Tree Change Dolls

Tree Change Dolls is a project about taking old discarded toys and giving them a new lease on life, cerated by an artist, illustrator and science communicator based in Hobart, Tasmania. Facebook.

quote: "...these dolls have been rescued and rehabilitated from op-shops and tip shops around Tasmania. These lil fashion dolls have opted for a "tree change", swapping high-maintenance glitz 'n' glamour for down-to-earth style. I hand repaint the dolls faces, mold new shoes, and my Mum sews and knits their clothing. My sisters and I grew up playing with second-hand dolls and home-made toys in the beautiful Tasmanian natural environment. I love the satisfaction of repairing and reusing discarded items to give them a new lease on life".

Ludovic Sarmento aka Jls Birdy Photography

Ludovic Sarmento (aka Jls Birdy) lives and works in Paris. The themes of sex, humor and the bizarre permeate his work in which nothing is left to chance. The girl next door, more than one hundred young girls and boys, transexuels and transgenders are captured by his lens.

Through the Window by Maria Jose Garcia Piaggio

In Maria Jose Garcia Piaggio’s Through the Window, she appropriates found images as part of her investigation about cybersex.
quote [Through the Window is devided into two parts, one part is men looking though free portals and the other side is women that offer live shows where you have to pay to participate. Is a project of accumulation and appropiation of images. I want to be able to show this scenarios that we all know are there but we keep hidden, deconstructing it from the virtual context and taking it to other scenaries to show this two groups to the expectator. I’m interested to show the construction of the body language this women have in front of the camera to be liked and atract the expectator].

Paintbrush Portraits by Rebecca Szeto

"These works are an homage to an often lost sensibility and quality, not simply the modernist stylings, found in Old Masters' works. They (con)fuse realities between politics (labor with leisure) and consumerism (trash and treasure), pointing to an endless loop of transformative regeneration. The brush and its action is also ripe for wordplay: Women's work and their brush off from prior annals of art history as well as material puns about bristling at waste and patriarchy" says the San Francisco-based artist Rebecca Szeto, referring to her ongoing series of Paintbrush Portraits.

Ashkan Honarvar Portfolio

Ashkan Honarvar depicts an undeniable, unavoidable beauty by accepting the darker sides of human ‘nature’. The body, torn by acts of war, exploited by the sex industry or used as a tool for seeking identity, is the focal point of his work.This constitutes a search for a universal representation of the evil latent in every human, providing an opportunity for reflection. His aesthetic dissection has an intriguing macabre nature, which opens the images to interpretation.
[Thumbnail: Negative space, pornographic images were the starting point for this series. Removing faces and genitals strips the naked bodies of their identity enabling an exploration of sexuality.]

Ren-Hang Photography

Born in 1987 in Chang Chun, Jilin province in Northeastern China, Ren-Hang is a photographer and poet. Ren Hang has been invited by artist Ai Weiwei for the group exhibition “Fuck Off” in The Netherlands showcasing the new wave of the 21st century Chinese art scene. Ren Hang lives and works in Beijing. Flickr and Tumblr.

Eliza Bennett Sews a Sculpture into her Skin

For A woman’s work is never done, english artist Eliza Bennett embroiders a self-inflicted sculpture into her flesh.
quote [Using my own hand as a base material, I considered it a canvas upon which I stitched into the top layer of skin using thread to create the appearance of an incredibly work worn hand. By using the technique of embroidery, traditionally employed to represent femininity and applying it to the expression of it’s opposite, I hope to challenge the pre-conceived notion that ‘women’s work’ is light and easy. Aiming to represent the effects of hard work arising from employment in low paid ancillary jobs such as cleaning, caring, and catering, all traditionally considered to be ‘women’s work’].

Fashion or Porn?

Fashion or Porn? Can you distinguish fashion from pornography?

Part 3 of Real sex in mainstream movies

After Part 2 of Real sex in mainstream movies here we are again with a new selection of 8 mainstream movies featuring real sex.

