"Things didn’t happen as I imagined. On the one hand, with the situation in Tehran, I expected the police to arrest me. I also thought that the resulting dress wouldn’t be aesthetically pleasing to the eye. But it turned out to be more homogenous than I envisaged. Most of the passengers wanted to communicate with me and participate in the project. And I enjoyed this attention and collaboration. The point wasn’t their understanding of the project. I didn’t want anything to be imposed on the audience or participants. I wanted ordinary people to encounter their own personalities without any preconceptions about contemporary art. More than anything, I wanted something to emerge that is shared — between me and everyday metro passengers."
The story of fashion student Shirin Abedinirad who conceived and carried out an unusual (and unusually bold) performance art experiment by asking Tehran metro passengers to donate their rubbish to pin on her dress.
[more inside]
posted by taz
on Nov 16, 2011 -
10 comments
HUH. Magazine is a media platform with the latest, most relevant news from the worlds of art, fashion, design, music and film. Recent features include:
Harvest by Haroshi: Skate and Destroy, artworks created with old worn, or snapped, skateboard decks |
Disassembly, capturing relics of our past in a unique, dismantled and exposed form |
Murakami at Versailles, knee-deep in controversy since its inception | and
Darren's Great Big Camera, a
short documentary about a camera that shoots on 14" x 36" negatives and measures 6ft. in length.
posted by netbros
on Jun 1, 2011 -
8 comments
Dune, the motion picture was made in Mexico City, Mexico during the spring of 1983. I was there to witness David Lynch as the director and here's what really happened! (
via)
posted by The Mouthchew
on May 5, 2010 -
56 comments
The Sound Of Clothes features
the precise sound of fashion materials such as feathers, sequins, glass crystals and beads, nylon, taffeta, leather, velvet, jacquard, zips and metallic chains, recorded in an anechoic chamber.
Videos linked from the page might be NSFW.
posted by jack_mo
on Mar 12, 2008 -
26 comments
I Do Nothing All Day - The guys at
idonothingallday.com
(perhaps
NSFW) do a great job of capturing the simple act of admiring a
beautiful
woman passing you by while walking around on the streets of NYC.
Some of the smiles can really lighten up your day. My particular
favorites
here,
and
here.
Most of the videos are embedded Quicktime with a few recent Flash
videos.
posted by Big Mike
on Sep 18, 2006 -
156 comments
Two videos (second one live) I don't understand in the slightest but which are pretty to watch. (movs)
posted by dobbs
on Jul 24, 2006 -
16 comments
