alice's wonderland

hey there, i'm alice, a risd student and fashion enthusiast. this is a record of things that make me wonder. see my full portfolio at http://alicetaranto.carbonmade.com/

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iPhone Oil Painting #2

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So clever. Check out his whole series too

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Daniel Chang Christensen is making stickers for #ytbzine ! Get yours October 26 (at RISD Illustration Studies Building)

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#ytb COLOR coming your way. Poster by @spaghettiwoes (at Benson Hall)

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Get ready for YTB COLOR (at RISD Industrial Design Department)

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Hm. A surprise from Alexander Wang for SS 2014. I didn't think him the type to make clothes that "use the body as a billboard." Of course, his is done in a pretty clever way. And are those embroidery cutouts?? However I think if the scale of this were bigger or smaller, it wouldn't feel so branded.

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Andrea Galvani © 2005, Death of an image #5 C-print mounted on aluminum dibond, wood white frame, 108 x 146 cm // 42.5 x 57.5 inches Collection AGI, MART Museum, Rovereto, Italy. Courtesy the artist and Artericambi, Verona, Italy

Super interesting and striking image here. I'm not sure I totally understand the artist's statement, but the idea that our eyes are "plunged in darkness" at a certain frequency is very poetic.

Death of an image

When things become hot or very cold they change. Sometimes it happens in such a radical way that it is no longer possible to recognize them. They change so much that, by just looking, there is nothing that would enable us to recognize their original molecular structure. At the same time, beyond 780 nm, the threshold of the visible spectrum, the human eye is plunged into darkness, a cosmic darkness in which the electromagnetic waves transmitted by objects are imperceptible. Death of an Image is an attempt to cross a boundary, the desperate need to cancel something out in order to rebuild it.

Objects, placed within the area of the shot according to precise perspectival hierarchies, generate their own absence, exposing hiatuses in the landscape, cloaking it, transforming the subjects. They are physical subtractions repeated in space, calibrated violence that triggers a process of the image’s resurrection. They are precarious interventions, light superstructures that interfere, doubling the visual epicenter.

Andrea Galvani, Selfportrait for «Tema Celeste», n.120, March – April 2007, Gabrius Editore, Milan

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Such a clever children's book! What a fantastic idea, and it's exciting for the parents as well. I wonder what the technology is that makes this work. Is it watermarked paper? Via It's Nice That.

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What a beautiful stamp from the Central African Republic from 1924. The colors are unusual and electric and not trying to be more sophisticated than they are. The corner flourishes seem vaguely French but the lion is all national pride. And overall, the stamp accomplishes its basic purpose by way of a large and clear number standing for the monetary value. This little guy manages to fit so much personality in something literally the size of a postage stamp!

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Former President of Cameroon, Ahmadou Ahidjo arrives in D.C. in 1982 (via Wikipedia). His look beats the Americans' with flying colors for its timeless cool. Suits are so boring!

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Megabodega

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I love the way this is so basic and refers to those plastic shopping bags we all know and love. Also, that the number of times "megabodega" is written is creates a cross-word effect. This was a fun place with lots of little zines and other eye candy.

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From #Visionaire 3: #EROTICA, #photography by @gigistoll_photography. #visionaireworld #art #fashion #nipple #shadow

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Very clever.

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Squad. Daphne Taranto. Oil, acrylic, house paint, graphite, Jane’s hair, broken window shield glass, glitter, plastic baggies, thumbtacks, spray paint, copper leaf, metallic paper, rubber band, yellow nylon string, green acrylic yarn, and PVA glue on partially primed canvas. 48x36”. 2013.

A new painting of mine from class this semester. See more of my work on my portfolio site.

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I keep looking at that skinny turquoise strip, outlined in heavy yellow nylon string, about to puncture the cross on that Q.

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Ottavio Missoni passed this week, as described on Missoni’s website and in NYTimes.

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Missoni prints remain unspeakably compelling.

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It's very pleasurable to scroll up and down very fast on the computer over this image by Marc Nagtzaam. We should be thinking more of scrolling as a significant action in websites and web design.

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Poster for Igor Stravinsky’s Firebird and Petrushka designed by Boris Bućan, 1983.

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What a beautiful mix of prints and colors, reminds me very much of Dries van Noten. Here the thick-thin hairline contrast of the blades of grass is nicely reflected in the 30s cinema display-esque lettering. Also how bizarre to have a high-heeled figure with a beak?

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What a clever CD case idea! We always throw out the box anyway, but now it can be a poster for your wall too.

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Ｆ8 (by 下北沢世代)

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I love the way this cover messes with our sense of scale as we know how big that snake-like smoke cloud should be, but the F we usually see at pt. 12 on a page. Here, the F becomes monumental in context.