Photos by Kyle Johnson • Styling by Marjorie Skinner • Make Up by Stacey Myers • Hair by Kim Namanny • Modeling by Shay Law and Nolan Calisch • Photo Assistance by Dianna Potter
I don't know. I tend to agree with Gerbils, though I'd probably pick BORED over retarded. And if you're going to use guns as props as a trite route towards edgy, you could at least get the models to hold the guns properly.
If we're using other words to describe people with mental disabilities, why should we let a perfectly good word like retarded go to waste? Moron & cretin were once medical terms, but long ago morphed into ordinary insults - not to mention a great Ramones song.
I don't undetstand why people who would never use retarded as a medical term or to describe an actual mentally disabled person want all of us to refrain from using retarded in a different context. Language is alive, it should not be unnessarily constricted.
As for Portland fashion, why in a dreary climate would people all dress like it's a race to the bottom of the Goodwill bins?
Sorry to run long, but this has been bothering me for a while.
"Rather than try to manufacture a forced unifying theme, Open Season has become a celebration of this diversity, and the freedom that these artists represent."
For a definition of "Forced unifying theme" see the guns in these photos.
Nothing celebrates diversity and freedom like a gat in the hand of a pretty dipshit.
Good points Trish. I don't find this anything other than dorky and out of synch, but whatever. That blue jacket is atrocious, where did that designer garner inspiration,Capt EO?I should point out that in all the images, she has her finger outside the trigger guard, so there must have been some safety training or a least common sense. Good job.
While the guns look awkward and misplaced, and scream "trying to look cool," I will absolutely commend most of the posers for at LEAST not putting their fucking fingers on the trigger, (think Lindsay Lohan). This is one of the first times I've ever seen a fashion photo shoot involving guns where the models weren't mindlessly placing their fingers where they shouldn't be.
Oh, and since when was the shit they're wearing photo-worthy fashion? Only in Portland could some nasty old cotton t-shirt become a nasty new necklace. It looks like they bought most of their clothes at the mall, and their guns off the rack at Dick's Sporting Goods. Nice...
I'm pro-firearms and I will concede; these models could have been holding zucchinis for all it did these photos. I'm a little embarrassed for Portland that firearms were used as trite "shock-value" in this context. Leave the clothes well enough alone, already.
It captures this piece perfectly.
I think it's okay to use the word when you are the word.
The 'concept' of having people posing with guns is weak at best and nowhere near the level of snarky journalism that the Mercury generally produces.
Seriously - in one photo if the model were to actually fire the gun, she would have a bloody ring around her eye.
If you're going to have a fashion show, have some creativity - this feels like it was the idea of a high school glee club.
Sorry Kyle, go fish.
I don't undetstand why people who would never use retarded as a medical term or to describe an actual mentally disabled person want all of us to refrain from using retarded in a different context. Language is alive, it should not be unnessarily constricted.
As for Portland fashion, why in a dreary climate would people all dress like it's a race to the bottom of the Goodwill bins?
Sorry to run long, but this has been bothering me for a while.
For a definition of "Forced unifying theme" see the guns in these photos.
Nothing celebrates diversity and freedom like a gat in the hand of a pretty dipshit.
Keep Portland weird!
I CAN'T WAIT 'TIL TOMORROW NIGHT! W00t!!!
This is going to be an absolute blast.
Gun jerks offended at the way people hold guns
Fashion jerks insulting fashion.
Haters hating on a photo shoot.
It all makes me want to quit my rad graphic design job to open up a food cart and make electro pop.
again.