Say hi to say hi to korean bullies read this. Say hi to say hi to i-D!. Say hi to I Like To Fork Myself. Say hi to RIP.
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If H2O were us, ice could be our body, water could be our identity and steam could be our orientation. /Bruce Lee tells us to become water/
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Don't you just love her. /Filmmaker Sylvia Chang defies gender rules from South China Morning Post/
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After kidnaps and drips brands face challenge from a princess, Princess Hijab. By using an apparently constrained form of clothing as a symbol almost similar to icons of popular culture, she (let's assume the Princess is a she) speaks counter to manipulative adverts that imply liberation through consumption. The irony plays great chemistry. Click here to read an interview by Menassat (it is unknown how they managed to interview the very hidden Princess). /sources from April/
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My friend Elena posted me a promotional postcard of Adam Neate's exhibition. I didn't know the artist before so I googled him. It's good to see Neate cites his wife Waleska as influence, and that he respects her as an artist - a lot. We've heard enough tragic stories of talented women who had relationship with famous talented men. Waleska may not have a glorious representation, but Neate's appreciation is well appreciated.
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/Patti Smith on gender/
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Nan Goldin is someone that we cannot miss when it comes to gender identity (and a lot more). /Goldin on her work, part 1 & part 2/
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Spare 45 minutes for the witty mind.
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"I like the idea of growing up and being a woman - the end of childhood but keeping part of your nature," said Sofia Coppola, the director (no "female director" or "woman director" here) who sensitively captures the hearts and minds of young women, in an IHT interview.
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There are a couple of women among The 25 Most Influential People on the Web. Pretty nice already, considering it's the male-dominated (oh which respected field is not male-dominated?) tech circle. With her "adult supervision" and effort to make "Silicon Valley's hottest startup (that is dominated by young, mostly male computer engineers) to grow up", I can easily imagine Sheryl Sandberg's role as a wonderful mother in Facebook. I really appreciate maternal power and care, but it is still obscure why we should connect women (only) with raising of kids. Would the article be written in a different way, be the influential person male?
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"We've become plastic, objectifying the human body...waxed, polished and buffed and shined up and manipulated. And then, of course, I'm portrayed as the one doing the manipulating, polishing, buffing, shaping, which is what I do. It's just what we do. What the fashion industry does." - /W magazine/ Chenman's vision is daring, chic and very (contemporary) Chinese. Artistically commercial, the aesthetic and artificial qualities of her works demonstrate the above quotation from Tom Ford, on the fashion industry. Yet since Chen's subjects are often energized with characters, objectification is turned into something else, a wildness that is representative of her style. She gives life to the objectified.
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