| Northern student brings Japanese culture to class
Alaine Seyfried is turning a blank panel above a window at Port Huron Northern High School into a portrait of a Japanese rock star. Alaine, 16, of Fort Gratiot brought her interests in Japanese and art together to paint an acrylic image of Miyavi, a guitarist, singer and pop-culture icon in Japan. .
Task force hopes art festival will keep Indian River County youths ...
SEBASTIAN Rather than spray painting buildings, young people would use planks of wood to create pop culture art at a youth festival being planned for this fall. The urban art contest is one of several activities being suggested by the Gang Prevention Task Force in hopes to refocus area youth's creative urges in a more positive way, said Sebastian resident Cynthia Noonan. .
Culture evolves, foul words made fair
The same could be said for a list of other words and phrases that have gained more of a foothold in pop culture. The word "retarded," for example, has been largely shunned by polite society, including those who work with the mentally challenged, the preferred term. Different definitions In the past decade, however, entertainers and teenagers have begun using the word with more regularity in a variety of ways, including to mean being out of control (in good and bad ways), being severely intoxicated or inebriated, being silly or as a way of describing a melodic piece of music. In 2003, the pop group Black Eyed Peas released the song "Let's Get Retarded," a catchy party anthem that gained buzz. To gain more mainstream acceptance, however, the song's lyrics had to be changed to "Let's Get It Started," a minor recasting that led the image-conscious National Basketball Association to use the tune in its advertising.
Wizards of celeb-reality TV
The Los Angeles mansion appeared serene from the outside -- a stark contrast to the controlled chaos within. "Charm School" was in session. An army of technicians paraded around a mass of wires, production equipment and heavy lights. In one particularly cramped space, two producers huddled in front of several TV monitors, looking at several women in custom "schoolgirl" uniforms. .
Fat Ladies, Crushed Cars: French Pop Art Triumphs in Paris
April 18 (Bloomberg) -- They hung leftovers on the wall, crushed cars into neat packages, and wrapped bridges with canvas. Their names -- Mimmo Rotella, Daniel Spoerri, Cesar, Christo -- are well known. Yet their shared roots in the same avant-garde movement are all but forgotten. The ``Nouveau Realisme,'' as it was called by French critic Pierre Restany in 1960, was fast overshadowed by its U.S. rival: pop art. A splendid show at the Grand Palais in Paris invites you to re-examine the evidence. You'll find that European avant-gardistes were in no way inferior to their U.S. counterparts. The common point of departure was rebellion against the abstract art that dominated the Paris and New York scene after World War II. Their movement coincided with the birth of the ``Nouveau Roman'' in literature and the ``Nouvelle Vague'' in film.
Roar talent
PINK is giving me a guided tour of her tattoos. And she has a few (more than 20 at last count). To her, they're all a monument to good times and bad. There’s the frog on her foot, and the dragon that covers much of her left thigh, both of which the singer had done in Melbourne (one of her favourite places to add to her artwork). There’s the guardian angel that spreads its wings across one shoulder, the barcode she had copied from her 16-million-selling album, Missundaztood, which sits at the base of her neck and, her favourite, the quote: "What goes around, comes around" (the closest thing to a personal philosophy she lives by), which snakes around her right wrist. Her most recent inking was not a happy addition. It’s a drawing of her much-loved bulldog, Elvis, who drowned in her pool in January.
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