This Week’s Greatest Thing Ever: Kanye’s Tweets + New Yorker Cartoons
August 11th, 2010 Posted in Around the WebI remember immediately liking Kanye West when his first CD arrived. The single “Jesus Walks” sounded new and inventive, breathing fresh life into a surprisingly resilient musical genre that bordered dangerously close to growing stale and repetitive.
Over time, it was gradually revealed that Kanye was kind of a jerk, in the self-centered egomaniacal mold.
Talented, but yuck. That is: Perfect for the Twitterverse.
Since we’re in the Age of the Mash-up — for example, I recently praised the randomized pairing of Neitzsche quotes with Bill Keane’s Family Circus comics, called “The Nietzsche Family Circus” — it seemed almost predictable that some creative body would combine Kanye’s tweets with actual New Yorker cartoons.
Enjoy the postmodern meta-meta absurdity. Here’s a few to get you started . . .
The people who deserve all the credit can be found at #KanyeNewYorkerTweets (sorry, having trouble with the link).