I <3 Marilyn Minter

"I don’t want to sound disingenuous, but to me it’s not sexy—it’s gorgeous. It’s about hunger and insatiability, a trailer without a movie behind it, an ad only for itself."-Minter

Marilyn Minter on Salon 94
Her work is so full on, beautiful, rich sparkling erotic pretty over the top fun feminine
wow
i love the extreme close ups, she doesn't crop the photos which astounds me she must get RIGHT up in their business to get these shots! The wetness is almost grotesque, dripping, moist, beads of water like sweat or tears. mooooiiiissssttt. moist.
Seeing this makes me want to use more extreme close ups in my work. Minter photographs these things then has her students help her to paint them, so a few of the above pictures are actually paintings, you can tell on the one of the little girl. The moving image works so well, the tongue curling and licking is repulsive and alluring. I think it says a lot more than the painting and photographs and has a greater impact when you first see it although after watching it a few times and reading about it you start to deconstruct it and just see it for what it is.

the lighting, strong shadows vivid colours, the use of reflective and transparent materials, glass, diamond thingees, water, sparkles, bubbles. fucking mint.

www.greenpinkcaviar.com

amazing video! aaaah. ahhhhhh. wow. It looks like seaweed and sea creatures swirling around underneath a glass bottom boat i love the shit out of it!

“This is inappropriate and uncouth. But I can’t stop looking at it, even though it’s not appealing.”

“Is it an ad for gum? It said ‘chewing.’ ”

“I don’t care about any of the fucking shit around it—I like that there’s art in Times Square and want to see more.”

“It’s difficult to see when there’s so much around it.”

KID, POINTING: “What the fuck is that?”
MOM, ANGRILY: “It’s lips.”

“This is sick and horny.”

“In this context it’s grating, almost too shocking. Maybe people’s reactions are part of the art.”

Reactions from people passing by, from nymag.com

"I was shooting stills of models with long tongues swirling and sucking bakery products from under a pane of glass. I wanted to make enamel paintings along the idea of 'painting with my tongue'. My makeup artist shot some short videos during the shoot just to see how it would look. The low definition videos looked so good that we made plans to do a professional high definition video. This made sense to me as I have made both billboards and produced a commercial advertising a painting show in 1989."

- Marilyn Minter

Walead Beshty

The Phenomenology of Shopping (2001-03)
C-prints mounted on plexiglass
18 x 22 in.

Walead Beshty
I'm unsure if this is the artist i was looking for, i wanted the guy that photographed a man with his head inside a washing machine. It was really cool and dealt with phenomenological experience but this guy MUST be that guy because this guyis doing pretty much the same thing I just can't find any information on it.

digital implications

orange horace camera and phillip the praying mantis

I hadn't though about this until i started using film just yesterday. What a heat rate that was, the film looks under developed and i was using the wrong setting so they're all blurry... contact sheet to come but its pretty nil. When i went to print the digital photos i had taken the computer automatically crops them to fit the page, if it hadn't done this I may not have thought to crop them myself. They look a lot better this way, and the colour is slightly different when printed which for the most part makes them look shit house but sometimes it can bring to light something you hadn't previously thought of. So colour and cropping have a lot to do with the digital medium. Just discovered that my film was a colour black and white or something silly so its needed to be processed in colour chemicals. hurrah. it still has images on it which is cool but i can't print them myself at school, everything will have to be done at a photo place fucking expensive ridiculous shit who uses film... i need to get some black and white film!!!

Lots of kisses!

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what can i say... i don't know why i did this, i have no concept and no reason for making this other than this;
the anne noble style hair pic looked like a bearing which is what happens when a ewe is lambing and her insides pop out of her vagina. So... after cutting out all the lips to make a montage they started to look so fleshy and pink and gross and overlapping them seems to make it look more disgusting. yay. I like home-made images and graffitti of genitals i find it very amusing. Everyone is just a tiny bit sick in the head and these reveal that. Tim and Matt found these quite hard to look at yet they draw penises at every opportunity. why do people draw penises everywhere it fascinates me?

