Who Is David Henry Nobody Jr?
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- Опубліковано 14 лип 2023
- We are truly in the midst and full swing of a social-media driven society. Although the development of it has been subtle, its impact has been phenomenal. Nearly everywhere you look, you see a hashtag, an @ symbol, or a QR code to encourage us to open up our smartphones and log in to our social media accounts. If you even log out at all in the first place!
And what is even more subtle and at times even straight-up denied by a good majority of people, is how much social media has influenced our appearance. How we present ourselves, what we aspire to be, and even what constitutes as attractive. With trends coming and going sometimes within a blink of an eye. Basically, when you take a selfie, you don’t just want to look attractive. You want to look impossibly attractive. Some resort to specialised third-party apps to improve some features or even erase them completely. Turning an element of reality into something that can be seen, witnessed, and even believed, but never truly experienced. We become avatars in a sense. Wearing digital costumes to hide our true selves.
Within such a polished imperfectly perfect digital environment, however, sometimes the unordinary does break through mediocrity. Someone who challenges what we view as “normal” or “acceptable”. Someone who may go as far to say that instead of trying to look as good as possible on social media, he actually wants to look worse, in order to portray a far more honest representation of humanity.
One such man you may come across, goes by the name of DavidHenryNobodyJr, an ever changing, ever evolving and ever captivating character played by performance artist David Henry Brown Jr, from New York City in the United States. David has really made a name for himself within the digital world, sharing countless clips and images of his bizarre and extravagant costumes, each with their own unique theme, to an audience of over 120,000 followers on Instagram alone!
Just to visit his Instagram page and explore his collage of strange faces, masks and props is enough to make some of you go: What the heck am I looking at here?!" Well, that is (hopefully) where I can help. After meeting him, watching his mini documentary and learning his story as well as his ambitions as a creative, there is so much we can learn from him about just how limitless artistic expression can be as well as a great deal we can learn about ourselves and the current world we live in.
Welcome to another video, everybody. Today we’ll be exploring the mind of DavidHenryNobodyJr.
DHNJ Instagram: / davidhenrynobodyjr
DHNJ Linktree: linktr.ee/davidhenrynobodyjr
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Sources:
Keith Aronowitz Documentary: • DAVID HENRY NOBODY JR.
Opening interview: • David Henry Nobody Jr.
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Had me until NFTs. I expected him to be smarter than that.
Reminds me of the Little Baby’s Ice Cream commercials
Honestly as soon as he came on the screen I got the sense it was a commentary on consumer culture and I kinda feel like his work is brilliant. He’s putting a lens on how absurd the whole thing is and how it feels to be the outsider. I also just like bizarre and surreal art
Also the waiter getting waterboarded by champagne… honestly it pretty much describes being in the service industry
And some things in life are, what they are
I wonder if it has been considered that David's falling into NFTs is just another broader commentary on consumerism culture and how it inevitably will corrupt all of us (probably just a sad man who is being taken advantage of by grifters, but I truly hope for the best for him)
"The declaration of interdependance" this guy is very witty
its true those fox news haters crying whites are supreme but want socialism and my taxes raised, i like how they hate rich people but love multimillionaires like Hasanabi, AOC and crime bills bernie.
Oh yes he is definitely something that Rhymes with witty!!Lol
Bold, bizarre, provocative, confusing, ugly, and beautiful. Just my kind of art. It makes you think beyond the "What and Why". It adds a certain edge of "Because and Of Course". It also ignites the phrase "Ok... that's a thing I can't unsee... but I kinda want more."
To be straight forward, i can appreciate Mr.Nobody's displays very much, it speaks volumes. In regards to how intense or abstract it may be, the message he is wanting to get across is very apparent.
I’m legit happy your channel was suggested to me today. Seeing this dive on this artist is so inspiring! He’s truly 1 of 1 and to see this in the digital age is like yes!!! Individuality still exists! As an artist myself creating art that collides different worlds, seeing this is so refreshing! There is literally no limits to art!!
I'm legit happy it was too! Thanks for watching 😁
This guy is a cross between an ENA character and Eric andre show skit. Love him totally! Love his work, how risky and bold he is. The best art divides opinions said rick ruben.
I love how its "the guys who have too much time on their hands" and not the assembled crowd that waited however long for nobody.
I love this guy. He's exactly what consumerist culture needs. Someone holding up a mirror to how ridiculous it all is, and continues to become.
