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Got a Girl Crush On: Jen Davis’ self-love photography

Fantasy No. 1,2004. Jen Davis

Jen Davis looks to self-portraiture as a way to deal with her insecurities about her body image. See the stunning work accompanied with an essay by Hannah Frieser here on Flak Photo.

“Davis still uses the camera as a tool to help her understand the world around her. A decade into this project, she finds that her body is changing. As in the past, she continues to photograph through every new circumstance and allows the camera to make sense of it all.”

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Got a Girl Crush On: My West-Coast Taste Twin

I (Meg) was in San Fran for a whopping 24 hours before roadtrippin’ down Highway 1 to LA for the week, but snagged some quick girl-time with Andrea at Sightglass coffee in SoMa for a mini girl-crush reunion! 

Of course we showed up basically wearing the same outfit—but that’s why this blog gels well from opposite ends of the country. Great sartorial minds think alike ;)

Got A Girl Crush On: Women of the Wolf (Easy Wheels, 1989).

Bikers, big hair and baby theft. The babes of (what is easily my new favorite movie) Easy Wheels (1989) won me over within the first minute of this amazingly campy 80’s flick.

Abandoned by her parents and raised by wolves, She Wolf and the gang cruise around the state, um, “acquiring” baby girls. Terrible, perhaps. Not to worry, there are perks to a forced wolf pack up-bringing. All Women of the Wolf really want is to raise a tribe of strong independent women who are ”Fearless, wild and free!” You. are. welcome.

Got a Girl Crush On: Maya Rudolph on her mother, Minnie Riperton

“I always make this case because I feel like my mom was part of a generation of people who [had] incredible gifts. There was no sweetening of vocals. There was no Pro Tools then. So I feel like people like her really shone because they were just so incredibly gifted and one of a kind. She was very revered for that reason and very well-respected. My mom was a special, cool lady.” — Maya Rudolph

And, with that, we say Happy Mother’s Day to all the rad mom’s this Sunday!

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Got a Girl Crush On: Prudence Fenton (Animator, Director, Producer, Imagineer)

Animation Director, Pee-wee’s Playhouse (1986-1991); Executive Producer, Liquid Television (1991-1994)

Not long after the debut of MTV, my grandfather called the cable company and asked if he could have the channel scrambled. In the early days MTV was a showcase of bizarre animation, giving airtime to experimental work. At the time Prudence Fenton was a young animator just out of art school, hired by MTV to make station IDs. She continued throughout her career to push ideas and technologies as far as she could. By 1986 it worked! Far-out creativity made its way into network television with the legendary Saturday morning children’s program, Pee-wee’s Playhouse, where Prudence Fenton worked as the animation director. She brought the Penny Cartoon and other stop-motion wonders to the show.

Then in 1991, along with Japhet Asher, she worked to make Liquid Television a reality, which further embraced the experimental by commissioning independent animators to make short segments and creating a venue in which to show them. With Weird Vibes, the resurgence of Liquid Television, and new episodes of Beavis and Butt-Head, maybe television is ready to get back into that territory again.

When I called her up asking for an interview, she was surprised I knew who she was. I thought, “Shouldn’t everyone?” She is a pioneer.

VICE: How did you start working for MTV?
Prudence Fenton: In art school I started doing my own animations by doing things with flip cards and shooting on Super 8. From there, I was hired by a company called Broadcast Arts that was about to do station IDs for MTV.

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NPR Fresh Air Interview: Lena Dunham Addresses Criticism Aimed At ‘Girls’

I like this girl. A lot.

Got a Girl Crush On: Nora Herting’s undercover artist work at JC Penney Portrait Studios

Studio portraits don’t document an event; the making of the photograph is the event. In order to create a series titled Free Sitting, artist Nora Herting got a job as a trade photographer at a portrait studio in a JC Penney department store in Ohio.

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