Embedded in one page:

The Image with Rebecca Brooke
The Wayward Cloud by Tsai Ming-liang
Antares by Götz Spielmann [the thumbnail]
Spetters by Paul Verhoeven
Lazaro's Girlfriends by Fernando Merinero
LelleBelle by Mischa Kamp
Anatomy of Hell with Amira Casar
Desire (q) by Laurent Bouhnik



1. The Image (1975) by Radley Metzger with Rebecca Brooke
The Image is a 1975 American film that was re-released in an edited version in 1976. The film is also known by two other titles: The Punishment of Anne and The Mistress and the Slave and was directed by Radley Metzger. The film is based upon the classic 1956 sadomasochistic novel L'Image, written by Catherine Robbe-Grillet and published under the pseudonym of Jean de Berg. The story of middle-aged Jean, a writer (played by Carl Parker), who meets an old friend, Claire, a lesbian and also middle-aged (played by Marilyn Roberts) and is soon drawn into her world of sadomasochism, in which they torture Claire's youthful slave, Anne (Mary Mendum, aka Rebecca Brooke, and Metzger's girlfriend at the time).





2. The Wayward Cloud (2005) by Tsai Ming-liang with Chen Shiang-chyi
The most audacious film to date from visionary director Tsai Ming-liang, The Wayward Cloud is about a porn actor and the museum tour guide who enters into a strange relationship with him, unaware of his profession.





3. Antares (2004) by Götz Spielmann with Petra Morze
Antares is a 2004 Austrian film directed by Götz Spielmann. It was Austria's submission to the 77th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee. A deadly car crash sets off three parallel stories of women at crisis points, faltering behind the doors of the same, plain Vienna apartment block.





4. Spetters (1980) by Paul Verhoeven with Renée Soutendijk
Spetters led to protests about the manner in which Verhoeven portrayed gays, Christians, the police, and the press. Although Verhoeven made one more film in the Netherlands, the response to Spetters led him to leave for Hollywood. Despite the large amount of controversy surrounding it, the film proved to be popular with 1,124,162 admissions in the Netherlands alone. From a financial perspective the film proved to be a disappointment, given the fact that the production ran seriously behind schedule and over budget. The careers of Maarten Spanjer and Renee Soutendijk were launched by this film, but it did not do much for the other young lead actors. Hans van Tongeren committed suicide in 1982.





5. Lazaro's Girlfriends (2002) by Fernando Merinero with Franciska Ródenas
Lazarus is a charming Cuban looking for life in Madrid. Once his gf Dolores takes a trip from Spain to Cuba to reside together with him, she discovers that he's in jail for kidnapping and attempted violation. Dolores attempts to endure with a cracked heart, her empathy and sensualism permitting her to adjust to life in Madrid while attempting to get over Lazarus' drug addiction.





6. LelleBelle (2010) by Mischa Kamp with Catherine Dagelet
LelleBelle is a TV Movie by Mischa Kamp featuring Catherine Dagelet. 19-year old violinist Belle lives in a small farming village in the Netherlands. Everyone around her seems obsessed with sex: her boyfriend, her sister and especially her mother. But Belle?s only interest is her violin, and she is put off by the constant flirting and mating of her peers.





7. Anatomy of Hell (2010) by Catherine Breillat with Amira Casar
The film was adapted by writer/director Breillat from her novel Pornocracy. The sexually explicit film stars Amira Casar as "the woman" and porn star Rocco Siffredi as "the man". Leonard Maltin summarizes: "After attempting suicide in the bathroom of a gay disco, a woman hires the man who rescues her to spend four nights in her company, challenging him to 'watch me where I'm unwatchable'."





8. Q (Desire) (2011) by Laurent Bouhnik with Helene Zimmer
Directed by controversial French filmmaker Laurent Bouhnik (24 Hours in the Life of a Woman), Desire is a frank and insightful examination of sexuality and ethos among young people today.

Genetic Portraits by Ulric Collette

Quebec based photographer Ulric Collette realized a photographic research work on genetic similarities between members of the same family. In Genetic Portraits he seamlessly blends the faces of two relatives to create one portrait.

Jls Birdy Updated

New portfolio for Jls Birdy a French photographer who lives and works in Paris.

Noelia Muriana Paintings

quote [The artwork-plastic developed by Noelia Muriana, over the last decade, has been conveyed through video-creation, sculpture, painting and drawing to show the critical and political positioning that the artist takes towards some plots of the reality of today].

Atsushi Suwa Paintings

Realistic paintings by Atsushi Suwa a great japanese painter born in Hokkaido.

Dennis Ziliotto Photography

Dennis Ziliotto is a freelance photographer based in Monselice (Padova) in the North of Italy.
quote [What really makes the difference is what we perceive: photography can gently whisper a story or irreverently scream it. And so the eyes of who's looking or the ears of who's listening become important].