"People who don't work with their hands are parasites" and other truisms by Jenny Holzer

[psnajder]

http://mfx.dasburo.com/art/truisms.html

[hugh]

These could be significantly improved by superimposing them over pictures of cats.

[jhancock → hugh]

I don't even now why I'm replying but to say, "I couldn't have said it better!!!" ;) where is the tiled animated cats background and the cute music?

[rgrieselhuber → hugh]

I'm thinking blinking text and a few marquis tags thrown in for good measure. Now I have a headache.

[mynameishere]

Can one of the eight people who unmodded this explain themselves?

EDIT: No, no. Quit downmodding me and explain why you upmodded that website. I'm just curious. It seems really dumb and really offtopic, both.

[DougBTX → mynameishere]

You're probably being downmodded because you wrote "unmodded" instead of "upmodded", which sounds like it means "downmodded" - reversing the meaning of your question.

Anyway, this article probably looks good to people who are looking for Truth, but don't want to spend a lot of time thinking bout it, hence bite-size truthiness. It does intrigue me that they are alphabetised...

[Prrometheus → mynameishere]

I don't get it either.

[aasarava]

For those who aren't familiar with the name, Jenny Holzer is a conceptual artist (so take these truisms with a grain of salt): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Holzer

I was first introduced to Holzer's work when I found the "Green Table" in the corner of a courtyard at UC San Diego. It's engraved with the following statement:

"IN A DREAM YOU SAW A WAY TO SURVIVE AND YOU WERE FULL OF JOY"

[MaysonL]

The horror, the horror.

The freakin after-images...

[shader]

If you need a quick fix for the terrible style, paste this in your address bar, or run it via firebug:

javascript: function f(){s=document.body.style;s.backgroundColor="white";s.color="black";s.fontSize="10pt";s.fontFamily="arial";}f();

[SwellJoe → shader]

Even better: Skip the site entirely.

I want those 38 seconds back.

[sanj]

I stopped reading after:

"a man can't know what it is to be a mother"

That's true at a precise level. But more valuable is:

"a man can know what it is to be a parent"

and I think that's a much more valuable statement.

I pretty much recall this exact discussion happening during the VP debate.

[lucraft]

Good thing I type all day then.

[bayareaguy]

Accept loss as a universal force.