/fa/ - Fashion

I love this one - a battalion of Soviet Youth Pioneers, C. 1937

Female blast-furnace cleaning crew, stateside during WW2.

>>6144854
nope
http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/gas-mask-tourism-on-the-izu-islands<wbr>

There were a lot of odd looking experimental designs during the 30's & 40's that are worth a look.

>>6144863
#CALLOUT

>>6144863
Wait, those aren't the young pioneers?

A number of designs were aimed at infants.

this is fucking legit.

Look at the terror in this kid's eyes...

>>6144943

Another design aimed at children - the Mickey Mask.

There is absolutely no correlation between gas masks, fashion, and culture.

Stop making shit up.

Has masks are a piece of defense of war. Unless you're some edgy hipster in Brooklyn or a native of Beijing where you can't see 4 feet in front of your face because of the goddamn smog, there is nothing you can do to justify making gas masks a piece of fashion, or art.

inb4givenchy or some dumb shit

STOP
STOP
STOP
YOU ARE CANCER TO THIS BOARD LEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAVE

>>6144985
HEEEEEEEEEERE WE GO

>>6144985
just hide the thread

>>6144985
you rang?

>>6144985
>masks are a piece of defense of war
yeah, this.

your thread is stupid OP you should probably go hang out in /k/ or smth, idk

>>6144985
do u want some cheese with that whine

>>6145025
>>6144985

It's something you wear that is laden with meaning, and I find many of them to be aesthetically intriguing.

It's mother's day, after all.

>>6145055

has as much meaning as a fucking gun, guns are not /fa/, neither are gasmasks

sage and reported

>>6145076
>sage and reported
>doesn't sage

>>6145055
>>6145055
I'm pretty sure that in the past you've lamented on about how ridiculous threads like:

>is this gun /fa/
>is this car /fa/
etc

bring nothing to the discussion of fashion.

Then you take a short break, looking through wikipedia and a bunch of other randy sites about gas masks and you come to /fa/ like you just found some sort of fucking revelation in fashion. Quite hypocritical. (KO #1)

I also find vacuum cleaners aesthetically pleasing, yet they have nothing to do with /fa/. I'm not dumping my fucking vacuum cleaner folder here, am I? This ain't your blog nigga. You casemods? Oh shit nigga, that's KO #2

Now stop wasting the internet's megabytes and shit.

>>6145116
please point me towards your masterful contributions :)

>>6145116
You're losing

>>6145101

fuck off squids do you even nokosage you fucking fat piece of shit?

>>6145116
don't listen to this fucker, poet. i think all your boards are interesting and relevant. please keep posting.

>>6145116
>summerfag: the post

>>6145162

>samefagging

I find the gas mask is symbolic of a certain breed of fear and panic that dominated the cultural unconscious during the 40's and 50's. Especially after the atom bomb.

>>6145116
you can get inspiration from anything
that astronaut thread has some of the best discussion this board has seen in weeks
clearly people aren't going to go around wearing space suits or gas masks but its interesting from an aesthetic standpoint

>>6145185
we used to have threads like that every week

summer is a cruel season

>>6145116
honestly, I don't care that he's posting because he's actually posting content of some value (the pictures, that is).

>>6145116
Except gas masks are functioning clothing items and vacuum cleaners are not

Nobody likes u anon

>>6145116
We discuss architecture, lifestyle, all sorts of things here.
I may have lamented cars and guns at some point, but the more I learn about design and style, the more I see the value of raising those questions at some point.

This is not a gun or car thread, though. This is about a mask, a garment, that carries a strong cultural message, possesses a storied history and has been adopted by costume and fashion designers many times over in some form or another.

>>6145168
I never samefag, ever.

>>6144863
>>6144877

Reverse search first told me it was miyake jima kids, but then further search told me it was soviet kids. i think soviet makes more sense, the kids are all in uniform and they have weapons. i think the photo must have been mistaken for miyakejima cuz of the gas masks

So many simple minded plebs who don't understand fashion beyond "W2C SWAG? CUP OR NUT? DOES X GO WITH Y? HOW 2 LOOK CUL?"

