― Ben Boyer, Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:22 (twenty-two years ago)
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:23 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ben Boyer, Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:25 (twenty-two years ago)
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:26 (twenty-two years ago)
― hstencil, Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:27 (twenty-two years ago)
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:28 (twenty-two years ago)
(xp)
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:28 (twenty-two years ago)
I think it's a pretty good pic, btw.
― hstencil, Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:34 (twenty-two years ago)
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:35 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ben Boyer, Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:35 (twenty-two years ago)
christ you people can be dense, sometimes.
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:36 (twenty-two years ago)
― hstencil, Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:37 (twenty-two years ago)
― hstencil, Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:38 (twenty-two years ago)
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:39 (twenty-two years ago)
― hstencil, Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:42 (twenty-two years ago)
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:43 (twenty-two years ago)
― hstencil, Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:44 (twenty-two years ago)
xp: look, i don't know why you feel the need to adopt this den mother persona...no shit, i should be complaining to the dudes who are posting stuff like that? (i do, if you care to check.) griping about something doesn't equal attacking anyone in particular. when someone shows up to make a stupid comment i'll be sure to single them out for public derision directly, as you seem to be requesting.
anyway, i meant what i said about not rising to the bait. i'm out.
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:46 (twenty-two years ago)
― m.s (m .s), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:05 (twenty-two years ago)
― m.s (m .s), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:06 (twenty-two years ago)
What about all 'the dudes' who say nothing about it and attack those who do?
― m.s (m .s), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:09 (twenty-two years ago)
― m.s (m .s), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:19 (twenty-two years ago)
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:21 (twenty-two years ago)
― keith (keithmcl), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:25 (twenty-two years ago)
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:32 (twenty-two years ago)
― m.s (m .s), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:33 (twenty-two years ago)
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:35 (twenty-two years ago)
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:38 (twenty-two years ago)
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:38 (twenty-two years ago)
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:39 (twenty-two years ago)
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:40 (twenty-two years ago)
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:42 (twenty-two years ago)
― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:50 (twenty-two years ago)
― glenny g2003 (glenny g2003), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:54 (twenty-two years ago)
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 03:31 (twenty-two years ago)
― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 03:42 (twenty-two years ago)
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 03:45 (twenty-two years ago)
thanks.
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 03:46 (twenty-two years ago)
― meghan, Tuesday, 19 August 2003 03:47 (twenty-two years ago)
― B. Michael Payne (This Isnt That), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 05:20 (twenty-two years ago)
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 05:21 (twenty-two years ago)
― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 05:22 (twenty-two years ago)
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 05:24 (twenty-two years ago)
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 05:25 (twenty-two years ago)
But the sexism that jess mentioned -- as far as I can tell -- is the "scared little (net geek) indie boy" fear of women's real bodies -- ie/ in this case, a genuine pubic thatch, etc. How dare anyone portray women's bodies as real? As outside the commercially mediated American terror of physicality, with its coarseness, its odours, its disconcerting reality! I mean, why didn't they get her to shave, for fuck's sake?
I think that's what jess was alluding to, anyway. Otherwise, I'm all over the map here.
― David A. (Davant), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 07:06 (twenty-two years ago)
i'm perfectly aware that the way i talk about sex makes me sound completely weak, and i don't really care, cos i am, and its pretty obvious anyway.
as for the pube talk and the "sub paedo" stuff i didnt really notice that in the first thread. i think the shock at the pubes was more directed at the fact that it is in the New Yorker, and therefore unexpected (american media still doubtless has to contend with a lot of crap from hyper-moral groups and such). calling it "sexist" and "sub paedo" and indicative of the "testosteronification of ilx" sounds like a projection of someones own issues and fears to me anyway. which is fine, my issues and fears are projected all over a lot of what i say, but im not trying to pass off what i say as some sort of moral truth.
― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 07:39 (twenty-two years ago)
― dave q, Tuesday, 19 August 2003 08:08 (twenty-two years ago)
― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 09:44 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 10:35 (twenty-two years ago)
― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 11:44 (twenty-two years ago)
― chaki (chaki), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 13:11 (twenty-two years ago)
― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 13:21 (twenty-two years ago)
seconded, but it's the interweb after all. i think it's a great photo, dylan "t-shirt" included. american pop culture needs someone like cat power so badly right about now. i love _free_.
― disco stu (disco stu), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 14:19 (twenty-two years ago)
― chaki (chaki), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 14:34 (twenty-two years ago)
― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 18:11 (twenty-two years ago)
― disco stu (disco stu), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 22:15 (twenty-two years ago)
― dave q, Thursday, 21 August 2003 09:52 (twenty-two years ago)
― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Thursday, 21 August 2003 10:06 (twenty-two years ago)
― MikeB, Thursday, 21 August 2003 10:14 (twenty-two years ago)
― jed_e_3 (jed_e_3), Thursday, 21 August 2003 11:05 (twenty-two years ago)
what makes me sad is that every comment on the photo is re: her pubes or how much viewer finds her attractive. am i to deduce that no matter HOW women fuck with the conventions of "erotic" photogrpahy/film/whatever, Woman will always be The Object? (serious question - i'm not decided on this issue at all and probably never will be)
― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Thursday, 21 August 2003 11:50 (twenty-two years ago)
that's a great post di.
