tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38732117589416633992024-03-06T09:49:42.769+11:00inbetween art, design & fashionthe musings and explorations of someone who's work falls somewhere inbetween art/design/fashion/Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869609742491949539noreply@blogger.comBlogger161125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3873211758941663399.post-28826833567987510972012-04-15T22:20:00.001+10:002012-04-15T22:20:30.443+10:00Candy Spender : Precious Jewels on Vimeo by Suzie Haslam<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/candyspender/7079694957/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7245/7079694957_c73a9a6924_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/candyspender/7079694957/">Candy Spender : Precious Jewels on Vimeo by Suzie Haslam</a> <br />Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/candyspender/">candy spender</a></span><br clear="all" /><p>This is a recent video made by a group of talented friends about me..</p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869609742491949539noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3873211758941663399.post-74924858285577855762012-01-20T18:56:00.000+11:002012-01-20T18:56:48.372+11:00urban zen<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I came across Donna Karan's <a href="http://www.urbanzen.org/">foundation</a> and new label <a href="http://www.urbanzen.com/collections/elements-ii">Urban Zen</a> on one of my ventures out into the big world wide web. I was immediately attracted to the fashion, the same thing that used to happen to me in the early nineties, most of what I saw of her work was inspiring and intelligent, made for a woman's body, I was so glad to know she was over there in New York. I feel like with this label she's gone into the core of her style and heart. And then to make things even more enthralling, ten percent of sales from the Urban Zen stores goes to the people in Haiti. It reminds me a bit of the inspirational <a href="http://www.anitaroddick.com/">Anita Roddick</a>. Thank God for powerful, humanitarian, and creative women like this, they give the rest of us such an excellent reference point.</div>
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'Tiger, tiger burning bright in the forest of the night...." (a extract from Willaim Blake's <a href="http://www.daypoems.net/poems/441.html">famous poem</a>) I haven't put the whole thing here, because this is really about this amazing picture.<br />
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His work is about freedom. Freedom to envelope your body in beautiful draping fabrics, freedom to be feminine without having to display your body packaged and bound up so tight, layers of stiffening and hype, your flesh sort of squeezes out of the gaps, and you can't breathe, you can't walk properly, because you should done have a course on stilt walking before wearing those shoes, which may make you feel tall and powerful, but compromise your back, and your natural rhythm, and actually disconnect you from your real power, that of being a woman standing on Earth now, in these times. How can this be 'cool' or 'hot'? You're not free to just enjoy and revel in the beauty of being in a feminine body, who's natural rhythm is like that of nature, sensual and gracefully shifting between spaces, the senses alive and open.</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869609742491949539noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3873211758941663399.post-35066543738737083802011-10-15T14:56:00.001+11:002011-10-15T14:56:11.412+11:00Asako Narahashi<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Even though there is a darkness in the dencontructed chic of this great Belgian designer, there is a dreaming there too. And lately in my interest in Innana, the Sumerian Goddess of dark and light, this ensemble just makes stopped me in my tracks. Timeless and a classical signature look (this season she showed a lot of chiffons and transparents in amongst the structured unstructures.</div>