This is one of the first people I knew of already. In like 2018ish I commented on a pizza vid asking if the oils made him break out n he said no. But that acc got deleted and I kinda forgot to refollow him, but its good know that he's still up n doing his thing
It’s hilarious how all those people came and stayed around to see someone famous-and no one shows up! Wow. Jokes on them! 😂
It's been a while since I've felt compelled enough to follow and research an artist's past and current work. Nicely done
The red carpet bit was genius.
It takes someone who is Gen X to come up with Resemblage . Using analog to look like an app filter 😂
Also i was in NYC an artist the same age as David. I swear I remember seeing his photocopied flyer add for the red carpet events starting at $99 and thinking I wanted to hire him.
His Instagram is pure gold 🙌👍 glad to see you cover his work!
While I certainly do hold much of David's work in high regard, I can't help but feel his involvement in nfts is counteractive to the core themes of his work. I understand from his words on it that the decision was financial, and I can't blame him for that. Money is necessary to live unfortunately. However, I also feel that there is a noticeable lack of self awareness as he earlier described his current work as being able to live off art without conforming (unlike many of his friends). To me anyways, this is conformity. My joy for art made by myself or others is purely from the fact that it is an expression of humanness. Selling the hypothetical ownership of a work or generating imagery with ai removes the humanity from art. It turns art into a commodity, a product to be produced. As I said, I do love David's work. Considering that, I really am sorely disappointed to see him take the route he's taken as of late.
you worded this very very well
It's all just content now.
Get your F-you money and live in peace.
The Trump for President piece was super interesting, especially the interviews.
His early social experiments are actually pretty funny & smart, especially the red carpet prank. I just couldn't help but feel the more art he made, particularly the gross instagram stuff, that he started to embody the same aspects of consumer culture he was against. I know this happens to every artists, especially the ones that taste fame, but after the 100th post of taping gross food to your face or being another New Yorker harassing pedestrians in a crazy costume, we have to admit that there just is no message at that point. It honestly seems like he's simply resorting back to his days as the class clown :/
Wow this man is a genius. Thank you for making this video. His work speaks volumes with an intense splash of chaos and surrealism. ❤ I hope i run into him in the city❤
hes not a genius, this is fart smelling art, no sacrafice no true awareness, just a bunch of white people who cry cops are bad and then defend the 94 crime act
No he’s not. lol
This guy has cracked the code.
Henry Nobody Jnr. reminds me of poet/comedian Henry Normal
A lot of really interesting concepts there much thanks.
Genius. Great channel too 👍
ugh the nft thing is so disappointing. literally no artistic integrity from any one who goes down that route. i've definitely been desperate before but its like, not only are you selling your own soul youre also selling the soul of everyone else who's going to have to live with the eventual heat death of the planet
The environmental impact argument was valid and it was heard and it was fixed. He has only minted work on Ethereum and Tezos, which are Proof of Stake chains (Ethereum was converted from Proof of Work which was the more energy intensive version, energy usage of that chain has been reduced by 99%, Tezos was always Proof of Stake) and minting a piece has the same carbon impact as sending 3 emails. Just so you know that's been addressed. Hosting an hour long video on UA-cam has a bigger carbon impact.
He is what he says in 1 29, so equal to his foe.
i started the video excited. just yesterday i started wanting to learn of more performance art. i love it. but as the video went on i only felt sadder.
first it was him befriending an ai "artist"
and then came the nfts. the nfts are what got me though. i've always seen performance art as something implicitly almost. anarchist. not exactly, but a bit. or at least something implicitly left leaning, as the whole purpose tends to be making a statement on how society reacts to situations or to reflect what society is. and it feels almost hypocritical to engage in something so. capitalist. i understand it brought him out of a rut, but. it's odd. it feels paradoxical to me. a performance artist engaging in nfts. something that melts down the society performance art reflects. idk. it's interesting yet saddening to me.
not excited to comment this as i expect cryptobros to be real excited to tell me how wrong i am but. idk i figured i'd throw in my thoughts. maybe others will feel similarly.
I read that expecting to find what about it you found sad and I left not understanding why it makes you sad 😭 I just now know you dislike nfts
@@McMorgan_R it makes me sad that this artist who I thought was cool likes nfts and ai art
AI artists are talentless and lazy. No respect for them at all. AI art will end. It’s crap.
@@c4cezar_magzhe just needs money. so I don't understand what's thd problem with it.
