Milkman

Just in case you missed it first time around.

Aphex Milkman

also...an old favourite.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=75...hex+twin+window

get yer tits out!

you mean jazz band,

this also inspired his infamous 'i don't care' song in retaliation to some hate mail. it's hilarious.

Does he still do stuff?

yeah he did a datach'i video for 'the elements' that was released on the cd. it's pretty wicked. that's the newest i know of.

I found it pretty distasteful - no mean feat. It doesn't go with the song at all and certainly makes the case for David Firth being vastly overrated. The whole video is shock value. The oddest part is that the Aphex Twin song is already a twist on something innocent. It would have had a much more fucked up effect if he had juxtaposed it with something not already laced with ironic contrast, like the "Singin' in the Rain" scene in Clockwork Orange.

I've gotten over it, but it's initially really disturbing. I still don't like watching it. However, I've thought of much more fucked up things while I was depressed, so I understand the need to get that shit out. I do enjoy misanthropic, black humor, but to be effective as comedy, tact needs to be employed to balance it out.

For instance, at the end of an episode of South Park, Butters' parents believe he is a blood-feeding demon and kill a saleswoman with a shovel in front of him, then lock him in the basement with the corpse. The horror of the situation is trivialized when Butters asks "Aww...can't I just have some Speghettio's?", amplifying the humor significantly.

Edit: Despite the criticism, I do like a lot of Firth's work. Salad Fingers, Burnt Face Man, A Black And White Cartoon About Roof Tiling, and The Child That Smelt Funny are pretty good in my book. Gotta be in the mood for it though.

  hatemail said:

Subject: Milkman

This is literally the first time I've ever had a strong enough reaction to

anyone's flash cartoons on the net that I actually feel inclined to email

them, so on some level you can probably use that for some kind of grim

satisfaction.

 

First of all, it must be said that I'm of the age and background where I

have a high tolerance for a wide range of things I see on the net, going to

all sorts of extremes. It takes a fair amount to get a reaction out of me-

I'm rarely bothered by anything I see in that context, and I've seen a lot

over the last 11 years online.

 

The thing that compels me to write this email is the sheer pointless

ugliness of your "milkman" piece. I'm not bothered when people feel inclined

to use extreme imagery or shock value to make a point. However, that piece

of yours makes no point- it's the definition of pointless. What I think

bothers me the most is that this sort of thing is precisely what's wrong

with the democratization of technology like affordable personal computers

and in fact the internet itself. These things make it possible for anyone

and everyone to publish anything and have it seen by an audience

immediately, regardless of merit (or lack thereof). And now in this case, I

have to put up with it and frankly, I'm fucking fed up.

I gather that you're a university student and thus at the age where this

sort of issue is unlikely to occur to you, and I'm probably wasting time and

energy writing this as a result, but think about this:

 

What about the concept that if you're going to spend time and energy making

stuff that people are going to see (and probably a good percentage of these

people may be too young to absorb things in their proper context), perhaps

you should consider whether in fact there's any real reason for what you're

making to exist. Are you adding anything of any real value to the general

internet/cultural noise level, or just wasting bandwidth on (destructive and

pointless) crap?

 

I'm not saying that I think everything on the net has to be shiny and

sanitized- not in the least. I'm saying that, things being what they are

globally at the moment, if you're going to use violent imagery and shock

value, how about using them in service of an actual idea, rather than for

their own sake? Hollywood does enough of that already, adding to it serves

no purpose.

  response said:

In a different approach to answering hatemail I have responded to this vocally:

Listen to my response.

this made me lol for some reason.

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  response said:

In a different approach to answering hatemail I have responded to this vocally:

Listen to my response.

 

 

this made me lol for some reason.

Well that's fucking funny no matter how you cut it.

Haha... I see you guys have discovered David Firth. Excellent guy.

yea i laughed alot when i heard his response to the hate mail...its just so absurd and cocky

i dont think that video is one of firth's best. its really just disturbing and doesn't go with the song...but to each their own

Most disturbing one I've seen is maybe Spoilsbury Toast Boy or another one like that.

Morgan Dunn is that a Locust Toybox picture by any chance?

  Josso said:

Most disturbing one I've seen is maybe Spoilsbury Toast Boy or another one like that.

 

Morgan Dunn is that a Locust Toybox picture by any chance?

indeed it is. i like the way it looks and i like locust toybox so...yea...

its fucking great

  leafs said:

i didn't think it was disturbing or anything... just lame. like an 11 year old got flash.