So jealous, Krystal, so jel.

Here’s to you, Random High School Classmate.

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We already have a headache from just reading that title.

I mean, oh, hello!  And welcome to another installment of the Museum’s Art is Dead meme, showcasing how although art is obviously very alive and well (is it?), art might actually be dead.

Today we showcase a Facebook Page called, (not-)appropriately, Art is Dead that is looking to help the “artist” community of Eugene, Oregon.

Their Facebook Page description reads:

The Art is Dead Gallery was created to help promote all local artist in the area. Our vision is to bring back art and creativity to the community. The Art is Dead Gallery was created by our featured artist Richard Ryan Azar. Original art has become an endangered species, our plan is to flood the streets with quality inspirational art. If you are interested in purchasing any of our featured art or looking to become a featured artist on our page please contact us via email: ryanazar@hotmail.com, or lane55tank@yahoo.com. phone 541-852-5499

Is a Facebook Page Art Gallery an effective way of “flooding the streets with quality… art” because it uses the POWER OF SOCIAL NETWORKING (RAWWWRRR!!!) to increase awareness and understanding for the objectives of this local artist community trying to ‘make a difference’?

Or does this just add even more suck to the art community’s already overwhelming amount of suck?

Bonus question: Do you like art?

2nd bonus question: On a scale from 1 to 10, how much do you think the Artifacts of Modernity Online Museum also contributes to this ‘global suck’ we described above?

How we expect Facebook to look in a couple more weeks down the road…

Social networking subconsciously warps our minds to feel love and appreciation in instantaneous technological ways by “notifying” us when we’re “poked” or our walls are written on or are re-tweeted.

So someone out at the tech company Arc90 had the genius idea of creating a prototype for an app that helps balance all the pseudo-love-on-demand-ness by informing us of the flip side.

We sincerely hope this iPhone app is released soon and that every smartphone user is contractually forced to download this.

(Source: laughingsquid)

In case the News isn’t sad enough as it is… way to deliver us all such depressing truths, The Onion.

Oh, wait.

(Until now, the Curators didn’t realize that there were still humans out there roaming the earth who are unfamiliar with what The Onion / satirical news is… #ignoranceisbliss)

(Also, way to repost such “sad news” on your Facebooks)

(Unless these postings are actually post-ironic, where all of these Facebook users know well what The Onion is and thus are trying to play The Onion’s own game here… oh god… make 2011 stop please I have a headache)

(via literallyunbelievable)

Ahoy and ahum, we bring you Museum-goers today to Hamburg, Germany where a planned Sweet 16 party with a Facebook Event created for it turned into a true postpostmodern “only in 2011” spectacular when she forgot to check off “closed” or “private” event.

…Leaving the Facebook Event as an “open event” resulted in over 15,000 random people RSVP’ing on Facebook.  And despite the event being “cancelled” and a Facebook message telling people not to come, approximately 1500 partygoers arrived at the girl’s home regardless.  This resulted in a beautiful barrage of merriment, police involvement, arrests, love-making, injuries, gift-bearing and more bliss.

Here’s some footage and more commentary on this delightfully wild tale (via DailyMail UK):

A German teenager fled from her own birthday party after more than 1,500 guests turned up, shortly followed by 100 police officers.

The girl, identified only as Thessa, went into hiding after forgetting to set her party as ‘private’ on Facebook meaning she got a lot more than she bargained for.

Eleven people were temporarily detained by officers and one policeman was injured.

Despite public announcements across the city that the party had been cancelled, 1,500 teens and young adults still turned up on the street in front of Thessa’s home.

Mr Streiber said: ‘We had cordoned off the house, some 100 police were on the ground, four of them on horses - but that did not keep the kids from celebrating.’

Some of the partygoers held signs asking ‘Where is Thessa?’ chanting ‘Thessa, celebrating a birthday is not a crime’, while others brought birthday presents and homemade cupcakes.

Once police officer was slightly injured when he tried to stop a party reveller from breaking the Mercedes-Benz logo from his patrol car.

Thessa, however, was nowhere to be seen and police confirmed she ‘was not at home that night’ and she is believed to have celebrated quietly at her grandparents’ house.

One partygoer even wrote a song in Thessa’s honour and used it to soundtrack his coverage of the event on his YouTube channel, available below. 

(We have no interest in embedding the youtube video mentioned above… if you’ve actually become so invested in this news story that you want to see it, consult the original article found here)

“S that D… shut it down” - Liz Lemon

Facebook status updates: where the truths of humanity are set free

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Presenting the new name for our exhibit on Social Networking, “Here at the altar of loneliness.”

At least we still have poetry…

(Source: peterwknox)

Presenting one of the best Facebook pages that exists thanks to the “everytime-you-add-an-interest-it-becomes-a-page” policy they have going on.

Best part?  It has over 37,000 founds.

Say it loud, say it proud… #We Are Mediocrity.

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WLOS ABC 13 out of Ashville, North Carolina responds quite perfectly to what can be discussed at their online “townhall” discussion via their Facebook page.

Kudos to you, random news outlet.

(via fuckyeahdementia)