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">How elegant is this beautiful woman from South Sudan?! Even though she's standing in front of a war machine, she holds her own in her beautiful subtle coloured drapery. The combination of prints, which</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">look like indigenous traditional patterns (but I don't know that for sure), the way she is standing, so feminine and graceful..</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And there she is standing in front of the brutish looking tank, on dusty dry ground, probably barefoot (but I don't know that for sure either). Inspiring...</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869609742491949539noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3873211758941663399.post-26052933449400592132011-07-25T19:21:00.001+10:002011-07-25T19:23:14.765+10:00Edward Steichen's photograph of Marion Morehouse (Mrs e.e. Cummings)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhetDxpfXJQO_o4G027fFAVaee0b9rpAd2lHuBCm-A7nf0theexy8yWzkg7DAo1r5r13XMVYO7TDMj_-P_2bGpz5xBg4KE4-BdG8sbJtqE8A0eKZ_Rtu3EgbcED0gggKtsFRIMK5vtHs7s/s1600/Edward+Steichen+photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhetDxpfXJQO_o4G027fFAVaee0b9rpAd2lHuBCm-A7nf0theexy8yWzkg7DAo1r5r13XMVYO7TDMj_-P_2bGpz5xBg4KE4-BdG8sbJtqE8A0eKZ_Rtu3EgbcED0gggKtsFRIMK5vtHs7s/s400/Edward+Steichen+photo.jpg" width="315" /></a></div><br />
This is surely an amazing moment in time! The photograph by Edward Steichen, the model is Mrs ee Cummings: Marion Morehouse; and the dress is by Louis Boulanger, and taken in 1926. I so wish I could take a time machine back to the twenties and thirties, the fashion, photography, art, design and architecture was extraordinary, especially when you compare it to the late nineteenth century, and Edwardian times, which were pretty interesting. Even the beginning of the awakening in Art Nouveau, however magnificent and iconoclastic at times, doesn't compare in my opinion.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">I was just browsing around some of the sites I've collected lately, </div><div style="text-align: center;">just quietly in the late afternoon, suffering a little from what I call </div><div style="text-align: center;">'late-afternoon-lag' (not unlike jet lag, only there's no excuse), </div><div style="text-align: center;">when I came across these beautiful pictures of Patrick Demarchelier's, </div><div style="text-align: center;">from his <a href="http://demarchelier.com/fashion">site</a>. I felt like I'd drunk a strong espresso laced with theta frequencies</div><div style="text-align: center;"> and the delights of an image which just gets everything right in the fashion</div><div style="text-align: center;"> and photography stakes. And that's not even talking about the movement/dance </div><div style="text-align: center;">Spiritual and physical expression!</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869609742491949539noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3873211758941663399.post-41083232408322856522011-07-03T18:41:00.000+10:002011-07-03T18:41:04.024+10:00sunset at North Pole, a rare and beautiful sight<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiddV4HLv0RszFDRJ-rKqhXFIfZO47D-_YnmqIKr7-K6O7oZbw9h3ADFFMxs0Zfjo-vB9LfbQ5ElADpu2LRqtm959mnZQ-m5qZNO56T3YHqmuv9uoRlabeQuqa9LaS5Rw_CYjAHmFGMJQg/s1600/sunset+at+North+Pole.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiddV4HLv0RszFDRJ-rKqhXFIfZO47D-_YnmqIKr7-K6O7oZbw9h3ADFFMxs0Zfjo-vB9LfbQ5ElADpu2LRqtm959mnZQ-m5qZNO56T3YHqmuv9uoRlabeQuqa9LaS5Rw_CYjAHmFGMJQg/s400/sunset+at+North+Pole.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I stole a little cutting of purple wandering jew from a garden in Brisbane, and brought it down to cold old Melbourne. I thought if I just put it in a sunny spot for a week or two in a glass of water, and let it acclimatize to the cold down here, that everything would just work out fine. Well, not only did it work out fine! It sprouted these tiny little beautiful flowers one after another for weeks. They'd only last a few hours, and then another one would come up two days later. I felt like I was being being showered with wandering jew blooms. A friend told me about how when plant is threatened with death it just throws out</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">as many of its flowers/seeds as it can. </div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869609742491949539noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3873211758941663399.post-26540088655586569882011-06-02T11:18:00.000+10:002011-06-02T11:18:03.946+10:00Happy 85th birthday Marilyn! ♡<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGDgykQXwSthgEUC9VuYw9dXxlddMebJJgzv0vrQBInoDZ_JryWWCEInIqk2iARvnUFuZOVrE38ihEUdvwKSQJ2B1Z9o5ZYKTkZFAExjOMTAcnIUiXODQcFVzgbbwjFhH2rNX4CDF9iyY/s1600/cecilbeatonmarilynmonroe.