>tfw nigger jewfags complain about poet's god tier posts


gtfo of /fa/ and never come back you goofs


thanks poet, this is better than all the shitposting that goes on

These are some of the earlier masks, from the start of gas deployment in WW1.
They strike me as horrific, they're up there with that guy in RE4 who wears a burlap sack on his head

This is not fashion related you're just trying to act intellectual

>>6145271

newfaf detected

>>6145259
couldn't find this without the red line, sadly.

Various WW1 variants

The ones for animals were neat
They made them for horses as well
For children there was the problem that they were too afraid to wear them so they designed the masks to resemble things like Mickey Mouse to give it a less frightening appearance

>>6145262
this is shitposting. this belongs in a history thread on some other board, not in fashion. this MIGHT be vaguely related to fashion if he were posting some designers gas-mask inspired articles of clothing, but no, he's posting 40+ straight up military gas masks. they were used for keeping gas out and nothing else

Early Hazmat style suits from WW2

>>6145361
How new are you?

>>6145322
how horrifying

>>6145361
>implying I'm not headed there
sometimes it helps to trace the history of an object, all the way up to the present.

>>6145322
Those are next!

>>6145361
it seems fashion related to me and he explains why very clearly

it just seems to me that you can't really make the creative leap between anything worn and something to be taken as inspiration

>>6145366
Ya those were creepy
Later they made ones that actually resembled Mickey
I think they look cute in a sort of morbid way

>all of these kids who don't understand fashion and are hating on OP

can't say much for depth and fear-striking, but this one is pretty cute, I feel.

>>6145370
been here longer than poet

>>6145372
inspiration? are you guys all planning on designing some fashion respirators now?

'maybe might vaguely kind of almost related to fashion' subjects don't need a whole thread and 40 image dump, how about linking to a blog of miltiary inspiration or something? why do you instead insist on filling our front page with a military thread that belongs somewhere else?

>>6145394
I been here for years, mac. It's nothing to brag about.
I just kept my mouth shut for a long time, because I had nothing of value to say.

19th Century rescue masks.

>>6145394
>a thread about a military piece of clothing that has been used in fashion before doesn't belong here
Just because you would never wear it doesn't mean other people aren't more confident than you.

Soccer team, Circa WW1? I can't remember.

>>6145394
dude, just hide the thread if it bothers you that much

Almost done with the vintage war stuff.

>tfw you will never be able to pull it off

>>6145416
wow wearing gas masks, very patrician. i can't imagine being this patrician, my mind is far too unconfident. i suppose you also wear top hats and goggles with cogs too

>>6145421
yeah, that feels dirty though. just sweeping the problem under the rug?

>>6145445

>>6145446
Its okay. If it ever becomes popular we won't hold it against you if you start wearing it.

>>6145446
The only problem here is you, telling an entire board full of people who are not yourself what they can and cannot find inspiration and beauty in.
You don't get to make that choice for me or anyone but yourself. If the thread bothers you that much, hide it.

Here's something that ties into the space suits we were looking at before. I love the implied utility of the coat, or whatever it is. The pockets, the tubes, the chains and straps, it's just beautiful to me, it has so much potential that I want to see teased out by designers.

>>6145511
kote

Going to drop a few modern tactical incarnations that appeal to me.
Some of these are so brimming with attitude and implied threat, they strike the same chords in me that love a big deep hood or a partial mask, a head scarf or whatever obscures with style.

>>6145525
oh wow, I learn something every day!

This rig blows me away, really cutting edge feel to it.

>>6145511
way too cool

mfw not even one...

>>6145579
Thanks! please post more!

>>6145571
Good, I'm not alone.
I think tubes and wires have a lot of potential in style that hasn't been fully realized yet... or maybe it has?

This respirator changes the entire mood of the scene into something alien, otherworldly, more than human.

Mongolian forces.

>>6145551

merica, fuck yeah

>>6145604
iris van herpen, she does some cool 3d printing stuff

Two mechanics for Peugot's racing team.

>>6145635

This reminds me of MGS4 for some reason

>>6145579
!!!!!!!!

if yr searching for evidence of this threads relevance...
>we're all working from the same cultural canon

>>6145664
i had that bionicle it was red tho i think

>>6145625
Our tactical tech is some of the world's best. Fist bump from a fellow patriot.

