I’ve just seen the 2008 movie “Skin,” based on the life of South African Sandra Laing. And what a life she has lived! Born in 1955 to two apparently Caucasian parents in Apartheid South Africa, Sandra has decidedly non-white features and a skin color several shades darker than her Afrikaner parents. At a time when [...]
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Skin
Posted in Beyond Borders, border conflicts, Border Violations, identity, movies, politics, race, tagged Afrikaner, Apartheid, race classifcations, Sandra Laing, South Africa on August 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Subway Advertising: It’s Graffiti to Me
Posted in border conflicts, Border Violations, Corporate Media, Design, Popular Culture, tagged advertising, commercials, commuters, graffiti, graphic design, MTA, New York City, noise, Popular Culture on October 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
October 17, 2008—The Train Is Coming. And With It More Ads, a New York Times article, reports that the MTA plans to sell every NYC subway surface to the highest bidder. They need the money. Advertising — lots of it — is going to appear on every below-ground surface New Yorkers pass, from the round [...]
Notorious Design
Posted in Border Violations, Conflicts of Interest, Design, Exhibition, Installation, Multimedia, Popular Culture, surveillance, Theater, tagged Darfur, Design, Hugh Grant, interior design, Janjaweed, Roland Emmerich, Starck on August 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Roland Emmerich. He’s the big-budget director of “Independence Day,” “Universal Soldier” and “Eight-Legged Freaks.” I came across an article on Emmerich and his design aesthetic in the New York Times’ August 7, 2008 Home section. The Times devoted two whole pages and thirteen photos to the redesign of Emmerich’s townhouse in the “buttoned-up” Knightsbridge section [...]
David Levinthal: “Feeling small?” Part II
Posted in Border Violations, Photography, Popular Culture, surveillance, tagged erotica, harem, Japan, odalisque, Orientalism, Polaroid, shunga netsuke, voyeurism on May 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
In my recent post on American artists who work small scale, I forgot to mention photographer David Levinthal. He works with small-scale figures (often toys), but the final artifact is usually a 20 x 24 inch Polaroid. Polaroid film has a particularly malleable and atmospheric quality that’s magnified when using a macro lens in combination [...]
OTM’s (other than mexican)
Posted in Border Violations, tagged border racism on April 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Border talks continue….
Posted in Border Violations, tagged Al Jazeera, border talks, Chinese, France, Hamas, Myanmar, Palestinians, Surinam, Thailand on April 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Surinam, France to resume Guiana border talks Border Talks on Tap as ‘NAFTA’ Leaders Meet in Mexico Thai, Myanmar border talks end on positive note Palestinians Agree To Border Talks OSCE holds border talks in Tajikistan Hamas Delegation in Egypt for Gaza Border Talks Eritrea says Ethiopia scuppers border talks Soviet-Chinese Border Talks China-India talks [...]
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