Monday, April 16, 2007

Daughter of a Diaspora(ish)

So I might have a little bit of a girlcrush on Korean pop star Lee Hyori. Or maybe I just feel a bit lost with no one in the media to "model" myself after. I mean, who exactly am I supposed to identify with?

a) Cassandra from Wayne's World
b) maybe Thandie Newton, if you squint (or if I don't squint, ha)
c) a bobblehead hula girl
d) nobody famous

Can I be this girl, for about ten minutes? A twinkly Asian "blonde" with street style and great dance routines?



What's odd is that this 3-part series of music videos is also blatantly a commercial for Samsung cellphones. On YouTube someone called Lee Hyori a Samsung model, whereas no one on MTV's Top 20 is referred to as a Dolce & Gabbana model. MUSIC as advertising? Is this some new Asian phenomenon I'm not aware of? Because I would totally do a paper on it.

Everything's potential research fodder these days. I think I have to scour a few master's theses this summer to get a better idea of what hasn't been done. Also something that would:

a) address a current issue (e.g. inconspicuous consumption, "green" design)
b) be considered edgy and "sexy". I think one achieves that by bringing seemingly disparate elements together in a creative way. In other words, something like this.

EDIT: more sexysexysexy -- We Are All Photographers Now. Hello, dream project!

2 comments:

ina.fajardo said...

maaan...i wish i could pull off that kind of look. i'm so monochromatic and just jeans-and-tanks. i think the most far-out thing i bought myself this year were the knee high socks from PINK. but only because they have a dog on it and i wuv my little doggie, yes i do! =)

ina.fajardo said...

oh also...http://www.xanga.com/rara_avis.