Webcam Venus
Are Botticelli and Hugh Hefner really that different?
A project by Addie Wagenknecht and Pablo Garcia where they asked online sexcam performers to replicate iconic works of art. This piece is an experimental homage to both fine art and the lowbrow internet phenomenon of cams.
Webcam Venus project is developed for FAT lab by Addie Wagenknecht and Pablo Garcia. Webcam Venus is a work in two parts and will be shown in its entirety at FAT GOLD April 1-13 2013 at Eyebeam NYC.
This post is made possible thanks to Remco van Bladel
This entry was written by , posted on April 16, 2013 at 12:25 pm, filed under Art, Craftsmanship, Dematerialization, Digitalization, Internet, Selfies, Various, Video. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.
Happy iPets
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Deep fried gadgets
Image courtesy of Tumblr, Henry Hargreaves
This entry was written by , posted on April 1, 2013 at 8:45 am, filed under Dematerialization, Digitalization, Folk, Lifestyle, Things 'n Flings. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.
Tony Montana make up
HD make up gone wrong due to the light of the photography flash.
Guest post by Simone S. Niquille, who is a student of ours at Sandberg Institute Amsterdam. She is writing her graduation thesis on FaceValue and the text below is an extract from it.
In 2009 during the premiere for the movie ‘Nine’ in New York, photos of Nicole Kidman appeared: “What’s all the powder in her face?”. Most photos show Kidman covered in white powder on her nose and under her eyes, the exact spots foundation is applied to. Other photos of the night seem to show a normal face however. HD make-up reflects light differently than regular make up, making it possible to apply less product while still retaining a concealing function, perfect functionality for HD production. The flash of the photo cameras did not comply with the HD make-up however. The make-up product applied did not adhere to the techno norms of Kidman’s situation. The make-up was applied outside of its context and malfunctioned, resulting in a transparent make-up strategy reveal.
This entry was written by , posted on March 19, 2013 at 5:20 pm, filed under Decadence, Digitalization, Glam Chaos, Photography, Research, Things 'n Flings, Various. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.
There is someone for everyone
A look at 11 (real!) niche dating sites from around the Internet.
This compilation is made by Allison McCann for Bloomberg Businessweek.
Cougar Life 4,000,000 users
the average age of a cougar is 39, while the average cub is 29.
Sudar Daddie 3,000,000 usera
The average Sugar Daddie relationship appears to last four months, as indicated by the gap between users logging off and signing back on.
Beautiful People 750,000 users
6.5 million peole apply for membership each year, only one in eight is accepted.
Farmers Only 250,000 users
The fastest growing number of users by crop crown: wheat. The top state by number of female members who can drive a tractor: Missouri.
Geek2Geek 200,000 users
Top male user interests include video games and computers; females prefer film and fantasy. The site’s most active from 2 a.m. to 3.a.m.
Tattoed Singles 1000,000 users
The average number of tattoos per user: 7. The oldest member is 82.
Cupidtino 30,000 users
The first dating site for Apple fans: Users can log on only via Apple products
Purrsonals 15,000 users
The average number of cats per user: two. Users are 70 percent woman and 30per cent man.
Crew Dating 5,000 users
Where pilots and flight attendants go to find love. most dates occur on land.
Waiting Till Marriage 4,000 users
Born-again virgins account for 5 percent to 10 percent of members. The other 90 percent are actually waiting till marriage.
Scientific Singles 3,5000 users
Ninety percent of users are employed as scientists; the other 10 percent are merely hobbyists.
This entry was written by , posted on March 6, 2013 at 11:49 am, filed under Digitalization, Efficiency, Folk, Gender, Internet, Research, Various. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.
A selection of Russian profile pics
These images are taken from this site. This blogpost is made possible by Katharina Drasdo
This entry was written by , posted on February 15, 2013 at 12:20 pm, filed under Craftsmanship, Digitalization, Folk, Internet, Photography, Selfies, Various. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.
Optical Illusion Selfies
Optical Illusion Selfies is a work we did in collaboration with OKFocus. We made a special edition set of webcam filters as part of Overlayer.
Our Overlays are inspired by trompe-l’oeil, a classical painting technique that creates optical illusions. Trompe-l’oeils were popular among Baroque artists. The paintings deceived the viewer’s senses while the artists playfully explored the boundaries between image and reality on their canvas. As Pinar&Viola, our canvas is the internet and the web shows that, today the boundaries of image and reality, the actual and the virtual, are blurred away.
A special section of internet’s images are results of everyday digital gestures like a self-portrait, in netspeak labeled as a ‘selfie’. These self-aware selfies are our daily optical illusions that deceive the senses of our Facebook friends. Our profile pictures reveal, as much as they hide, our persona. Our tromple-l’oeil webcam Overlays are digitally crafted devotions of these carefully constructed acts of self-design. These illusionary sceneries are heavily inspired by digital folklore imagery like desktop wallpapers, GIF animations and fantasy web art.
Go to Overlayer.com and turn into a bright blue waterfall, a swamp oracle, a sadomasochistic fire spitting demon and more. The transformative pixels are only one click away, please share your selfies with us!!!
This entry was written by , posted on January 23, 2013 at 12:15 pm, filed under Dematerialization, Digitalization, Ecstatic Surface Design, Friends, Internet, Pinar&Viola, Selfies. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.
MRRY XMAS, meet my desktop stripper
Merry Christmas everyone!
We have a solution for those who feel lonely in the holiday season, desktop strippers. We met them during our research for The Importance of being Sexy, the XXX website we designed, like a year ago. They were popping up in the right cover of your screen while browsing in adult sites. Yet, recently we ran into their larger-than-life versions that we could download and have them parade in between our photoshop layers.
This entry was written by , posted on December 24, 2012 at 10:57 am, filed under Dematerialization, Digitalization, Folk, Internet, Research, Things 'n Flings, Various. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.
WWWINTER
This entry was written by , posted on December 18, 2012 at 10:35 am, filed under Dematerialization, Digitalization, Internet. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.
Brenmar’s latest release BF/GF
New York-based producer and DJ Brenmar creates his bassy trademark sound by mixing up house music with R&B and hip hop, clearly drawing on his influences from growing up in Chicago during the 90s – yesterday Dazed Digital premiered his brand new track “BF/GF”, with the album artwork we designed and our online love message service, 4eva. The very talented Brenmar wanted us to hand tailor an haute fashion cover for him. We offered him a cyclopean ghetto gold-ruby diamond wrapped in a Cartier à la Pinar&Viola jewel Box. The song is now the over and over of the studio. You can download it here.
This entry was written by , posted on December 11, 2012 at 9:25 am, filed under Craftsmanship, Decadence, Digitalization, Ecstatic Surface Design, Friends, Ghetto gold, Graphic design, Music, Pinar&Viola, Published, Visual ecstasy. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.
P&V 4 Adidas
We recently made a Adididas post, under the category, Research where we gathered bootleg version of the trefoil logo. The research was meant for a project we were hand crafting for Adidas. When they asked us to make a pattern, we took the chance to make a Ghetto-glam-didas version of the brand. Please look closer to the ecstatic pattern.
This entry was written by , posted on November 27, 2012 at 10:10 am, filed under Craftsmanship, Decadence, Dematerialization, Digitalization, Ecstatic Surface Design, Ghetto gold, Pinar&Viola, Published, Visual ecstasy. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.
TRANS
This entry was written by , posted on November 14, 2012 at 11:48 am, filed under Dematerialization, Digitalization, Gender, Internet, Persona, Queer, Various. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.