@@omikron6218 he's continues to engage in nfts. He can get the money in less earth killing ways. Also ai art. It's more of an ethical thing than a money thing but still very much a thing.
I love this guy! Thanks for the introduction.
Patiently waiting for an Ai WeiWei episode. Love the content though!
Just looked him up briefly, that really sounds like a story to tell. His art looks fascinating as well! Thanks for the suggestion, I'll mull that one over for sure 😊
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---Albert Einstein
"Bubbles are bubbly because they're bubbled with bubbliness."
---Albert Einstein
He's bat shit crazy but at least he makes it interesting.
Gawd, the kid on 19:51 reminds me of me so bad.
I was a fucked up kid. Holy shit.
PeeWee Herman did this in the 70s and 80s. But its still fun.
So refreshing
okay... I like it picasso
Sipping sham pain and nodding .
i never thought i'd give a dislike to one of your videos since so much work and compassion goes into the making of these and you also do so much uplifting of contemporary smaller artists, but the inclusion of david nobody's gushing endorsement of nfts and ai art without any discussion of how these two industries fuck over independent and smaller artists (not to mention the environmental damage of nfts) was extremely unfortunate. I know this is a complicated subject matter and it may have been out of place to mention the negatives of them since sadly they seem a large part of Nobody's philosophy, but i don't think its responsible to portray these things as positive. it just feels hypocritical to the content of the other videos on this channel
Extremely well put!
That's a shame. Maybe the next one eh?
Excellent 👌👍
Is it not a pseudonym for Noel Fielding
I rather enjoy his art.
Some presentations are brilliant.
David Henry Nobody Jr ......
Wow!
idk if someone going into nfts, which are known to be harmful to the environment and also harmful for the art community, should be called "admirable" ... are more apt term would be sellout-esque
Fair enough.
@@BlindDweller on a lighter note I do think you should cover performance art more though. it's frequently overlooked as most people tend to view art as only visual and something more tangible than what art as a whole has to offer
For sure! I already have loads more performance artists on my to-do list. Watch this space 👌
wacth it high and find it beaufitul
The haters on social media, hiding in their comfort zone, are living in the matrix, as far as I'm concerned.. What are they afraid of, and do they truly understand the discomfort they're feeling and why they're feeling it. David's art holds up a mirror to consumerism/celebrity worshipping society. We need that. More than most of us probably realize. When it comes to nft's.. an artist has to survive. Why not use this medium.
That opening scene is so gross, but good video
This guy is def a pdf file
They usually are
Best one since Bacon - in my absolutely irrelevant opinion.
I love it when someone gets attention for just long enough for you to realize any depth in their work is a projection of the viewer. No one has taken advantage of this guy, he iust isnt very good.
weird off-putting art, "bad" art by beginners and furries are the pillars of art. im 100% serious, just too lazy to elaborate.
I get his message, but it feels fake. How can you want to send a message against consumerism and capitalism when you're sourcing from Amazon and being wasteful in your performance? In the end, he started doing it for clicks and likes and even fell into the trap of nfts. "You are not immune to consumerism."
Can handle things todo with food or eating🤮🤮
Wtf. I'll pass
Somebody has too much time on their hands.😅
Personally think it's crap
Reminds me of the daft stuff the might boosh would do
who's boosh?
I agree it's crap bit ill watch because I like dweller
Why do you think it is crap?
I love Mighty Boosh ngl 😆
some of it was funny and reminded me of holy mountain but instead of right wing conspiracies its how he loves corporations so much hes willing to buy and waste while kids starve in NY
i would not want any of that crap in my face or my eyes.
No one's asking you to do that
What about up your butt?
He looks like he smells
Who is funding theses projects ??? Lol
Are you planning to do an episode on Hunter Biden? You know, the famous artist whose art is gaining attention lately and is selling like hot cakes?
This guy really needs Jesus. Get a Bible. Start with the Gospel of John. It explains everything. I never had any real peace or joy in my life until I found Christ. God bless. 🙏
Creating performance art means you need Jesus? LOL
so he needs lies from a guy who did no prophecy and if he does its "but Gods not literal and who carwes what he says he changed laws and commands tho i said he never changed laws and commands" and you say this on the sabbath which he broke and lied about like he did elijah, go back to cnn maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan This Fox news Mammon is god!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@Marzanacares no it means you cry about hood stuff but never been to the hood
Jeez you Jesus cultists need to stop, seriously cringe.
He already appears to have found his purpose and meaning in life -- without religious ideologies constraining and weighing him down.