On the weekends, I usually wake up at noon, scarf down a Starbucks pain au chocolat and latte, then subsist on snacks until dinner time. It’s a pattern formed largely through laziness (making brunch...
I used to think that Michael Jackson was a wierdo who blamed the media for his own eccentricities. Since becoming a fan after watching This Is It, I’ve come to realize that I was the one being naive,...
“Are your parents okay with it?” That’s usually the first thing people ask when they hear that Alice’s boyfriend is white. And more often than not, it’s another Asian girl who’s asking. The question...
It is an unequal world, the world of the nude. It is the world of art and indecent exposure. There in front of me is your man’s bottom, shaking in front of me at the sauna door. You are perfectly...
Days before I was due to fly home for the Christmas holidays, I heard a “pop” in my knee when I landed clumsily in wushu. Dammit, that wasn’t even the proper jump! I was just warming...
The Experiment Charlie is a lawyer turned entrepreneur who is usually either single or in a relationship–but rarely in between. Last fall, upon arriving in New York City, she challenged herself...
Por-ni-fi-ca-tion, noun, /pɔːnɪfɪˈkeɪʃ(ə)n/ The increasing occurrence and acceptance of sexual themes and explicit imagery in popular or mainstream culture: the growing pornification of our society....
New York, October 2013. You’re walking by a street vendor selling art. It’s signed Banksy but is clearly a fake at $60. There’s no way you’re paying that much for a knockoff. You’d maybe...
This is the second of a two-part Fotolog special on street art. Read part 1 here. Art in Buenos Aires is the blonde student with the Che Guevara shirt ignoring the Peruvian immigrant playing a guitar for coins....
What is beauty? And how does it govern our lives? Is there an “innate” standard for beauty that we’re all born with, or is beauty socialized? In which case, what are the power dynamics that influence...
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