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Xiu Xiu, Birmingham 2013

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Joseph Conrad (Heart of Darkness, 1899) in All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Laura Poitras, 2022)  

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Nan Goldin's show fliers.

The documentary All The Beauty and The Bloodshed is phenomenal. Revealing of the artist and highlights how much you can achieve with integrity and a righteous grudge.

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The Duomo, Milan

Polaroid SX-70

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Keep Vancouver Wet

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NYC

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Evelyn Lambert 1925-2025

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Run to the rescue with love, and peace will follow

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Prague, 2015

Collage

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Dressing is a fundamentally discursive act. The most sophisticated dressers are engaged in a three-way conversation - between the creator of their clothing, themselves, and the people they interact with while dressed. This happens in the context of a broad set of only semi-shared cultural values. The designer intends one meaning, the wearer recombines it, recontextualizes it, and gives it new meaning, and then that meaning is interpreted by the people the wearer interacts with in ways that the wearer could never have conceived. Our clothes have very limited inherent values. Warm/not-warm and keeps the sun off are pretty much it. Maybe some portion of our aesthetic values are in-born, that’s an argument for a different day. Everything else about getting dressed is symbolic. You’re participating in a conversation. Learn to speak the language.

On The Ways We Judge Fashion and Taste

After Saturday’s post on the coming 1930s fashion exhibit, I spent some time re-watching clips from our second season. I’m...

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Birmingham

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Birmingham

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Coventry University showed some of my zine work!

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A post card from David Sedaris

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A postcard from Phil Elverum

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You cannot act upon what you cannot see, and we are plagued by dead language and dead stories that serve people whose aim is nothing short of a dead world.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Manchester, UK