With social media exploding in the form of pictures, videos, streams, posts, etc, people materialize in the virtual world in an attempt to show the world who they are. But what is produced often times seems far from who the individual actually is in real life. Facebook, Instagram, and other
Buenos Aires, Argentina boasts one of the most vibrant street art scenes in the world and well-knows graffiti artists flock to Argentina to have a public space in which to express their creative outlets. And why? Because graffiti art in Argentina is completely legal. All streets in the city of
In January 1971, artist Vito Acconci hid underneath a fake floor which he had built in a New York art gallery, called the Sonnabend Gallery. Every day for two weeks, while people visited the gallery and walked over Acconci’s fake floor, they could hear him saying sexual fantasies that were
People love the internet. It can provide endless information and entertainment instantly. Anything out there can be accessed almost instantly with just the click of a button. However, the internet is also a really creepy place where it’s possible to find websites encouraging anorexia, dedicated to revenge porn, hate blogs,
The above article resolves around the recent controversy about a photo of Australian photographer Rohan Anderson which the band “Red Jumpsuit Apparatus” posted on Facebook without permission. The band defended their action by claiming that “all digital art should be free” and further that they would be giving away their
Everyone across the nation has seen a pair of shoes hanging from a power line or a telephone pole, but no one knows for sure why they are there, could they possibly have some deeper meaning or was it simply just for fun? Due to the widespread phenomena of “shoefiti”
Reverse graffiti is a innovative form of street art with close ties to environmental activists. At most reverse graffiti requires the use of a stencil and a pressure washer, or could use as little as one’s finger. This type of graffiti, is less a type of graffiti and more a
Amina Filali is a 16-year old Moroccan girl who committed suicide after being forced to marry her alleged rapist. Her tragical death dominated Moroccan and international media in March 2012. Amina had accused a young man in her village of rape, but because authorities failed to properly investigate her accusations,
“…[C]riminals are an exception among civilised people and women are the exception among criminals… As a double exception, then, the criminal woman is a monster.” – Cesare Lomroso, Italian Criminologist, 1893 The public’s fascination with women who murder is palpable, if not dangerously obscene. Apart from its statistical rarity, female
I’ve noticed that there are many ads that are promoted through the use of sex. Almost all the time the act is performed by a woman and the material being promoted does not correlate with the topic of sex. In the picture, Kate Upton is presented in a very sexual