So for like five years, I was waiting for computers to happen, so I could fucking use them - without getting a job at a corporation. In the early '90s, Speer began to fucking use computers and even got a job for six months with Spectrum Holobyte doing games. He spent his free time with his new toys, turning his id loose like a PETA member freeing lab chimps. And there was an assassination sequence, except that when JFK gets shot, Speer cut away to a shot of himself jerking off on the Bible. He says it just felt right.
Art is pretentious.
Most of Speer's work has a happy, glossy, 3-D quality. Sometimes, for adult projects, that covers up an inner perversity. After 20 viewings, you can still pick out new details. It's perfect training for children growing up in a hyperstimulated world. He gave everybody grief, refused to wear the preordained stylish clothes, and when his turn before the cameras came, dropped his pants and waggled his licking stick.