Overall, Ingrid Goes West takes a lot of humorous shots at millennials and their addictions to phones as well the social
media celebrity culture.
Not exact matches
In a world of split - second attention spans, if you can stay nimble enough to leverage your
celebrity partnerships in a way that rides the wave of current events, pop
culture or social
media «chatter,» you can make both branding and fundraising magic.
Denny's Twitter is full of commentary on pop
culture, live blogging Saturday Night Live and engaging One Direction's boy band member Liam Payne after he ranted on social
media about the stress of
celebrity life.
Yesterday, when I spotted Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdene on the cover of People Magazine with the headline «THE HUNGER GAMES» in bold white letters, I couldn't help but wonder if Suzanne Collins set all of this up to remind us of how closely our
culture can resemble that of The Capitol — what with our excess, our reality shows, our glorification of violence, and our compulsive need to shove every good story through our
celebrity - obsessed
media machine.
Our
culture (through social
media, reality TV,
celebrity gossip, etc.) has so profoundly commodified people — actual human beings — it's become a phenomenon we hardly even notice anymore.
But, most important of all, its whole
culture — its use of evangelical
celebrities and its
media savvy — has made it that much more influential at congregational level even as it is accountable to no - one but a self - selected few.
While each of St Benedict's twelve steps of humility (which are listed below) have a strong message of their own, the second step in particular is quite a striking one, being of great importance in today's society which is so full of consumerism, family breakdowns,
celebrity culture, social
media, vanity and many other problems and challenges.
I know with the whole brand engagement, TV and
media it is a relatively new and necessary thing in a
culture of marketing,
celebrity and no privacy.
A
media - centric, consumeristic
celebrity culture, the erosion of civic responsibility, & the effectiveness of machine /» gangster» politics on a dynastic scale all contribute in challenging the assumption that a government of the people, by the people, & for the people can sustain itself in the long run.
Eventually, Trippi believes that we'll laugh off minor gaffes like this, but at the moment, the Internet is encouraging a
culture of authenticity at the same time that rival campaigns, the
media, blogs, etc., will gang - tackle a candidate (or
celebrity) for the slightest public or private mistake.
Just like for women, our social and
celebrity media culture perpetuates an unrealistic idea of male body perfection and attractiveness.
Filed Under People relationships
celebrities social
media dating online dating
culture.
As such, it poses all sorts of questions about the intersection of art,
celebrity and psychological disturbance in our
media culture, but it also gives us Laura Albert as a shape - shifting artist of astonishing talent, resourcefulness and originality.
This might have been a savvy satire on today's
celebrity - struck
media culture, but Niccol unfolds the story at a lumbering pace, peppered with not - funny gags and dramatic scenes that build little emotional power.
Initially it feels like that's the direction Zoolander 2 is going to go — the conflating of
celebrity culture and reality brought on by social
media and the digital age.
Rupert Murdoch has power, wealth — and legions of detractors, who say the
media mogul's tabloids and TV stations have fueled crass
celebrity culture, phone hacking and fake news.
His cinema has spanned such subjects as South American civil war (Salvador), the Vietnam War (Platoon), speculative capitalism (Wall Street), the assassination of John F. Kennedy (JFK), as well as
media, violence and the
celebrity culture (Natural Born Killers).
Gina Prince - Bythewood's Beyond the Lights makes our social -
media - driven
celebrity culture such a centerpiece of its story that this old - fashioned romantic drama set in the world of showbiz seems more topical than it actually is.
And the movie's tweaks of
media and
celebrity culture (Walter goes on a national morning show to tout his toy company's new product) come across as somewhat diversionary, and off the drumbeat of the main narrative.
It's an issue that has been growing for the past few years —
celebrity culture and the increasing prevalence of social
media has contributed hugely.
These articles help explain the influence of
celebrity culture and
media stereotypes.
The truth is, Grafton never had to compete in a market driven by
celebrity, pop
culture, and social
media connections.
Social
media,
celebrity culture and imagery used in advertising is seeing that trend moving towards these bull breed type dogs, many of which have cropped ears.
Working across different
media, including performance, installation, collage and mail art, she continues to explore the lure of
celebrity in popular
culture and the nature of being a «fan», often drawing from her own childhood and teenage obsessions while she was growing up in 70's America.
