this chick i used to date in d.c. always wished she could be a robot

totally stolen from street_art_map



so gail's good friend doug, who used to work for warner bros, now works for disney, told me some distressing news, but i guess not to be unexpected. apparently they're starting a new campaign where they want to make mickey mouse "hip". apparently they've recruited Z-Trip and Shepard Fairey (please don't make me link to these people...) and other streetwise "hip" artists to bring mickey into this century. now mr. mash-up himself, z-trip, is already signed to hollywood records, so no big surprise there i guess, hollywood is a part of disney and abc, been there a couple times on runs myself, saw the soundstages for lost, herbie, and random pirates walking around myself, so the "vertical integration" is all part of the way it goes. and shepard fairey (okay, of "Obey" andre the giant postering fame) has been building a brand for a long time, under the guise of art as resistance. still, the co-opting of defiance is always a bit of a shock.

somehow i held my tongue, this guy is a big shit over there, and gail's close friend, so i wasn't about to make a scene there, and it didn't sound like he was trying to sell me on it, just passing on the information. should i have said something? i don't know, doubtful it would have made a difference, i certainly could have said how i wouldn't buy it myself, i'd be more upset about the selling out of artists than thinking mickey was "with it", but non-constructive static only clouds my vision. still, as i was leaving he said, "hey, all that i told you is confidential...nah, just kidding...it'll probably be on his blog tonight..." [smirk] am i that easy to peg? or is it more the proliferation of blogs? whatever, do with this information what you will, who knows if it will come about, i'm not running to adbusters to warn them of them impending arrival of the rape of youth culture.

and i wonder why i have such a hard time figuring a direction...i am consistantly torn between believing things could be better and believing that in the end everything will be okay, that adaptation is the most underrated trait of this world.

i'm only apathetic about my apathy, really, i swear.


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oh yeah, question i've been pondering....you know about the golden ratio right? basically it says that the ratio of aesthetically appealing things, balanced as it were, in relation to each other, is 1:1.618 (a bit hard to explain it fully, but this is one of the principles da vinci's vitruvian man is based on). so one of the doctors in the bbc documentary "the human face" was studying beauty, and he found that the golden ratio, when applied to faces, and arms, and legs, body parts in general, has a central role in categorising exactly what beauty is (you try and come up with a suitable definition of what beauty is, and not a representation), in that the ratio of certain body parts in relation to others corresponds to the golden ratio. like the length of ones mouth to the length from corner to mouth to edge of cheek (in full on view) is 1:1.618, the length on eyes to the length between to the eyes and to the side of the head, so on and so forth (if you are still following what i'm saying, than i commend you, basically you can learn more here). anyway, so there's a golden ratio which applies to beauty right? well, i was doing some studies last night, and i started one using fergie from the black eyed peas...and i got to thinking, you suppose that in correlation with this golden ratio, as it applies to faces, that there could be a "slutty ratio"?
i mean, i'm just saying is all.