Dollculture

ULTIMI ARTICOLI (234)

• My MIA (Milan Image Art Fair) - II

  This image by Angela Lo Priore - seen at MIA Fair and presented by Galleria Blanchaert - could steal its title from Patricia Cornwell’s “The body farm”. But it... Leggere il seguito

  Pubblicato il 09 maggio 2012 COLLEZIONISMO, HOBBY, LIFESTYLE

• Guess what?

  

  I like glass, its eternity. And I like dolls. These are doll's eyes but look something else: fish eggs, microalgae, strange berries. Something jelly, something... Leggere il seguito

  Pubblicato il 06 maggio 2012 COLLEZIONISMO, HOBBY, LIFESTYLE

• My MIA (Milan Image art Fair) - I

  For the second time I visited MIA Fair, and I could go to the opening. Although not all is pure photography, there (I mean also installations and mixed media... Leggere il seguito

  Pubblicato il 05 maggio 2012 COLLEZIONISMO, HOBBY, LIFESTYLE

• Neverblythe

  

  Inika Blythe's poster for Bambole a Roma is a dollcultural hommage paid to Nirvana's Nevermind iconic cover. Although I've attended the eventon April 14th and... Leggere il seguito

  Pubblicato il 28 aprile 2012 COLLEZIONISMO, HOBBY, LIFESTYLE

• Sitting doll

  

  I just love, and I repeat it, when non-collector friends spot dolls here and there and take doll pics for me. This is a Citroen temporary store, in Milan's... Leggere il seguito

  Pubblicato il 22 aprile 2012 COLLEZIONISMO, HOBBY, LIFESTYLE

• Cut to die for

  

  Hina Aoyama is a papercut artist I discovered on flickr. Isn't this fairy a bit like a doll - maybe a special paper doll? Yes, I know that this silhouette also... Leggere il seguito

  Pubblicato il 09 aprile 2012 COLLEZIONISMO, HOBBY, LIFESTYLE

• Pupa pupilla

  

  I have to periodically come back to the very origin of the word meaning "doll" in many languages: i.e. the same word as "pupil", where an observer can be... Leggere il seguito

  Pubblicato il 28 marzo 2012 COLLEZIONISMO, HOBBY, LIFESTYLE

• Take a large tour

  

  When it comes to dollcultural phenomena, don't just browse doll websites, or attend doll conventions, or chat in the very same small and asphyctic doll... Leggere il seguito

  Pubblicato il 25 marzo 2012 COLLEZIONISMO, HOBBY, LIFESTYLE

• Moustache & corsets

  

  Moustache and wasp waist: this hourglass-like doll body is only seemingly clashing with the common idea of male doll. It’s an actual male doll body instead. Leggere il seguito

  Pubblicato il 12 marzo 2012 COLLEZIONISMO, HOBBY, LIFESTYLE

• My Cinderthriller

  

  Cinder Thriller (crasis of Cinderella + thriller) has been a creative contest launched during the last months by Alberto Guardiani and i-D magazine to find the... Leggere il seguito

  Pubblicato il 08 marzo 2012 COLLEZIONISMO, HOBBY, LIFESTYLE

• Barbie’s spin

  

  I will not insist on the fact that an artist felt the impulse of torturing Barbie – namely, grilling her top round and creating on his website a fake Barbie-Q... Leggere il seguito

  Pubblicato il 25 febbraio 2012 COLLEZIONISMO, HOBBY, LIFESTYLE

• “Quanta forma”

  

  Against all that Italian TV-generated gossip about butterfly tattoos or those invisible panties on a showgirl I won’t name, this is the same body portion on a I... Leggere il seguito

  Pubblicato il 18 febbraio 2012 COLLEZIONISMO, HOBBY, LIFESTYLE

• Hello, we are a handful of dolls hands. We are tender and...

  

  Hello, we are a handful of dolls hands. We are tender and childish. We are not vinyl or porcelain. We are just soap. We will vanish in water and foam.*Ciao,... Leggere il seguito

  Pubblicato il 12 febbraio 2012 COLLEZIONISMO, HOBBY, LIFESTYLE

• Fragile fretwork

  Fragile bodies, finely fretworked. A skin which is whiter than… - no, not “whiter than snow”, this is not a psalm, it’s a dollcultural post. Leggere il seguito

  Pubblicato il 05 febbraio 2012 COLLEZIONISMO, HOBBY, LIFESTYLE

• “Take this waltz”

  

  oh, it’s BTW the title of this stirring song by Leonard Cohen, composed after a poem written by Federico Garcìa Lorca. But on the dollcultural side, it’s the... Leggere il seguito

  Pubblicato il 29 gennaio 2012 COLLEZIONISMO, HOBBY, LIFESTYLE

• Vacuum packed couples

  

  What are you seeing here: vacuum packed couples asking to be depacked, with their harsh colours and their incongruously shining skin - forever young and... Leggere il seguito

  Pubblicato il 28 gennaio 2012 COLLEZIONISMO, HOBBY, LIFESTYLE

• Heavy head

  

  Don’t loose your head, or you head will make you lost.The disproportion in a doll’s body can be toyish (actually no doll has real human proportions, not even th... Leggere il seguito

  Pubblicato il 23 gennaio 2012 COLLEZIONISMO, HOBBY, LIFESTYLE

• 4 questions on My Muse #04

  

  My Muse is an Italian way to the global doll-related magazine. Created by a small team, offered in digital version for web and smartphone, printed on demand.... Leggere il seguito

  Pubblicato il 16 gennaio 2012 COLLEZIONISMO, HOBBY, LIFESTYLE

• Nostalgic and beautiful

  

  I’ve just got a link from the German DIE ZEIT online, bearing the evocative title “Sehnsucht nach Schönheit”, i.e. Nostalgia of Beauty – an exhibition on fashio... Leggere il seguito

  Pubblicato il 15 gennaio 2012 COLLEZIONISMO, HOBBY, LIFESTYLE

• Introducing the iDoll?

  

  According to Apple grammar rules, this might be the iDoll or maybe the iCon. But this is not from Cupertino. What you see is a 12” figure (like Ken) in an almos... Leggere il seguito

  Pubblicato il 08 gennaio 2012 COLLEZIONISMO, HOBBY, LIFESTYLE