unlikeable protagonist

(via サラミさんはTwitterを使っています: “貴重な押し込まれる着ぐるみ画像が増えましたありがとうございます https://t.co/3mVPgFuGG9”)

Stay Tuned (1992)

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I always wanted this apartment, but it would be awful in reality.

The unfortunately most common response is what we often see from empowered individualistic consumers, which is “how can I consume ethically.” The question turns the issue from being about the workers to about the consumer. We see this in apparel activism too often from people who think that buying second-hand clothing is an answer to sweatshop labor. Michelle Chen answers the question about what you can do quite simply–support worker organizing–and she provides plenty of information about how that is shaping up.

Frog and cranberries it must be fall.

However, the not-so-subtle political undertone is clear.  This piece was about destroying the notion that everything that is old is good…including the traditions and cultures of China.  For Ai Weiwei, this triptych represents a moment in which culture suddenly shifts (sometimes violently), shattering the old and outdated to make room for the new.  

Three young women eat spaghetti on inflatable mattresses at Lake of Capri, 1939 (AP Photo / Hamilton Wright)