Blog Archive: October 2011

"José Rodolfo Loaiza Ontiveros' latest project, Disenchanted, seeks to demystify the modern fairytale. Rodolfo juxtaposes representations of animation's yesteryear with unexpected, almost antithetical situations". A funny pop series, specially for people who have always dreamt to see these Disney ladies kissing each others. But we have to point out that porn comes out first with this idea...

(via B/D) Graham Little’s delicately rendered color pencil drawings bring together a mix of the baroque, surrealism, and high fashion.

It was only a matter of time, but Amanda Knox has already gotten her first offer from a porn company -- Vivid Entertainment honcho Steve Hirsch tells TMZ, "We would like to offer her the opportunity to be our vivid.com spokesperson and represent the studio at trade and retail events." He adds, "This would involve no nudity or sex.  Of course we would welcome talking to her if she wants to pursue this direction, but the decision is totally hers to express."

The interesting art of Suzanna Scott. Her work is inspired by using old, used and found objects. Look the piece below!

(via BoingBoing) Bloomberg News has published a two-part, first-person investigative piece by Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, a professor of sociology at the University of Southern California, on the lives of Filipina sex workers in Tokyo, Japan. To study the living and working conditions of these "hostess bar" migrant laborers, Parrenas became one.

The Bloomberg pieces are excerpts from her new book “Illicit Flirtations: Labor, Migration, and Sex Trafficking in Tokyo,” released this week by Stanford University Press.

Here is part 1. And here is part 2.