Daniele Buetti (b.1955, Switzerland) - White Tears, Lightbox #230. C-print on lightbox, 100x81 cm (2005) / Hand. Lightbox, 97x127 cm (2001-2002)
Many thanks to showslow for this Tumblr Monday to share with us one of her favorites contemporary visual artists: Daniele Buetti, who works in various media including photography, video, sound, drawing, sculpture, and digitally assisted work. The nature of reality and the function of our emotions is Buetti’s ongoing concern. His scenarios use the language and tools of visual seduction, familiar to us through our exposure to advertising and the media. Thus, the artist initially conveys us to a world of apparent desirable happiness and fame. Buetti, however, looks behind the curtains of high-gloss limelight to reveal the frailness of appearances, together with the anxiety and insecurity behind an immaculate façade. He equips his beauties with speech bubbles for them to express unspoken, very personal feelings, far from their consumer appeal. We are lead to reflect on our own emotional experience of the close and infinitely precarious, but also emotional relationship between appearance and reality, exaltation and despair. (cf. wikipedia).
[more Daniele Buetti | Tumblr Monday with showslow]
Kristen Wiig left SNL?? I’m bawling my eyes out.
Every musical should have one minor character who is aware that everyone is singing and dancing and extremely confused and terrified
AHHHHHHHHH
Fuckyeahh1990s reblogged my recess pic and it’s blowing up with reblogs!!!
Yes I’m aware that this happens a lot.
I’m also aware this happens to a lot of people a lot.
Screw it. I’m still happy. Woohoo!!!
Marketing Campaign of the Day: Apparently, most women have hard-and-fast “rules about what they won’t put in their vaginas.” This new spot for Sir Richard’s condoms elicits said rules — though they seem to involve specific types of men, more than anything else — and promises the condom brand won’t add any chemicals, either.
Happy National Women’s Health Week.
(See also: Sir Richard’s spot defending sluts.)
[adweek]
Kickass Cover of the Day: If you listen to one cover of Gotye’s chart-topper “Somebody That I Used To Know” today (other than this one, this one, this one, this one, or this one), make it fun.’s lovely rendition of the song for BBC Radio One, with Paramore’s Hayley Williams singing the Kimbra part.
Ironically, all these covers of “Somebody” have elevated the song to the number one spot on the iTunes charts, displacing fun.’s big hit, “We Are Young.”
[nme]
WAIT, WHAT IS THIS. WHAT WHAT WHAT IS THIS. WHAT IS AIR.
