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doonaldjtrump.com is an endless time capsule of the unnerving present. Created by avant garde animated gif artist Zach Scott, of ConferenceCall.biz fame (previously)
this has been running on a constant loop inside my brain since he announced his candidacy
jesus god this is getting exhausting
posted by R.F.Simpson at 10:34 AM on February 6, 2017 [5 favorites]
jesus god this is getting exhausting
posted by R.F.Simpson at 10:34 AM on February 6, 2017 [5 favorites]
DJTPTSD.
posted by mattamatic at 10:37 AM on February 6, 2017 [17 favorites]
posted by mattamatic at 10:37 AM on February 6, 2017 [17 favorites]
This is horrifying.
posted by cell divide at 10:38 AM on February 6, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by cell divide at 10:38 AM on February 6, 2017 [2 favorites]
Koyaaaaaanisnazi
posted by theodolite at 10:40 AM on February 6, 2017 [61 favorites]
posted by theodolite at 10:40 AM on February 6, 2017 [61 favorites]
I support this project and cannot stomach more than 15 seconds of it.
posted by Nelson at 11:16 AM on February 6, 2017 [13 favorites]
posted by Nelson at 11:16 AM on February 6, 2017 [13 favorites]
My work computer can't display the page. Anyone care to describe the FPP?
posted by kittensofthenight at 11:19 AM on February 6, 2017
posted by kittensofthenight at 11:19 AM on February 6, 2017
They're using the standard techniques that political negative advertising tv spots use to manipulate their viewers: ominous music, exaggerated CRT scan lines, zooming in to the target's face, carefully selected and edited sound bites …
I mean, without all that, it would just be regular… NOPE – actually it would still be scary AF.
posted by Kabanos at 11:26 AM on February 6, 2017 [2 favorites]
I mean, without all that, it would just be regular… NOPE – actually it would still be scary AF.
posted by Kabanos at 11:26 AM on February 6, 2017 [2 favorites]
Horrifying and sickening.
posted by greenhornet at 11:28 AM on February 6, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by greenhornet at 11:28 AM on February 6, 2017 [2 favorites]
My work computer can't display the page. Anyone care to describe the FPP?
A Donald Trump In Memoriam montage edited and scored by Godspeed You Black Emperor
posted by theodolite at 11:32 AM on February 6, 2017 [10 favorites]
A Donald Trump In Memoriam montage edited and scored by Godspeed You Black Emperor
posted by theodolite at 11:32 AM on February 6, 2017 [10 favorites]
ITUALIMM
aka
I threw up a little in my mouth.
posted by bricksNmortar at 11:37 AM on February 6, 2017 [2 favorites]
aka
I threw up a little in my mouth.
posted by bricksNmortar at 11:37 AM on February 6, 2017 [2 favorites]
My work computer can't display the page. Anyone care to describe the FPP?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkKOeeYko7w
NSFW
posted by humboldt32 at 11:53 AM on February 6, 2017 [2 favorites]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkKOeeYko7w
NSFW
posted by humboldt32 at 11:53 AM on February 6, 2017 [2 favorites]
There was a clip with dancing little girls and frankly an unimaginable soundtrack which was tragicomedy except for the two folks sitting four rows back who look like they wish they had the power to kill at a distance. Everyone is waving and clapping and they ain't having it. Probably had children for breakfast but at least for that moment we were on the same wavelength.
Hadn't seen ConferenceCall.biz before -- as mentioned in the previously its painfully spot on.
posted by Ogre Lawless at 12:09 PM on February 6, 2017 [1 favorite]
Hadn't seen ConferenceCall.biz before -- as mentioned in the previously its painfully spot on.
posted by Ogre Lawless at 12:09 PM on February 6, 2017 [1 favorite]
Not flashes, but lots of quick moving images at the beginning. May need a warning for epileptics.
posted by terrapin at 1:00 PM on February 6, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by terrapin at 1:00 PM on February 6, 2017 [1 favorite]
cw: that man's horrible voice on autoplay.
Not that I disagree with it as an artistic choice. Ever since I was young, and first saw newsreel footage of Hitler, I wondered why everyone said he could whip up crowds the way that he did. Even after I learned some German, I could only see ridiculous jabbering, shouting, self-serious gestures. Who would listen to an ugly man with a voice that was either a screech or a whine, making hateful and patently insane demands?