>>6145635
That's astonishing, thank you! Definitely onto my reading list!

In the older masks, the filter was always activated charcoal. I'm not sure if that still is the case...
Activated charcoal sucks toxins out of everything, so if you ever find yourself trying on an older mask in an army navy or an antique store somewhere, don't breathe in too deeply through the filter - heaven knows what it's soaked up over the years.

Vietnam Era, I think.

Animooted

good thread lots of inspiration

>>6145704
thanks, friend.

Ravers and various freaks dabbled in the use of gas masks back in the proverbial day, but I feel they never did it full justice.
The potential is there, though.

>>6145732
did you ever share your rave stories, poet?

polite sage

Discarded masks in Pripyat.
A great example of the history we associate with them. Even alone, rotting on a floor, they're such a powerful symbol of decay, panic, cold war tension, apocalyptic visions and doomed civilians.

>>6145732
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNAdtkSjSps
cyberpunk friend turned me on to this group

>>6145744
I did once, a while ago, I believe.
But there are a lot of particulars I never went into.
I think that a lot of the rave experience (for me) boiled down into a series of beautiful moments, perfect instants that were besotted with really deeply felt emotions that are hard to get into unless I go down the road of poetry and lengthy posts.
I saw a few crazy things, sure, but the stuff that stands out is harder to really convey, like rolling around in a cuddle puddle, or 500 people stomping their right foot in tune to a hard Goa track, or spooning with a beautiful dancer in a perfectly lit chill out room.
It's hard to convey without context, and if merely posting respirators and masks drives an anon into enough of frenzy to label me as cancer, then imagine what that sort of a narrative would result in?
When I feel it, i'll let it all out. I promise. It's just hard to talk about, to tell someone about, without sounding like too much of a sap.

>>6145803
u got my email bb

>>6145819
i have ur email 2 dalton

>>6145758

you realize this is a fashion board right?

>>6145760
Oh shit, thank for that
Is this like a nostalgic, self aware act recalling the glory days of rave culture?

The intro reminded me of this animation, I think you might enjoy it. It's pretty unrelated but it's a great thing.
http://vimeo.com/1743331

I'm going to delve into a few hypotheticals now, including a bit of illustration that sometimes takes the aesthetic to a new place.

>>6145855
symbolism in clothing is frequently considered to be a part of fashion

>>6145803
you dont know what besotted means, and you're clearly a retard, please stop this whole facade you arent intelligent enough to maintain it.

>>6145819
Checking now.

>>6145855
Masks are garments and this aesthetic has been tapped by many people. You don't get to define my sources of inspiration.

Anyway, going into a few illustrations for a bit, maybe I'll end on the Givenchy.
Anyone else who's got some beautiful masks, add 'em!

>>6145873
Intoxicated, drunk.
The memories are soaked in emotions that are mind altering, for me.

The best part about any sort of mask like this, for me, is that it makes the face of the wearer look like an insect.

Eyes are the most efficient method of looking into the soul of a person. The nuances of every emotion come out through it. But these these perfectly circular eye coverings give off no detail.
No humanity, just an emotionless creature. creature looking back at you.

They are watching you.

The concept art for Star Wars leans heavily on high altitude respirators and gas masks.

>>6145940
no, the face is too human and we still want to anthropomorphise it. it's the same reason we like skulls so much.

Omg. It makes perfect sense. The first to live in space will be those with the money to do so, the upperclass.

The migration to the moon will not happen in one instance, we will not suddenly get the entire population up there.

Instead only those necessary and chosen will be the pioneers. Engineers, political leaders, etc. But because of the money system, it will be obvious you can buy your way into the circle.

>>6145952
even when the face is properly disguised it doesn't really become uncomfortable. i think kumosou are pretty sympathetic.

Here's some ass masks.

>>6145952
>the face is too human and we still want to anthropomorphise it
what does that mean

also what is the purpose of the rings attached to that skull?

>>6145953
This is why it's so hilarious when people accuse poet of being pseudo-intellectual. This is what pseudo-intellectualism looks like. Don't get it confused.

