Princess Hijab I first heard about Princess Hijab in a thread on Flickr. Essentially she covers fashion and beauty ads in public displaying the rote half-naked women with a black hijab shape. The main point of the Flickr discussion was the ethical acceptability of defacing public or private property in the name of anti-consumerism. While [...]
Fusion: A Found Album A couple of years ago, someone at KZSU found an album of promo and snapshots, song lists and expenses, from the ’80s, of a cover band called Fusion. I’ve finally gotten some scans up for fun. Take a look for some big hair and tight pants.
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Turns out I’ll be going to China a little earlier than expected, which means, unfortunately, I’ll miss Bob Dylan in Monterey this August because travel plans changed, but in anticipation I had been reading the Essential Interviews, and came upon this, in an interview with Nora Ephron in ’65: Great paintings shouldn’t be in museums. [...]
When men dressed in pink and hopped like bunnies…
It’s my birthday and I’ll cry (sing) if I wanna! From the Thumbs Down webcast in ’07: Wish I’d thought up this lo-fi video technique. Basically they’re webcams attached to bike helmets with a stick. Your head is therefore always perfectly upright in the video, while the rest of your body and the world teeters [...]
Marina Abramovic, Balkan Baroque still Like the Pulse Room, Balkan Baroque has a sheer visceral simplicity that really works for me, although clearly in a very different way. Marina Abramovic, in a white dress, cleaned the meat and gristle off that huge pile of bones and placed the clean ones in a new pile. She [...]
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Seen in the Panorama: Joshuah Bearman’s “The Only Muscle I Can’t Control,” about the Mr. Romance bodice ripper cover competition. Check out an excerpt: “My Weekend Amongst the Fabios.”
Friday, February 12, 2010
Does this look like your misspent youth? Click if you want to read the short interview with photographer Alejandro Galiardo. Either way, you can see actual prints of some of the photos in the photo issue of Maximum Rock & Roll at Needles and Pens, which is a little craft and zine store that has [...]
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Rocketboom, with Al Yankovic Read more about Autotune in the New Yorker.
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Remember the Ralph Lauren ad with the scarecrow-like model (who may have actually been fired for being “overweight”)? Well, there’s more where that came from: And in another insane development, can you believe that designer Chrisitan Louboutin thinks Barbie’s ankles are fat? What?! I thought everyone had pretty much acknowledged that Barbie’s body is an [...]
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Markus Klinko + Indrani There’s a lot of photography on consumerism, but it wasn’t til today, when I saw a little deconstructing-the-shot piece in the American Photo magazine blog, that I became convinced that all of it is pure snake oil, shit sold as gold. Apparently the idea was to “visualize a post-apocalyptic world where [...]
Monday, September 28, 2009
A Move to Curb Digitally Altered Photos in Ads The Liberal Democrats, the third-largest party in Britain, after Labor and the Conservatives, adopted Ms. Swinson’s proposal for a labeling system this month as part of their official platform. The party wants to ban altered photos entirely in ads aimed at children under 16. On retouching, [...]
