Alicia Eler

TWINS BURNING IN HELL

Sat, 11 May 2013 22:16:00 -0400

TWINS BURNING IN HELL

WHITE GUYS AS OBJEKTS: Jon Hamm’s dick /// Hollywood...

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 16:22:00 -0400

WHITE GUYS AS OBJEKTS: Jon Hamm’s dick

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Hollywood Reporter: Jon Hamm Slaps ‘Tumblrs About My Cock,’ Internet’s Obsession With His Penis

The ‘Mad Men’ star tells Rolling Stone that he doesn’t enjoy the web’s interest in his genitals: “They’re called ‘privates’ for a reason.”

Source: http://i.perezhilton.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/jon-hamm-damn-dicl__oPt.jpg

WHITE GUYS AS OBJEKTS: The masked dude Le1f’s...

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 16:17:00 -0400

WHITE GUYS AS OBJEKTS: The masked dude Le1f’s “Wut”

LYRIKS

Time to step your cookies up
You ain’t giving it enough. I need my Oreo’s double stuffed

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nrnq4SZ0luc

WHITE GUYS AS OBJEKTS: Cute white hipster guy in Azealia...

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 16:10:00 -0400

WHITE GUYS AS OBJEKTS: Cute white hipster guy in Azealia Bank’s “212” ft. Lazy Jay

LYRIKS:

I want you to make bucks, I’m a look-right nigga, bet you do want to fuck
Fuck him like you do want to cum

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source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3Jv9fNPjgk

Response to Elisa Lam's Best Friend from Kate Durbin & Alicia Eler

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 23:30:00 -0500

Jialin,

You are a brave young woman. We meant only respect to you for doing this, and to show this we began the piece with you and Elisa.

More importantly, it seems you took this as an attack when it truly is not: “Was she a bad friend? How could this have happened to Elisa?” We were asking these questions not to or at you, nor were we telling you that you are a bad friend at all. We are positing that these are universal questions that people in mourning ask when someone closes to them unexpectedly passes away, and they are struck by the loss. We are amazed by your bravery, and your sharing your personal feelings of mourning—those normally only shown to friends and family—with the entire Internet, much like Elisa’s death was unnecessarily shared with that entire space.

Your tumblr blogging raises an important question for all young women who use the platform: How does one mourn in public when their friend’s death is a public, media sensation? It is something that the collective Internet is still trying to figure out.

At this point in time, we live in a global community. The entire world should not remain silent about Elisa’s death, and of course should not sensationalize it either. It is not a friends and family only event because it has taken place in a public space; we are all affected by media images and the Internet; this is a real space where real feelings exist. We began the essay with Elisa because this is a way to draw attention to the real lives and passions of these girls, of Elisa, and the attention of how sad this tragedy is—and how much it is indicative of a loss of control over the image. We are not doing this to exploit Elisa in any way.

In discussing Elisa’s death, we want to honor the sort of loss of impossibility of ownership over the image that all teenage girls who share personal information online do—they all become subject to the endless stream of the Internet, to the eyes of anonymous viewers. When one mourns on the Internet, there is no such thing as a boundary. Everything is public. There is no privacy. Tumblr provides an illusion of intimacy that makes one feel like it is literally a corporeal part of the body, but it is not. It is outside, exterior, and you never know who sees.

Our condolences to you, your friends and family. To loss someone is tragic, and to do experience this loss through a mediated interface such as the Internet is difficult, to say the very least.

the teen girl tumblr aesthetic

by kate durbin & alicia eler

http://hyperallergic.com/66038/the-teen-girl-tumblr-aesthetic/

Where It’s Always Christmas photo by alicia eler

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 01:28:00 -0500

Where It’s Always Christmas

photo by alicia eler

Unicorn morning

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 10:47:42 -0500

Unicorn morning

things I like: twins

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 14:37:04 -0500

things I like: twins

aidensimon: made myself a harness with a little-cock...

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 13:17:20 -0500

aidensimon:

made myself a harness with a little-cock ring

Smart.

jamestgreen: Emoji For A New World 02: Wigga Collaboration by...

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 13:21:25 -0400

jamestgreen:

Emoji For A New World 02: Wigga

Collaboration by James T. Green and Alicia Eler

500px x 569px

2012

What if emoji actually reflected communication in the real world?

In James T. Green and Alicia Eler’s “Emoji For A New World” series, queered emoji meets emoji for offensive situations. Together these two sets of new emoji help us better navigate the racist and homophobic world we live in.

Unnatural Nature Series Wheel color photograph photo by Alicia...