Cindy Sherman. lol. roflmao. lmao. lame.

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DIscussion

Playing around trying to make this pic look even more like a pin up ^^^^
Just had a great chat with Laura in my class who seems to be a million times more knowledgeable about photography than myself and she pointed out a few things,
1.My photos are all completely different in colour and lighting, i need to choose the one that works best to get my message across.
2. what exactly is my message???! Its moved so far away from being about animals skin and human skin to being feminist abject self portraits looking at the gaze. *sigh*
3.play around with the images i have, photoshop the shit out of them so that they all look the same if that is what i need, de-saturate, take out all the information that isn't needed in the photos and make them more about my yet to be discovered message of truth and enlightenment. *aaaaaahhhhh ambient enya like music*

Anne Noble

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Anne Noble- Ruby's room 1998-2007
more on ruby's room series here, i HIGHLY recommend looking through all of the pictures to get a better sense of what she is talking about, the significance of time and why the images could be considered sexual.

"Anne Noble has long been acknowledged as a major figure in the evolution of photography in New Zealand, and today she is regarded as one of our most significant mid-career artists....
In a time when so much photography seems conspicuously posed or an artful emulation of the casual snapshot, the dignity, quietude and measured pace of Noble's photographs is strangely arresting and almost always profoundly moving."
Priscilla Pitts, Director, Dunedin Public Art Gallery source

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Ruby's room 23

Confronting and provocative, innocence of childhood, experiencing things through the mouth. The reaction of the adult viewer... when so many children have been exploited, exhibitions closed for their seemingly sexual content involving children. What is she trying to say? Is it perverse? Is it art? Art school has art written on the side of it now :P
Noble captures her subjects over time; maternal observation. Looking through the series the photos do somehow become more sexual over time. I think the use of lipstick and fishnets has a huge part to play in that, and the tongue ties up with rubber bands from braces is almost a fetish portrait. Her daughter looks around 2 at the beginning of the series (i have no idea really i don't know how big babies are..), so now she must be in her teens. How wrong. wrong wrong wrong its not cute anymore its pornographic. so confused with why people think things are porno or pedo and what not. These pictures aren't exactly adhering to any beauty ideal and nor is the subject, not that beauty equates to art. faaark.

photo shooting lipstick choking

This was not to bad... after gagging the first time i manages to take quite a few photos, some are cool but most are boring glamour shots, one liners. My favourite is the one that is blatantly Anne noble. It looks better turned on its side. I think i will make a montage of lips
i want to be in a magaziiine....
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Dopey looking
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munch munch
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subtle but lame
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hairy monster fanny a la tommy brough
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nom nom
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loving desaturation at the moment
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peeehotograffy

this is another reason why i hate photography. I'm so over point and soot point and shoot. Everything is photoshopped to the point where you can't tell if something is real or not or if it in face uses any photography skills. LAME! It's not an art any more!
p.s im about to spend 1800 on a camera

the first step

This work is licenced under a Creative Commons Licence.I had a dream last night that Candice was carefully sewing little pieces of paper onto my finger tips using shiny red cotton. It hurt like fuck but i had to get it finished. Now i want to know what it feels like

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SLACK!

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So i haven't written on here in over two weeks, doesn't mean I have been up to fucks. i swear. I lost my precious notebook with all my notes in it about life and art but it is currently in the post on its way back to me (i hope) :(
I Watched Zeitgeist the other day, can't remember if i mentioned that already but its a poorly made film with extreme ideas. Interesting none the less but not really anything to rave about. The thing that most interested me was the whole Jesus phenomenon. I was all like WOAH after watching it but quickly settled back into normal life and mundane thoughts within a day. Amanda doesn;t care enough... maybe because its such a negative film, tell me something fun i can do to make change not something shit that I have overlooked and... and... ?
I did a photo shoot thismorning, i like the pictures but will still see if i can improve them in photoshop. There is boobage and ts embarassing but i think it looks nice so shush.