March 2012
20 posts
This is a cool analogy
Me: Are you Russian or Japanese? (Es-tu russe ou japonaise ?)
Mom: What? (Quoi ?)
Me: Are you Russian or Japanese? (Es-tu russe ou japonaise ?)
Mom: Probably Japanese. Why? (Probablement japonaise. Pourquoi ?)
Me: Well, see, you look more Russian. (Et bien, tu vois, tu parais plus russe.)
Mom: True, but I think Japanese - (C'est vrai, mais je pense de manière Japonaise -)
Me: I'm just going to check the little box that says "Russian", okay? (Je vais juste cocher la petite case qui dit "Russe", d'accord ?)
Mom: What little box? What are you filling out? (Quelle petite case ? Qu'est-ce que tu fais?)
Me: You're okay with being Russian, right? (Tu es d'accord pour être russe, pas vrai ?)
Mom: What are you - (Qu'est-ce que tu -)
Me: Are you male or female? (Est tu male ou femelle ?)
Mom: ...
Me: Get it? (Tu comprends ?)
“To me gender is not physical at all, but is altogether insubstantial. It is...”
– Jan Morris in “Conundrum” 1974 (via artoftransliness)
Concept Art: Photo manipulations offer realistic... →
For his Life After the Apocalypse series, Russian artist Vladimir Manyuhin starts with real photographs, adding digital decay and overgrowth to create an eerily realistic sense of how the world might look long after most humans are gone.
