On 5/6/12 1:07 PM, Carol Moore DC wrote:
On 5/2/2012 9:39 PM, Andreas Kolbe
wrote:
Don't miss http://thehairpin.com/2011/01/women-laughing-alone-with-salad
Where are women laughing as they chop up bloody
sausage...
To me I guess I see hostility and dominance in the kind
of shots people have been complaining about. I don't
think women should respond en masse with the same, but
if no one responds at all, I feel it is my duty to
mention bloody sausages.
Of course, women have responded here, but I guess not
enough of a ping in the fabric of world wide male
dominance for me to keep my bloody sausages to my
self...
Hmmm... maybe I should write some of my favorite artists
with suggestions....
Or get rich and commission a bunch of stuff I like...
whatever the them...
(Handsome male dogs of various breeds on their backs
smiling and saying "Scratch my belly mommy.")
There was an idea brainstormed a little while back with me
and a few other folks about seeking funding to have a "Wiki
Loves Women" photography event that wanted photographers to
take photographs of women - and this wouldn't be some broad
crowdsourced thing like WLM, we would work with
photographers, various "models" etc and make this legit with
releases, etc - doing whatever we needed them to be better
represented doing, so to say. So, wearing certain articles
of clothing (i.e. "go go boots"), certain make up looks or
uses, hairstyles, - places that are often poorly represented
regarding "women's stuff" (i.e. men don't get manicures that
often, sorry) even as extreme as sex acts, I also wanted to
just have women doing "things" like mowing the lawn and
planting flowers or pan searing salmon or whatever things
need videos to represent them (and no, these women wouldn't
be nude :P). The latter was inspired by Jenny Geigel
Mikulay's work at Alverno College where she had her students
(it's a women's college) make films of things like playing
drums, the art museum building kinetic architecture
time-lapsed, etc. All of these videos have been uploaded to
Commons.
Someday I'll do it =) I can see it being a project that
would be a perfect fit for Kickstarter.
Sarah
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