>>6145965
its a bag

>>6145910
> perfect instants that were besotted with really deeply felt emotions
>perfect instants were infatuated(sic besotted) with deeply felt emotions,

you're personifying a moment in time(perfect instant) because you're retarded and thought it meant meant something else.

go post on lit, they might teach you something.

>>6145957
What is the backstory with those helmets?

>>6145981
>Komusō were characterised by the straw basket (a sedge or reed hood named a tengai) worn on the head, manifesting the absence of specific ego.

>>6145965
we like things when they have human characteristics, particularly faces. we like skulls but find femurs fairly uncompelling (except for kubrik). we make cartoon characters out of animals like cats, who have two eyes and a nose above their mouth, but not of algae.

>>6145981
buddhist monks who wore baskets as a method of distancing themselves from other people as part of their religious discipline.

>>6146008

More like distance from their selves or any notion of "self", really.

>>6146017
trudat
i think they failed in a kind of beautiful way
10/10 would hug

>>6145969
why is that pseudo intellectualism? really i want o know why you think that.

did you read my post at all? give me a reasoned answser, because i gave you a reasoned thought. I can deal with the trolls who try to give me shit, because it's expected.

But you are the worst kind, because you do it just to make to hear yourself talk.

>>6145940
>Eyes are the most efficient method of looking into the soul of a person. The nuances of every emotion come out through it. But these these perfectly circular eye coverings give off no detail.
>No humanity, just an emotionless creature. creature looking back at you.

Exactly! That's one of the wonderful contradictions about masks like these, they dehumanize, but at the same time reduce the face to eyes, to those windows to the soul.
Well said.

>>6146025

and now, i dont even want to talk about anything because i'm in a bad mood

to that anon, realign your reason for posting on this board

>>6146031
he thinks you're dumb, which you are, stop being dumb.

>>6145866
neat, thanks for sharing
>>6145969
what
>>6146023
i love this, really cute somehow

>>6146046
the helmets are large, and the "eyes" are large low set and there is apparently a large forehead, it's sort of a form of neoteny.

>>6146064

>>6146039
he was not calling me dumb
he was saying that i was pretending to be something i'm not to try and impress everyone on this board. that's what he got from my thoughts on the discussion.

it shoes that he just visits this board to play tit for tat with all the other posters, always trying to be on the "cool side"

fuck off. despite what you may have experienced i am not part of your little tripfag drama on this board, i do not care what you think of me and i dont want to impress you either. i like to talk about clothes, and that's what i do here.

please, the next time you feel like boosting your own ego; please find one of those other new, "trill" tripfags so you can rip them apart instead.

>>6144838
If anybody wants the tl;dr of this thread...

>poet says "hurrrr gas masks are interesting" in so many more words
>reposts pictures from previous gas mask thread
>fails to use basic vocabulary correctly
>continues to make no discernable point or stance
>trip fags descend, begin circle jerking about how cool wearing buckets over your head is
>"omg guyz, its probably expensive to go to space right? Mind=Blown"

>>6146108
dont forget the part where you bitch but never contribute

>>6145980
I was using it in the sense of the memories being soaked in emotional weight. Alluding to liquid, weighing something down. In this case the liquid, the wine, was emotional memory.

You needn't always use words how the dictionary tells you, you know. There's a lot of fun to be had playing around with things like this. So what if you make a mistake here or there? So what if you change contexts, or make odd allusions, or stretch and warp meaning?

Really though - Who cares? I'm just writing from the heart and the hip. I'm not here to impress you, or impress anyone else. I'm just here being me, sharing the things I love. I don't come here to pretend, I come here to share and to learn.

What I don't come here to do is attempt to elevate myself by making cheap digs at other people who are only trying their best, only proceeding with hope and good intentions. I don't come here to shit on people, I don't come here to call them retarded or add poison to their dialogues. I don't come here because I am small and worthless inside. I don't come here and deride others about minute and unimportant bullshit like the use of a single word in a thread that's about to top 150 replies.

That would be pathetic.

>>6146081
no. hes saying you're dumb.

dumby

anyone have a link to that astronaut thread that's been mentioned?

