Re: Dump.fm — 'I don't get it' guy
Ripps believes this shared image searching of world wide web junk is a salvaging of Internet memories. It’s acknowledging an emotional idealism to online pasts, like his own as a nine-year-old in an AOL chatroom.
“It didn’t really matter what the conversation was, but the novelty that someone on the other side of the earth was sharing that with you” was what made it special, Ripps explains.
Metro - Gems from web junkyard
Defaults: Using MS Paint to make images
Rea McNamara: How did you discover Dump.fm? What has it brought to your web art making?
Jeanette Hayes: I don't really consider myself a net artist, I just really enjoy net art. Im a painter IRL and dump lets me have a hand in net art without having to declare myself as anything officially. I have a few tumblrs and I've worked on a few sites- which is how I became friends with Ryder, but I'm more of an appreciator at this point trying to use internet imagery to expand on my painting. Ryder showed me Dump when it was first beginning and when it was way different and I've watched it build up and I just think it's one of the most exciting new things on the internet, so it's what I do.
Gmail - Re: Dump.fm, 'I don't get it' d00d - rea.mcnamara@gmail.com
HOWL 2.0
For Fixoid
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I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by
tumblr, blogging hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the 4chan threads at dawn
looking for some tranny dicks,
angelheaded hipsters burning for the facebook heavenly
connection to the starry dynamo in the machin-
ery of night,
who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat
up smoking in the supernatural darkness of
lcd screens floating across the tops of desks
contemplating gifs,
RM: Could you elaborate further on how you found "I Don't Get It" guy, and how that's become a Dump.fm phenomenon?
JH: I dont get it guy started a few months ago because I truly sometimes just dont get it. Often when you're communicating with images, especially in the beginning I would put a lot of meaning behind some images that were posted- and at times I got too in my head trying to figure why one image was placed next to another and just didnt get it. When you google "i dont get it" nothing great comes up, but on the 2nd page you find this guy with the lol caption "not going to happen":
So, i took him, photoshopped "i don't get it" and I dont get it guy was born. Since then the dump community has been trying its hardest to help him understand it- to "get it", but with no avail. I dont get it guy it seems has been all over the world, met every celebrity, been photoshopped on every kind of animal and food, but he's still having a hard time grasping "it".
Don't ask what "it" is either, because as the user Fixoid would say, "that's too much concept".
Gmail - Re: Dump.fm, 'I don't get it' d00d - rea.mcnamara@gmail.com
RM: Could you talk about the excitement in the visual conversation, and how you think that might (or might not) cross-over into the mainstream?
JH: I spend my entire life on the computer- while I'm doing whatever I'm doing- working, in class, painting and I think it''s a generational thing- we all do this. We're versed in image searching and surfing sites and blogs. Before dump, for me this was a very internal, personal experience, but now my entire internet lifestyle has shifted. When I check my email, and google reader, I also go in dump. Anything I like in my reader I share in dump and see what everyone else is looking at. When dump starts getting busy (this usually happens around midnight) it's on. People race to manipulate whatever the topic is that night or find images that comment on whatever is relevant. Last night a big topic was 'what is relevant'. But again, I dont get it guy interrupted because that is far too much concept.
There is something to be said for the collective surf. We can all explore the depths of secret online sites that no one has ever paid any attention to. But it's not until you take an image of an alien from this such site and dump it that someone will make it dance with a britney spears .gif and completely change what you were originally thinking about this picture or site. It's a brand new medium to work with and I think anytime you can shift the way one thinks or looks at something there is some substantial behind it.
Dump could easily transfer over into the mainstream- everyone that tries it really enjoys it and can't help but to stay on and dump for long amounts of time. I do believe the loss of a strong community will shift the site heavily, but of course that is to be expected and something new will grow from masses of people using it at once.
Gmail - Re: Dump.fm, 'I don't get it' d00d - rea.mcnamara@gmail.com
