Zoo Animals Get Fashionable
Dog and cat owners already know this, but dressing your pet up in fashionable clothes is perhaps the best entertainment you’ll have. Yago Partal takes a cue from these pet owners and transfers it to something a little more exotic, the zoo. His recent series Zoo Portraits, sees creatures from giraffes to wolves getting spiffed up in trendy clothes; from suits to Hawaiian shirts. It’s one ridiculously fashionable menagerie.
The Barcelona based Partal mostly creates mature work, like a photo series from his journey to Cuba, or photo manipulations removing portions of his model’s body. It’s only in this series that he gets a little wild and goofy, producing something funny and wildly entertaining. Some of the pictures are spot-on believable, others miss the mark a bit… but all are worth a gander. See more in the series at Zoo Portraits, or find more from Yago Partal on his personal site.
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”Live Slow, Die Whenever.”
Marina Abramović, Rhythm 0, 1974
“This piece was primarily a trust exercise, in which she told viewers she would not move for six hours no matter what they did to her. She placed 72 objects one could use in pleasing or destructive ways, ranging from flowers and a feather boa to a knife and a loaded pistol, on a table near her and invited the viewers to use them on her however they wanted.
Initially, Abramović said, viewers were peaceful and timid, but it escalated to violence quickly. “The experience I learned was that … if you leave decision to the public, you can be killed… I felt really violated: they cut my clothes, stuck rose thorns in my stomach, one person aimed the gun at my head, and another took it away. It created an aggressive atmosphere. After exactly 6 hours, as planned, I stood up and started walking toward the public. Everyone ran away, escaping an actual confrontation.”
This piece revealed something terrible about humanity, similar to what Philip Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment or Stanley Milgram’s Obedience Experiment, both of which also proved how readily people will harm one another under unusual circumstances.”
This performance showed just how easy it is to dehumanize a person who doesn’t fight back, and is particularly powerful because it defies what we think we know about ourselves. I’m certain the no one reading this believes the people around him/her capable of doing such things to another human being, but this performance proves otherwise.”
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Otter Leans into the Waterfall on the Window
More at today’s Daily Otter post! Thanks, kashiwaya920!
“THE MOON”
35.5” x 30.5” Woodcut Print on White BFK Paper
Paul Roden + Valerie Lueth, 2012.
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