it’s art baby!

This entry was written by Pinar&Viola, posted on April 11, 2013 at 4:55 pm, filed under Craftsmanship, Folk, Research, Things 'n Flings. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

Deep fried gadgets

Image courtesy of Tumblr, Henry Hargreaves

This entry was written by Pinar&Viola, 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.

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.

This entry was written by Pinar&Viola, 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.

Prison fantasy escapes

Many of America’s prisons boast visiting rooms that are festooned with bizarre wall art, so that friends and family members of incarcerated people can take pictures of their loved ones on backdrops other than the depressing, institutional grays and whites of the correctional facility.

Artist and photographer Alyse Emdur has compiled six years worth of such portraits for her new book, Prison Landscapes. Inspired by a childhood photograph of herself posing with her incarcerated brother, Emdur contacted 300 prisoners and asked if they’d like to provide family photos and get involved in the project.

“My act as a photographer is not from behind the lens but as a collector of images,” Emdur told Wired. “I see myself as a mediator. These are people who have had no relationship with the outside world so while Prison Landscapes might be a very small gesture, the people who chose to be involved in this project want to be seen; they have their own agency. They want the outside world to know they aren’t the criminals they are stereotyped as.”

Emdur also sees her work as a critique of our country’s ever-growing prison system. “Clearly prisoners are more than their crime,” she says. “I’m not saying they’re not criminals; they are in prison because they were convicted and proven guilty. I am not going around that but it is important to look at these images and consider the rise of the prison industrial complex. The portraits reveal a system and how individuals fit within that system.”

This story is taken from Wired and text is taken from Animal New York.

This entry was written by Pinar&Viola, posted on February 25, 2013 at 9:37 am, filed under Craftsmanship, Folk, Ghetto gold, Glam Chaos, Other ecstatics, Photography, 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 Pinar&Viola, 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.

Thank u Santa #XmasGun #Merica

Happy faces flaunting their fav Xmas gifts on Instagram:

This entry was written by Pinar&Viola, posted on December 27, 2012 at 10:38 pm, filed under Folk, Political glam, Subculture, Trending. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

Christmas sweatshirt party

This entry was written by Pinar&Viola, posted on December 24, 2012 at 6:19 pm, filed under Fashion, Folk, Holiday_Pics, Things 'n Flings, Various. 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 Pinar&Viola, posted on 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.

Collective unconscious of the decomposing empire

These images are taken from ROSOSSISIA, a chapter within the blog looo.ch. The excessive research shows images referring to a certain post-soviet cultural phenomenon and trans-regional style which expresses the collective unconscious of the decomposing empire.
Golden domes and leather jackets. Carpets on the walls. Pranks of the drunk children. Concrete toys. Hysteria, tragicomedy, absurd. Serial policemen. iPhonized Tzar. Gestapo of the Russian Orthodox Church. Post-Jail-Chanson-Techno. Romance of Beer. Lo-Fi Baroque. Cat pissed slippers. Winter. Kielbasa. Socks. White on a gray. Gray in black.Teremok-supermall. Electro-balalaika.

This entry was written by Pinar&Viola, posted on December 11, 2012 at 3:51 pm, filed under Dematerialization, Folk, Glam Chaos, Information Wars, Internet, Various. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

Candy Art

This entry was written by Pinar&Viola, posted on November 27, 2012 at 6:18 pm, filed under Craftsmanship, Dematerialization, Folk, Other ecstatics, Things 'n Flings, Various. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

We have a new monthly Dazed Digital column

Our dear friends in Dazed invited us to be a guest contributors to their blog. From November on, we’ll have a monthly post about digital folk. As our first, we present you Turkey’s anti-evolutionist showgirls. An Islamist fringes wraps its hard anti-Darwin message in skin-tight Versace, drag-queen make-up and po-mo posing.

For November, we briefly present a female creationist ensemble from Turkey. These girls have proven that Islam, sexual objectification, passion, belief, tabloidization, manipulation, anti-Darwin and Versace can come together. Five Turkish bombshells, they are often referred as the girls, angels or kitten of Adnan Oktar, a self-taught Islamic preacher who gained respect for his fervent Creationist teachings. He presents his beliefs as a reformed and urbanized versions of Islam, where he clearly states Muslims, Christians and Jews should unite against the corrupting influence of Darwinism. He is also the author of the books Atlas of Creation Quadriology, an anti-evolution, Islamic-saga bouillabaisse. It displays a stunning ignorance of basic biology, and 6 legged humans skeleton visualizations are among the arguments that are employed to contradict Darwin.

This fabulous five consists of Gülşah Güçyetmez, Ceylan Özbudak, Ebru Altan, Damla Pamir and Aylin Kocaman. They are the bewildering accessories of the TV Show Adnan Oktar Chat Time at the religious channel A9. Every night these blazing women come together with the Islamic Creation packmaster Mr. Oktar. They hold discussions about Islam, pseudo-insta-fossils discrediting evolution and their favorite topic: Mr. Oktar.

This surreal set-up might be hard to grasp for a non-Turkish person. (One half of Pinar&Viola is Turkish). These woman contradict the terrorized image of Muslims used in the global press, while going completely against all the hardwork feminist activists have been battling over the years. While the restrictive state of Turkish journalism grows into a national shame, scandal and sensation still makes up a huge part of the Turkish media. Five voluptuous ladies with a combination of Zentai-tight, now-in-style Versace garments and make-up capable of making drag queens jealous, rubbing shoulders with religious sisterhood, and many references to history’s matriarchs.

These five women state they behave following the ethics of Kur’an, where it’s written the ones Allah guides look alike, as a reaction to questions regarding their similar looks. All of these girls have their own individual social media stardoms where they make loud manifestations adding to their media attention.

It’s not the first time that sensationalism, lies and cheap entertainment have been used to boost the ratings of a TV program, especially not in Turkey. That’s why the educated, intellectual, secular part of the Turkish population became completely immune to this first-degree propaganda. Their solution is simple, and troublesome – make fun of it.

This entry was written by Pinar&Viola, posted on November 21, 2012 at 11:05 am, filed under Decadence, Dematerialization, Fashion, Folk, Friends, Ghetto gold, Glam Chaos, Other ecstatics, P&V for Dazed Digital, Persona, Pinar&Viola, Published, Various, Visual ecstasy. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

Bōsōzoku

Bōsōzoku (暴走族?, literally “violent running tribe”) is a Japanese youth subculture associated with customized cars, motorcycles or trucks. Bōsōzoku is popular since the 1990s.
Bōsōzoku are known to modify their car, motorcycles or truck in peculiar and often showy ways.
These cars are often modified with large exhaust pipes, bright paint, and large aero kits, he latter modelled on Group 5 “Special Production Cars” of the 1970s. Also popular are oil coolers or less commonly large turbo or supercharger intercoolers with highly polished tubing, usually mounted in a prominent position in the front bumper.

This entry was written by Pinar&Viola, posted on November 5, 2012 at 12:54 pm, filed under Craftsmanship, Dematerialization, Folk, Ghetto gold, Glam Chaos, Other ecstatics, Subculture, Uncategorized, Various. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.