>>6146112
aw shit i love that game

>>6146115

I can't help but read what you post. It's this morbid fascination, like watching an ESL student discover an English thesaurus for the first time. There are all these little snippets that sound really smart and meaningful and then a random complete miss on an idiom or two pops up and...

It's like witnessing two cars slam into each other and just watching them burn slowly.

>>6146112
>tfw no irl hlaalu helmet

>>6146129
>>6141689

>>6146108
>begin circle jerking about how cool wearing buckets over your head
see pic

>"omg guyz, its probably expensive to go to space right? Mind=Blown"
Yeah. but see this, this is what I'm talking about.

You know that picture poet always posts? Of though terminating cliches? That's what "mind=blown" is.

You trivialize and simplify everything I say, and for what? To show everyone that you're cool, bro! You know how to keep the board in check! This is your turf Mr. Alpha.

Fuck off, do it with someone else.

>>6146135
thanks much

>>6146112
I contributed my summary of the thread.

Figure 1

>>6146138
hahaha back the fuck up
redoran watchman and telvanni cephalod or gtfo
nah jk all the house helms were gr8
morrowind armor design was GOATcore even the usually awful daedric was pretty rad

>>6146137
again, you don't argue his point

what do you do? you attack his image
you say "hey, he has bad grammar who gives a fuck what he said right guys?"

it's pathetic animal instinct

>>6146115
you dont stretch or warp or do anything whimsical or interesting; or any other superlative for that matter. you just make grammatical errors because you're a moron.

you're insufferable ninny who writes in gratuitous, horribly contrived and convoluted prose for the sole purpose of self-aggrandisement. it'd be tolerable if you actually knew how to write and what you were writing about, unfortunately most of the time it's just rudimentary, purple literary masturbation, the kind of stuff a senior in highschool gets a B+ for because he recognised the key themes in hamlet.
sorry not sorry.

>>6146153
i thought you were talking about xenomorphs

>>6146162
>sorry not sorry
don't used the quote by my bby Jenna Hamilton if you don't know how to talk shit with it

>>6146159

Oh, I haven't been actually reading this thread. I just read what poet writes for the fun of it. I don't think he's a bad dude or that he has bad intentions. I just imagine he's a regular dude trying really hard to pass himself off as a better writer than what he's capable of. I don't think of it as a character flaw and it doesn't make me think less of his opinions (which, frankly, I don't even really pay attention to), it's just how I've come to know him based on what he's posted of his own volition on the Internet.

But I'm glad you're...um...sticking up for him?

>>6146153
btw
tamriel rebuilt adds a telvanni megacity about the size of vivec
p cool

>>6146182
I wasn't. i was suing it as an example.

I apologize, I took your post out of context. But like I said you paid no sort of attention to the substance of his post correct?

Well that's exactly what that other guy did. It was just in such bad taste that I had to go Fashion Police on him.

>>6146145
Wasn't picking on you. This is just an entertaining thread to me, thats all.

>>6146145
maybe this isnt as nearly as new, interesting, creative, thoughtful, thought-provoking, eccentric et al as you think it is.

maybe you're just a bunch of teenagers discussing some trite, pseudo-philosophical offtopic shit for no other reason than it makes you feel special.

>>6146162
We could always just kiss and make up, you know.
There's no need to be upset.

>>6146191
dont take it personally
this guy >>6146182
echoes how i feel pretty well, hes just more polite about it.

i make inspo threads about samurai and pastoral nomadcore and woodblock prints and gigercore and other stuff that is dubiously tied to the modern fashion industry but is still ripe fodder for visual inspo and no one gave a fuck but poet cops hate for gasmasks because of this metagrudge against him
y'all h8rs r transparent as hell

>>6146208
>metagrudge
please dont use terms you dont understand

>>6146190
no it's because I've never though of it before
why do you always think everything is about being in front of an audience?

so waht i these thoughts have been thought of before? I have never noticed them and now they come to mind, that me experiencing my own life.

I am not someone who need to be reassured of how the world views me, and that includes this board. I put my thoughts onto the table, because someone may relate to it.

We are not all knowledgable like you pride in.

