Fancy yourself a sneakerhead? Not like this gentleman, you aren’t. For a performance at Paris’s Gabber Expo, the artist duo Pinar&Viola employed a “sneakerslave” — that is, a submissive, sneaker-centric shoe fetishist — to lick, kiss, and suck their pristine Nikes for art. Pinar&Viola explain the project thusly:
As Pinar&Viola, our eye is in the constant search for contemporary phenomenas, for people who stretch the borders of society and for cultural tendencies. We take them as inspiration for our artistic and commercial work or they become subjects to the articles we write in our Dazed & Confused column. Thanks to a close friend, we discovered Snekerslaves, a very particular form of shoe fetishism, belonging to the darkest alpha corners of the internet. Sneakers are mainly associated with men, while making sneaker heads the coolest species within the urban jargon. This also justifies the fact of almost all sneaker slaves being male.
We had so much fun putting our faces into things with Overlayer from ANIMAL favorite OKFocus... But wait, there's more. From artsits Pinar&Viola, DAZED and OKFocus, here's a fresh new set of webcam filters, featuring some complex net art trompe-l'oeils to mug through. Uh, so, we had a lot of fun again ... and you can too! There was…
This is concert violinist David Aaron Carpenter playing Stradivari's 300-year-old "MacDonald" viola, which is poised to be "the most expensive instrument in the world." At Sotheby's on Monday, Carpenter performed Isaac Albéniz's 1892 "Asturias" with its "passages that sound like nothing so much as heavy-metal shredding." "It's the pinnacle of my career," Carpenter said. "Every…
The morning after truthsayer Kanye West pointed out that Beyonce got robbed at the Grammy's on Sunday, he walked passed a man wearing Nike Command Forces in JFK and saw the perfect promotional opportunity for his new sneaker line. Referring to the Adidas Yeezy 750 Boosts on his own feet,…
