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Repository 73: The Doll’s Glass House
Adolescent doll by Martin Bartlett Dolls have thousands of years of history, I’ll venture to say that for humans dolls are essential. I’ll even go out on a limb to say that one of the oldest objects of art, The Venus of Willendorf (24,000 BC), is a doll. A doll is simply a talisman reminding us of what we feel but cannot see, and a vital tool that speaks for us when we can’t find the words. I’ve noticed a…
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Repository 25: Ai Weiwei and The Ear Worm
I’m confused. And amused. I just found this clip of Ai Weiwei doing a parody of a song which (I had no idea – this tells you a little about my pop culture awareness), called Gangnam Style. It’s an ear worm of a song, and apparently, thanks to wikipedia, I’ve learned has been parodied by other “powerful” people (e.g performed by the likes of Eric Schmidt, Google’s Executive Chairman, and British Prime Minister David Cameron). Admittedly I’m late to the…
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