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 21 August 2003 12:07 (twenty-two years ago)
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 21 August 2003 12:11 (twenty-two years ago)
― kephm, Thursday, 21 August 2003 12:14 (twenty-two years ago)
― Larcole (Nicole), Thursday, 21 August 2003 12:14 (twenty-two years ago)
― kephm, Thursday, 21 August 2003 12:34 (twenty-two years ago)
― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Thursday, 21 August 2003 22:56 (twenty-two years ago)
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 21 August 2003 23:18 (twenty-two years ago)
― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Thursday, 21 August 2003 23:34 (twenty-two years ago)
More like no matter how women fuck with conventions of whatever, I will always be heterosexual. Any advice on how to turn that off is welcome (I can fake it though).
If my appreciating someone's appearance turns them into an Object, then both the Object and I are in deep shit, I think.
― Patrick (Patrick), Thursday, 21 August 2003 23:36 (twenty-two years ago)
― Patrick (Patrick), Thursday, 21 August 2003 23:41 (twenty-two years ago)
― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Thursday, 21 August 2003 23:44 (twenty-two years ago)
― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 21 August 2003 23:47 (twenty-two years ago)
― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Thursday, 21 August 2003 23:49 (twenty-two years ago)
― disco stu (disco stu), Thursday, 21 August 2003 23:57 (twenty-two years ago)
― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Friday, 22 August 2003 00:11 (twenty-two years ago)
― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Friday, 22 August 2003 00:26 (twenty-two years ago)
― disco stu (disco stu), Friday, 22 August 2003 00:54 (twenty-two years ago)
― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Friday, 22 August 2003 00:56 (twenty-two years ago)
― jed_e_3 (jed_e_3), Friday, 22 August 2003 01:27 (twenty-two years ago)
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 22 August 2003 01:28 (twenty-two years ago)
And c'mon, let's be serious, you can't see that much in the way of pubes. No big deal, really.
― hstencil, Friday, 22 August 2003 01:39 (twenty-two years ago)
― Tad (llamasfur), Friday, 22 August 2003 03:42 (twenty-two years ago)
― Salmon Pink (Salmon Pink), Friday, 22 August 2003 19:43 (twenty-two years ago)
No one's directly stated that Chan and the photographer are joint authors of this photograph. It's about them both.
First thing I noticed is how unlike the other pictures I've seen of her it is. I wouldn't have known it was her.
She looks ten years older. The cigarette, jewelery and haircut contribute far more to an unwholesomeness than the low riding jeans do.
To me she looks like a Rolling Stones groupie from the 70s, or what I think one would look like.
Other people have mentioned that context is important, the fact that it's in a certain publication and by a certain photographer, but can someone answer the vital question, was it the only photo of her that went with the article? Or was there a more 'usual' representation of her there too? To us who've seen her before that picture will have a totally different impact to those who see her here for the first time.
TLML said:. am i to deduce that no matter HOW women fuck with the conventions of "erotic" photogrpahy/film/whatever, Woman will always be The Object? (serious question - i'm not decided on this issue at all and probably never will be)
Surely in this case Chan is aking that we pay particular attention to an object, a photograph, rather than her inner person. She dressed and posed in a certain way for this photo but I bet she didn't adopt the persona for her day to day life.
― mei (mei), Monday, 25 August 2003 13:46 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ben Boyer (Ben Boyer), Monday, 25 August 2003 14:11 (twenty-two years ago)
Interesting statement, esp. considering how most critics consider Avedon's skill lies in taking ugly pictures of beautiful people and in so doing draws attention away from the cult of personality.
Consider Avedon v. Mark Selinger v. LaChapelle
Though I suppose a real test would be finding subjects that all three have shot. Like Jonze and Cunningham and Gondry with Bjork.
― ModJ, Monday, 25 August 2003 19:57 (twenty-two years ago)
this surely adds to the cult, though? i don't think avedon would be such a success if his knack was truly for undercutting the foundations of celebrity. in some ways the idea that these celebrities are somehow being "revealed" via a photo by a celebrity photographer is itself more dependent on the cult of personality than anything.
sort of like how celebrities poking gentle fun at themselves adds to their allure, feeds back into the "just a regular guy"/"fascinating celebrity" loop.
― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 25 August 2003 20:36 (twenty-two years ago)
― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 25 August 2003 20:38 (twenty-two years ago)
― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 25 August 2003 20:39 (twenty-two years ago)
― disco stu (disco stu), Monday, 25 August 2003 23:22 (twenty-two years ago)
― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Friday, 17 June 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)
― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Friday, 17 June 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)
― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Friday, 17 June 2005 20:41 (twenty years ago)
― the Stanmore signal (nordicskilla), Friday, 17 June 2005 21:08 (twenty years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 17 June 2005 21:10 (twenty years ago)
― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Friday, 17 June 2005 21:12 (twenty years ago)