thysempiternus (August 28, 2008 at 6:03 pm)

I had the oportunity to meet Mat Barney at his headquearters in LIC, NYC. I play in a death metal band and he flew my band from San Diego to NY to perform at a clandestine underground metal show/weird art expo sort of thing. He was genuinely friendly and even let my band stay at his 2 million dollar yatch. Him and Bjork are huge death metal fans. I hung out with him and his crew till sunsrise at a russian strip bar. It was a real honor meeting him.

khatmandont (August 22, 2008 at 3:29 am)

i fucking love his work, don't get me wrong, but listening to him talk is like carrying on a conversation with my 7 year old nephew. I kind of feel sorry for bjoke now

eggbertsmith (August 19, 2008 at 6:22 am)

Look, art-fans can be sheeple too! Not only people who like "Rush Hour 3" and who enjoy Britney are "sheeple"....oh no. There are art-sheep too, who cannot wait to line up and applaud anything subversive, and attach great value and meaning to even the least original garbage. But hey, if it's even just a bit "shocking", the surely it's "revolutionary", right? "breaking down walls", "brave", and "honest". Haaaaaaahaha! Art-sheep!

BloatedSensations (July 31, 2008 at 10:06 pm)

"They will attempt to destroy anything that differs from their own / not being able to create art they will not understand art / they will consider their failure as creators only as a failure of the world / not being able to love fully they will believe your love incomplete / and then they will hate you / and their hatred will be perfect / like a shining diamond / like a knife / like a mountain / like a tiger / like hemlock / their finest art" -- Bukowski

good2btheking (July 12, 2008 at 4:30 am)

Is there more to this than just art? i read somewhere that the videos for the movies were sold to collectors in glass boxes for 300 thousand dollars!! With the freemasonary undertones i am lead to believe that a message lies somehwere in this whole mess. How else can you explain the funding for a expression like this. I find his work appealing and disturbing at the same time much like life itself.

dinnerbucket9 (June 14, 2008 at 2:13 am)

Your english is far better than that of our president [ forgive me]. Anyway, what I see in Barney is an astonishing imagination, whatever the form he chooses. The strangeness is thrilling, however obsure some of his central preoccupations [ which seem connected to, you know, the generative; to the testes, sperm, forms in transition].

essexboi81 (May 27, 2008 at 7:37 pm)

wots a gaybo?

stgoramirez (May 26, 2008 at 6:19 pm)

I think that he lost during every cremaster's film the real power of cinema, wich, for me, it is to make people imagine new realities or worlds. He shows really great images from it's own imagination, but i really felt like i wasn't part of it... He creates a new world inside his imagination but don't let us get in too. For me, his work is amazing, really, but i think art shouldn't be just amazing, should be something else. Sorry about my english... it's not very good.

kirkstein (May 15, 2008 at 2:21 am)

Yeah, that petroleum jelly just screams Joseph Beuys... rip-off.

botch8949 (May 13, 2008 at 7:09 am)

is their any way i can watch the cycle? im sure its leaked somewhere