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Whoa. We have to stop you from ever being bored--you post all this amazing stuff and distract those of us WITH work to do!! ;)

But it's all very entertaining, thanks for sharing!

Gah! And the original blogger got it completely wrong when she said this was makeup inspired by Marvel comics. Totally wrong--it's inspired by Roy Lichtenstein. It doesn't take a lot of time to research something like this. I never blame the reblogger, but that first person should either make sure what they're about to type is accurate or change what they type to avoid saying something that are sure is accurate. It would have been just as easy to say "comic book makeup."

Not that I'm blaming you, @blogdrop. I'm just sayin'!

yeah, Lichtenstein got his kicks in overemphasizing the limitations of comic color grid prints (Marvel or not) and the even more limited tropes dealed with.

I always found the style fun and "edgy" before we started using the quotes around "edgy". :) I guess that's what I get for hanging out with art students while in film school.

being no native speaker i don't even know the meaning of "edgy" without quotes :-)
but the photo/visage is great, anyway.
enjoy hanging out in virchspace with you btw.

Haha--whoops! Sorry. Edgy without quotes means that something is on the edge of some concept. It means it's pushing the boundaries. Adding the quotes suggests that the work or artist is only pretending to push boundaries. These days it's hard to be legitimately edgy because there is so much justified cynicism. Most artists just claim to be edgy but don't really push any boundaries at all.

I enjoy hanging out with you, too. :) If you're ever in NYC we should go for coffee IRL. :)

hey @thepete
i guessed it relates to the term "cutting edge" being en vogue in the early 90s (but wasn't sure).
and, agreed, there is very little in art (especially in art-as-seen-in-the-media) that is not just mockup taboo breaking or closed-art-circuit but real pushing braincontents.

I d love to have a coffee with you and siskita in whatever is the place to be in New York City these days.
(It was Williamsburgh then when I visited ages ago. As I understand you are based in manhattan?)

I have positive memories about your town. All that food options from soul food to russian to korean to ... steel band performers in the subway ... the night time view of your place seen from brooklyn ... the still standing WTC ... the b. bridge ... the strange manhattan parking lot systems (that I did not understand) ... a great antique (what you call antique) book store ... even all that poverty in Alphabet City and Jamaica and Queens was somehow colourful to me as a strolling around tourist. Your megacity, so rich and poor and trashy and not-modern at the same time, was very interesting to me.

I am not sure if your paranoid security would let me in again, after sniffing my emails of the last decade containing political and pharmaca terms.
Maybe we see in Japan. Tokyo is on my wishlist for years, too. (Since I have a son of now 8 yrs I was not out of Europe except canary islands ... but those belong to spain anyway. And I sooo much enjoy culture shock! At least when having a chance to come back home, I guess).

Thanks for the invitation.
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Yeah "cutting edge" and "edgy" are the same kind of thing, though in our culture "cutting edge" still means something.

Yeah, NYC has changed a lot since you were here, though, in some ways it's the same. Still plenty of performers on Subway platforms and trains, good areas and bad areas (though most areas have cleaned up).

As for security--I wouldn't worry about NYC--they let me in and I've been blogging crazy stuff since the 90s. I can't speak for Customs. Don't know what it's like trying to get into the US.

Wow--I didn't know you were interested in Tokyo. I'd be happy to check out almost anywhere in Japan, though. And yeah, if you enjoy culture shock, Japan's a good place for it! They embody culture clash more than NYC does. Old and new, Japanese and foreign, there are many conflicts the Japanese deal with every day. Their birth rate is dropping because of western influences--women are more "liberated" and men don't know how to deal with it. I heard about one study that found most single Japanese men don't have girl friends.

Wow--I can't imagine being a dad. Most of my friends have kids now. So you'd think I'd be able to.

Ah well--back to work. Hope all is well with you!