Zara Dinnen
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Funny Military Music Videos
Hey, Really interesting post and comment. I am interested in your use of cuteness here. I don't think it is necessarily in contradiction with the comment about actual practices on a base. The cuteness is what modulates public perception of what happe ... -
Body/Screen/Skin
Hey Swagato. Exciting to read your take on these films and Johansson, and to know that there are people coming together to talk about them. I really like the way you draw attention to the work Lane's profile does in capturing a particular mode of see ... -
Parts of Her
Hi Swagato-- thanks! I have just read your entry. I'll post a comment there too. In answer to why the emphasis on the face. I feel uneasy about having made this cut-- separating the face from the body-- but am interested in how this way of seeing the ... -
Exposure
Thanks for great first post! I like the doubleness of the words 'exposure' and 'medium' in your description-- the relationship between technological artefacts and technologies of expression (something spectral here?). I think this usef ... -
Funny military videos
Hey Just wanted to also say thanks for the post. I am doing some work on the music videos soldiers make-- choreographed to Carly Rae Jepson and Lady Gaga etc. It seems there is not much writing on this stuff around, so I appreciate this. And the links to ... -
punctum
Thanks again for this post. It is good to look at these images in a connected way. Developing what you've said it I wonder if the effect of the hand drawn script is somehow linked to Barthes' 'punctum'-- that the sense of recognition ... -
Framing ugly
Dara-- thanks for this post, really interesting. I guess in addition to the points you make it is interesting seeing these videos at such low res and thinking about how the medium actually obscures the images of the girls. The judgement they invite is pr ... -
Tone of voice
Eric, Thanks for this post. Moore's voice and the sound design are incredibly soothing (I am gonna say it is almost soporific). Which may be neither here nor there or may actually be part of the self-presentation-- does he always sound like this? I ... -
Fashion
Eric, thanks for the comment. Hadn't thought about the fashion angle but this is absolutely true. In that sense (the photoshop’d kind) it also speaks to these portraits as being, at least in part, the creation of the Second Life programmers. The pr ... -
Dinosaurs
Dara-- thanks for the comments. The Mattes' are definitely playing with (in) the irony-beauty-pop triangle; though I keep coming back to the digital. It seems that these images always turn you back to the materiality of the media, there is nowhere e ...