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A Graphic Menagerie: Boris Peianov

The worlds of art and fashion have always been self-fulfilling to an extent, continually resampling and reinterpreting what’s been done before until something new emerges. Copenhagen-based artist Boris Peianov seems well aware of this, and by altering and repurposing available images and other media from a variety of sources, has been able to amplify his own vision.

 
“When I was younger I used to think that if you are an artist, you can only use a computer for graphic design, but turns out it became my way of telling stories,” he says. “Besides, I’ve always been really into and inspired by music and magazines, so working in this niche is what I always wanted as well.”
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Peianov cites artists like Robert Montgomery, Henrietta Harris, and Guglielmo Castelli among his biggest influences. Each was able to manipulate simple text, shapes, and negative space to create simple yet striking pieces and instill them with a deeper, almost existential meaning, which is something that bleeds into his own craft.
 

“I do see a common thread of raw emotion and honesty, a confessional quality,” he says, describing his style. “I would say it’s emotional, maybe, in a sense that behind everything I do there is a desire to communicate or illustrate emotions.”
 

This is evident in his graphic compositions, where he frequently works with images of the body in both passive and active forms, simultaneously merging the two as a means to indicate the duality of intensity and vulnerability. He occasionally emphasizes this by adding confessional text to provide additional context and a further human element to his pieces. Peianov has a natural eye for structure—likely a result of his architecture background—which has exposed him to numerous artistic opportunities. He’s even been working with the fashion magazines he gets his source images from.
 

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“I’m so excited to see more diversity, fairness, and empathy across the board. We have all these people who are not afraid to stand up for what’s right,” he says, regarding the evolution of the industry. “Besides, it’s 2019. The fantasy and aspirational aspects of fashion are nice, we all need something to dream about, but the mean girls shit has to stop.”
 
But as Peianov’s legacy continues to grow—”Trying to find my place in fine art is a big goal for 2019,” he says, ahead of planning two shows this year—he’s seeking more offline. “As on trend as this may sound, I want the future to be more about the past, in the sense that this whole ‘like’ culture/social media interconnectivity/perpetual need to keep up with influencer circus is starting to feel very daunting,” he admits.
 
“I prefer spending my time on the actual work rather than focusing on sales and the marketing aspect of it, but then if nobody sees my art, who am I making it for?”
Images: Courtesy of the artist.
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Toaster Strudel Gives Ultimate ‘Mean Girls’ Anniversary Gift

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On April 30, 2004, an unrelenting cultural phenomenon hit cinemas across the country with little-to-no pre-released hype. The film, Mean Girls, starred Lindsay Lohan (fresh off her Freaky Friday resurgence) and a slew of relative unknowns including Lizzy Caplan, Rachel McAdams, and Amanda Seyfried, and was written by SNL head writer Tina Fey. With a budget of just under $17 million, the film rallied forth to gross $129 million, and, more importantly, left an even farther-extending mark in the lexicon of chick flicks, high school comedies, and adolescent humor.

A decade later, the film hasn’t lost its magic. Tumblr users have created more than 10,000 posts and 477,000 notes related to the world of the Plastics in the last month alone. This is no surprise seeing as Mean Girls has yet to outstay its “door’s always open” welcome in popular culture. There was the intern that recited the entire script in 30 minutes, the time Obama’s team Tweeted a picture of Bo from inside the Oval Office with the caption: “Bo, stop trying to make fetch happen,” a fan created “Disney Mean Girls” trailer which has clocked nearly 12 million views, even it-girl Jennifer Lawrence referenced the film when accepting her People’s Choice Award.

So how does one celebrate the ten year anniversary of a film so often celebrated? If you’re Toaster Strudel, you send your fictional heir apparent Gretchen Wieners (played by Lacey Chabert) a box of strawberry Toaster Strudels and, in doing so, win the internet. Take a look:

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Images courtesy of Paramount Pictures and Twitter.

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Mini ‘Buffy’ AND ‘Mean Girls’ Reunions Happened Yesterday

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If you haven’t been incredibly keen to Sarah Michelle Gellar’s classily understated dabblings in the Twitter-sphere since her enrollment on the site last October, that’s on you. She’s funny, flirty (but happily married!), and best of all, the 36-year-old native New Yorker, loves to throw it back. Yesterday, while on set for The Crazy Ones, SMG shared in an impromptu (or was it?) Buffy the Vampire Slayer reunion when former co-stars Seth Green and Michelle Trachtenberg stopped by. You might remember that Green famously played the gentle werewolf Oz in the show’s second through fourth season, and Trachtenberg played Buffy’s not-so-kid-sister Dawn in the last three seasons.

Meanwhile, over on the East Coast—snow, yup—Lindsay Lohan pulled society rank by enlisting not one, but two former Mean Girls co-stars to assist her in her ongoing climb toward Instagram-ascension. Earlier in the week, Lohan posted a photo with Daniel Franzese, who played Damian in the film, which got the comment boards talking. However it was the recent pic of everyone’s favorite mathlete, Kevin G (actor, Rajiv Surendra), that made many wonder, was this just Lohan-being-Lohan, or are these three (and maybe others!) up to something.

Images courtesy of Instagram and Twitter.

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Watch Every Movie Released This Year in Seven Minutes

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Some people have a lot of time on their hands. Those with such privilege must busy themselves somehow. Sometimes they: write songs, perform magic tricks, or, remember that guy that recited every line of Mean Girls in thirty minutes? These people exist, they’re real, and best of all, their schedule is wide open. Add a new contender to the pantheon of the time-unbound, as The Sleepy Skunk — his name, not one we assigned him — has taken every movie that hit theatres in 2013 and boiled them down to one comprehensive 6:45 supercut. ‘Cause how else should someone named The Sleepy Skunk manage his time? 

An overview: from 12 Years A Slave to that movie in which Denzel and Marky Mark blew up cars, many masked people, many guns — so many guns — worlds in peril, Blanchett in the shower, Gosling, DiCaprio, Gordon-Levitt, fire, blaze, explosion,”duck!”, DeNiro pushing Michael Douglas into a pool, people running for their lives, Judi Dench gazing off in the distance on a hill, an unwelcome reminder of that Oz movie, Jared Leto in drag, and a barrage of explosives (’cause who’s sick of those?).

 
Images courtesy of Columbia Pictures.