Seriously, why the fuck do you browse this board?

>>6146208
concur, and
>gigercore
if that made it on fuuka id luv the link

>>6146208
>metagrudge
twerk gets it

>>6146228
nah havent done an inspo thread for a while
now my shitck is endlessly posting images
its like avatarfagging with inspo
im inspofagging

>>6146217
>Seriously, why the fuck do you browse this board?
>/fa/ - Fashion

dont get so fannyflustered, you're so mediocre and tedious and boring and dull and stupid.

>>6146248
so what? is your experience of this board so tainted by my posts that you have to start trying to talk shit?

you can fucking filter me
you can set it so all tripfags come up a anonymous

you cant censor me out for the entire board however, what makes you decide who gets to post here?

>>6146228
btw the pastoral nomadcore was my magnum opus
i kind of cheated aside from the actual nomads i did some ainu and a couple shots of the fremen from dune
memories

Finally, the Givenchy masks. I'm so sorry this thread's been derailed to the degree it has, I never imagined that masks would enrage people so much.

>>6146208
I love the weirdness of this style of art
>tfw never studied Japanese art in any of my art history classes

>>6146262
whoops!

>>6146273
you have to take non-western perspective classes

>>6146262
Its not masks its you you dumb balding nignog

>>6146208
>samurai and pastoral nomadcore and woodblock prints and gigercore

i dont come here often but cool shit, I can dig the giger and ero guro game.

>>6146281
more names. more empty comments.

>>6146264
i am not telling you you can't post - oi vey vat a persoicution complex its another hawlacawst with this one - but dont expect me not to insult you when post drivel.

which is basically >what makes you decide who gets to post here?

you post, and ill post, dont complain when u ppl piss on ya.

I love these kind of plague masks that Joao Pimenta made for aw12
I must find a Pimenta stockists

>>6146282
yeah unfortunately, doesn't fall within my major or minor. Might take something during the summer or winter session, just for fun.

>>6146291
minus the s

>>6146289
not as empty as poets tldr posts

>>6146281
I'm already bald, little guy!
Shaving it all was pretty freeing, tbh.

You'll never get me to leave, you'll never make me stop posting and you'll never change the way I post. Sorry.

>>6146312
don't care

you'll soon enough realise that you're just shit

>>6146291
That is MENSwear. <3

>>6146291
I'd argue the plague masks are just as haunting as modern gas masks, only in a medieval context... This show was pretty damn cool!

>>6146312
didnt you get banned
that stopped you

>>6146308
dont bother to reply if you dont read the post.

>>6146294
that is because your country must breed nationalism within it's budding youth

For those who haven't seen the plague masks before (i'm sure you all have, but hey), they were worn by doctors during the time of the Bubonic Plague in Europe.
The idea of infection as we now recognize it did not exist, but people were afraid of "bad air", "foul humors" and the like.
The beak was filled with potpourri or spices, to mask the scent of death.

>>6146260
think about that thread whenever someone starts sermonizin about "" what /fa/ could be ""
>a furnace for discussion involving not only the fashion industry but also the relationship between culture & garments in a global context.
we were almost there for a while. wheres mme geoffrin w/ our cups of espresso and comfy chaises

>>6146321
is it enough

>>6146327
I've never been banned.
Only boredom will ever drive me from this place. Adversity and insults only inspire me to post more often.

>>6146373
what a fulfilling life you clearly lead

>>6146377
its called the denim dan disease

>>6146365
We *were* there! The nomad thread, the architecture thread, there are lots of examples. 4chan is like that though - you have to wade through some shit in order to pick out the diamonds.
I still think that eclectic threads like these are one of the larger gems in our crown. We can encourage this sort of discourse, but leading by example is never painless.

Pic related is an engraving (?) of plague doctor from a satirical poem. His name means "Doctor Beak from Rome".

...and that's all.
Thanks to everyone who commented, contributed and kept this going. It's been good.

