4 posts tagged “pop culture”

As the trickling flux of beta invites have made their way to a wider user base, FFFFound has gradually exposed itself to the public eye with both praise and criticism. The novice user is breached with a beautifully designed interface that upon first entry visually excites in a way that's rare in this age of proliferated images online. While this mediated effect retains its luster at a surface level upon each revisit and refresh of content, it eventually fades to a twinkle when authorship and credibility of the chosen works disappear in a sudden rush to 'fffind' any instance of an interesting image. In the case of the web this instance could both fortuitously be the artist's personal site, or in most cases a link four times removed from any artistic origin.

I'd like to wait and see what becomes of FFFFound in the next year before I make any particular decisions about it's success as a system; whether new features will be added (maybe a feature that allows users to correct the image's link to the appropriate origins?), and how the expansion of its user base affects its content and quality.

There is no doubt however that the visual collective on FFFFound is loaded with unique patterns that denote a very specific design-savvy, pop-cultured user, who may indulge in the occasional soft porn polaroid of a doey hipster nude. Today's post however will not be about the throes of helvetica tricks, the vintage photos of Japanese humanities, or the impressively rendered moleskine sketchbooks. I would like to bring attention to the copious amounts of Star Wars inspired pop art that instantaneously appears at least once every other page on FFFFound. At least, in my feed.

 
The following photos are only a slice of what ranges between public Chewbacca sightings, various interpretations of the Dark Lord's headpiece, and clever footnotes on the forbidden love between Princess Leia and every other character in the Star Wars series. Vader's mask becomes a richly limited canvas that evokes both it's cinematic history and its topical interpretation to modern day culture, an accessible kitsch equivalent of the Art world's cube. Meanwhile the galaxy far far away manages to find it's double life in every instance of common existence, from the family portrait to the nudie mag pull-out. 

ee.en sent these to me this morning and made my morning.  All of these are dead-on as far as I'm concerned, and fortunately (hopefully), I can confidently say I don't fall into any of pre-ordained illustrations. At least, an illustration hasn't been rendered yet. *phew*.  Check out more in my gallery and even more at yourscenesucks.

Let me just say first off, while this is certainly no better than celebrity gossip that's tossed around in Supermarket magazines, I absolutely believe that this is true.  Paris' only talent is making money, which shes quite good at.  Actually, she's also quite good at being a skanky popular couture whore, but I won't get too much into that.  Also, these aren't concrete facts and I don't have names, but again, I am not surprised whatsoever.

Surprise!  As expected, and as is painfully evident from her sorry excuse for lip-synching in her music video, Paris did not sing her new single  The Stars are Blind.  The song is actually sung by an unknown singer who was originally included on the track as a back-up singer for Paris. My friend, a high-ballin' fashion photographer, met this woman at a New York party (her photo can be see below, however he could not tell me her name).  
To prove that she was the true singer, she sang it for him in person and he said that she had the sound down to the dot.  The explanation is that after the track was recorded and being edited, the editors realized that the song was more Paris backing up the woman, as opposed to the other way around.  To guarentee that Paris would have some legitimacy to her song, they used the other woman's voice instead.

So what do you think?  Do you think that Paris deserves the credit of her manifest destiny to earn millions by pretending to be a singer/actress/model/perfume/pornstar?  Still think the song is good Paris is a hawty and don't care that she's a fake?  Don't care at all?  

Next step is to find the uncut version of the song.

(thanks for humoring me folks. celebrity gossip and ragging on paris hilton are some of my guilty pleasures)

A few blogsteps back I wrote a post about Yo Gabba Gabba (an up and coming kids tv show that is going to kick everyone in brain piece).  I've been following the website closely in hopes of further information about its premiere and where it will be showing on television.  They just released some new clips on their site, including one of the rhythm exercises lead by Biz Markie (as displayed below, check it).

In relation to all of this, earlier this evening I had a supermedia experience!  I was IM'ed by the producer of Yo Gabba Gabba, Justin Lyon, who just wanted to thank me for posting about the show.  I suppose that he must have located my post via google or something, but then again I had no idea that my post would be so easy to locate!  To be honest, at first I was a little hesitant about the legitamacy of his contact, but after a while I began to speak with him about Yo Gabba Gabba's development, and in particular how bloggers and interneters alike really made a difference in getting the show's existence out into the public sphere.  He was really great to speak with, and it was such a fascinating experience to communicate with someone about something I blogged about beyond the blogosphere. 

So thanks Mr. Lyon, for reaching out to wee bloggers such as moi! And good luck with Yo Gabba Gabba!