mountain hags

ganguro ( Ganguro face-black) is an alternative fashion trend among young japanese women which peaked in popularity around the year 2000, but remains evident today.

yamanba and manba are terms often used to describe extreme practitioners of ganguro fashion. they feature darker tans and add white lipstick, pastel eye makeup, tiny metallic or glittery adhesives below the eyes, brightly-colored contact lenses, plastic dayglo-colored clothing, and incongruous accessories to the ganguro look.

the term yamanba derives from yama-uba, the name of a mountain hag in japanese folklore whom the fashion is thought to resemble. - wikipedia

in japan, pale skin is seen as being the most attractive, so when these girls get extreme tans and paint their faces black, they are rebels. and that makes me like them, no matter how wrong they may look. in fact, i LIKE wrong.

i'm glad the norm here in norway is being tanned. that way, i can say "fuck the mainstream!" while still staying attractively pale and free of wrinkles and other sun damage. not that i'd stop being pale if it became the norm, i just don't tan. and besides, going against the mainstream isn't a must to me - but it does feel nice! although i guess all sort of subcultures are mainstream within their own culture... .. it's hard work being a rebel.




i like her green hair matched with the pink top. green and pink is a strange combination.

more magic mushroom induced art madness

when asked about what inspires his work, larry carlson answers the following;

"To stay inspired, I look at a lot of different kinds of art in museums, galleries, and online. Many of the ideas for my art come to me in dreams and visions, so i spend a lot of time cultivating a 'mystcal state of mind". A lot of people think all my work comes from just tripping on psychoactive's. While I do get very inspired by hallucinogenic, especially natural ones, my technique for making art is more like entering a mystical transcendental state where i'm kind of lost in what im doing. I work best in a deep trance state where the universal influence of color, image, and rhythm comes out intuitively. "

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larry carlson's art blog

pink princess

hildreth, who says she has worn pink every day for the past five years, dyes her poodle named 'pink princess' about once a month to maintain her pinkness.

according to colour therapy, pink is a soothing colour and "lessons feelings of irritation and aggression". it didn't mention anything about the dangers of visual diabetes.



while staying on the subject, look at this sorry little bastard:


and check out these furry bitches:


i showed these pictures to my grandmother, and she exclaimed "what has become of humanity!?". i think internet is what happened. there's always been "special" people, and i hope there always will be.

nostalgia

i love anything that looks old, it's got something to do with memories, life and death; a taste of the incomprehensible. i like how wendy bevan makes her photos look old, like faded polaroids.

it makes me want to get a polaroid camera. there's something novel about the finality of a polaroid photo, now that everything is digital and changeable.







while doing a search on wendy bevan, i came across a blogger who has found a camera that gives that nostalgic feeling:

"Diana+ is a camera by Lomography that takes photographs full of soft & dreamy images, super-saturated colors, unpredictable blurring, and random contrast." animal talk

i might need that as well.. i need a lot of things.. :s read more about the camera here.

does anyone know

who this is by?

too much of a good thing can be wonderful

there's just something strange about seeing too many of anything. i remember once when i was flying to england, and i was looking down at the fields packed with sheep from the window- it looked like the land was infected with some sort of parasites. lice. it didn't look healthy, and it amused me. i see the same effect in the work of sandy skoglund.

lucy and bart!

art collaboration between lucy mcrae and bart hess described as "an instinctual stalking of fashion, architecture, performance and the body."




www.lucyandbart.blogspot.com