This is awesome: “100 years of fashion in just 100 seconds”
LYUDMILA PAVLICHENKO.
Russian sniper for WWI.
Totally nailed 300+ German soldiers.
All while taking a summer off for college.
(via walklikeaghost)
Celebrities Who Look Like Historical People
Via le garçon.
Happy anniversary of the women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls!
Blog update: “The adventures of Lady Cockwobble and Lord Alabaster Fabbleraggot”
© Hilary Stohs-Krause 2011
So my friend Jess and I have been working on this epic multimedia art project about a civil war that breaks out in America’s future after the government sells states to corporations and special interests to pay the national debt. We’ve done one of at least four major photo shoots so far (the rebel army camp; see above photo) and are doing another on the 17th (the massacre of Oregon’s hippies, previously the only free state left).
The working title: “The Propaganda Project”
My friend and co-worker Jerry produced this story, about a Native American child named White Buffalo Girl and the Nebraskans who have cared for her grave for more than a century.
Blog update: Civil War reenactment photos
© Hilary Stohs-Krause 2010
My friend Jess (not pictured) and I are working on this multi-platform art project with a working title of the Propaganda Project. It involves several large-scale (at least, for me) photo shoots, the creation of vintage-sounding radio broadcasts and lots and lots of posters. We’re exploring doing some video, as well. In the end, we want it to look like an exhibit in a history museum from the future: so a history exhibit about a war that, for 2011 America, hasn’t happened yet.
The basic premise is highly satirical and a bit kitschy, but I think the effect of the show as a whole could be pretty powerful (at least, that’s what we’re aiming for). Basically, the U.S. finds itself in such debt that it begins selling off states to private interests. The Vatican buys California (to wipe out the gay scourge), oil and tobacco companies buy up the South (and impose minimum usage quotas) and MTV buys Washington, D.C. The progressives, leftists and hippies manage to pool their funds and purchase Oregon, but the coffee-titan company which now owns Washington state decides it needs more space and begins a (literally) hostile takeover of surrounding territories, massacring the population of Oregon. This slaughter is what sparks the Corporate Civil War.
The photo above is from our first shoot, held Saturday in Omaha, focusing on a rebel army base camp. The rebellion foments in Nebraska, because it’s the only unclaimed land in the U.S. (a play on the perception that Nebraska is devoid of any valuable resources/culture).
That’s the idea in a nutshell. I’m having a ton of fun, and it’s been a welcome creative challenge.
