February 2012
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Chris Naka's "I Can't Feel My Face" →
Adapted from an essay I wrote recently: The Limits of Photography, the current exhibit at MoCP, mostly fails in its promise to negate photography’s reality myth. However, Chris Naka’s recent video piece, I Can’t Feel My Face, truly challenges photography’s relationship with the contemporary audience. Over the course of the video, Naka zooms in on family photos using an iPhone, ...
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i-love-lorenz asked: are you lorenz's friend?
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January 2012
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Most artists are brought to their vocation when their own nascent gifts are...
– Jonathan Lethem, “The Ecstasy of Influence.”
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Always a fan of Henrik Vibskov, if only because I love how he straddles the divide between art and fashion, but his F/W 2012 collection is particularly great.
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theillestvillains asked: Yo, we should kick it when you get back to Chicago
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On a Related Note...
I don’t really see myself as a West Coaster, but if I ever got the chance to live in Laurel Canyon, I don’t think I’d pass it up. Images via The Selby.
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The price of admission is pledging allegiance to a program pretty much like that...
– Ken Johnson, in Are You Experienced: How Psychedelic Consciousness Transformed Modern Art. I love this quote (and this book) because one of the great myths of contemporary art is that it is lawless, but, perhaps, by viewing art through a psychedelic rather than postmodern filter, we can clearly see...
I got into SAIC today!
News like this deserves a reblog.
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December 2011
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No history books used in public schools informed us about racial imperialism....
– bell hooks: Racism and Feminism (via cultureofresistance)
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November 2011
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America has a serious voter turnout problem, yet none of the attempted remedies...
– Lisa Hill
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October 2011
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My alienation is meant a mode of experience in which the person experiences...
– Erich Fromm (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
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