Why Grimes No Longer Believes that Art is Dead
By Andrew R. Chow
A couple of years ago, Grimes thought art might be dying. She worried that TikTok was overwhelming attention spans; that transgressive artists were becoming more sanitized; that gimmicky NFTs like the Bored Ape Yacht Club—digital cartoon monkeys which were selling for millions of dollars—were warping value systems.
“I just went through this whole big ‘art isn’t worth anything’ internal existential crisis,” the Canadian singer-songwriter says. “But I’ve come out the other end thinking, actually, maybe it’s the main thing that matter…
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Nearly nine years ago, the original Crashlands introduced players to an alien space trucker named Flux Dabes as she survived a crash landing on the planet Woanope and crafted her way out of that jam. Flux’s history will repeat itself this spring when Crashlands 2 arrives. In the new trailer below, Flux is literally dropped on to Woanope again as she is forced to make a new life for herself until she can get off-world.
Essentially, Flux has to start over from scratch. That means if she wants a home, she’ll have to build one herself. As before, Flux can craft her own objects and buildings, and she can also create weapons, traps, and any kind of gadget she needs to survive on Woaope. But on this world, Flux isn’t necessarily on top of the food chain, and the alien creatures…
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