>>6146418
thank god its over

all your text makes me want to not even bother looking at the pictures

great fucking thread guys
so thought evoking and inspirational especially since i'm actually planning on pursuing design as a career
thanks guys
also twerk we need more of these types of threads would be very interesting to see your inspirations
i'd make my own but my folder is just a jumble of monks and 20th century western clothing and a bunch of other shit

>>6145165
>>>/v/

>>6146467
my inspo folders are thousands of images large and honestly getting a little out of hand. i also have a lot of books, mostly on east asian artwork and sartorialism. maybe one day i'll break the binding or at least ghettoscan some of them.

even tho i post from a small pool pretty consistently i don't think ive posted a very large portion of what i have saved.

>>6146467
here r 2 that i have the links 4
http://fuuka.warosu.org/fa/thread/S6019263
http://fuuka.warosu.org/fa/thread/S5928540
check chanarchive too

>post monk thread if u get the chance
sounds great

“This piece was primarily a trust exercise, in which she told viewers she would not move for six hours no matter what they did to her. She placed 72 objects one could use in pleasing or destructive ways, ranging from flowers and a feather boa to a knife and a loaded pistol, on a table near her and invited the viewers to use them on her however they wanted.

Initially, Abramović said, viewers were peaceful and timid, but it escalated to violence quickly. “The experience I learned was that … if you leave decision to the public, you can be killed… I felt really violated: they cut my clothes, stuck rose thorns in my stomach, one person aimed the gun at my head, and another took it away. It created an aggressive atmosphere. After exactly 6 hours, as planned, I stood up and started walking toward the public. Everyone ran away, escaping an actual confrontation.”

This piece revealed something terrible about humanity, similar to what Philip Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment or Stanley Milgram’s Obedience Experiment, both of which also proved how readily people will harm one another under unusual circumstances.”

This performance showed just how easy it is to dehumanize a person who doesn’t fight back, and is particularly powerful because it defies what we think we know about ourselves. I’m certain the no one reading this believes the people around him/her capable of doing such things to another human being, but this performance proves otherwise.”

>>6146499
>a person who doesn’t fight back
this is why i #smdh @ queers who aren't willing to be visible, or worse, who slander the ones who make themselves visible, but that's another discussion entirely.

>>6146499
I love Marina so so much, luminosity was recently performed in Sydney. Funk yeah,

>>6144943
my grandmother still has one of those from WW2

>>6146487
in the next few months when i have more time might scan some more stuff myself you might be interested in including a large book on japanese costume

>>6146442
i agree

what's even more irritating is that he will continue to post these threads even if no one responds, literal shitposting

>>6146499
>>6146516
She did an interview on intellecual fashion for AnOther Mag might be interesting

http://www.anothermag.com/current/view/680/Marina_Abramovi%C4%87

>>6146506
agreed, agreed forever
>tfw I took an lgbt history course and expected to find people I can talk to about militant queer ideas
>everyone is just "It's time for gay marriage to be legal XD"
>"ew trannies are gross though"

>>6146542
recalls that warhol quote

>Andy: What's the characteristic of a nice person? Well, if they talk a lot.
>Interviewer: What, and don't make you talk?
>Andy: Yeah, that's a REALLY nice person.

mayb that will help yr comprehension

>>6146562
warhol was dumb
thats dumb quote
ur dumb

>>6145957
>>6145952
I don't know.

I think there is always a sort of feeling of 'menace' whenever something shrouds the face.

Maybe in the context of something else (playing a flute) it may be shrouded but isolated it always feels intimidating.

>>6146555
any queer individual who wants to throw another group under the bus is ignorant at best, and a straight up traitor at worst. "it hurts the movement to be associated with trans" and "we'd be more accepted if some of us weren't so damn gay" are the rallying cries of people who haven't lifted a finger to help anyone.

>>6146591
perception matters i guess.
i remember walking around in my gimp with the hood up and someone was out in their yard so i smile and said sup but they were lookin at me like i was going to bound over their lawn and rape em :|

btw http://amoretlabor.tumblr.com/post/46353736752/each-picture-is-captioned-with-its-designers-and

>>6146608
I shaved my beard the other day.

The difference in how people perceive is astounding.

Also...That smile and saying 'sup' would prob freak me out to tbh.
esp. considering your hoodie is like a bleak white (or atleast it was last time I saw it).

