Wanna imagine what Hello Kitty or Thomas the Tank Engine would do to a 5-year old’s room after a night of heavy tea partying and adderall? The artist JeongMee Yoon is working on a project documenting the relationship between gender and family consumer habits. See if you can tell the difference between a child and Dora the Explorer.
Our buddies at Live From the Coast tipped us off to Johannesburg photographer Chris Saunders the other day and we decided to keep the chain mail going by giving it a REEEEEEEEEEEEEPOST. Check out the beautiful slew of portraiture, documentary photography, and fine art but be sure to give an extra special double check to the spread he did for Colors Magazine on the raved out Soweto fashion slums. We can’t really imagine the soundtrack that matches their streetwears but someone should definitely send it to us.
Ryan McGinley’s new Moonmilk series is a kaleidoscopic melding of Moonage Daydream and Clan of the Cave Bear. Check out the full series HERE.
Danilo Parra is a photographer, filmmaker, and artist who lives, breathes, and sleeps in Brooklyn, NY. His epic cat torture film fits in nicely with our previous post about Lola Dupre but as you scroll through his work it becomes apparent that dude has a well rounded visual aesthetic that stretches far beyond drowning cats in slo mo. Check out a selection of his work after the jump.
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Oliverio Toscani was no stranger to controversy by the time he got the world in a huff with his provocative campaigns for United Colors of Bennetton. In fact, his work with copywriter Emanuelle Pirella many years before on Jesus Jeans led to a significantly more European fervor that was no less outrageous than his later work. At that time drawing parallels between religion and commerce – or exposing the hypocrisy of the two – by pairing reworked passages of the bible with vibrantly colored images of his girlfriend’s tanned butt cheeks overflowing out of …uhh…Jesus Jeans, was a lot for Europeans to handle. Needless to say, Jesus Jeans weren’t around for long, but this ad lives on as an iconic example of art meeting commerce. If only advertising would get this good again.
Mexican photographer Jamie Martinez takes photos of UFOs burning down houses, makes GIFs that make you feel super bizarre, and channels mexican lightbeams into his lens to create sun soaked depiction’s of the things that haunt his dreams. Check him out HERE.
Marilyn Minter’s enamel on metal paintings and lush photography create such a white hot whirlpool of grime and bodily fluids that her textured and delicious depictions of girls eating raw eggs somehow transforms what would normally be a little bit of a……uhhhh…health hazard… into a hot new fetish that everyone needs to get familiar with.
“We” have a bad habit. Or at least one of us does and it consists of breaking cameras during moments that are intensely worthy of photographs. And not just breaking, SMASHING. Off the side of a boat, stepped on, dropped in toilets, and the list goes on. Give us (me) the opportunity to take a real picture of a bigfoot or something equally mysterious or elusive and we (I) can guarantee the camera will spontaneously evaporate in my hands. So, good thing the above headline says ALDRIN HASSELBLADS IT ON THE MOON because if it was the other way around it would be like: CLAYTON SERIOUSLY DROPS THE BALL AND SMASHES HIS HASSELBLAD WHILE TRYING TO TAKE A PICTURE OF THE MOON LANDING.
So, Moncler was all like: “Bruce, do vat you vant. Take some pics and make some art.” And Bruce Weber took that as a manadate to dress up his golden retrievers in Moncler coats, fall asleep in a pile of cameras, and then pay a bunch of younguns to roll a humongous ball made of Moncler jackets up a hill. Sounds like what fashion photography used to be like in the golden years. Time to get back!
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Alpha Vomero, a NY-based wardrobe stylist and fashion designer – not to mention really good friend of WMIG – takes photos of on-the-street fashion to display on her mega awesome blog DISCOFUNBATH. She spends her days shopping her butt off, drinking vanilla lattes and traveling through every New York City nook, giving her a unique view of fashion and trends that the average walk down the street might not yield. WMIG followed her around on a few of her typical days to create this little behind-the-scenes-style film. Kind of like a day in the life of a style blogger.
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