Look! A kitten! At Motto!

[imomus]

(Assumes David Shrigley-esque voice). Things that are popular on the internet:

1. Naked attractive people.
2. Cute kittens, jumping.
3. Opportunities to call strangers "asshole" and "douchebag".
....

89,374. The sort of things that Momus writes about on his blog, like arty bookshops in Berlin.

As a matter of fact I was planning to write today

Comments

[anonymous]

It's a shame that nearly all black pen line drawing (and anything handwritten in capital letters) these days gets referred back to the Great God Shrigley, as if he is the only possible reference point, no-one had ever done such a thing before and he was shot down to earth to educate us in the ways of line n' joke. There's obviously a sense to it because he has been so -oh god I have to say that word- influential, but Isabelle Boinot's work looks like a lot of other work (esp. in contemporary illustration) before it looks like his. For an example see the Neil Fox illustration accompanying the Amis book review in your beloved Guardian today. Boinot's stuff is not really my bag, but there is a quality to it, and a different precision and labour behind the knowing naiivity than Shrigley's. And the all important humour element is not off-the cuff a-la DS, that being the thing that -whether or not you enjoy his humour of course- sets him apart from any disciples and copyists. But there are also aesthetic neighbours, and those caught in the

[imomus]

Isabelle Boinot's work looks like a lot of other work (esp. in contemporary illustration) before it looks like his. For an example see the Neil Fox illustration accompanying the Amis book review in your beloved Guardian today.

Here's Fox, followed by Shrigley and Boinot:

[anonymous]

the subject matter is similar, the approach and style is very different.

[anonymous]

sorry, I mean between Shrigley and Boinot. I wouldn't think of DS if I saw that drawing alone, or a series of her drawings like that one. Of course it depends on the examples chosen, but I would place Fox and Boinot closer than Shrigely with either.

[anonymous]

twenty fifth!!!1!

[imomus]

Hey, for an art/design post that's titanic, they usually get 8 max. It can't all be the cat.

[anonymous]

yr moms titanic and usualy takes 8 max.... lulz

[anonymous]

Momus, who do you think did good work or even their best work in their fifties? I can think of novelists, but precious few musicians, and even fewer pop musicians. Scott Walker, maybe.

[anonymous]

(and even then, he only made one album in his fifties)

[anonymous]

Mozart's Requiem was peak material.

Please move on to illustrated collabs.

[anonymous]

dylan's done some good albums in his later period.

[count_vronsky]

Oh momus. You need to take your kitten playing skills to the NXTLVL. Paper and bits of string are so bourgeois. Next time you go in that store take with you a laser pointer, an air-horn, a bullwhip, and a large bucket of water.

Oh momus, if only Click Opera weren't ending I could teach you ways to play with a kitten that would BLOW YOUR MIND!

[imomus]

You still have eight days! It can't be that elaborate...

[count_vronsky]

elaborate? Let's just say that it includes, among other things: bear grease, hang gliders, clown makeup, helicopters, three large cylinders of copper wire and nipple clamps. And that is just phase one.

Not to mention that this could get you arrested in eight different states and possibly executed in the southern regions of Mexico!

[count_vronsky]

Momus Barney?

Chat Roulette.

[anonymous]

Have you seen/experienced this yet? http://www.chatroulette.com

Re: Chat Roulette.

[microworlds]

I THINK I WOULD DROP DEAD OF A HEART ATTACK IF I EVER GOT MOMUS AS ONE OF THE RANDOM PEOPLE ONLINE. SERIOUSLY. I EXPECT P33NS, I WOULD NEVER EXPECT MOMUS AS MY STRANGER.