When intimacy is the desired effect of a letter the result should be sufficiently momentous and personal, it is going to be proved by Asia Wong with her “300 Letters project” which is interesting. Wong actually wrote 400 separate notes to family members, friends, people she met and came across, now these letters would be sent to the strangers, she believe such effort would create intimacy in modern society.
The 300 Letters project website gives fascinating reading though it’s time consuming, Wong classifies each scanned letter with a color that indicates the type of letter associated with it. In some of Wong’s more personal letters you will notice her strong feelings and nonverbal expression!
The colour of the square in her site indicate the subject they’re associated with:
* Blue ones are for friends
* Indigo ones are for family
* Brown ones are for people she doesn’t really like
* Red and pink ones are addressed to lovers
* Orange ones are fan letters
* Yellow ones are for strangers
* Green ones are for acquaintances
* Purple ones are for crushes
* Gray ones are for anyone
* Black ones are for everyone
* White ones are for her
* flesh ones are for her dream lover
“I’m writing three hundred love letters and
sending them to strangers. The letters are going to be glued to the
outside of the envelopes, so that the mailman, and presumably whoever
the recipient lives with, will be able to see and read them. The
letters aren’t to the strangers, they’re to people I know.” The
boy looks at me. We’re walking around, after work, deserted streets. He
says, “I don’t understand. Why are you doing this?”, and I
answer vaguely, talking about crossing space and the kind of intimacy
that I believe is lacking from our society. And I’m left thinking: Is
this project complicated or simple, idiotic or interesting?”
Cindy Sherman is widely regarded as most influential artists of the 20th Century as a contemporary artist and a photographer. Her art works are amongst the best, which testify her aesthetic sense and sensibility to women beauty. She generally shoots her own portrait using different makeup and expressions, her work is in many cases are brilliant! Cindy has a tendency to tell story creating some persona around the character and giving life to her photography with profound degree of sensibility. Watch this series of her portraits which shows the full range of beauty and aging in women.
Excerpt by artnewyork.org:
The Balloon Project possibly inspired by google earth, it has been created by sending a video camera attached to balloons, over the city of San Francisco. The wind carry the camera away, allowing it to land wherever it drifted. People enjoy chasing it down to wherever it lands, conquering a new locations on the way!
“Terror Texts” musical drama said to be an approach to understand Bible through dramatic performance which is mysterious and terrifying. The drama students of Christian-based Northwestern College in Iowa experimenting a new take on the Old Testament going back across the time. The metaphor is mixed with a bit of history of that time, however they altered their characters’ appearances like instead of wearing ancient attire, they dress in Goth. Theater professor Jeff Barker ( creator and director ) said the obscurity of the stories belies their value. “We believe we have discovered something that has been lying dormant for many, many centuries”.
William Dyrness, ( Professor of theology and culture at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California ) called “Terror Text” a creative variation of that idea. “This is obviously a very Protestant approach where you’re attempting to understand this story so that you can see the way the Bible applies to your life,” he said. “You carry it on in your life. You become part of the story.”
Even though the play is based on the stories word-for-word, the six stories from the Old Testament acted out in “Terror Texts” feature mysterious and horrible scene. I am not sure how much they are faithful to the text but the director and the students starring in the ‘Terror Texts’ musical believe the stories to be 100% true.
Google has opened an online photo gallery that will have extensive collection of image on the web featuring millions of images from Life magazine’s archives that have never been seen before. Google and LIFE together bring 10 million historic Life Magazine Photo from Archive that include the works of photojournalists in the 20th century and renowned photographers like Gjon Mili, Nina Leen and Alfred Eisenstaedt.
The incredible collection include events that shook the world like the World war, Vietnam war, Nazi atrocities and the heroes of out times. The images are being sourced from Time Inc as well, the brilliant photography date back to the 1750s to 20th century have aesthetic sense that has made great contribution to structure our society overtime.
