Richard Kern

[loki_of_asgard]

Richard Kern's videos make me feel dirty and not in a good way. For the most part, they seem like collections of desperate hearts yearning for some lazy kind of immortality, as if the act of revealing revealed anything of real value. Vulnerability is not a treasure there, it grows like grass, incessant and pointless. It lacks the abandon and quirk

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[bitch_train]

Is he a porn director or something?

[loki_of_asgard]

He's a hipster with a vidcam and Vice Magazine level street cred. He's videoed more upskirt shots and crotchless panties than a Japanese AOV producer. Women line up to be filmed by him, for free.

[bitch_train]

oh, a glamorized version of myspace pics lol. ridiculous. but he must be trying to be the next Terry Richardson. God knows that "Uncle Terry" is wildly successful despite the cumshots he makes with amateur models.

but then, women these days take pics of their crotches, why not get it professionally done?

heh.

[loki_of_asgard]

Oh I don't know anything about intentions, whether his or those of the little girls he shoots. I'm not saying anyone is getting ripped off, or that anyone is "bad people". I don't begrudge anyone making money or achieving some tiny fame. I'm just talking about skill and presentation and the semiotics of it all. And what I feel when I see the images is sad, and not a little bit weary.