This glass corset, made by Anna Viktoria Norberg is a conceptual piece of clothing designed to speak of the pain that women go through in order to adhere to fashion.
The corset - made from one piece of glass - was blown into a negative body cast, cut into four pieces, drilled and laced together.
Ouch.
This piece makes me wonder about the necessity of wearing bras.
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Wehrli takes everyday scenes of disorder and rearranges them into neat rows, sorted by different attributes such as color, size, shape, and type, etc.
And the award goes to…
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Venus Consoling Cupid Stung by a Bee
Benjamin West, 1802
The Hermitage Museum
“Benjamin West, born in America, settled in London at the age of 25 and went on to become court painter and President of the Royal Academy, making him the first American artist to gain an international reputation. He painted a number of works on the subject of Venus and Cupid between 1797 and 1814, basing himself on an ode by Anacreon, Wounded Cupid. Stung by a bee, Cupid complains to his mother, Venus, who embraces her child and at the same time smilingly chides him that his wound is nothing to that which he can cause with his arrows. Venus’s cold, Neoclassical profile contrasts with the pretty and somewhat effeminate Cupid.”
Quite interesting, actually.
Reminds me of Batch.
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Love, a portrait.
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Soo cute!
All the awards!
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Skyping
Is this the way things look on the other side, sometimes?
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Dashboard coincidence.
This is the article that FeministFilm linked to. BookPaperScissors reblogged the artwork above it.
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(wishlist/lustlist)
pretty colors + pretty unusual = wants.
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maria cristina bellucci: pencil crayon jewelry
maria cristina bellucci worked for many years as a theatre costume designer and now creates her
own jewelrymade from coloured pencils. the pieces are made using fragments of pencils that have
been attached together and formed into a variety of shapes. the forming process reveal the interiors
of the pencils, showcasing the wood and the coloured lead.http://www.klimt02.net/jewellers/index.php?item_id=11203
I think her work is beautiful and brilliant. I would wear her jewelry in a heart beat!
Who Needs Art? - Words and Pictures by Grant Snider
(via problemsolver)(curiositycounts)
i do! i do!
And my bosses certainly do need greater exposure to it.
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Ugo Pellis
The frame - Villagrande Strisaili, December 6, 1934
Wow.
Where and how the subject is positioned is amazing.
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Supervixen
The very first one.
i still love it, two years and two months after.
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The Power of Theater
by Chris Heagle, technical director
This snapshot of a performance report from Children’s Theatre Company in Minneapolis has been floating around my Facebook feed. Created by the stage manager following every performance, it’s usually a pretty mundane document — a basic communication tool for people working on the current production to let everyone else in the company know how the show is going. This one, though, is remarkable and speaks to the power of art and story to reach beyond the edifice of our everyday. It reads:
“It was generally agreed by all that the show was ‘kind of rough’ (tech wise). But after the show we learned that there was a 5 year old autistic child in the house. He had never spoken. But as the lights went down, he began to talk. In full sentences. He called the teacher by name. She had no idea he even knew her name. He was engaged in the show — at one point commenting to the teacher that if there is a dragon then there will be fire. And there was fire. He talked all throughout the show. When the lights came back up — he quit talking and returned to his world. So, yes, I could list all the little things that wrong today but that is not what this show is about. And that little boy certainly didn’t see those things as he sat talking in the dark theatre watching Harold and his Purple Crayon.”
And of course, I couldn’t help think of our interview with Paul Collins and Jennifer Elder in “Autism and Humanity.”
This is great. (Little) Surprises like these are what we live for, what we hope to have.
(The interview was great too.)
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Girl with a candle, Self-Portrait, 1911, Zinaida Serebryakova. Russian (1884 - 1967)
It’s Maria!
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