Archive for 'diy'
Can Jimmy Wong cure the new Hoof-and-Mouth Disease?
Today’s post is brought to you by the word bricolage, which Marita Sturken and Lisa Cartwright define as the practice of working with whatever materials are at hand, and making do with what one has. As a cultural practice, bricolage refers to the activity of taking consumer products and commodities and making them one’s own [...]
Posted: March 23rd, 2011 under Japan, Orientalism, agency, diy, objectification, race, racism, racist, romance.
Tags: a lover's discourse, aflac, alexandra wallace, barthes, bricolage, ching chong, dap, dap-kings, dip, disaster, diy, earthquake, ego, epidemic, foot-in-mouth, gilbert gottfried, hoof, japan, jimmy wong, mouth, new york city ballet, nuclear, Orientalism, political science, racism, sharon jones, subjectivity, tsunami, tweet, UCLA, youtube
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Ethics among Vandals: DIY Politics, Inc?
We’ve long celebrated reinventions of billboards that advocate everything from pinching bottoms to sexual entitlement, so initially ObjectifyThis was thrilled to learn about the Be Yourself Movement. Flavorwire describes the Be Yourself Movement as “an Italian art collective with an agenda,” by which it means a political movement. The BYM, as they call themselves, is a group of [...]
Posted: July 5th, 2010 under Billboard vandalism, Billboards, advertisement, advertising, alternative & punk, big business, campaign, common, conformity, consumerism, diy, materialism, politics, vandal, vandalism.
Tags: advertising, aesthetic, agenda, art collective, billboard, brazil, capitalism, consumerism, corporate influence, corporate interests, corporations, delicatessen, diy, do it yourself, emilythestrange, jean-pierre jeunet, marc caro, materialism, movement, nate the great and the lost list, oprah, politics, punk, self help, self-esteem, selling out, strange, terry gilliam, the church of just stop shopping, the school of practical philosophy, vandalism
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DIY: How (And Why) To Make Your Own T-Shirt Dress
Right, so I’ve been going on about agency for months, and I’ve never talked about the important of being active or being an activist in your own life. I took this amazing class called Fashion Matters, which actually got specifically made fun of by name by some of my friends in one of our on-campus [...]
Posted: October 13th, 2007 under Japan, Misogyny, Women and Gender Studies, agency, american apparel, butch, contemporary, costume, diy, do it yourself, dress, dresses, east, fashion, fit, free, historical construction, homemade, human rights, joke, material, objectification, oppression, postmodern, queer, reaction, social construction, straight, street fashion, stretchy, sweatshops, t shirt, union busting, west.
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