I hereby nominate this individual - Member 4508870 - for his ground-breaking contributions to the Peritus thread. Not so much an investor, more an artist (or maybe he just straps on his helmet a little too tightly), Mark3000 has crafted a monolithic, monotonous monument of press releases by law firms, that challenges the conceptual frontiers of Silicon Investor, and ultimately, our perceptions of ourselves.
Here are some examples:
#reply-4092013
#reply-4108856
#reply-4108992
This master of legal laconics, this jeweller of jurisprudence, hides the auteur behind an impenetrable imprint of impersonality that adds a daring new dimension to the exploding art form that is the internet. By blurring the traditional distinctions between the world of the naive small investor, and the threatening sub-text of the corporate press release, he is subverting the very medium itself, with all that this implies for the post-modern condition. One can only echo Jaques Attali's suspicion that the esthtic inventiveness brought on by the electronic avant-garde like Mark3000 are our best hope to affect "a real rupture in the existing networks"of oppressive capitalist culture and the strident siren songs of ambulance-chasing lawyers.
In his early work, Mark3000 pastes the release without comment, and later generations will look back on this simple, repetitive phase as his purest, most classical, expression. But recently he has added a qualitative element to his work that I, for one, find quite endearing:
He "dont recommend" The Law Office of Leo W. Desmond, of West Palm Beach, Florida, in #reply-4479850, obviously not a top-notch firm. But the good people at Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach LLP in San Diego, California get the thumbs up in #reply-4479885. "They look good" indeed, Mark!
Astute female readers will notice that he owns a Lexus LS 400, has large biceps, and lives in Manhattan, Kansas. Hurry, girls, if this hunk is single, he won't stay that way long! |
