I listened to a really interesting article this afternoon on NPR (and narrowly avoided a confrontation with my conservative stepfather thereafter). Here's the link

Why is it more common for females to refer to themselves as girls, or going out with the girls no matter what age they are, and it's less common for men? Men don't say me and the boys. Men don't call themselves boys.

Fe_male explores gender stereotypes and roles through the interaction of typically inanimate objects through stop-motion animation. Artists who have informed this piece are Miranda July and Alex Bag; specifically, scenes from Miranda July's film Me and You and Everyone We Know and the Alex Bag Untitled piece we viewed in class ( Read more... )

It's finished! Here's the compilation.

You may want to play it twice to grasp the full meaning. Any and all thoughts are appreciated. Thanks again.

Hello all!

I am almost finished with all of the shorts. I have one more to photograph, and then I'm going to still experiment with putting them all together. If that's not working well, then I'll leave them seperate and work on making them clearer. I've uploaded the new ones on my youtube account. Feel free to check it out ( Read more... )

Another short! This one is about the female's role in "caressing the male's ego" and the stereotype that men are egotistical, using the mirror and pig as obvious symbols.

Voila! I have created the first short! (and I do mean short...it's only 13 seconds, so you may want to watch it a couple of times). I will try to export it into a different format that's better quality, but this will give you an idea for now. You're my guinea pigs...tell me what you think! My biggest question is: Do you think you would understand ( Read more... )

So I never thought about it in this context before, but I realized something. I am aware of other people observing me, even if there is no one in the room. I imagine how certain people would view me in that moment. I thought that might make an interesting connection to what we were discussing before...applying Berger's idea of surveillance in art ( Read more... )

I don't want this blog to be completely self-serving (for my own knowledge and the development of the video). I hope that every reader is getting something out of this, whether it's just entertainment or helping you explore your own perceptions. With that said, I have a couple of questions ( Read more... )

Here are some ideas I've come up with for specific scenes. Throughout the whole thing, there will be a notecard written with Male? Female? Or (Fe)male? near each object to give the viewer some direction as to what's going on. I'm using a ball and a box throughout several of them, but I want to rotate the ball/box scenes with other object scenes ( Read more... )