visualculture

Short Films on Fashion

Shekhar Deshpande — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 11:13:12 +0000

Since many of you are interested in fashion and amongst those, in short film as well, here is something very interesting.

I found this gem of a piece on Los Angeles Times website on short films about fashion. It is an intriguing trend.

The blog entry provides active links to the short films on You Tube so they are not reproduced here.

I found this one particularly intriguing since it is “the first” of many short films to appear on Miu Miu web site. Let us keep watching it.

Six ads that changed the way you think!

Shekhar Deshpande — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 14:13:54 +0000

Some important commercials/advertisements that have been influential in our lives.

Email etiquette

Shekhar Deshpande — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 14:12:05 +0000

Email has destroyed the earlier mannerisms, haven’t they? How do you like when someone you don’t think is that “close” to you begins email with “hey”! Here is an interesting piece from BBC News! Enjoy!

Donald Duck Meets Glenn Beck in “Right Wing Radio Duck”

Shekhar Deshpande — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 21:15:16 +0000

See what creative editing could do to produce commentary/critique on politics.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfuwNU0jsk0

Lithuanian blonde island plan raises eyebrows

Shekhar Deshpande — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 21:10:46 +0000

Take a look at this story on BBC news web site this morning!

“A Lithuanian company plans to set up a holiday island in the Maldives run entirely by blondes – the latest project in a growing blonde movement in the Baltics. But how legitimate is this latest sign of Baltic blonde ambition?”

haiku-graffiti as an interruption in visual field!

Shekhar Deshpande — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 18:39:46 +0000

Take a look at this artist. Here is an attempt to interrupt, to disturb your expectations, to make you aware of discontinuities. You read something you don’t expect, a function of graffiti. It is anti-climatic because it is a disruption to your expectations as much as an interruption to surroundings, contexts, other visual signs. Discuss in your comments.

Twitter!?

Shekhar Deshpande — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 11:29:20 +0000

There is much talk about Twitter these days. We hear of Congressman twittering from their sessions and speeches. We have heard of stars of the entertainment industry logging on to their twitters five or six times a day and even the news anchormen/women twittering as they bring us news on television. We hear this amidst news of collapse of newspapers. The New York Times shares are plummeting; the Rocky Mountain News is ending its print operations and the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Daily News are merging operations where the latter becomes merely an edition of the former.

These are changing times in the media.

“Let’s Stop the Twitter Madness,” by Lee Woodruff in The Daily Beast.

“Anchors Oblige Public’s Craving for Tweets,” by Howard Kurtz in the Washington Post.

“What Are You Doing? Media Twitterers Can’t Stop Typing,” by Alessandra Stanley in The New York Times.

The Body as Billboard: Your Ad Here

Shekhar Deshpande — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:49:16 +0000

Here is a fascinating story about the ever-increasing appetite of consumer culture to invent new realm of commodities.

The Strange Art of Fashion Photography!

Shekhar Deshpande — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:57:30 +0000

For those of you interested in fashion, photography, and fashion photography, see this slide show at Slate online:

Blog away!

Shekhar Deshpande — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:50:03 +0000

Here is an exciting post from The Atlantic on blogging: This is how it begins….

DO ANY OF THESE SYMPTOMS FIT YOU?

• Blogaholism. Do you plot out your day so that it will generate as many blog postings as possible?

• Twitteritis. Did you Twitter this morning as you made your morning coffee? And then later as you trimmed your toenails?

• Reviewing Addiction. Do you spend every lunch hour pumping up your ranking as an Amazon reader-reviewer?

• RSS Dependency. Did you simplify your life by subscribing to RSS feeds only to discover yourself spending more time than ever commenting at blogs?

• Status Update Disorder. Have you made plans to self-publish a collection of your Facebook Status Updates?