The Cranky Media Guy

Artist Updates Warhol’s and Duchamp’s Theories - PR.com

When I started to read this press release, I thought it was a lame (and potentially dangerous) publicity stunt on the part of an artist who feels he hasn’t gotten enough attention for his work.  As I read further, however, I began to see it as a brilliant piece of satire on contemporary American society.

This is the line I liked the best:

“Technology and the Internet has allowed fame to be experienced at homeopathic levels.”

Overlooking the fact that it should say “have” rather than “has,” that’s a pretty funny and insightful sentence.  I assume the reference is to the homeopathic concept that the more diluted a substance is, the more powerful it is (this is refuted by mainstream science, by the way).  It’s a funny line, in any case.