December 2009
1 post
Try This on 4 Size →
This is an awesome up and coming blog about alternative shopping, gender expression, fashion icons, advertisement, “beauty”, controversy, materialism, consumerism, and exploitation. It’s definitely worth checking out!
November 2009
1 post
Hit the Bitch . . . ?!
About a week ago, the Danish orgnaization ‘Children Exposed to Violence at Home’ launched a website and web campaign against violence called ‘Hit the Bitch.’ The interactive website features a woman standing in front of a male hand. The website then prompts you to decide whether you will hit the woman via mouse or webcam. You are then asked to slap the woman repeatedly....
October 2009
4 posts
Whoa, for srsly?
I can’t embed this video but you have got to check this out. This is quite probably one of the most ridiculous vidlogs I’ve come across in quite some time. It’s from the We TV feature, Amy vs. John, in which a husband & wife duo take to the camera to problem solve and open up dialogue (though how good it is, or isn’t, is pretty clear).
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August 2009
2 posts
“We also have to offer men a vision of the world that gives them a way out of the...”
– Robert Jensen, Voice Male Spring ‘07
(This quote encapsulates why I do the work that I do.)
What's Tappening These Days?
At some point, I developed a deep-seated hatred and phobia of tap water. I always chose bottled over tap but this summer a dialogue rose between my roommates and I about whether to buy bottled or stick with the Brita. Since I live in Northampton, where talk of water quality is always filled with gross facts, I was convinced that bottled water was the answer. But Tappening Campaign got me thinking...
July 2009
26 posts
AIDS Prevention & Awareness Campaigns
I started taking a look yesterday at AIDS awareness/prevention campaigns from different countries. Take a look, it’s interesting to see ads from other countries in comparison to the U.S. What’s been most troubling is that in the U.S., where the epidemic is increasing in high numbers, concern about the disease is decreasing. Hopefully Obama’s new initiative will bring a greater...
"Why Vampires Never Die" →
So, once upon a time I used to be wildly obsessed with Buffy. After the show’s seven year run I didn’t think there’d ever be a huge resurgence of vampires in the media. But you know, one can never predict these things. True Blood, The Vampire Diaries, Twilight, Vampire High, etc. None of it has been making sense to me but Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan do a great job of...
“Burger King announced Monday that it would tone down the sexual content of its...”
– Emily Bryson York from Advertising Age
"Are Robots Real?"
Historically, robots have always been a part of our visual and social culture, from pin-ups to film, from science to advertising. The desire to fantasize about future technologies, the assertion of control over another psuedo-human figure, the hope for a brigade of justice - all of these and more contribute to the interest in and often times obsession about robots and robotic figures. But, in...
WatchFor the most part, I’ve refrained from any commentary on Michael Jackson’s death but being from Michigan, I have to at least pay homage in this way.
Strange Definition of Equality
Commenting on the above ad, D & G was quoted in La Vanguardia (in 2007) as saying, “What has an artistic photo got to do with a real act?” I really hope they’ve received a hard-driving answer to that question in the past two years but just in case they haven’t, I’d be much obliged to answer it here.
Not only does the ad promote aggressive behavior towards...
“That’s why postmodernism abounds: It’s a way to trick the audience...”
– Bob Garfield
Trees Look Taller When There's No Underbrush...
If you haven’t already seen Gillette’s new advertising campaign for men, check it out. It’s fascinating. It’s intensely insistent upon the idea that men should be hair-free, from their heads to their armpits to their groins. The website features an interactive interface that follows a towel-clad guy as he walks through various settings (i.e.: the bathroom, a horse stable, a...
DARIA.
So, I’ve heard some people chattin’ about how Daria is going to drop in 2010. Which is awesome! But what’s even more awesome is that you can watch every episode plus the movies for free by looking up this user on youtube:
eedwardgrey2
check it out and enjoy!
Campaign Against "Relapse"
Yesterday, after reading Jackon Katz’s article on the Huffington Post (see link below), I heard Eminem’s album “Relapse” for the first time since it dropped in May. I listened to and read the lyrics to his songs carefully and cautiously and I was wholeheartedly disturbed. When Eminem first became a prominent rap artist I was about 11 or 12 years old and I ate up the lyrics...
Eminem, Misogyny and the Sounds of Silence →
June 2009
2 posts
Voice Male
If you haven’t heard of or read Voice Male before, I strongly encourage you to check it out! It’s an amazing magazine that’s published in Amherst, Mass. You can subscribe or download the issues right from their website (voicemalemagazine.org).
“Voice Male chronicles the social transformation of masculinity. Since its modest beginnings in 1983 as a newsletter for the...
I'll Trade You.
Recently, there have been a great number of articles in tabloids, magazines and blogs about Chastity Bono’s decision to transition but as I’ve come across them, one thing continually irks me. A number of articles boast headlines like:
“Cher backs Chastity’s gender swap” (NBC)
“Cher’s daughter starts sex swap” (WENN Blog)
“Cher’s girl...