by Alicia | Feb 19, 2014 | Hyperallergic, News, Online, Press, Writing
Professor Ann Collins Johns at the University of Texas at Austin was just as peeved as many people were about President Barack Obama’s knock on art history majors. So she did what any self-assured art historian would do and wrote a letter to Obama on January 31,...
by Alicia | Feb 19, 2014 | Hyperallergic, News, Selfie Column, Writing
LOS ANGELES — This week, a new selfie trend pissed people off. Jason Feiffer, the same guy who dug around on Instagram and discovered funeral selfies, discovered the creepy “selfies with homeless people” trend. These “selfies with homeless people” are more like...
by Alicia | Feb 19, 2014 | Hyperallergic, News, Writing
LOS ANGELES — What are people really saying when they express a desire for a new camera? Do they want a camera that will take better pictures, allowing them to see the world more clearly, or do they want a new smartphone with a better camera in it, in order to snap...
by Alicia | Feb 19, 2014 | Hyperallergic, News, Selfie Column, Writing
LOS ANGELES — How many selfies is too many? From teenagers with cadavers and selfie-snappin’ toddlers to couples taking “couplies“ (just one type of group selfie), the selfie’s possibilities seem as inexhaustible as a history of portraiture. Is it narcissistic to...
by Alicia | Feb 9, 2014 | Hyperallergic, News, Writing
LOS ANGELES — President Barack Obama stands fully formed in wax towards the exit of the entertaining, kitschy tourist trap that is the Hollywood Wax Museum. Celebrity gazing is a thoroughly American tradition, and as such, the Hollywood Wax Museum has three other...
by Alicia | Feb 9, 2014 | Hyperallergic, News, Selfie Column, Writing
LOS ANGELES — Your selfies are a visual wonderland. This week’s images touch on boredom, mother-daughter relationships, photo booth self-portraits as predecessors of the selfie, webcam-induced mirror reflections, and plain old internet “weirdness” that borders on...
