http://viz.dwrl.utexas.edu/old/taxonomy/term/326/0 en http://viz.dwrl.utexas.edu/old/content/he-knows-us-so-well <p>This photo of Adrien Grenier had me totally pegged as I perused celebrity blog <a href="http://www.perezhilton.com/">perezhilton.com</a> in an effort not to do any of my real work. </p> <p><img src="http://viz.dwrl.utexas.edu/old/sites/default/files/grenier.jpg" alt="Adrien Grenier eating an ice cream cone and holding a sign that says "What am I distracting you from?" class="center" width="450" /></p> <p>But I really like the idea of a celebrity sending a message back to us, observing what we are doing at that very moment in such a completely accurate way while we try (or maybe Perez Hilton tries) to describe and make judgments about what he's up to.</p> <p>I'm reminded of those shirts Britney Spears used to wear, in that those were sort of an anticipation of what the viewer was thinking about her, instead of about what, in this case, the viewer is doing.</p> <p><img src="http://viz.dwrl.utexas.edu/old/sites/default/files/bspears2.jpg" alt="Britney Spears wearing a shirt that says "I'm a virgin; this is an old shirt"" class="center" width="450" /> </p> <p>In both of these cases there's a weird fusion of watching, making judgments, and sending messages that make reciprocal judgments all in one image. </p> http://viz.dwrl.utexas.edu/old/content/he-knows-us-so-well#comments Adrien Grenier celebrity papparazzi Thu, 06 Mar 2008 05:54:03 +0000 LaurenMitchell 249 at http://viz.dwrl.utexas.edu/old