Sep 1, 2012 3:42PM

Anonymous asked: HAHAHA… so now you’re on a beach shooting a model with a NEX-7 in one hand while tweeting on your iPhone with the other hand!! That’s swag!! Do you actually look thru the viewfinder when you shoot? I always thought you’d be just using the LCD screen.

Kesler: haha, I rarely use the view finder, mostly the LCD.

Joke or not, the LCD of any DSLR is quite practical and exists for that sole purpose if it didn’t drain the battery so dang fast.  And if you get a profession DSLR, you add on a gigando battery (let alone price!) just to power those unlimited shoots.

Aug 31, 2012 12:47AM

http://blog.angryasianman.com/2012/08/theyre-making-video-game-called-whore.html

Woooo. No.

Team Bondi, the video game developers behind hit PlayStation 3 “L.A. Noire” is working on a similar game taking place in 1930s Shanghai which is currently titled “Whore of the Orient”.

I know the Australians don’t have much opposition when it comes to race relations there, but in the modern world, a title like that can’t be very exotic anymore let alone politically correct.  I’m sure, back in the glory days of silver cinema, that’s what got white men hooked on “Asian Dragon Lady”, but nowadays, hopefully, there has to be more to liking a woman than tokenizing her ethnicity.

But on the bright side, which is always the excuse, now they can cast all sorts of whorey Asian American Los Angelos talent to play whorey Asian prostitutes of yesteryear.  Get to work, hos!

SMDH. No win situation.

Aug 29, 2012 2:00AM

http://now.msn.com/michelle-obama-is-depicted-as-a-slave-on-magazine-cover

Uh-oh, what say you?

So the context is that the Spanish magazine is saying The First Lady represents a long-time coming for black women and the Feminist movement. So… is this racist because blacks don’t want to acknowledge their own past (those who are indeed descended from black American slaves) or is it because it is inappropriate in some other way? Is this the only way they knew how of showing black women in a respectable light?  Would this be of any concern outside of America?

National Geographic does something similar, but I’ll post something about that another time.

Aug 23, 2012 11:26PM

Let’s talk about casting. Even among the B-Movie giants, these elaborate “low-budget” straight-to-video films are still able to book almost well-known Playboy models or Playmates to play cameos or actual starring roles in their films. And once you see these models in a string of similar films, then you know these b-grade films must be funded by the same people representing the model herself.

If you keep up with Uncle Terry Richardson’s blog, you’ll start to realize that the people who hire him to take pictures of their people toss him the same people to photograph over and over and over. If you’re looking at this from a professional viewpoint, yes, this is job security. But if you’re talking about creativity, it’s really lacking.  However, what I’m talking about is not how making money works.  And these people make money because there is a formula.  Which is why they make money, and I’m not.

Aug 17, 2012 1:54PM

http://aericmg.com/

http://www.modelmayhem.com/6791

aeric meredith-goujon

A photographer/artist you should pay attention to in art circles.  Possibly this generation’s Mapplethorpe.

It’s not like the subject matter is anything new.  But the technical mastery enhances it.

Aug 10, 2012 3:30PM

Olivia Thirby in the upcoming action film “Dredd”. Looks like we’re seeing some changes in standards of what the “female” sidekick looks like, a little anime influence mayhaps?

Looking like Deunan from Appleseed.

Aug 9, 2012 10:47PM

Aug 8, 2012 12:40PM

Barbie vs. Lisa Simpson

You got two very popular fictional characters in main stream media and Pop Culture, Barbie and Lisa Simpson.  It didn’t matter until The Simpsons television show actually made fun of the whole Barbie phenomenon in the episode where Lisa gets a doll made based on her. So these two stereotypes, for young women, stick out at the top of my head, at most up to the late 1990s and starting in the 1960s when Barbie became a household name.

If you update these stereotypes, Barbie would actually be Martha Stewart but with Diane Sawyer’s looks.  Lisa Simpson would be Alison Brie from NBC’s TV show “Community” and she would be all up in anime fandom with pink hair and stuff, and she’d have a nerdy Asian boyfriend like YouTube’s Freddie Wong.

Alright. So now that the definitions are up-to-date. Let’s see if they stick.