Topic: art

Sex Tips From History: Learn A Variety Of Sex Positions While Learning The Cyrillic Alphabet

Sex Tips From History: Learn A Variety Of Sex Positions While Learning The Cyrillic Alphabet
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Who says people in the Soviet Union didn’t know how to have fun? To look at this dirty alphabet book, they did nothing but suck and fuck in various configurations for the better part of the 20th century. Created in 1931 by popular Soviet state artist Sergei Dmitrievich Merkurov (who also sculpted numerous monuments to Joseph Stalin), this erotic ABC primer was meant to increase literacy rates in the adult population the only way Merkurov knew how: with a good old, fashioned, multi-person orgy.

Unlike all those boring children’s alphabets made of plants and animals, this alphabet is made out of fit young specimens of Soviet manhood putting communist babies in ladies’ tummies and sometimes their mouths, too. And as you can see, they’re not afraid to go down on women (modern!), or bring the occasional mythical creature into the mix (super modern!). Basically, there’s a lot we can learn from the Soviet Union, and you know I’m not talking about how to create a communist utopia. Enjoy. More »

Robin Thicke Vs. Édouard Manet: Blurred Lines

Robin Thicke Vs. Ãdouard Manet: Blurred Lines

Have you watched Robin Thicke’s new music video for “Blurred Lines?” It’s like the original version, except, while once the ladies wore shirts, they now wear nothing. I am sure this decision was made for artistic reasons, and it brings to mind immediately Édouard Manet‘s Le Déjeuner Sur L’herbe. Because the ladies are naked, and all the men are wearing suits. Here. Watch the Blurred Lines video: More »

Roadkill Couture: Check Out These Beautiful Designer Dresses Made From 100% “Found” Animals

Roadkill Couture: Check Out These Beautiful Designer Dresses Made From 100% "Found" Animals

The fashion industry is historically pretty fond of wearing dead animals. Despite its legacy as a luxury material, however, designers tend to obscure the origin of their fur–few people like being reminded of all the suffering and sinew that goes into a pricey coat.

Conceptional artist Jess Eaton wants to address the gap between dead animals that are socially acceptable to wear and those that are not–so she made a bunch of really pretty dresses out of straight-up roadkill. More »

Here Is Some Damning Visual Evidence That Jeremy Scott Ripped Off Skate Artist Jimbo Phillips

Here Is Some Damning Visual Evidence That Jeremy Scott Ripped Off Skate Artist Jimbo Phillips
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“Controversial” designer Jeremy Scott is in some hot water following the revelation that much of his recently shown Fall ’13 collection appears to contain distinctive imagery which was stolen wholesale from the California skate artist Jimbo Phillips. People first began noticing when a graphic began circulating that points out the similarities. The Jimbo Phillips Graphix Facebook page noticed too, and re-posted the image with the caption, “This is crazy!” More »

Gallery: Four Artists Use Jessica Chastain As A Human Canvas To Stunning Effect In W Magazine

Gallery: Four Artists Use Jessica Chastain As A Human Canvas To Stunning Effect In W Magazine

The January issue of W Magazine decided to do something pretty nifty with cover girl Jessica Chastain. Rather than run a series of similarly lit photos of her doing fashion poses in various kinds of couture, the magazine made her into a human canvas for four different contemporary artists: George Condo, Rineke Dijkstra, Chantal Joffe, and Mickalene Thomas. This produced four very different, but equally striking covers, as well as a few related images for each one. As the accompanying profile (by the infamous Lynn Hirschberg) makes sure to note, this mirrors the uncanny way Ms. Chastain has disappeared into the diverse roles she’s played thus far in her career. More »

Gallery: The Ten Sexiest Items From Yoko Ono’s Crotch-Centric New Menswear Line

Gallery: The Ten Sexiest Items From Yoko Ono's Crotch-Centric New Menswear Line
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Eyelet Tank
Bell Board
Cutout Jacket

The eternally wackypants Yoko Ono has designed a menswear line for Opening Ceremony inspired by John Lennon‘s “sexy bod,” and what a menswear line it is. It’s got light-up jockstraps and nipple decorations and crotch decorations and cock and endless balls. Holy! Holy! Holy! The male bra and the mesh shirt and the butt hoodie are holy!

I asked my boyfriend, who is generally a dapper fellow, how he felt about the collection, and here’s what he had to say: More »

Gallery: Tease Your Eyes With These ‘Useless Luxury Objects’ (Which Will Probably Sell For Tons Of Money)

Gallery: Tease Your Eyes With These 'Useless Luxury Objects' (Which Will Probably Sell For Tons Of Money)
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Tennis Racket
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Notebook
Trumpet

The people who make thousand dollar underwear will probably disagree with me, but one of the defining characteristics of a “luxury object,” as it were, is that it’s not all that useful, or at least not useful enough to justify how much it costs. Artist Jeremy Hutchison took this idea and ran with it, creating an assortment of intentionally useless luxury objects to illustrate his point. “True luxury has no function,” he tells dezeen.com. “It is not something to be used or understood. It is a feeling: beyond sense, beyond logic, beyond utility.”

The objects will be sold at a pop-up shop at London gallery Paradise Row, where I can only guess they will go for much more than they would if they were just regular, useful objects being sold at Walmart or wherever. Does this undermine or further reinforce Hutchison’s point? You be the judge. More »

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