A Short History Of The Comic Strip In Popular Culture XII

1. Nick Knight Dior Fall/Winter 2001
2. Nick Knight Research for WAR, 2013
3. Nick Knight WAR, 2013

The POW: Violence as abstract form. Power visualized as liquid splash or electric convulsion. Yet, in those high-velocity pictures, the clash never happens. Nearly ever almost. As if everything just happens theoretically, the human forced by invisible forces.
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A Short History Of Anime In Popular Culture II

This is what I see when I close my active browser window. A subconscious voice trying to convince me of continuing A Short History Of Anime In Popular Culture? This demonish impulse might be succeeding. Maybe?
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See also Second Life, 2013

A Short History Of The Comic Strip In Popular Culture XI

1. Raf Simons Fall/Winter 2013
2. Thomas Bayrle Feuer Im Welzen (Fire In The Wheat), 1970
3. Unknown
4. Raf Simons Fall/Winter 2013
5. Thomas Bayrle Edition Jake Wie Hose (Naked Lunch), 1970
6. Thomas Bayrle Feuer Im Welzen (Fire In The Wheat), 1970
7. Raf Simons Fall/Winter 2013
8. Thomas Bayrle Edition Jake Wie Hose (Naked Lunch), 1970

Investigating on the motif of 'naive repetition' and the typology of 'pixel pin-ups'. Reviewing: the suppressed eroticism of Raf Simons' intarsia knits in dialogue with Thomas Bayrle's nonchalant erotica. A lesson in 'neutralized sex' by the means of oversimplification/denial.
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A Short History Of The Comic Strip In Popular Culture X

1. Unknown
2. Andy Warhol Tongue In Ear, 1980
3. Jean Cocteau Le Livre Blanc, 1930
4. Barazoku Magazine 1971 - 2004
5. Gengoroh Tagame Gunji, 2005
6. Sadao Hasegawa Paradise Vision, 1996

Sex and comic strips or 'Outline Porn'. What begun with the introvert drawings of a young Jean Cocteau, a homoerotic dreamscape, has found its culmination in Hard Yaoi. In that sense, Warhol's idea of repeatability has turned into hardcore mass-comsumption.
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Ani/Mate V

1. Final Fantasy IX Kuja, 2000
2. Christopher Kane Spring/Summer 2012

Christopher Kane introduces the Transformers flower dress. And thus equally refers to the sweet (かわいい, kawaii) and brutal (むごい, mugoi) of Anime. Meanwhile the idea of 'origami' is as present as the Japanes fetish for hi-tech (q.v. boots/sandals).
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Ani/Mate IV

1. Satoshi Kon Paprika, 2006
2. Comme des Garçons Fall/Winter 2012

Dr. Chiba aka 'Paprika' is one of the strongest film characters of all times. Lost in reverie, the intense psychology and schizophrenic character make her the perfect Comme des Garçons woman.
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P.S.: The movie is so good, it has been copied for Inception, 2010.