Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: gender, gender queer, pregnant man, sexuality, thomas beatie, trans
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This is beautiful and amazing, and moreso in that this is the first time I’m hearing about this. Thomas Beatie, who it seems became famous as ‘The Pregnant Man’ gave birth to a baby girl today in a Bend, Oregon hospital.
Especially in that he is trans and was born with female organs; I love that his birth (which will presumably get blown up close to everywhere) makes people hopefully question what it is to be male. Maybe even start to separate gender constructs from biological functions? One can only hope. |
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: art, coke, collage, dash snow, headspace, hipster holocaust, kerouac, new york
Or, how to create pastiches in which Downtown New York feels collectively better about itself. Rejuvinates its art scene in sperm smeared increments and poloroid flashes? Just like gentrification! Dash Snow! Yeah, progress to exclamatory/ejaculatory punctuation now. I really do want to like him for his work and not just the persona and the collateral Dash Snow Effect. Or the whole Dash as Samo as Another Four Letter Appendage business. Maybe it’s a microcosmic contemporary version of Andy Warhol and his whole downtown Factory scene? I do really dig a lot of the latter’s work though.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: art, ethics, filippo minnelli, italy, palestine, street art, suburban guilt, the wall, west bank
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Wouldn’t it be nice if we could wake up and hit these three magic keystrokes and erase the West Bank barrier wall à la Filippo Minnelli? Just like the IDF is systematically shredding, subsuming and erasing Palestinian identity? [via] Or rig the adverts that plaster city streets to instead display little broken image icons? I bet such a day with hyper-electronicised and centrally controlled advertisements isn’t too far off at all. In the meantime, there’s the lofi version – Andrea and Kiko’s little broken link icons on peeling walls plastered ready for a new slew of consumerist visuals. So simple, so effective. |
