On November 17th, 2015, a Saudi Arabian court sentenced Ashraf Fayadh to death on accounts of apostasy (abandoning the Muslim faith). Before his sentence, Fayadh had spent the last two years being detained and released from prison on several accounts. First he was arrested in August 2013, with the accusation
Year: 2015
Youtube is a growing platform that results in various types of videos being shared. The range is from musical covers to people video blogging about their lives. A key motivation for most of these videos are from the amount of views and likes they get. To become a video with
Richard Prince certainly knows how to gain attention with his art. From June 12th to August 15th 2015, Prince had an exhibit in the Gagison Gallery titled New Portraits. What is included in this exhibit? Portraits obliviously, however, none of the portraits featured were taken by him. In fact, the
After a very emotional music video focusing on rape on college campus, Lady Gaga’s music video for Til it Happens to You notes the statistic that 1 in 5 college women are sexually assaulted yearly. This music video is well thought out. From being a black and white music video,
How long should you wait after someone dies to mention their name? How long until it becomes acceptable to use their story, to exploit their experiences, whether you knew them or not? Is it acceptable to make someone’s death into your own art? Is it acceptable, is it art, to
Everyone has a fetish and this woman is just helping them dress for it. Australian designer Teale Coco began designing bondage and goth inspired clothes at the age of 20 after modeling in New Zealand, Korea and Japan. She calls herself a rebel and designs fashionable fetish wear- including harnesses,
***TRIGGER WARNING: SHOOTINGS/SCHOOL SHOOTINGS/ISLA VISTA MASSACRE*** For many, May 23rd 2014 is a date they will remember for the rest of their lives. Six UC Santa Barbara students were murdered, and 14 were injured when a young man by the name of Elliot Rodgers went on a killing spree around
In today’s day and age there are plenty of so-called Sin Cities to be found. But recently, a ginormous site in Jordan was found that rivals all of these. This site at Tall el-Hamaam dates back between 3500 and 1540 BC, far back into biblical days and experts that have
This was puzzling to me when I first read about the release of a children’s game centered around the slave trade. Clearly, in recent years there has been more attention brought to racial issues, many people still bringing up the feelings revolving around the U.S. being founded on the work
Many recognize M.I.A for her hit ” Paper Planes” which released in 2007. It;s nearly eight years later, and she’s more well known for her “Bad Girls” video which came out in 2013. But M.I.A. is much more than a musician; she’s a visual artist and she features heavy political