28.3.10 1
Astudillo
I'm off for Easter to Mr. M.'s village, Astudillo.
Just for you to know there'll be no internet there.
There is electricity, as you can see from the space-age ad they have up on their streets.
26.3.10 0
Give orangutans a break
You are Nestle, and Greenpeace targets you for your unethical practices. What do you do?
a) Establish a dialogue with Greenpeace to see how can you improve such practices
b) Ignore it
c) Try getting the campaign banned
Well, Nestle was uncoscious enough to pick c. That's making a statement, twice: I do not intend to change, and I inted to keep it quiet. Lovely, isn't it?
23.3.10 1
Procrastination, cool doggy style
Whoever started this blog, has no respect for my to-do list.
(How happy is the party dog? How French is the car dog? How Golden Girls are the three top ones?)
@ and MOMA
"We have acquired the design act in itself and as we will feature it in different typefaces, we will note each time the specific typeface as if we were indicating the materials that a physical object is made of."
A curatorial conceptual leap, or an overstepping reliance on acquisitions as the way forward?
Is a theoretical transaction the best way to deal with immaterial elements?
22.3.10 0
Texts and theory
Texts and theory now available in my website, hopefully many more to come!
Evaluating my options
a) Giving up doing mine (which I've been doing for a while)
b) Trying to ignore (or burn) all the versions and versions that have been popping up here and there
c) Buying a whole lot of these and selling them myself and make great profits
Bags for sale at Joe Fresh for 1 dollar. Go me.
21.3.10 1
Kawamura Ganjavian, memory and smell
I love the visual language it has, and the fact thet they acknowledge the powerful effect of smell on memories ( As Wikipedia puts it, "Odor information is easily stored in long-term memory and has strong connections to emotional memory. This is possibly due to the olfactory system's close anatomical ties to the limbic system and hippocampus, areas of the brain that have long been known to be involved in emotion and place memory, respectively").
Kawamura Ganjavian's portfolio is full of promises...
Kawamura Ganjavian's portfolio is full of promises...
And now, go out and smell the air... it's Spring! (I couldn't wait any longer to say that!)
19.3.10 1
Jane Gowans
What is Jane trying to tell us? A Is this about needyness? About commitment fear?
Via 18kt.
Rich Rubbish
17.3.10 0
Herstories
This semester I'm taking Art Theory and we've started off with the sexuation of education. The professor made it very clear from the first day she was an active feminist (of the difference theory). She believes that since everything we know we learn and experience through our bodies, men and women feel, learn and live differently. I think that's a very interesting theory, maybe not so much because of the difference it declares, but because of the acknowledging of a physicality of wisdom.
Ever since I've been reading the engaging with this topic, I've felt ackward. I have felt angry at the blatant discriminations, but at the same time I've felt kind of torn when presented with "women only" activities. I've understood that females are 90 % of the student body of the faculty and that should be felt somehow. And I've wondered how often are we taught about female artists.
I don't know what I intend to say, really. I have figured out I tend to connect more deeply and more often with female creators (musicians, visual artists). It might just be that the way they put the stories is easier for me to comprehend. It might be that they say things I want to hear.
I have recently been thinking about the words we use to define all this mess. Do you know when kids are bought clothes that are a bit too big for them because they grow so fast they will eventually grow big enough for them? In Catalan and in Spanish they are called something like "growing clothes" or "growable clothes". I wonder if there's such a thing in English. Well, what if there are "growing words"? Words that are a bit too large for you right now, but that you know you will eventually get to fill up and understand completely. Words like feminism or patriarchate. I feel like an impostor using them at the moment, but that might change with time.
The one thing I'd like to put out there is, can the word feminist describe the women of my generation? Has it too much of a baggage? Too many connotations? Too worn out, maybe? Again, I might grow into the word, into its size; but then again it might be the wrong kind of cut for me altogether.
Any thoughts? Any reading recommendations?
PS: Picture via PaperTissue. Wonder where it is from...
16.3.10 1
Kumi Yamashita
Undoubtly talented, although maybe they are more spectacular than sensitive, if you know what I mean. They are exceptional, but maybe the concept could be brought a bit more forward. What do you think?
Via Booooooooom.
12.3.10 0
the answer is Schiaparelli, Elsa Schiaparelli
Tallas (Sizes)
I am enjoying the aesthetics of it, so very boutique-y, but somehow still very butcher's. in the end, meat is meat, however it is sold to us.
What would you buy in this shop? Do you think there would be a best-seller, or that all models would have some success?
10.3.10 0
Gésine Hackenberg
