#matt cornell

[rickybowensfever]

From their Seventeen interview. CHAD DANFORTH CAN’T BALL!?

This actually crushed my childhood dreams. Thanks a lot, Matt. 

[sweatypixel]

"The 2012 launch of the Open Source initiative in August marks Legs On The Wall's foray into experimentation across the diverse disciplines that sometimes combine to create great theatre. While our first love is always the skill and artistry of physical performers, the acceleration of technology and the rate at which we absorb it into our lives, demanded a creative response.

The first creative development was a month-long residency with the emerging arts collective, Television is Dead, which is a convergence of the polymaths Bravo Child and Matt Cornell in collaboration with singer Emma Deans. They came to Legs On The Wall with an ambitious task: to build a physical internet, and we immediately said yes.

Their project, Pixel.Meat.Space... is an interactive digital playground that invites audiences of all ages to engage in physical activities that mirror those we perform online. When we held our end of development showings at the Red Box on August 24th and 25th, audiences scanned and uploaded their faces to the Cloud via helium-filled balloons, after which Matt and Bravo took them on a tour of the pipes and three-dimensional code landscapes that exist behind the flat interface of our online existence.

Though this was only the beginning of the project for Television is Dead, the importance of Pixel.Meat.Space... was immediately apparent for the test audience. Amidst the fun and imagination of building a physical internet was a tool to help people better understand what happens when we carry out an online activity, such as upload our photos. We are led to believe that all data is stored mysteriously in these cloud-servers, creating a care-free digital utopia. A physical encounter with the real systems of the internet, and the frustration of not being able to reclaim your photo once the balloons drifted too high, were a clear lesson in how erroneous this utopia is."

More at: http://www.legsonthewall.com.au/studio/open-source/2012-2/creative-dev-1/

[carokess]

Prepare to be unprepared.

Matt Cornell, wanderer, photographer, two-wheel fanatic, farmer.

[theruckenfigur-blog]

Matt Cornell

[blank4ever]

[queerandpresentdanger]

While all of these nominally liberal sites pay lip service to the dignity of gay and transgender people, they miss one thing that is very clear to me. Aside from the obvious fat shaming in these stories, the fixation on “man boobs” reveals our culture’s obsession with binary gender. As I noted on The Huffington Post’s comment thread, before a moderator whisked my comment away, “the only breasts The Huffington Post approves of are those of thin, white female celebrities.”... Men are supposed to have flat chests, hairy bodies and big penises. Women are supposed to have large breasts, thin hairless bodies and tidy labias. (If a woman’s labia are too big, it just might remind us that, with a little testosterone, the same tissue would make a penis.) We have all the evidence we need that biological sex and gender are not as rigid or fixed as we imagine. There are intersexed people. There are transgender people and genderqueer people. There are millions of men and boys like me, who also have large breasts, or gynecomastia, a medically harmless (though socially lethal) condition that your insurance just might pay to correct. The prevalence of gynecomastia in adolescent boys is estimated to be as low as 4% and as high as 69% . As one article notes: “These differences probably result from variations in what is perceived to be normal.” You think? We’re so entrenched in that snips ‘n snails bullshit, that we can’t accept bodies which don’t fall on either extreme of the gender continuum. Transgender men and women encounter these attitudes in direct, and sometimes life-threatening ways. And, given the misogyny that pervades our society, these pressures are even harder for women and girls, whether they’re cisgender or transgender. Their bodies are hated and desired in equal measure.

The Story of My Man-Boobs by Matt Cornell