SPRING/SUMMER 2012
MAY 1ST,
MISC. — KTT
N∴O∴N — OMNIA·MIHI — N.O.N.
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SPRING/SUMMER 2012
MAY 1ST,
MISC. — KTT
The album cover of Power, Corruption & Lies by New Order symbolizes both the old æsthetics, like the roses of Henri Fantin-Latour and the new minimalist, postmodern art. This is what the movement stands for.
The KTT Æsthetic Movement is an artistic and cultural movement on Kanye To The. Its main goal is to create æsthetic harmony and balance on KTT based on a set of æsthetic rules, ideals and theories.
One theory is that KTT functions as an online salon, a place where Parisian artists and intellectuals gathered and exhibited and discussed art, æsthetics and entertainment; the user can create and curate their own content. For example, I experience KTT this way, my threads could be see as performance art, a happening or installation. My friends here might not by as arty as me, but they respect my interests and we discuss these highbrow things and others in a highly intellectual fashion. We might as well be sitting together at a table of a crowded, smoky salon listening to each other’s stories.
The next topic are the threads themselves, the Movement encourages more highbrow, artistic, intellectual, æsthetical threads, however this is by no means the de facto rule, as when you look behind the art, the design, the architecture and mathematics, all you get is this: another plan to revive the quality of KTT, Misc. in particular.
Make random threads, but try to find interesting subjects, one example could be to browse Wikipedia. I visit it way too often and for instance all my sexual G&G threads can be traced back to Wikipedia. It can lead you to bizarre articles on various topics with rich descriptions of valuable comedic material.
This can all be seen as a movement, a group (yet no club or crew), where everyone can be a part of. But you have to be interested in this life, you can’t just simply pledge allegiance and then continue to be your same ignorant self. But the concept is, everyone is welcome and the movement will grow and like in real life we will become the elitist, snobby upper-class.
Named after the 19th century æsthetes we take pride in making art for art’s sake. And one important thing is, we rather have you making a thread about nothing in an experimental way, than that you make a thread about e.g. architecture but in the most conventional way. The things you can do with words … you can make beautiful prose, or you can make a crazy Dadaist poem; lyrical delirium is one of our most prized techniques.
The KTT Æsthetic Movement is not one particular style, but rather the appreciation and emulation of all styles of genii, preferably combined.