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGDgykQXwSthgEUC9VuYw9dXxlddMebJJgzv0vrQBInoDZ_JryWWCEInIqk2iARvnUFuZOVrE38ihEUdvwKSQJ2B1Z9o5ZYKTkZFAExjOMTAcnIUiXODQcFVzgbbwjFhH2rNX4CDF9iyY/s400/cecilbeatonmarilynmonroe.jpg" width="316" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">She still brings tears to my eyes! When I was a child I thought she was a kind</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">of Goddess, and ofcourse she was. I was so inspired by her, and cried when</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">she was found dead in her Hollywood home. I realised all of a sudden that the</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">world I was living in couldn't accomodate someone as luminous, intelligent, funny</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">radiant and ofcourse vulnerable as Marilyn. This photo was taken by Cecil Beaton,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">in my opinion, the master portrait photographer, amongst other things.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I'm not sure where this mysteriously beautiful photo comes from..</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I find it particularly evocative.It reminds me of a dream or a scene from another era</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> or dimension, it takes me back to my childhood when I longed to be a classical </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">ballet dancer (oh but I'm so glad I didn't go in that direction now!).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I just grew too tall and big boned to be a classical ballet dancer. Anyway, </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">here she is, and her height and weight don't matter in the slightest. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The metaphor is for 'freedom', the freedom to </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">do whatever you want, and be whoever you want to be..I love it.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869609742491949539noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3873211758941663399.post-3117752550108168482011-05-07T15:49:00.000+10:002011-05-07T15:49:56.922+10:00Paul Strand & Alfred Stieglitz<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-tWGb9CZaUPlD4E1majeTidwz6aoDyrSYES0-58B7K8-RmEmB0jsRUB46pJOlWVywUEBiYi_td8b1cuvJAOnq7lCIw15WjnnnGK2O2O_Lp4OuE-cF9eGgzLmgGWmZDZZS5gYVcHByp0E/s1600/Paul+Strand+leaves.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-tWGb9CZaUPlD4E1majeTidwz6aoDyrSYES0-58B7K8-RmEmB0jsRUB46pJOlWVywUEBiYi_td8b1cuvJAOnq7lCIw15WjnnnGK2O2O_Lp4OuE-cF9eGgzLmgGWmZDZZS5gYVcHByp0E/s400/Paul+Strand+leaves.jpg" width="298" /></a></div><div class="p1"><br />
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<div class="p1"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">"It is not art in the professionalized sense about which I care, but that which is created sacredly, as a result of a deep inner experience, with all of oneself, and that becomes 'art' in time."</div></div><div class="p1"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Alfred Stieglitz</div></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869609742491949539noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3873211758941663399.post-51547673332413800022011-05-04T13:12:00.000+10:002011-05-04T13:12:03.225+10:00Stephen Meisel for Vogue in 2003<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0_Jgsu6OmP45hpDD3CnKMkqfHDE8uct5mEt20wBIEz8Ea2dDc0c_tkHNtTf9GxkVFDGtnkaqk5qPAR3xaw-C3-YTqk_o24idYt0Oqi8fMIE9inMns_tBtJrHBFFqztQn72SIQlMfm1G4/s1600/Mad+About+You-photo+Steven+Meisel+for+Vogue+2003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0_Jgsu6OmP45hpDD3CnKMkqfHDE8uct5mEt20wBIEz8Ea2dDc0c_tkHNtTf9GxkVFDGtnkaqk5qPAR3xaw-C3-YTqk_o24idYt0Oqi8fMIE9inMns_tBtJrHBFFqztQn72SIQlMfm1G4/s640/Mad+About+You-photo+Steven+Meisel+for+Vogue+2003.jpg" width="451" /></a></div><br />
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'Mad About You', is the name of this photograph shot by Stephen Meisel for Vogue in 2003.<br />