Mar excavates the ritual narratives inherent in secondhand stores, science fiction,
celebrity, commercial design, and social
media to create abstract and anthropomorphic barometers of contemporary
culture.
Deeply entwined with his hometown, his work explores popular
media, Hollywood, and the cult of
celebrity, while positing LA as central to an understanding of American
culture and the American dream.
Suspending viewers between the gritty firsthand accounts of people who would typically remain nameless and faceless in the
media, and an accessible drama featuring two actors who are the very embodiment of visibility, Love Story reflects on the callousness of a
media - saturated
culture in which identification with fictional characters and
celebrity figures runs parallel to widespread indifference to the plight of those facing real world adversity.
The exhibit will be the first major solo show for the artist in Los Angeles since 1997, an appropriate locale for images with much to say about
celebrity and the influence of the
media on popular
culture.
The artist references the intimacy of worship, be it of a religious icon,
celebrity and pop -
culture, or the adoration of one's self through today's social
media.
Jon Rafman immerses viewers in environments where gaming landscapes and physical reality fuse as dark, hypnotizing hybrids; Yves Scherer probes
celebrity culture and popular
media in works that toe the line between critique, satire, and celebration; and Simon Denny examines surveillance and digital subcultures by plumbing the depths of images, information, and communication stored on the internet.
From makeup to
celebrity culture, these artists mine «girly» motifs — often ignored or dismissed as flippant and unserious by the art world — to explore issues of gendered expectations and pressures women face through representations of women in the
media and
culture at large.
A former obituary writer for the Daily Telegraph, McEwen creates morbidly humorous works that often address the
celebrity - driven nature of the
media and its broad impact on contemporary
culture, as in his series of enlarged, wall - mounted...
A former obituary writer for the Daily Telegraph, McEwen creates morbidly humorous works that often address the
celebrity - driven nature of the
media and its broad impact on contemporary
culture, as in his series of enlarged, wall - mounted mock - obituaries of living
celebrities such as Jeff Koons, Bill Clinton, and Kate Moss.
The Swiss artist, who is now based in New York and Berlin, mines
celebrity and social
media culture — and comes out with works that poke fun at contemporary fantasy.
Encompassing the engaged and the conformist, references to
celebrity and mass -
culture, every
media available and being completely democratic in terms of iconography, and definitely containing some inherent traits of pop art, it's safe to state that Urban Art is the perfect mirror of postmodernism, and as such, it's a movement in its own right.
Warhol, an iconic American artist whose reputation has only increased in the quarter - century since his death, is best known for appropriations of images from popular
culture — advertisements, mass -
media photographs and
celebrity portraits — that challenged the conventional definitions and subjects of art.
Her work is informed by mainstream news
media, cartoons, video games, hip - hop
culture,
celebrity websites and tabloid magazines.
The texts that accompany each painting are composed with bewildering combinations of phrases and lexical marks that reflect how historical distinctions between art,
media and
celebrity culture are rapidly dissolving.
Wyle's imagery references current affairs and the
media, as well as a diverse range of sources including ancient wall paintings, art history and film,
celebrity culture, even football.
He created morbidly humorous works that often address the
celebrity - driven nature of the
media and its broad impact on contemporary
culture, as in his series of enlarged, wall - mounted mock - obituaries of living
celebrities, like Kate Moss or Jeff Koons.
Most recently, Breitz's work has focused on the conditions under which empathy is produced, reflecting on a
media - saturated global
culture in which strong identification with fictional characters and
celebrity figures runs parallel to widespread indifference to the plight of those facing real world adversities.
Public, Private, Secret does lay out both the negative impacts of
celebrity culture, surveillance, porn, voyeurism, social
media, et al. upon both our sense of personal privacy and our image - making habits but it is also about the agency of «being seen» and the social impact of widespread self - representation and alterity.
Abney's works are informed as much by mainstream news
media as they are by animated cartoons, video games, hip - hop
culture,
celebrity websites and tabloid magazines.
Most of the swill that the
media obsesses over — boring pop
culture, boring television, boring
celebrities, boring horse - race political coverage, boring Sarah Palin, boring social
media fluff... boring, boring, boring.