Joseph Schumpeter is famous among historians for his “creative destruction” theory of modern capitalism. How about a “destructive creation” theory of art? Via kottke, an artist pretending to be a Parisian hipster named “Stan”–who only watches modern films and TV series on old-school VHS tapes–created a number of fictional VHS covers of his favorite films and shows. (You can read more about this fun prank (in French) here: http://golem13.fr/hipster-vhs-paris.)