Seems like a very strange situation.

>>6146614
you had an opportunity
and you didn't take it

>>6146581
what u gonna do about it :-)

cf. iceberg under sea level tho

>>6146594
you're already accepted for the most part. just move to california/nyc where literally no one will give 2 shits if you are gay or straight. get over it your life is not hard drama queen.

>>6146625
2 cool 4 u

>>6146608
kind of your fault though

i mean the point of that rick hoodie is pretty obviously to look outlandish or threatening

was that person really so off base?

>>6146632
u dont understand

>>6146635
the gimp is just a hoodie man, it has a really funny bondage reference and a wonderful hood but i think you've invented some extra context for it.

>>6146635
I don't think that was the point of the garment.

>>6146639
??? are those scars or something

>>6146655
Tribal scarring.

>>6146655
they're wearing my veil

>>6146664
u have nice limbal rings

>>6146664
>wonders why neighbors get scared

>>6146689
thnx bb i like my eyes
they r blu and green and have lil flecks of gold
i got crazy acid trip eyes B)
>tfw i cant gaze into my own eyes
the mirror dont count :(

>>6146720
wow the hair and makeup is amazing and then combined with the shape of the comb fuck so good

This is another solid thread tonight, /fa/

Twerk, I dig your inspofagging. Way back when I posted as HardModMode and inspofagged skinhead and mod culture pics. Stylegod inspofagged "Dadcore" before it got pervasive and then hated.

Also, Poet may lay it on thick and misuse a word here and there, but he's making legitimate contri utions to this board, and I for one appreciate it

I like how nobody that has actually had to wear the things enjoys talking about gas masks.

>>6146756
I like how someone who has actually never been hair likes to talk about hair.

>>6146766
>not being hair
Confirmed for no flow

I've worn a gas mask before. It was mildly uncomfortable, especially the time I puked with it on, but I'll tell you it was much worse going through the cs gas the first time and NOT having the mask. That was really unpleasant. I'm cool with talking about them still. Maybe because I'm not a quivering little twink with no ability to see beyond my own stolen and self imposed aesthetic guidelines though so I dunno.

>>6146756
and? whats the problem

>>6146247
sauce? I'm really into medieval-looking manga stuff.

>>6146467
make priestcore thread pls

>>6146972
somewhere in this mess of outdated web design
http://web-box.jp/toronto/index.html

>>6145664
Toacore

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M61_gas_mask

>mfw Nokia produced gas masks

...

>>6145200
Look at google trends to see how much more 4chan is frequented over the summer.

I'll give you a hint: It isn't.

contibuting

>>6148794
>steven wilson

Mah nigga

>>6146499
yoko did it before her

>>6148790
Demographic changes though

>>6145244
The gas masks are soviet ones, so I'm also pretty sure they are soviet kids.

ITT I want my weaboo videogame shit to be /fa/

>>6144991

Those are German firetroopers, not stormtroopers, for what it's worth.

>>6144991

Those are German firefighters, not stormtroopers, for what it's wroth.

>>6149391
I think it was a ref. to something else.

>>6145527
>one on the right

hnnnng

SAS are best at gas masks.

>>6146811
Because theyre uncomfortable. And utilitarian. They arent cool

>>6152715
'Cool' is a subjective concept, and fashion's been uncomfortable since day one. Hell, a lot of Carol Poell's stuff is miserably uncomfortable. That doesn't change the fact that many people find it beautiful.

can someone archive this please
quality thread once again from poet
twerk please clear up some tiem this week in order to create a quality thread
#consumer

>>6152715
utilitarian doesn't equal not /fa/
techywear
>though gasmasks are abit shitty

>>6152715
true,even though i only wear them while working
this is an aesthetics board tho

>>6145410
doooppee

>>6144838
Hey toolbag, go strum your guitar on the beach and recite your poetry for the other granola people.

>>6152749
Should be on fuuka already.
http://fuuka.warosu.org/fa/thread/S6144838

Glad you liked the thread! I'm thinking 19th century couture for the next, or maybe i'll stumble on something weird...

>>6152792
I'm pretty far from being a hippie, my friend.
My instrument is a sampler and two technics.