watch the FLOMM trailer!
@FLOMMUS threads! FLOMM instagram! FLOMM facebook! buy us a coffee

THE BATTLE FOR MODeRN 1923


  chunks of flommus 

SUBSCRIBE!  FEEDLY     RSS     EMAIL 

ennui antenna

No, I don’t have cute or pret­ty im­ages to share here, al­though there is a pletho­ra of these things; uni­corns in­clud­ed. Iron­ic, con­sid­er­ing I’m a graph­ic de­sign­er and artist.

In­stead, I’m shar­ing here the residue of a con­ver­sa­tion I just had with a young woman; one who has a keen and car­ing heart for this world. She ex­pressed to me a deep, al­most tear­ful, frus­tra­tion that her friends, her gen­er­a­tion does not want to talk about the pol­i­tics of our times or “how we got here.”

It’s de­press­ing to them,” was her lament. 

Maybe I’m a sen­si­tive an­ten­na to this fre­quen­cy of angst, yet I do read about, and hear this ennui’s great prevalence.

Some­how, some way, we have to in­cite more care for what is go­ing on around us with­in those now com­ing into their own adult ex­is­tences. Oth­er­wise, the ap­a­thy is go­ing to un­der­mine our progress. Don’t think so? 

Have you kept track of the grow­ing dystopi­an movies, tv shows and video games? There’s a rea­son the me­dia finds suc­cess with scan­dalous and wretched things tran­spir­ing. These ex­cess­es of may­hem and the dis­traught just adds to a con­flict­ed sense of rage and ap­a­thy. These ex­tremes may feel good, much like it’s sat­is­fy­ing to ‘scratch-that-itch,’ in the mo­ment, yet the scars from the ex­ces­sive ag­i­ta­tions will be per­ma­nent and mu­tate into some­thing can­cer­ous. Will we rec­og­nize our­selves anymore?

Is the sce­nario of this young woman’s angst dire? Lis­ten care­ful­ly, this young woman’s plaint is ex­act­ly what many young peo­ple are FEEL­ING; many are look­ing for es­cape and avoid­ance be­cause there’s a lack of ef­fec­tive lead­er­ship – in the macro and mi­cro of their lives – and with a will­ing­ness to change.

What will it take for the many of us to get deeply pas­sion­ate about how our ex­is­tences are de­fined? Feel­ing the angst yet?

Em­brace it and let it mo­ti­vate you and those around you.
 
 

—eric ward

Flom­mist Eric Ward is a Hu­man Los An­geli­no (there are oth­er kinds), hu­man­ist, artist, in­dus­tri­al and graph­ic de­sign­er, nov­el­ist, toy in­ven­tor and en­tre­pre­neur. Life-long pur­suit is “What to do with a piece of pa­per?” Copy­right © 2018 Eric Ward. Pic­tured: George Grosz, Wid­mung an Os­kar Paniz­za (cropped), 1917–18, source.

read en l’ordre cronológi­co

· · ·  a pre­vi­ous post
A NEXT POST  • • •
sub­se­cuente

shar­ing ist nice



PLEASE   SUPPORT   FLOMM
TIPS  +  DONATIONS  DISCREETLY  ACCEPTED

FLOMM
promotes learning  +  education worldwide
drawing attention to works by nü  +  upcoming artists,
designers, writers, musicians  +  MOR

OUR INVOLVEMENT
– however –
is mostly paid for out of pocket or in trade

IF YOU ENJOY
wat  FLOMM  is doing here, please consider


1.   LEAVE US A TIP  :
use our tip jar whenever the mood hits



2.   BUY OUR SWAG  :
our approach is semi-green —
                all our  FLOMMHAUS  merch is made to order




3.   HELP US OUT  :
use our hashtags  #flomm  #flommus  #whereisflomm  #nüflommart  #flommist
when posting on ur socials —
or drop us a note and offer to help in some way
everything we do is on a volunteer basis —
             when we say  YOU CAN BE A FLOMMIST TOO  this is wat we mean


THANK YOU
your support helps our continued efforts
to create content across numerous platforms

clic 「 HIER   」 to return to the DER TUNG front page

 

 

 
Der Tung
Posted
Tue 14 Aug 2018

    FLOMM is   an educational MODERN ART movement   •  art history resource
                                                         •  that promotes learning thru nü  • •  alternative medía  • • •

FLOMM is a Trademark of Steve Mehallo, Sacramento California USA. Copyright © Steve Mehallo. Call the FLOMM Answering Machine at +1 (916) 741 2394. FLOMM IS A SUPPORTER OF NON-VIOLENT ARTS EDUCATION.

flomm social media may contain explicit content foul language, questionable ideas, and art


    Contact:

    Required*