boatMovie from zannahlou on Vimeo. My slapdash model ship, made out of cardboard and masking tape, was set it to sail on video sea and sunk in a storm of pixels, in a rehearsal of the disaster fantasies of my coastal New England youth. The boat was constructed from readily available household/schoolroom materials: this fantasy […]
Roland Barthes and the Fantastic Four explore the world of wrestling! I fused excerpts of Roland Barthes’ essay “The World Of Wrestling” (published in his collection “Mythologies”) with a 1974 Fantastic Four comic book that I had in my collection. I manipulated the pages to add extra speech bubbles (since Barthes had more to say […]
Awkward_NYC, or The New York City Map of Awkward Social interactions in Public Spaces, is a collaborative online map for reporting social accidents and small interpersonal traumas that occur unexpectedly in public spaces. The map pinpoints sites in the New York Metropolitan area where misunderstandings, outbursts, physical altercations, arguments between friends or strangers, and romantic […]
The Heartbreak Haiku site invited visitors to condense their tragic, failed-relationship stories into three line haiku. While many internet communities spring up around common interests or obsessions, Heartbreak Haiku attempted to create a community of users organized around a particular set of emotions: “Your best pals are happy to listen to your rambling, romantic sob […]
