Internal Trends: 300% Increase in Use of Middle Finger This Week Alone!

by Art Fag City on July 18, 2007 · 2 comments Events

Corey Arnold, Swans are Evil, 2003

Corey Arnold, Swans are Evil, 2003

I’m not going to suggest a larger external trend of increased middle finger use simply because I’ve happened to notice a few around here lately, but I will say we’ve seen an increase around these parts. Between Even Roth’s AFC special (a response to our less than positive review of the piece The White Glove Tracking,) our Fresh Link to the work of Corey Arnold (seen above), and Gawker’s Emily Gould’s vanity photo, it’s safe to say a rich culture of “fuck you” expression in the form of the finger exists. Now if only the web could harness this power. Rhizome commission anybody?

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tom July 27, 2007 at 3:50 pm

This image by Corey Arnold seems to be a rip-off of Chinese photographers’ Ai Wei Wei’s work: http://www.aapmag.com/53features1image1.html

tom July 27, 2007 at 11:50 am

This image by Corey Arnold seems to be a rip-off of Chinese photographers’ Ai Wei Wei’s work: http://www.aapmag.com/53features1image1.html

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