Sat, 13 Oct 2012 17:46:51 -0400

Unnatural Nature Series

Wheel

color photograph

photo by Alicia Eler

a poem to my teenage lover

Sat, 06 Oct 2012 17:11:00 -0400

remember remember the ice cream summer

dancing on top of the ocean

eating frosted nuggets of seashell and sand

lover lover teenager lover

we spoke in whispers & muted tongues

where frost ended and silver begun

when gold ate lilacs and pink silver tears

i ate your fears

you swallowed me whole

i wonder where you went

and when you’ll ever come home

to lick an old wound

to lick a white bone

to eat some ice cream

to careen, scream.

we’ll go to the bakery, you & me,

frolicking in whispers and sparkles and sugar sweet

all photos by alicia eler

A Portal into My Teenage Dream

Sat, 06 Oct 2012 17:01:10 -0400

I wake up in Candyland where I finally meet Katy Perry. Red-and-white striped candycanes float in the sticky sweet air that smells like stale sugar. Katy approaches me wearing a pink fluffy cotton candy dress. Her mouth is permanently stuck in an “O.” She says nothing, only hums at a pitch that gets higher and higher until it turns into a deafening scream. I cover my ears. There is a peppermint candy cane hanging from her right ear. A scoop of strawberry ice cream melts on top of her pink hair. She bends over, drips ice cream onto my left shoe, and then scurries away into the candycane forest. She climbs a Twizzler rope. I see her snow white ass pop out from underneath her effervescent dress. I guess the cotton candy isn’t sticky enough. At the top, she exits onto a blue cotton candy cloud; its texture is much thicker than her pink cotton candy dress. She lies down, removes her cotton candy getup, and poses nude like Manet’s 1862 painting of a whore, Olympia. Then she looks down at me, rainbow sprinkles in her eyes. I shoot whipped cream straight up into the blue sky.

I wake up all groggy and confused. It’s morning. The bright light is streaming in through the windows of a dingy corner convenience store. I am lying on a sticky, caramel-covered floor. My mouth is covered in chocolate syrup. I rub my eyes and look to the left. Endless copies of Seventeen magazine cover the wall. The tired Indian guy behind the desk looks at me. He sports a shirt covered in black licorice stripes.

“You gonna get up and buy some magazines? If not, you leave now,” he says.

I get up and walk toward the magazine rack. I see glossy images of Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez, the bubblegum pink hearts with cut-outs of 17-year-old Scotty The Hottie’s face inside them and a blonde who calls herself Scotty’s “perfect girl.” She smooches his freshly shaven cheek. Scotty and Justin and Selena’s smiles are sweet and teasingly sexy—if you think teenagers are sexy.

My hand shakes as I pick up Seventeen magazine. I feel dirty, like I’m looking at grown-up porno magazines Hustler or Playboy. I rip out the teenage dream centerfolds of Justin and Selena and shove them into the back pocket of my sticky blue jeans. I slip out the door and back onto the gingerbread-covered street. I walk into an alley, and lean my sweaty back against a brick wall. Suddenly an ice cream truck speeds toward me. The robotic version of “Mary Had a Little Lamb” plays at a hyperfast pace. I see a flash of light, and then everything goes black.

I wake up all wet and sticky on the floor of a white room. It’s the middle of the night. I hear the sharp chirp of crickets outside. Someone must have brought me here after the alley. I look up and I think I see cane sugar dripping from the ceiling, but it might just be a leak I’ve been too lazy to fix. I get up to use the washroom. When I turn on the faucet, I see red Slurpee syrup instead of water. The walls of my white room are covered in posters of Justin, Selena, Katy, Kurt, Snoop Dogg and the gummy bear army. Did I hang those? I walk toward the saintly image of Justin and start peeling the baby blue tape off one of its corners. Behind the poster, I discover the two-foot by three-foot hole. I peer in and see red-and-white stripped candycane shadows everywhere.

—Alicia Eler

jamestgreen: Emoji For A New World 02: Jewigga Collaboration by...

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 10:37:46 -0400

jamestgreen:

Emoji For A New World 02: Jewigga

Collaboration by James T. Green and Alicia Eler

500px x 569px

2012

What if emoji actually reflected communication in the real world?

In James T. Green and Alicia Eler’s “Emoji For A New World” series, queered emoji meets emoji for offensive situations. Together these two sets of new emoji help us better navigate the racist and homophobic world we live in.

jamestgreen: Emoji Study 01: Gay Shit Collaboration by James T....

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 23:19:55 -0400

jamestgreen:

Emoji Study 01: Gay Shit

Collaboration by James T. Green and Alicia Eler

500px x 638px

2012

(creating new emoji icons for offensive phrases and situations)

SUPER EXCITED ABOUT THIS NEW EMOJI COLLABORATION!

Unnatural Nature Series Framing Lake Michigan color...

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 12:46:45 -0400

Unnatural Nature Series

Framing Lake Michigan

color photography

photo by Alicia Eler

Unnatural Nature Series Plants Through Plastic color...

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 12:43:38 -0400

Unnatural Nature Series

Plants Through Plastic

color photograph

photo by Alicia Eler

Unnatural Nature Series Planted Typewriter color...

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 12:36:00 -0400

Unnatural Nature Series

Planted Typewriter

color photograph

photo by Sharon Evans

work by sculptor/gardener Jan Sullivan

Unnatural Nature Series Glasses Landscape color...

Fri, 07 Sep 2012 17:32:00 -0400

Unnatural Nature Series

Glasses Landscape

color photograph

photo by Alicia Eler

List of Every Rainbow That I Saw from RAINBOWS ARE EVERYWHERE

Fri, 07 Sep 2012 15:00:28 -0400

List of Every Rainbow That I Saw from RAINBOWS ARE EVERYWHERE