I think the point of this exercise was to teach us that sometimes randomness can be a very creative tool. Just like bullshit is sometimes good, randomness is the same. Making something completely random means that you have no control over the outcome. When you take that aspect away from it there is no way you can mess it up, being a human after all. And if you can't mess it up, the final product can't be bad. Why do you think abstract art works so well, its mostly random. This is of course not always the case. But if you can do something randomly other much better ideas can spawn from that. I find if I'm in a creative block randomness can often inspire something great.
I think the stuff that was in class was just a collection of complete randomness. It was like someone had collected the most random pictures, notes, ads and artwork they could find and threw them together in a package. Not only were the items selected at random the items themselves were completely random. After all, right before Beth showed it to us, we did an exercise on randomness. The items must of had something to do with randomness.
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