In what world is it okay to follow someone from their home to their place of business and to the gym? In what world is it acceptable to document another person’s hardships or the most personal moments of their life without permission or approval? None, you say? Unfortunately, this is
Month: November 2017
“There’s nothing like the feeling you get from the crowd, the chase, the wind between your legs, pure freedom. If ever you feel bored, low, or helpless, I will be there to save the day, to raise your spirits—and perhaps a few other things. You only live once, let it
Oh Deer Maybe it’s the sliver of Russian ancestry in my blood, but I saw a Vice mini-series about a Russian road trip scheduled to end at a nuclear testing center and could not resist a quick peek. Here are some of the explosive fast facts (pun intended). We like
Art can be a lot of different things. It can be subtle or drastic, soft or offensive, concrete or abstract. Art can be a delicately crafted performance intended to shock or make one quietly ponder. It can be a beautifully spun canvas of color, or an image that hurts to
You probably have never seen anything like the work of Robert Crumb before. What lives inside his mind is sexual, racist, disturbing, sometimes pornographic, and in every instance, odd. Much of his work tells stories of incest, necrophilia, assault, and pure mayhem. In the 1994 documentary “Crumb,” we uncover every
Game of Thrones is one of the most, if not the most, watched show on television to this date. It has a viewership of 25 million in the US alone, not factoring in fans in the UK, and worldwide. This intricately crafted, essentially cinematic experience thrives on the more taboo
How could a woman wearing a blazer with red and yellow flowers on it lead to her being thrown out of a Thai Temple and receiving death threats? To understand the weight of this situation we must look through Thai politics and a cultural lens in order to understand the
Slab City, “the last free place in America”, a city without law regulation, no policemen, and no judiciary court to stop you from what we (people who live in the safe county of San Diego) deem criminal. It’s a place you can live how you want, when you want it,
The concept of building a piece of art from a collection of weapons establishes a criminal art form with certain representations or messages conveyed by use of these weapons. The simple form of the weapon used to form a larger sculpture can contain a lot of meaning in itself. Consider
Who better to shed light on gender issues and violence then those objectifying themselves in beauty pageants? The Miss Peru 2018 contestants used their event this year to shed light on an important issue in their country, gender violence. A lot of countries and cultures have an unspoken realization of