riot grrrl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0hS7hA133w&feature=related

To be, or to appear to be. That is the question.

Nicole Tran Ba Vang is a Paris-based artist who explores one of the most questioned concepts in contemporary art - the body. Her photographs examine the cult of perfection and the value of clothing. Investigating the fashion, its language, and aesthetics, Nicole Tran Ba Vang does not hesitate to critique the absurdity of trends with humor.

The artist uses the body as a space of transformation of the self and of the identity. In her works, the clothes are in an ambiguous play with the body; they transform into nudity, and they confuse the viewer. Each series of photographs paves the way for diverse reflexions on the notions of desire and bodily modifications including bronzing, pilosity, buttocks, and breasts.

Will the obsession of appearance end?

Artist's Website: http://www.tranbavang.com/

Kraftwerk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXa9tXcMhXQ

I guess this group will be very popular in 20 years time and will probably inspire some more....

Sex and Marriage with Robots

Levy — a British scientist and artificial intelligence researcher — based his theory on 450 publications from various spheres including psychology, sexology, sociology and robotics. His research is based on identifying certain trends that he feels will inevitably come to pass in the near future.

“My forecast is that around 2050, the state of Massachusetts will be the first jurisdiction to legalize marriages with robots.” Levy told LiveScience.
further more at http://www.lifeinthefastlane.ca/scientist-claims-sex-and-marriage-with-robots-this-century/weird-science
Ethical Implications
Setting aside morality, possibilities could prove beneficial to society. Robot sex could provide an outlet for criminal sexual urges. “If you have pedophiles and you let them use a robotic child, will that reduce the incidence of them abusing real children, or will it increase it?” asked Ronald Arkin at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.

Prostitution and the problems that arise from it could be reduced.

So, what do you think? Can human being would be satisfied with this solution?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbFFs4DHWys and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFpxi3Tbujk&feature=related

Groovy Chick

"The rhetoric of the sexual revolution, if it brought no improvements for women, proved to have great value for men. By convincing women that the usual female games and demands were despicable, unfair, prudish, old-fashioned, puritanical, and self-destructive, a new reservoir of available females was created to expand the tight supply of goods available for traditional sexual exploitation, disarming women of even the little protection they had so painfully acquired. Women today dare not to make the old demands for fear of having a whole new vocabulary, designed just for this purpose, hurled at them: 'a bad trip', 'fucked up', a real drag, - to be a groovy chick is the ideal."
'The Dialectic of Sex' - Shulamith Firestone

Ink Drawings on A5 paper by me!