Nov 6

It seems overly apparent that Mariel Haenn has been studying her Ellen Mirojnick.

Don’t worry. I didn’t know who either of those people were until 2 minutes ago.

Mariel Haenn is Rihanna’s stylist, and Ellen Mirojnick was the wardrobe stylist on the 1992 thriller Basic Instinct. If you have forgotten what happens in this scene, or just need a pick-me-up, feel free to click the picture for a link to a video clip.

Was Mariel Haenn’s styling a subconscious decision? Did the Good Morning America producers just subconsciously fall in line, lighting and framing the camera angles to mirror the film? Or, was this all Diane Sawyer’s evil genius plan to send a message to all would-be Rihanna beaters that Rihanna will stab yo ass with an ice pick next time.

Nov 2

What if the person who was right for you, your one and only true love, lived in a time before or has yet to come?

lyall:

Poolside 1963 (via superbomba)

Nov 1

“Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn’t get serious with people. They don’t expect it from you, and they don’t want to see it. You’re not entitled to be serious, you’re a clown.”

Fanny Brice

Oct 29

Photographer GL Wood, always pioneering, did this photo shoot with Vaqume.com founder Chuck McCarthy as muse and model via iChat webcam, using screen shot to immortalize these poses.

“It’s a lot harder to do a photoshoot with the screen shot,” Wood pontificated on his new modus operandi after the shoot.

Many judge art not by its intrinsic value, but the apparent level of difficulty to bring it to completion, giving this new exploration of the balance between performance and product at least a fighting chance at acceptance by the general public.

Only time will tell where in art history this will take its place.

thedailywhat:

Letter of Note of the Day: Pre-Pop Andy Warhol’s generous drawing donation gets rejected by the Museum of Modern Art.

“[W]e feel it is not fair to accept as a gift a work which may be shown only infrequently.” I bet I know someone who wishes they had a time machine right about now.

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1337 Arts

This is a link to 1337 Arts’ website, a team of MIT students dedicated to celebrating the marriage of art and science and promoting the beauty of scientific art. Their artwork blends state-of-the-art science and technology with traditional mediums and methods of art. Combined, they mark a unique form of “elite art.”

Basically 1337 Arts is science meets performance art.

Oct 28

applearts:

10 Unusual and Creative T-Shirts

The Tumblr Film Festival far exceeded any and all of my expectations. Check it out.

lifeofbk:

This is what happened on Monday, at the Reblog This Film Festival.

Oct 27

I had a run in with the law back when I worked for a junk company called Liberty Curio in Atlanta.

These girls came in and traded a street sign along with some cash for a dresser, and my boss told to put the street sign up for sale on the internet.

I put it up for sale on Ebay and Craigslist.

Shortly after listing it, I got a phone call from an “interested buyer.” He wanted to come see it. I told him where he could find us, hung up the phone, and told my boss that I thought that the “interested buyer” was a cop.

An hour or so later, the “interested buyer” showed up to check out the sign. He then did a circle or two around our expansive junk warehouse, and went outside. I told my boss that I thought he was a cop. A minute later, the “interested buyer” returned having donned his badge. He was a cop.

He confiscated the sign and questioned us about where we had gotten it etc., then left.

For days, I seriously pondered the fact that I had been able to spot this guy as a cop. Am I inherently a criminal?

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