Roland Kelts's Blog, page 63
November 28, 2011
Occupy Wall Street?
Kalle Lasn spends most nights shuffling clippings into a binder of
plastic sleeves, each of which represents one page of an issue of Adbusters ,
a bimonthly magazine that he founded and edits. It is a tactile
process, like making a collage, and occasionally Lasn will run a page
with his own looped cursive scrawl on it. From this absorbing work, Lasn
acquired the habit of avoiding the news after dark. So it was not until
the morning of Tuesday, November 15th, that he learned that hundreds of
police officers had massed in lower Manhattan at 1 A.M. and cleared the camp at Zuccotti Park. If anyone could claim responsibility for the Zuccotti situation, it was Lasn: Adbusters
had come up with the idea of an encampment, the date the initial
occupation would start, and the name of the protest—Occupy Wall Street.
Now the epicenter of the movement had been raided. Lasn began thinking
of reasons that this might be a good thing.
Read more http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/11/28/111128fa_fact_schwartz#ixzz1f0ixruMR
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/28/bus...?
November 23, 2011
November 22, 2011
Idols and Celebrity in Japan--Dec. 10
Pal Patrick Galbraith, author of
The Otaku Encyclopedia
, tells me of this upcoming Todai conference on 'idoru' culture and its relationship to celebrity:
Idols are first among equals in the Japanese entertainment industry. They organize the market into fan communities that allow for predictable patterns of viewership and consumption. The purpose of focusing on idols specifically, and celebrity more generally, is to understand the Japanese mass media by focusing on its most prominent characteristic. By situating the study of idols within the framework of media and cultural studies, this conference aims to bring the Japanese mass media into productive dialogue with scholarship and theoretical debates beyond Japan. Each presenter will illuminate a different dimension of the phenomenon of idols and celebrity in Japanese media culture.
Idols are first among equals in the Japanese entertainment industry. They organize the market into fan communities that allow for predictable patterns of viewership and consumption. The purpose of focusing on idols specifically, and celebrity more generally, is to understand the Japanese mass media by focusing on its most prominent characteristic. By situating the study of idols within the framework of media and cultural studies, this conference aims to bring the Japanese mass media into productive dialogue with scholarship and theoretical debates beyond Japan. Each presenter will illuminate a different dimension of the phenomenon of idols and celebrity in Japanese media culture.
November 21, 2011
November 19, 2011
Halfu--or 'newhalf?'
My photo shoot for the Halfu project.
(Lifestyle not recommended.)
(Lifestyle not recommended.)
