{"id":937,"date":"2008-06-21T01:31:16","date_gmt":"2008-06-21T09:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godammit.com\/?p=937"},"modified":"2008-06-21T01:31:16","modified_gmt":"2008-06-21T09:31:16","slug":"advanced-hating-102","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/advanced-hating-102\/","title":{"rendered":"Advanced Hating 102"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s worthy Object of Hatred is New York photographer Ryan McGinley. He is famous for his photos of naked young people, frolicking in the woods or whatever he wants them to do. \u00a0 His subjects are often his group of supercool friends, a la Nan Goldin, but more detached and pointless. He has gone from self-described skater kid to acclaimed bigtime Hipster.<\/p>\n

It’s not just that I hate his work or that he’s a friend of Hipster Faux-Artist Dash Snow. It’s his clothes, which he eagerly describes in self-aggrandizing detail in Vice Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For example, in the photo above, McGinley notes that he’s wearing Robert Mapplethorpe’s leather pants. Oh my, that is cool, right? Or is it sickening? Later, when you learn that they were a “gift” from Jack Walls, an old black guy who was one of Mapplethorpe’s favorite models, one can assume that McGinley is quite the opportunist. And one is not any happier when McGinley says of a \u00a0 t-shirt, “If you’re Japanese, you probably collect this shit.”<\/p>\n

After you’ve seen and read about his wardrobe, Ryan McGinley<\/a> leaves you with the bad taste of rotten Hipster in your mouth. You may even look at your own Converse shoes a little suspiciously.<\/p>\n

I hate Ryan McGinley and now you can, too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"