When school gets me down or I feel like hiding away in my dorm, my preferred form of entertainment is definitely stand-up. Even when I rewatch my favorites, I still laugh like crazy when no one's around. If something's getting you down or you're in the mood to laugh until your sides hurt, check out my current favorite Netflix stand-up specials - guaranteed to lift your mood.
Read MoreWorth a Watch: Lucy McRae
Describing herself as "sci-fi artist, director, and self proclaimed body architect" on her website, Lucy McRae is actively bridging the gap between fashion and advancing science - fusing futuristic technologies with the feminine figure. Her videos range from creative short films to innovative music videos to advertisements for the beauty world. She focuses on the feminine form enhanced and modified by science, with motifs and allusions to the very relevant topics of body image, food, and beauty.
The following are some of my favorite productions of hers - definitely worth a watch!
"Make Your Maker" - Short Film:
Centering on the inseparable relationship between the body and food, Lucy highlights this fundamental entwinement through a scientific lab setting featuring a woman "using her own body as a test bed, fusing gender and blending ego like a chef constitutes food." She artistically harps on the all too relevant societal obsession with food, calorie restriction, and the "ideal" body, "taking on the domain of genetic manipulation and human cloning, delivering a world where clones are edible; their sensory effects absorbed through the body."
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Reptile Youth "My Yoko Ono" - Music Video:
In by far the best music video I have ever seen, Lucy continues to blend the controversiality of scientific meddling with human genetics with art, exercising "the concept that we are all operated by a higher order, becoming 'Puppets of technology'." Full of artistic camera angles and collage-esque compositions, the allusions to gene selection and human modification critique the extent to which science and technology have increasingly entered into the field of beauty.
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Morphē - Short Film for Aesop:
Epitomizing the luxurious and scientific based skin and hair care brand, Aesop, McRae's video advertises "a new kind of super-sensory beauty treatment," set in a futuristic spa-laboratory-hybrid. Through artistic close-ups and captured breath-like movements, the film channels the feminine form and pampering of the hair and skin.
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These are just three of my favorites from her, but all of her content is definitely worth a click and an afternoon spent oohing and awing.
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Videos to Watch: October 2016
If you've been reading the exact same sentence in your Adam Smith for the past twenty minutes, it is probably a good time to take a break. Put down your book, plug in your headphones and check out our favorite videos on Internet right now. We will be sharing the funniest, coolest, weirdest videos we find online with you every month in our new series: Videos to Watch.
Enjoy!
1. Eric André and Hannibal Buress Hijack Each Other's Tinder Accounts | Vanity Fair
After watching this, you'll definitely want to give it a try with your friends' Tinder accounts (and maybe have them sabotage your love life as well)!
2. Amy Schumer and Anna Wintour Swap Lives | Vogue
If you still haven't watched this video, do it now. Rare moments of Anna Wintour smiling and making jokes is not your run-of-the-mill YouTube clip. Better yet, Amy imbues the video with her honest, cringe worthy sense of humor that we've all come to know and love.
3. Victoria Beckham: In the Bag | Episode 4 | British Vogue
Perfect wife, perfect mom, perfect career, perfect life... Need we say more?
4. Vlog 1 is this really my first vlog? | Negin Mirsalehi
One of our favorite, most influential bloggers just started a vlog channel. Her videos track the various aspects of her hectic, blogger life and are guaranteed to give you serious FOMO.
5. Freedom! | '90 x Vogue
Adriana Lima, Joan Smalls, Taylor Hill and more models of the moment share the latest looks from the Spring 2017 runways–all to the soundtrack of our favorite disco, dance-pop recording artist, George Michael!
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