For leap day, we bring you a leap frozen in time (from 1887!). One of the first photographs to capture motion, it’s Eadweard Muybridge’s Woman jumping over barrier.
(via SFMOMA)
Obit of the Day: Academy Award-Winning Costume Designer
Eiko Ishioka may have had the most diverse resume of any costume designer in history. During a career of more than 40 years Ms. Ishioka designed outfits for films, Broadway, the Olympics, and Cirque du Soleil. She also directed music videos and album covers. Calling her a “costume designer” seems so limiting.
A graduate of the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Ishioka won a Grammy in 1986 for her album cover design for Miles Davis’ Tutu. She earned greater acclaim for her costume design work on the Tony Award-winning musical M. Butterfly (1988), for which she received two nominations. Four years later she won an Oscar for her designs in Francis Ford Coppola’s Dracula. She also directe the music video for Bjork’s “Cocoon.” Her full credits are available here.
Besides serving as director of costume design for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Ms. Ishioka’s designs can be seen on Broadway currently in Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark and in March 2012 on screen in Mirror, Mirror.
She was 73.
(Image from 2008 Beijing Olympics is courtesy of theexaltation.com and copyright of the International Olympic Committee)
Phonebook carvings by Cuban artist Alex Queral. Finally, somebody put phonebooks to good use.
Taking an ordinary phone book, Alex Queral carves a face into this object of so many faceless names. With the book, a very sharp X-ACTO® knife, a little pot of acrylic medium to set detail areas and a great deal of talent, Queral literally peels away the pages like the skin of an onion to reveal the portrait within.
Melissa Harris-Perry tweeting her thoughts on the movie The Help live while watching it on August 10th 2011
She later said on MSNBC that it was the periphery of that story that she took issue with, arguing that “the African American domestic workers become props” for the white protagonist, and that it reduced the struggles of laborers in the South to light Hollywood fare.
“This is not a movie about the lives of black women,” she clarified, as their lives were not, she argued, “Real Housewives of Jackson, Mississippi… it was rape, it was lynching, it was the burning of communities.”
>”oh I loves me some fried chicken” this line was just uttered
That one line says so much.
Wanna know why I refuse to watch the movie? There you go.
Like, how on earth did anyone watch this movie and NOT think that it was ultra-racist? Guh. Also, I’m developing quite the affection for Harris-Perry and her commentary lately on, like, everything.
(via feministfilm)