I guess I know now: my family and my neighbors.
posted by Countess Elena at 1:04 PM on February 6, 2017 [9 favorites]
Not that I disagree with it as an artistic choice. Ever since I was young, and first saw newsreel footage of Hitler, I wondered why everyone said he could whip up crowds the way that he did. Even after I learned some German, I could only see ridiculous jabbering, shouting, self-serious gestures. Who would listen to an ugly man with a voice that was either a screech or a whine, making hateful and patently insane demands?
I guess I know now: my family and my neighbors.
posted by Countess Elena at 1:04 PM on February 6, 2017 [9 favorites]
also, this thing goes on forever. look, i don't need any scare tactics to give me nightmares about the current situation. He did a great job, but the choir only need read a newspaper to get freaked the fuck out.
posted by el io at 3:01 PM on February 6, 2017
posted by el io at 3:01 PM on February 6, 2017
The exact opposite effect of that icebreaker sleep machine noisemaker thing posted last night.
posted by doctorfrog at 3:23 PM on February 6, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by doctorfrog at 3:23 PM on February 6, 2017 [2 favorites]
Hadn't seen or read anything about his 1993 testimony before the House on Indian casinos before. Worth it just for that.
He's been running this con for a long time.
posted by tallthinone at 4:11 PM on February 6, 2017 [1 favorite]
He's been running this con for a long time.
posted by tallthinone at 4:11 PM on February 6, 2017 [1 favorite]
Okay, but Donald Trump's The Wall has more Trump with better music.
posted by sfenders at 5:15 PM on February 6, 2017 [3 favorites]
posted by sfenders at 5:15 PM on February 6, 2017 [3 favorites]
I actually think this is pretty effective because Trump's native medium is cable TV. Having his on-camera moments from over the years where he's clearly doing his con/campaign schtick with the same dumb catchphrases, contrasted with the more unguarded angry clips where he's not performing on some show is pretty powerful (ie. the casino testimony). I think the choice of ominous music, randomized nature of the clips, and late-night-TV scanline vibe with the menacing pans is part of why it works. That's the low-budget free association world of Alex Jones and Trump Steaks, a stone-cold sober 'fact check' obviously doesn't have the same emotional/meme/whatever appeal. It's detournement, taking that aesthetic and turning it against itself.
Trump is so obviously obsessed with cable news, his whole world revolves around it. His own staff communicates to him via leaks because they know he will take it seriously if he sees it on the news. If his own aides are using this as a strategy to influence him, then it shows how powerful this particular artistic avenue could be. Anything that erodes his currency as an image he sees as a serious threat. We should use it against him, there is plenty of material to work with.
posted by bradbane at 9:24 PM on February 6, 2017 [4 favorites]
Trump is so obviously obsessed with cable news, his whole world revolves around it. His own staff communicates to him via leaks because they know he will take it seriously if he sees it on the news. If his own aides are using this as a strategy to influence him, then it shows how powerful this particular artistic avenue could be. Anything that erodes his currency as an image he sees as a serious threat. We should use it against him, there is plenty of material to work with.
posted by bradbane at 9:24 PM on February 6, 2017 [4 favorites]
Notlookingnotlookingnotlooking.
posted by jenfullmoon at 9:45 PM on February 6, 2017
posted by jenfullmoon at 9:45 PM on February 6, 2017
I keep looking at the US from between my fingers now, but I have to say bradbane is not far wrong.
posted by rum-soaked space hobo at 12:52 AM on February 7, 2017
I can't believe it took us this long to realize we could defeat them with an all-female reboot.This whole "Live by the sword: die by the sword" theme has so far not fallen apart. Our impotent rage and smug elitism appears to be rattling the walls of Jericho. I keep expecting it to stop working, but this culture war is not lost yet.
posted by rum-soaked space hobo at 12:52 AM on February 7, 2017
But we're losing right now, aren't we? Pretty badly, from what I can tell. So I'd argue nothing we've done or tried so far has worked, with the possible exception of whatever magical incantation let Obama happen, for certain values of "worked." We're poised now to see Roe V. Wade overturned, the EPA disbanded, an unholy alliance struck between Trump and Russia even at the very moment we're hearing new stories of horrible atrocities in Russian allied Syria, with tens of thousands of civilians tortured and murdered in secret. I'd say we're well past the point where anybody gets to pretend they know the secret formula to winning a war of ideas against the death of meaning.
posted by saulgoodman at 7:31 AM on February 7, 2017 [3 favorites]
posted by saulgoodman at 7:31 AM on February 7, 2017 [3 favorites]
Watching that made me ill. This soap opera we're all stuck in will eventually end, so lets all keep our chins up
posted by james33 at 7:18 AM on February 8, 2017
posted by james33 at 7:18 AM on February 8, 2017
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