August 2011
6 posts
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Poses / Yolanda Dominguez
Watch real women mimic high fashion model poses in real life. Watch how people react to the indestructible superciliousness that is haute pose. “I tried to express what many women feel about women’s magazines and the image of women in the media – absurd, artificial, a hanger to wear dresses and bags, only concerned about being skinny, beautiful,” explained Dominguez in an...
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David Bailey
After the impertinent dropping of bombs on his childhood home during WWII, English photographer David Bailey had to relocate to a new home. “In the winter”, he recalled, the family “would take bread-and-jam sandwiches and go to the cinema every night because in those days it was cheaper to go to the cinema than to put on the gas fire. I’ll bet I saw seven or eight movies a...
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Sergey Bratkov
Sergey Bratkov, born in the Ukraine, took controversial photos of youth, army girls, secretaries, and souvenirs. He’s participated in more exhibitions than there are Disney films. He’s still alive. He’s to be considered in the Soviet and post-Soviet context. Judging by his photos, he’s probably a scary person in real life. But hey, aren’t most artists? Didn’t...
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Kenji Onglao
Taking scenes out of a life that you wish you could be living, Kenji Onglao photographs summers. It’s the best season in most parts of the world, and usually the one where most people “do” things that are more creative, due to the fact that they weren’t forced into it. It’s probably a style well-suited to Vice or Baby Baby Baby, or those other publications I...
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Nuns Give More Fucks Than Me
There is now a major lack of space for filing complaints without qualms with advertisers or potential employers peering in. Facebook, Twitter—nowhere is safe anymore to publish an opinion without suffering the peanut gallery backlash. Let’s just be clear that complaining isn’t valid unless somebody hears it, so don’t give me that “write in a diary” bullshit. Look what...
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Less Than Zero
There is hardly any case where the movie is better than its paper counterpart, but in this case, I’d beg to differ. Although still impressive that Bret Easton Ellis wrote the book Less Than Zero when he was 23 and still in college, it doesn’t take away from the fact that it sucks. Only when translated to the screen with the likes of Robert Downey Jr. does it gain artistic merit....