shadi ghadirian

10Dec09

I recently learned about Shadi Ghadirian, an Iranian female photographer, and I can’t get her images out of my head: This is from her series entitled “Like Everyday.” A stark depiction of a traditional Iranian woman, the series is composed of “women-objects” taking the place of a burka-clad woman’s face. You can see more of [...]

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Tags: burka, globalization, iran, photographs, shadi ghadirian, tradition, women

XOXO turns (mostly male) heads

03Dec09

So, reading The Cut today, I learned that the XOXO store on 38th and Fifth in NYC has become something like the girl at school with low self-esteem who figures that wearing skimpy clothes and exposing herself will make people like her. Unfortunately, XOXO forgot that while this DOES make the boys like you (for [...]

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Tags: eva mendes, models, nyc, performance art, window display, xoxo

what not to read

03Dec09

Ok, so I bought Aravind Adiga’s book The White Tiger because I’m a sucker for the “customers who bought this item also bought…” feature on Amazon. It looked promising: it was a New York Times bestseller, it won the 2008 Man Booker Prize, and there are 8 full pages of praise from reviewers before you [...]

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Tags: aravind adiga, junot diaz, man booker prize, native son, NYTimes, the brief wonderous life of oscar wao, the white tiger

What is google wave?

01Dec09

Answer: I have no clue. Everyone is talking about it though, so I went to the best research tool ever, Wikipedia, to figure it out. Apparently it is “a personal communication and collaboration tool,” which means nothing to me because I am not technologically-minded. Layman’s terms please! I scrolled down. It can also be described [...]

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Tags: artificial intelligence, firefly, google wave, joss whedon, milo, project natal, xbox