KLF UNSUPERVISED

  A Kunt Commentary article from Kunts Live Forever. By Rose Baxter Perfect is easy to understand. It sits where it is supposed to sit. The colors match. The edges are clean. Nobody has to stare at it for ten seconds trying to figure out what the hell they’re looking at. And that is probably why perfect gets boring so fast. Give me something slightly wrong instead. A painting with proportions that feel strange. A house that looks like nobody has opened the curtains since 1974. A ridiculous roadside attraction. An ugly little ceramic animal at a thrift store that absolutely should not cost twelve dollars but somehow needs to come home with you. That stuff sticks. Not because it is beautiful in the traditional sense. Because it makes your brain stop walking in a straight line. Weird Makes You Pay Attention Most of the world is designed to be understood immediately. Stores want you to know where to walk. Apps want you to know where to click. Advertising wants you to recognize the prod...

  Originally published as part of Kunt Commentary by Kunts Live Forever. By Rose Baxter Anybody can start with a monster. I think it’s more interesting to start with a Tuesday staff meeting and figure out how to ruin it. Although calling anything around KLF a traditional “staff meeting” might be generous. Kunts Live Forever is still a very small operation. I’m here in Alabama, my daughter Violet works with me here, Chad is in Ohio, and my daughter Alyssa...better known around here as Ultra Kunt... provides an impressive amount of unsolicited creative fuel despite not technically being on payroll. Alyssa is also an asshole. I say that lovingly. Mostly. Ideas get thrown around, something completely normal gets mentioned, somebody says something ridiculous, and ten minutes later I’m wondering whether it belongs on a shirt. That pretty much explains how some of the stranger ideas at Kunts Live Forever happen. I don’t usually sit down and think, Today I’m going to make something weird....