Archive for 'MTV'
The Writing on the Wall: Fafi
When Fafi was eighteen, she started sneaking out of her parents’ home to make public art. Her work, which is cartoonish, features what her myspace page calls “powerful and active” images of girls. Fafi, now thirty-one, lives in France with her husband and children and travels the world to install her rogue pieces, which she [...]
Posted: June 25th, 2007 under 30 Rock, Dr. Faustus, Girls Rock, Italian Vogue, Japanese, Le Sportsac, MTV, Marlowe, Mash, Pornography, Self Objectification, The Face, angel, anime, art, artist, devil, fafi, fashion, female, female artist, femininity, graffiti, identity, money, mural, nipple, objectification, power, public art, race, sex, sex goddess, sexuality, spray paint, standard of beauty, stereotype, vandalism, wardrobe malfunction.
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Kanye West’s Gold Digger: Cashing in On Social Capital
Saturday night’s Mos Def concert was punctuated by frequent samples to highlight the talents of Mos’ DJs. One of the samples they chose was the bouncy blues of Ray Charles’ “I Got A Woman” (click for an audio-only experience; this was pre-MTV). A girl behind me bopping her head to the beat, was trying to [...]
Posted: April 30th, 2007 under Gold Digger, I Got a Woman, Kanye West, MTV, Misogyny, Mos Def, Psalm One, Ray Charles, Wikipedia, exploitation, hip hop, music video.
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