Art for No One

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Where there’s a desert, that changes everything, as if earth hadn’t wanted to fill only her own need. | GET THE JACOB GELLER BOOK: https://www.lostincult.co.uk/howagamelives Watch this video on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/jacob-geller-art-for-no-one Merch: https://store.nebula.app/collections/jacob-geller Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jacobgellervideos Twitter: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Listen to the Something Rotten podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6IwFIGcSlhbFLaTsOqf7a8?si=f67e7ad225a14792 Cover of “Va” by Emily Hopkins: https://youtu.be/qxYF8oDn6_M?si=bCFgEFtmQ672egKw *Sources* City: Triple Aught Foundation: http://www.tripleaughtfoundation.org/ “Nevada’s proposed national monument…” Brean, 2015: https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/local-nevada/nevadas-proposed-national-monument-full-of-artwork-undisturbed-land/ “A Monument to Outlast Humanity” Goodyear, 2016: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/08/29/michael-heizers-city “Polyneuropathy,” Rubin 2024: https://www.merckmanuals.com/home/brain,-spinal-cord,-and-nerve-disorders/peripheral-nerve-and-related-disorders/polyneuropathy “Onward and Upward with the Arts,” Calvin Tomkins, 1972: https://archives.newyorker.com/newyorker/1972-02-05/flipbook/042/ “In Nevada, a monument to violence built on stolen land,” Ahtone, 2022: https://grist.org/culture/land-art-megasculpture-built-stolen-indigenous-land-nevada-city-heizer/ “Michael Heizer,” Gagosian: https://gagosian.com/artists/michael-heizer/ “It Was a Mystery in the Desert for 50 Years,” Kimmelman, 2022: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/08/19/arts/design/michael-heizer-city.html Nazca: “Lines and Geoglyphs of Nasca and Palpa,” Unesco: https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/700/ “Nazca Lines,” Britannica: https://www.britannica.com/place/Nazca-Lines “No Place Compares to the Unrelenting Lifelessness..,” Bland, 2013: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/no-place-compares-to-the-unrelenting-lifelessness-of-perus-sechura-desert-810663/ “Flooding and tourism threaten Peru's mysterious Nazca Lines,” Meghji 2004: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/flooding-and-tourism-threaten-peru-s-mysterious-nazca-lines-553471.html Helfrecht: “Alone Together,” Aristotle Roufanis: https://aristotle.photography/ “Plexus,” Helfrecht, 2023: https://void.photo/plexus Goya: “Goya,” Hughes 2003 “Los Goya: de la Quinta a Burdeos y vuelta,” Junquera 2003: https://xn--archivoespaoldearte-53b.revistas.csic.es/index.php/aea/article/view/263 “The Most Disturbing Painting,” Nerdwriter, 2018: https://youtu.be/g15-lvmIrcg?si=RPkS17ojYQyC-T3K “The Most Disturbing Painting - A Different Take on Saturn Devouring His Son,” The Canvas, 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qCngjk3nQw&t Prince: “Prince To Sue YouTube, eBay Over Unauthorized Content,” Collett-White, 2007: https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL13643284/ “‘Weird Al’ Yankovic Says Prince Turned Down at Least 4 Parody Ideas,” Craddock, 2016: https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/prince-weird-al-yankovic-michael-jackson-7460907/ This American Life Episode 750, The Ferryman: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/750/transcript “60 Minutes Peeked into Prince's Vault and Discovered a Beautiful Mess,” Covington, 2021: https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/music/a36084663/60-minutes-prince-vault-paisley-park-welcome-2-america/ “Prince’s Sister on Honoring Her Brother’s Vault of Unreleased Music,” Holt, 2021: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/prince-vault-sister-tyka-nelson-1153227/ “I would hide 4 U: what’s in Prince’s secret vault?,” Azhar, 2015: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/mar/19/i-would-hide-4-u-whats-in-princes-secret-vault “The Beginner’s Guide,” 2015: https://store.steampowered.com/app/303210/The_Beginners_Guide/ “Kunst für Keinen (Art for No One): 1933-1945,” published by Hirmer, 2022 Music Used (Chronologically): Let Me Explain (Michael Vignola), A Somber View (Andres Cantu), Ear to the Ground (Hanna Lindgren), A Cold Wind (Savvun), Monster Machine (Ethan Sloan), Lemniscate (Ethan Sloan), A Massive Mist (Ethan Sloan), Vertibrae (Ryan Roth, The Beginner’s Guide), Departure (Ryan Roth, The Beginner’s Guide), D.S. AI Coda (Ryan Roth, The Beginner’s Guide), Va (Cover by Emily Hopkins, Original by Ryan Roth- The Beginner’s Guide) Additional music and sound effects from Getty Images, Epidemic Sound and Storyblocks Thumbnail and Graphic Design by https://twitter.com/HotCyder Description credit: “Desert” by Patricia Hooper