“Douche-champ” meme
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Annoying facebook girl: a meme I made
“This Looks Shopped!” Meme and its semiotics
This Looks Shopped is an image macro series that typically consists of someone pointing at a computer, or a picture that looks obviously photoshopped, with a caption that reads:
“THIS LOOKS SHOPPED / I CAN TELL FROM SOME OF THE PIXELS AND FROM SEEING QUITE A FEWSHOPS IN MY TIME.”
Origins: after the announcement of Osama Bin Laden’s death, a fake photo of his corpse began being circulating around the web, and various media outlets. Photographer Kenna Lindsay was questioned by CNN about the photo, and referenced “this looks shopped” in the following quote:
“I have seen a great number of poorly Photoshopped images in my time as a photographer and I can tell by the pixels that it is a fake,” said Kenna Lindsay, a New York-based photographer who works with composite images.”
This meme introduces a good opportunity for the discussion of the democratization of art because of new media. This meme uses a form of art language or as we like to call it ‘art speak’ in a sarcastic way, and brings question to the idea of a digital ‘professional’.
90 Years of Modern Art Week (Semana De Arte Moderna)
The Modern Art Week (or Semana de Arte Moderna, in Portuguese) was an arts festival in São Paulo, Brazil, that ran from February 11 to February 18, 1922. Historically, the Week marked the start of Modernism though a number of individual Brazilian artists were doing modernist work before the week, it coalesced and defined the movement and introduced it to Brazilian society at large. For Brazil, it was as important as the International Exhibition of Modern Art (also known as the Armory Show), held in New York City in 1913, which became a legendary watershed date in the history of American art.
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Polly Morgan’s highly evocative work plays with scale and personification of animals through taxidermy still lives.
From her website:
Her intention has never been to mimic the natural habitats of animals, as they are traditionally displayed, but to place them in less expected scenery. The scale and settings are often unnatural, but the animals are never anthropomorphized. Seeing them out of place encourages us to look at them as if for the first time; a rat sheds its association with horror and disease and can be rightly viewed as a beautiful animal.
For more of her works and information, you can check out her Flickr account here.
(Source: elephantfactor, via rachelthalia)
Alec Soth.
he was here!
(Source: middleandoff, via rachelthalia)
