The horror of being perceived and why you hate

15 Jun

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...

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4 Sep

Hair-raising! Contained in the recent zine that mixes hair

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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...

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17 Apr

How the horror genre subverts toxic ideas around women

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Full of cannibals, vampires and murderers who devour and indulge to the purpose of excess, the horror genre allows women to be free from restriction and appetite suppression “Why be miserable when you may just have lemon cake?” So says Rashida’s mom, Jackie (Cree Summer), within the last episode of Janine Nabers and Donald Glover’s hit horror series Swarm. Within the episode, serial killer Dre (Dominique Fishback) is on to her latest and last alias, now identifying as a masculine-presenting woman named Tony. She meets her girlfriend Rashida’s (Kiersey Clemons) parents for the primary time, and so they all have dinner together. While the audience is witnessing a radically different side to Dre, the...

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9 Jan

‘Spring’, The Beautiful Lovecraftian Body Horror Romance Film Which

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Aaron Benson and Justin Moorhead have put themselves in strong contention because the horror genre’s biggest up-and-coming talents, with their works all seeing positive reception and intrigue. Considered one of their finest, nonetheless, is arguably their least spoken about. Because of the marvels of contemporary streaming, their second film Spring got here into my watchlist and has stuck deeply with me. The body horror romance flick is one in every of their most daring movies, with the 2014 release unfortunately not receiving more attention. Meeting the Cronenberg body horror of Videodrome with the romance of the Before trilogy sounds fairly ridiculous, however it absolutely works. Image: FilmBuff Indie circuit veteran Lou Taylor Pucci plays a desperately down-on-his-luck bar...

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