poems, the more interesting they get, which is his favorite experience with art. — 00:01:27 · Sarah Urist Green's collage poems, Sarah Urist Green
  • ★★ The collages use old imagery yet are utterly contemporary: an old Nikon lens holding the bar from a famous Manet painting becomes a face reflected in a camera lens, as in selfies and face unlock. — 00:01:27
  • ★ John notes Sarah made a fascinating Art Assignment video about that painting and why it is art-historically significant. — 00:01:27 · Sarah Urist Green, The Art Assignment
  • ★★ Sarah's collages remind John of Sister Corita Kent's Alphabet series of collages around each letter, such as E, which quotes Camus on loving one's country and justice. — 00:01:56 · Sarah Urist Green
  • ★★★ Like Kent's work, John finds Sarah's collages beautiful, ethically challenging and interesting to ponder, as where the natural meets the artificial and the unbuyable meets the buyable. — 00:02:26 · Sarah Urist Green's collage poems, Sarah Urist Green

00:02:55 — Funny collages, P4A perks now sold as DFTBA note cards for charity, Instagram, magic can be small; sign-off

In the description and comments

  • ★★ A description update says the cards sold out but can be preordered, shipping at the end of December. — video description

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Mentioned

Central: Sarah Urist Green · Sarah Urist Green's collage poems

Also: People: Albert Camus · Corita Kent

Projects: DFTBA Records · Project for Awesome · The Art Assignment

Works: A Bar at the Folies-Bergère

Organizations: Instagram

Concepts: Fandom · selfie

Only in the description or credits: Édouard Manet

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