She’s so relaxed, genuine and warm. I admire her a lot, and I love what she says about natural beauties.

I’m fascinated by celebrity performance that happens at press conferences, on red carpets, media interviews, etc. In my own way, I’ve been inside similiar experiences so I like to see how other people handle it.

I think the above video is brilliant on so many aesthetic levels. I love it. A few reasons why…

1. The pop-kitsch pink and purple colour scheme as well as the consistency of the flash bulbs unifies this piece visually from start to finish.
2. The obligatory charity referencing to make sure everyone knows this is a worthwhile project. It’s dead Michael’s favourite charity, too, which makes a great pull quote for print media picking up the story. It could also stir up more press.
3. La Toya’s performance seems totally contrived and yet she is so charming in her artificiality that I adore her mischievous girlish antics!
4. This gets a press conference? Work.
5. I think alot of the press turned up because Latoya would be more “media-worthy” so soon after her brother’s death.
6. The Hollywood.tv logo never comes off its prominent place on the screen, yet the colour scheme of the branding is in sync with the rest of the video.
7. La Toya’s surgical face and wig seem to be commenting on the “fakeness”, the constructed-ness of the entire event. Yet, to me, she is as lovable as a doll. Sometimes I see a calculating intelligence her eyes. FYI, I’m not judging that.
7. The inclusion of children in the press op is very provocative to me. I don’t know how I feel about asking children to navigate that many levels of performativity. As much as I adore her, it also seems pretty shady to me how La Toya is generating so much ‘authentic’ love and affection for the commodity, milkshakes. It’s a little unnerving for me when she’s positioning the children, too.
8. The two men who join La Toya at the end to invite you down for milkshakes seem out of place. The one guy is giving me a kind of used car salesman performativity adding a new kind of masculine artificiality. Also, the beige suit jacket and red t-shirt definately seem out of place in this pink and purple candy world.
9. La Toya’s posing for photographs is so audaciously contrived I salute her bravery. Her posing reaches its greatest moment in the freeze at 2:52 IMO.
10. Sales ads for Hollywood.tv pop up asking if you want to post their videos, adding a meta-layer of commerciality. Yes, there´s more…. »

…two different renderings of Venus, the Goddess of Love and Beauty. The first is the winner of a recent photoshop contest at freakingnews.com and the second is the original image, The Birth of Venus by William Adolphe Bouguereau (1825- 1905).

Each Fensler Film is approximately 30 seconds long. If you are going to watch them I recommend seeing them all at one time.

Fensler Films is a video production company, based in Chicago, Illinois and headed by Eric Fensler. The company gained a reputation for a series of short films which parodied the public service announcement safety messages used at the end of every episode of the 1980s animated series G.I. Joe. Fensler re-cut them, in some cases adding new animation, and dubbed them over with new audio, frequently nonsensical non-sequiturs. A number of the films specifically poke fun at the low quality of animation common in cartoons of the era, pointing out poor in-betweening and lip syncing. Fensler Films received a cease-and-desist order from Hasbro resulting in the removal of all G.I. Joe videos from the official site. Recently, they have reappeared on the site.

OMG, the longer you stay with this video, the more intense it gets. Every frame should be watched without looking away from the screen at any moment to get the full hypnotic effect. … Nostalgia. Normativity. 70/80’s glamour. …It could all be yours, so easily, as easily as a mini skirt slips up a model’s leg innocently enough… if The Price is Right.