nice little tale for a quiet tea party... Vancouver, BC
Whoa. Cindy Sherman x MAC Cosmetics.   I don’t even know what to think about this! Okay, well I forced the discussion by reposting to facebook:   RC: I’m no Indy purist, and not a total corporate ho, but I like that the chameleon artist did this. Tongue in cheek, unabashed, why the hell NOT style (probably loads o cash too.) I say yes! AC: Is she supposed to look like a drag queen? ‎whyvonne: RC, I love her style/work/attitude! I actually think it’s a brilliant collaboration, and a surprisingly innovative one, even for MAC. I guess what I’ve liked about her work is that she inhabits these unreal female figures — fairy tale characters, plastic surgery patients, dolled-up 1960s society girls. It’s not so much critique as commentary, even, which is a balance I like very much. Not that she shouldn’t benefit from her own work, but I feel like the work moves solidly away from critique or commentary when it’s in service of the industries that (re)produce these beauty standards — the very things in question with so much of her work. whyvonne AC: I’m going with yes! Did you see the other shots in this campaign? AC:  not yet… RC: Good points  - I do think she was well aware of the situation by accepting the collaboration, and I have a hunch that the people at MAC, at least the creative team involved in this project, were equally against the archetypal beauty standards, and more interested in paying the rent while working with an amazing artist, and doing something different and out there. The beauty industry is like any - sincere good people, horrible greedy insensitive bastards, and everything in between. I hope she surrounded herself with the former.September 28 at 5:53pm · Like  whyvonne: Oh, I agree  - kudos to the creative team, for sure. Just that the larger the org, the more difficult it is to be a radical or dissenting voice (this coming from a bureaucrat!).

Whoa. Cindy Sherman x MAC Cosmetics.  

I don’t even know what to think about this!

Okay, well I forced the discussion by reposting to facebook:

 

RC: I’m no Indy purist, and not a total corporate ho, but I like that the chameleon artist did this. Tongue in cheek, unabashed, why the hell NOT style (probably loads o cash too.) I say yes!

AC: Is she supposed to look like a drag queen?

‎whyvonne: RC, I love her style/work/attitude! I actually think it’s a brilliant collaboration, and a surprisingly innovative one, even for MAC. I guess what I’ve liked about her work is that she inhabits these unreal female figures — fairy tale characters, plastic surgery patients, dolled-up 1960s society girls. It’s not so much critique as commentary, even, which is a balance I like very much. Not that she shouldn’t benefit from her own work, but I feel like the work moves solidly away from critique or commentary when it’s in service of the industries that (re)produce these beauty standards — the very things in question with so much of her work.

whyvonne AC: I’m going with yes! Did you see the other shots in this campaign?

AC:  not yet…

RC: Good points  - I do think she was well aware of the situation by accepting the collaboration, and I have a hunch that the people at MAC, at least the creative team involved in this project, were equally against the archetypal beauty standards, and more interested in paying the rent while working with an amazing artist, and doing something different and out there. The beauty industry is like any - sincere good people, horrible greedy insensitive bastards, and everything in between. I hope she surrounded herself with the former.September 28 at 5:53pm · Like

 whyvonne: Oh, I agree  - kudos to the creative team, for sure. Just that the larger the org, the more difficult it is to be a radical or dissenting voice (this coming from a bureaucrat!).

26 / 09
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Love SpacingToronto’s Before/After photo series. (I had a similar idea involving vintage postcards of various cities…but when you snooze, you lose.) Reminds me of other delightful old/new transitioning-spaces projects, like the charming Dear Photograph website, or Stewart Brand’s still-relevant book (and subsequent 6-part BBC television series!! Who knew?), How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They’re Built. (dear photograph) (infographic inspired by How Buildings Learn) Less urban-y, but also cool: Irina Werning’s Back to the Future Project (but I’ve already told you about this one) Young me/Now me

Love SpacingToronto’s Before/After photo series. (I had a similar idea involving vintage postcards of various cities…but when you snooze, you lose.)

Reminds me of other delightful old/new transitioning-spaces projects, like the charming Dear Photograph website, or Stewart Brand’s still-relevant book (and subsequent 6-part BBC television series!! Who knew?), How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They’re Built.

Dear Photograph

(dear photograph)

How Buildings Learn

(infographic inspired by How Buildings Learn)

Less urban-y, but also cool:

26 / 08
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Michael Wolf’s 2006 series, 100 x 100, depict 100 rooms and residents in one of  Hong Kong’s oldest public housing buildings.

Michael Wolf’s 2006 series, 100 x 100, depict 100 rooms and residents in one of  Hong Kong’s oldest public housing buildings.

19 / 08
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Autoportraits

Clever clever. I like all the saddest-looking ones. Sent this to a friend, who remarked that it’s a biological quirk that humans enjoy things and objects that look like us. It’s called Uncanny Valley concept.

18 / 10
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umag. I can’t quite tell what the magazine is about, I think it’s pop culture and fashion and regardless — it is photo laden, and it sure is pretty.

umag. I can’t quite tell what the magazine is about, I think it’s pop culture and fashion and regardless — it is photo laden, and it sure is pretty.

23 / 12
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The Selby

Like an edgy Apartment Therapy. Todd Selby takes photos (and makes watercolour doodles) of friends and acquaintances — the beautiful creatives and their beautiful spaces.  Some of it’s interesting and inspiring, at least — like all the great art on some of those walls.  The interview format is cute.

23 / 12
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Urban planner with a penchant for social policy, public engagement, infographics, illustration, and zee artz. This is a small collection of notes-to-self.