I am up
at 3 am
on a Tuesday (actually Wednesday)
writing an entire chapter on Laibach
for an academic paper which will be submitted, for credit, at an Ivy League school.

Not sure if I am winning or losing.

I even went to the city of Laibach, aka Ljubljana, Slovenia last year

I think the hilarity of this is lost on many, but certainly not the metal heads of obner.

in a nutshell...I will let Zizek do the talking
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BZl8ScVYvA

this is the greatest thing they did. I am quoting myself (lol):

http://paragonanubis.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/statue-1.jpg

"Perhaps the most bombastic critical gesture of the NSK was the 1987 submission of a poster to a National competition to promote the Yugoslavian Youth Day. The celebration, of great national importance, was to celebrated on Marshall Tito's birthday in Belgrade that same year. The NSK poster featured a strong, blonde man upholding a torch and bearing the Yugoslavian emblem, perched triumphantly on a peak. The NSK submission won the competition and was distributed nationally. It was later revealed that the poster an almost identical remake of 1936 Nazi propaganda poster. Only the flag and party symbols were altered (fig 1). This perfect execution of overrelation split open the very gap discussed above. The state’s celebration of iconography associated with such a dark period in European history raised “a series of questions about Yugoslav political reality, its ideals and their symbolic representation.”

Well, love 'em or hate 'em, you gotta admit Nazis really did make great posters.

you could literally get an entire grad degree in fascist art

Oh yeah, all their propaganda was top notch.

Here's an interesting artifact...
http://observatory.designobserver.com/e ... ntry=24358

lol... it all looks a bit dated. Bauhaus actually was always better and the nazis hated it for their idea of slickness.

photography, like Riefenstahl, was something else. that really was top notch.

that's bc they shut the Bauhaus down and stole all their shit

Hitler and Himmler knew what was up with art. Speer was an architect.

Then all of the Bauhaus greats came to the US, putting us on the map, art wise

that's literally the lineage of abstract expressionism. right there.

I finally found the Laibach documentary in English. I can't speak for it, I have not seen it...but here's the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDMK4kW-WGY

My two favorites:

what's funny is I have quoted their lyrics and commented on their videos but I always turn the music off. haha.