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It is one of those amazing timeless images which moves something other than one's aesthetic values. There's something poignant and delicate, which so suits the mood of this century so far.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869609742491949539noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3873211758941663399.post-72156457726139267702011-04-26T19:22:00.000+10:002011-04-26T19:22:11.803+10:00Is Marilyn Minter's work even more relevant now than it was when she created it?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHJ33c1m0FrSXann4z_U4oJU358nLq_QICXC2PMro_9hSpx2YpZhOPDR9VUgZOuOAKVYMHKp43_RWjk1Ta5TgiEwcUA5bDjSIJ6Rbjr_e6gOdCfzeGVHrUVFdOZbcORs_SGA1dAkxDKiQ/s1600/minter_marilyn+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHJ33c1m0FrSXann4z_U4oJU358nLq_QICXC2PMro_9hSpx2YpZhOPDR9VUgZOuOAKVYMHKp43_RWjk1Ta5TgiEwcUA5bDjSIJ6Rbjr_e6gOdCfzeGVHrUVFdOZbcORs_SGA1dAkxDKiQ/s400/minter_marilyn+2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Here is an artist I've only just discovered.</div><div style="text-align: left;">Her work reminds me a bit of Cindy Sherman, because of its lurid erotica or (at times) confronting content. They also have in common that they are not trying to create beauty, but they are both questioning what beauty is.</div><div style="text-align: left;">If you put her name in your favorite search engine and just look at her images spread across the web, you will get a sense of what she's saying.</div><div style="text-align: left;">I find her work important and relevant at this time, when fashion is often a mash of mixed up fads, styles, and genres, and quite often ugly and contrary to our programmed wish for it to wisk us away into a world where everything is beautiful and perfect. When we cannot find beauty in the classical or traditional sense, we have to start questioning what it is that soothes us rather than what is provokes us into a reactive state.</div><div style="text-align: left;">Here is an artist whose mash-up shows integrity and cohesive enquiry.</div><div style="text-align: left;">More about her work is here: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_Minter">Marilyn Minter. </a></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869609742491949539noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3873211758941663399.post-35958967361384659752011-04-24T18:46:00.000+10:002011-04-24T18:46:47.195+10:00the sub-tropical pool<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtfs1XDchm2l5f9aMOBOP9tNQ7jX8IGIIVBi0R-_cuNH9si6phHoxpzy2m9sKF_70QkKcLaHl19GvUNLS-WmbLzU94AdjpsxZBFUtySusBncdZxFyde2rOUbLhsoWOrMWGh3TlN3HYZUo/s1600/pool.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtfs1XDchm2l5f9aMOBOP9tNQ7jX8IGIIVBi0R-_cuNH9si6phHoxpzy2m9sKF_70QkKcLaHl19GvUNLS-WmbLzU94AdjpsxZBFUtySusBncdZxFyde2rOUbLhsoWOrMWGh3TlN3HYZUo/s320/pool.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">The warm sensuality of slipping into a pool in a sub-tropical rain forest....</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869609742491949539noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3873211758941663399.post-13781451451081250422011-03-05T13:23:00.001+11:002011-03-05T13:24:40.114+11:00Alber Elbaz at Lanvin ~ such a master<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVmNLzPpBfmibdopMZ65Jpan0IlLhr0jd5QDq7YrRHl9J5ZQ6_X-UBQ4cMS001U0TtYpEOmTdtWhMbbrE4z9jXm5TBg9hJdOoPMQt1QEi7e8CpQHrYMxJ5lU7ni8bBm5QInMWFOzQECC8/s1600/Lanvin+fw+11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVmNLzPpBfmibdopMZ65Jpan0IlLhr0jd5QDq7YrRHl9J5ZQ6_X-UBQ4cMS001U0TtYpEOmTdtWhMbbrE4z9jXm5TBg9hJdOoPMQt1QEi7e8CpQHrYMxJ5lU7ni8bBm5QInMWFOzQECC8/s640/Lanvin+fw+11.jpg" width="425" /></a></div>The Fall/Winter 2011 collection at <a href="http://www.lanvin.com/#/en/lanvin-house/portraits-alber-elbaz">Lanvin</a>, is such a beautiful mixture of structure and flow. I always find something which makes me stop in my tracks. He somehow captures that formality of Lanvin, and yet the feminine and intuitive flow of fabric and colour together, which I think is a rare feat.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869609742491949539noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3873211758941663399.post-25838061860681526402011-02-24T13:41:00.000+11:002011-02-24T13:41:33.076+11:00a London Fashion Week jewel ~ Mary Katrantzou<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXS2y7-jTdxIte2fwQqaKZQNEb9ynSomAlEtGx0fxW8_jSdwnZ9I8T7NFAoveXenpEDjqlne4Dbb9s-MHbw4AnR_KyFIvkuj6d78TCjjADLXT-iDkhSLWpeM4xoCgIHufRb3RvBtmj1fM/s1600/mary+katrantzoe+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXS2y7-jTdxIte2fwQqaKZQNEb9ynSomAlEtGx0fxW8_jSdwnZ9I8T7NFAoveXenpEDjqlne4Dbb9s-MHbw4AnR_KyFIvkuj6d78TCjjADLXT-iDkhSLWpeM4xoCgIHufRb3RvBtmj1fM/s400/mary+katrantzoe+2.jpg" width="266" /></a></div>I haven't heard of this designer before, and she might not do more seasons, but her beautiful story of a delicate and playful feminine spirit has touched and inspired me.