Court Painter is celebrated by his fervent admirers as a fiery fringe visionary in the sprawling, chaotic arena of contemporary culture—a satirical maverick persistently overshadowed by mainstream yuk yuks with their tribes of scribes and jokey writers , well-funded platforms, and AI-crafted visuals.
Let it be unequivocally stated: Court Painter shuns AI in his image creation. Every CP masterpiece is painstakingly forged and meticulously handcrafted from his studio’s digital foundry, which perpetually glows with the searing intensity of his prodigious product production. For the uninitiated, this alchemical process is sometimes known as portrait sittings. It must be noted, AI is employed sparingly and solely for textual input, courtesy of the inimitable resident scribe, Chatterley Groaner Persnickety Thunderbuns (ChatGPT).
Anyway this leads us to an excellent article exploring the themes of mainstream & fringe.
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Mainstream Is Now Fringe, and Fringe Is Mainstream
The current state of media is total anarchy
| TED GIOIA DEC 18 |
The fringe will take over other spheres of the culture. It’s starting with journalism, but the same thing will soon happen in music, movies, and other fields.
- I predict that, in the very near future, a single individual (or small indie team) will compete head-to-head with major record labels—and defeat them decisively in the marketplace. All you need is 50 million YouTube (or TikTok) subscribers and you can blow Universal Music out of the water.
- The movie business will be harder for freelancers—because films cost so much to make. But new AI tools will change that. Somebody sitting in their parents’ basement will soon be able to make a hit movie.
- The same will be true of video games. Individual creators will leverage new tech, and compete against the current industry leaders.
- New York book publishers still have prestige, but bestselling authors don’t need them anymore. Taylor Swift bypassed the whole publishing industry with her new book, and many others will soon do the same.
Yes, 2024 was tumultuous for participants in the culture business. But 2025 will look like total anarchy.
The rules have changed—and that means the rulers must also change. I’m not sure who will end up on top, but it won’t be the familiar names from the past.
