Showing posts with label performance art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label performance art. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

BAD CAM, GOOD CAM...

BAD WEBCAM:

So P. Diddy made a video of himself flying commercial, talking about how gas prices are too high. Not to mention that he also talks about how he has his own jet and uses it to fly around for his acting career costing about $200,000 round trip because of gas, or something stupid like that. Sean Combs is the victim ladies and gentlemen, because we all know how little money he's made over the his career of really bad music, tv shows, and cheesy marketing strategies. psh!



Why did Biggie have to die instead of his annoying side kick?! Fluck that!!

GOOD WEBCAM:

Oh, and here's a "photoshoot" we did with our friend Jessika showing us her favorite Star Wars action figures, Star Wars tattoos, and other things awesome:





















To make things "smart", this is part of an ongoing art project we are doing that removes hierarchies of a certain kind, specifically a kind of photography that involve really "big" cameras and snobby coolness. In accordance to the current state of things, we wanted to do a "shoot" where we used the newest/semi-newest form of photography: webcams. We enjoyed the idea that this borders and plays on the lines of the instantaneous imagery of the internet, supposed cyber-sex (do people still say that?), the taboo, politics of the "www", photography, and a bunch of other fun things and we (and hopefully you as well) find amusing. It's sort of like long distance modeling. haha

For us, it created a different kind of relationship between artist and model, similar to but unlike the relationship to person-to-person photography, as well as infiltrating our comforts with new technology such as instant messaging, webcamming, etc, etc. This ended up being super fun on both ends and now we wanna keep the ball rolling with whoever is willing. But you know as well as we do that it's about having fun and making hot images. haha

So who's next? hehe <3

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

SHANGHAI SUPER GIRL.

Super Girl is the rough Chinese equivalent of American Idol but a billion times larger and more intense. Its season finale drew in over 420 million viewers, making it not only the most-watched TV program in the history of ever, but one with an audience larger than the populations of the US and Great Britain combined.

In this series, Yang Lei leads on a little tour of her country as we try to wrap our minds around the insanity that is 21st century China.




This was from VBS.TV. If you guys don't know about vbs.tv, you should check it out. it has all these great video features and tv shows only on the site, but dealing with all the things you guys like (and what we like): art, music, politics, girls, film, etc. But this is what we were watching recently. You can GO HERE to see the rest of it.

Speaking of super girls, these girls are the best artists ever:







god we love them. more to come! brb!