Michaela Watkins made this awesomely hilarious video for Funny Or Die that does a female take on that show Hung that came out last year. Her "tight, toned, piss flaps" bring all the boys to the yard!
Francesca Woodman, fellow RISD Alum and one of my favorite photographers of the 70s is now the subject of a new film showing at the Tribeca Film Fest. I haven't seen the movie yet but it seems to be mostly about her relation to her family and the way they dealt with her death and memory since she committed suicide in 1981. Francesca's work is important due to its ability to use photography to take the at that time recent art movements of body and performance art, land art, and feminist art into a solidified and more current medium of photography. They also play with the early history of photography which in the 1800s was used primarily for portraits of the deceased and documentation of mental patients and supernatural occurances. Much of the work examines the experience of being young and female but in a way that claimed the female body as her own medium instead of someone else's muse. The work she is best known for was done while an undergrad at RISD, in the Rome honors program, and at the MacDowell Colony residency in New Hampshire.
I think its interesting that this new film goes at the topic of work through the family that was left behind to keep her memory in tact. Both of her parents and her brother are all artists and in many ways this is unsurprising. Often times the type of family that will support a child in attending art school, or in this case, support a child in getting naked and morbid and wild and taking photos of it - well often times that family has some understanding of art or already has an artist in the family. Yet, the prospect of taking care of the legacy of your deceased child's art career must be doubled in pain for parents who never reached the same level of notoriety with their own work. This seems to be what The Woodmans sets out to explore and I'm very interested in seeing the outcome.
I just read that Gabby Sibide will be hosting SNL! Woohooo! I have yet to see Precious cause I haven't been wanting to feel totally depressed - March is bad enough as is. However, I've been really into the fact that Gabby seems to be the total opposite of her character - she is a firecracker! For instance take this awesome video where she says she'd "hit that" about Gerard Butler. Then she says it to his face,,,,then she seems to try to propose a three way with him and Billy Bush, the host. I love it. And I love that Gerard is a totally respectable dude about the whole thing. Almost makes me want to forgive that traumatic experience that was The Ugly Truth. Anyhow, Gabourey Sibide is capable of making shows like Jimmy Kimmel entertaining so I bet she can rock it on SNL.
ALSO have ya'll heard about The Women Of Comedy SNL Special. Betty White is joining up with Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Molly Shannon. And then they're all gonna come over my house for an awesome sleepover party. Ok well in my dreams - but the SNL Special part is real.
Here's a clip from Parks and Recreation, which is really coming into its own in the second season. Here Poehler's character tries to take the blame for someone who got shot on a hunting trip.
Anything that combines history, drinking, and minor celebrities is right up my alley. Thankfully Drunk History is a new web series on Funny or Die that manages to bring together those three things for some very inebriated and disorganized re-telling of great tales from history.
Here's Jen Kirkman telling the story of Oney Judge one of George Washington's slaves. Jen has just downed a bottle and a half of wine and Washington is played by Danny McBride.
When I saw the below Alina Szapocznikow sculpture in a magazine today I immediately thought "oh shit its almost bathing suit season". I'm pretty sure the late Polish artist and Holocaust survivor did not have that on her mind when she made these "Great Bellies" sculptures. Yet, there is something along that wavelength going on when you think about the amount of dis-embodied lady parts you see around for purposes of selling something or turning someone on. Yet, I feel like in March everyone feels more like one of these bellies than a sexy boob or leg.
If you ever want to waste half a lifetime on youtube fall into the rabbit hole that is Halima Boland (referred to on some sites as Halema Poland or Bolnd?). Halima is a Kuwaiti journalist and all around personality that I found out about from a friend who grew up in Kuwait. I'm having a hard time figuring out more about her since the internet is leading me in fruitless circles with the name confusion.
Apparently she drew a lot of inspiration from this Egyptian woman Sherihan. My favorite part of this video of her is at the two minute point.
Aside from being one of the most prominent women of the surrealist movement Eileen Agar is also one of my overall favorite artists. Born in 1899 she was not only a painter but worked in photo, collage, and sculpture. From reading a lot about the surrealist women I find it interesting that they were always pretty accepted in their own circles and time period. Many of them showed as widely as the men and were included in all the big group surrealist shows. Agar partied and talked art with Eluard, Breton, and Picasso. Yet, as time progressed the history books are the ones that forgot the women surrealist painters, not their contemporaries.
Unconscious and Irrational is named for the media's common presentation of girls and women as being either "out of control" or simply "passed out". In movies there aren't many female roles that won't show the girl either passing out, being knocked unconscious, or going totally crazy (usually with a car, credit car, or depressed dude).
On this blog I want to show the zillions of other things we do - whether it be music, art, comedy, or politics. I aim to provide you with a variety of gals to look up to- from Romy and Michele to Shirley Chisholm and Bella Abzug.
Francesca Woodman, fellow RISD Alum and one of my favorite photographers of the 70s is now the subject of a new film showing at the Tribeca Film Fest. I haven't seen the movie yet but it seems to be mostly about her relation to her family and the way they dealt with her death and memory since she committed suicide in 1981. Francesca's work is important due to its ability to use photography to take the at that time recent art movements of body and performance art, land art, and feminist art into a solidified and more current medium of photography. They also play with the early history of photography which in the 1800s was used primarily for portraits of the deceased and documentation of mental patients and supernatural occurances. Much of the work examines the experience of being young and female but in a way that claimed the female body as her own medium instead of someone else's muse. The work she is best known for was done while an undergrad at RISD, in the Rome honors program, and at the MacDowell Colony residency in New Hampshire.
When I saw the below Alina Szapocznikow sculpture in a magazine today I immediately thought "oh shit its almost bathing suit season". I'm pretty sure the late Polish artist and Holocaust survivor did not have that on her mind when she made these "Great Bellies" sculptures. Yet, there is something along that wavelength going on when you think about the amount of dis-embodied lady parts you see around for purposes of selling something or turning someone on. Yet, I feel like in March everyone feels more like one of these bellies than a sexy boob or leg.
