Horror Tag
Don’t look at me
“Being perceived… how do u stop that,” one person tweets out into the void. “I’m so sick of being perceived I literally cannot cope with people having an opinion of me,” one other adds. “I wanna delete all the pieces, I need to deactivate every social media I’ve ever had in my entire life. I need every trace of me to be gone and I don’t wanna be perceived,” a preferred soundbite on TikTok, originally from @jacobvanlue, ruminates. The notion that all and sundry we encounter holds a distinct perception of us, beyond our control, is unsettling, even a little bit horrifying. Yet, being perceived by others is an...
Continue reading
Hairstylist Yuho Kamo’s debut zine HAIRMASTER – made with distorted imagery and disturbing CGI – is all about ‘the scary taboos in underground London’
For Yuho Kamo, hairstyling is a type of destruction. Distorted and deviant, his experimental work draws on counter-cultural references and bad taste to supply an antidote to the tasteless and standard hair that dominates the mainstream. It’s a method that has seen him tapped for collaboration with the likes of Heaven by Marc Jacobs, Rina Sawayama, and Megumu for i-D Japan. Now, the Japanese hairstylist is releasing a recent zine, HAIRMASTER, and it’s his most radical work yet.
Photographed and directed by Kamo, HAIRMASTER is packed stuffed with styles cut...
Continue reading