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I particularly loved the romance, WonderWoman and Superman comics. I wish I'd kept them, I'm sure they'd still inspire me, with their evocative and powerful archetypal images, all made the more emotional because of the dots somehow. (like what one imagines to be swirling molecules or atoms...always keeping one's feelings on the edge and stirred....)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">When I went to Art School in the late sixties, I was delighted to find Lichtenstein ofcourse.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><h2 id="posttitle_37916584" style="color: #3a3434; font-family: Helvetica-Light, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> </h2><h2 id="posttitle_37916584" style="color: #3a3434; font-family: Helvetica-Light, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> </h2><h2 id="posttitle_37916584" style="color: #3a3434; font-family: Helvetica-Light, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> <a href="http://4cp.posterous.com/in-defense-of-dots-the-lost-art-of-comic-book" style="color: #3a3434; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">In Defense of Dots: The lost art of comic books</a></h2><div class="post" id="post_37916584" style="color: #3a3434; font-family: Helvetica-Light, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.2em;"><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.25in; margin-top: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.5em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.5em;"><em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">A photograph is a universe of dots. The grain, the halide, the little silver things clumped in the emulsion. Once you get inside a dot, you gain access to hidden information, you slide inside the smallest event.</span></em></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.5em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.5em;"></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.25in; margin-top: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.5em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.5em;"><em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">This is what technology does. It peels back the shadows and redeems the dazed and rambling past. It makes reality come true.</span></em></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.5em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.5em;"></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.25in; margin-top: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.5em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.5em;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">—Don DeLillo, <em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Underworld </em>(1997)</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.5em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.5em;"><span style="font-size: small; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">From the 1940s to the 1970s, comic book art and comic books were the same thing. In the decades since, the art of comics has been carefully separated from the original physical conditions of its reproduction. Elevation of the 20th century art form has resulted in the erasure of the 20th century mechanical processes that enabled comic books to exist and thrive – for ten, twelve, fifteen, or twenty cents, millions of times over.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.5em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.5em;"><span style="font-size: small; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">It was an economic bargain that significantly defined the aesthetic terms of comic books: cheap paper, cheap printing, and four-color separations that could not hide their limitations. These accidental aesthetics governed the experience of comics for generations, were appropriated for fine art in the 1960s, and today fall into the “retro” category of graphic design.</span></div></div><br />
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