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The masturbatory act of writing about art is just that: gross self-indulgence. Me, I’ve never had a taste for it. I mean why go to such publicly embarrassing lengths when you can just sit in the bathroom and hammer it out in privacy with a much more practical end result? So instead, for this otherwise lackluster event of releasing production stills from jackass 2.5, I have appropriated some random bio done up for the photographer Joel-Peter Witkin. With but a few simple nips and tucks-indicated in brackets-I’ve magically transposed his bullshit for mine, which really calls into question the fine line between art theory and sheer idiocy:“[Sean Cliver] is a photographer whose images of the human condition are undeniably powerful. For more than [seven] years he has pursued his interest in [absurdity] and how it impacts the physical world in which we exist. Finding beauty within the grotesque, [Cliver] pursues this complex issue through people most often cast aside by society: human spectacles including hermaphrodites, dwarfs, amputees, androgynes, carcasses, people with odd physical capabilities, and fetishists. His fascination with other people’s physicality has inspired works that confront our sense of normalcy and decency, and the resulting photographs are haunting and beautiful, grotesque yet bold in their defiance, a hideous beauty that is as compelling as it is taboo.”Fuck art, let’s dance.

Reviews: (from http://www.zeropaid.com/)
Sequel to the two-time box office hit will skip multiplexes entirely and perhaps herald a new age of online-first movie distribution.

For two weeks beginning on December 19th Paramount Digital Entertainment and MTV New Media will release “Jackass 2.5″ exclusively online courtesy of Blockbuster Inc..

The 64-minute film will be offered for free during this time and then will move to traditional distribution platforms like pay-per-view and DVD as well as Apple’s iTunes.

“The new material includes opening and closing sequences and documentary-style interviews, mainly about what did not work,” said Jeff Tremaine, director of the franchise’s movies. The movie is unrated, and both the complete version and its racier segments, when sold online, will be “age-gated,” with age-verification technology ensuring that consumers are 17 or older. (These methods, however, can be easily subverted.)

“There’s more vomiting, nudity and defecation,” one executive said, speaking more candidly than the companies involved had agreed to and on condition of anonymity. “The stuff that consumers really want.”

The online release of “Jackass 2.5″ will also apparently herald a permanent online presence for the Jackass crew who plan to regularly release new content for users of the site beginning February 9th.

“If this works, it could open up and really change the game about additional content that studios can create,” said Thomas Lesinski, president of Paramount Pictures Digital Entertainment.

Among the movie’s new bits, executives said, are “Human Golf Tee,” in which Johnny Knoxville invites a driving-range patron to hit one off a tee on Bam Margera’s crotch, and Mr. Margera firing a bazooka round in his family’s own kitchen.

Now it’s unlikely that other movie producers will be able to follow in the footsteps of the Jackass crew being that online movie distribution would be difficult to make as much profits for them as a brick and mortar cineplex, but it could be an option for smaller movie producers looking for an audience.

“We’re trying to assess here not only the potential for a broadband movie online, but also the different ways to distribute,” Mr. Lesinski said. “Within 30 days we’ll have a very good idea where the consumption is coming from.”