Ask Propecia the crack ho

If you have a question and don’t know who to ask.

Then check out Propecia, an alleged former crack-addict and prostitute.

Propecia the crack ho orginally appeared on The Damn Show, and now her wise advice videos are available on YouTube and Vimeo.

21st century pop art – ‘I’m fat and nobody likes me’

This is what it’s all about and always will be: creative self expression.

It’s what the Haul Girls do so well

And what these young troubadours called Chair do with unfettered joy.

This pair, like two cool anti-heroes from a John Waters movie, sing about the angst, pain, unhappiness and hurt that is one of the main building blocks in growing up.  They don’t flinch from sharing the personal stuff that everyone, somewhere down the line, can identify with, and that’s what makes ‘I’m Fat And Nobody Likes Me’ a work sheer youthful genius.

Moreover, what Chair, the Haul Girls and all the the other Web, WordPress, YouTube, Techno Revolutionaries are doing is as important as Rock ‘n’ Roll, Beatlemania, Punk and 101 other youth movements.  For like their esteemed predecessors these youngsters have the guts to go out and do something creative, something special that reaches out and connects with like-minded individuals.

Now we have the means of expression and distribution at our fingertips, do we really need a Simon Cowell or a Vogue to tell us what to do, when we can do it for ourselves?

Shop Art – the thrill of the haul

It was originally Descartes who said ‘Cogito ergo sum‘ – I think therefore I am – a catchy little statement that supposedly defined existence. This was later revised in the 20th century by philosopher A J Ayer who thoughtfully suggested ‘I do and I have, therefore I am.’

But it didn’t stop there, as next up was the Post Modernist irony of conceptual artist Barbara Kruger, who announced: ‘I Shop Therefore I Am’. Which is not a million miles from O.T.T.‘s ‘I’m pink therefore I’m Spam.’

But maybe Kruger has a point, as the latest trend for Girls of the YouTube Generation is to display their Shop Art, the ‘haul’ of clothes they have bought, and describe them in intimate detail.

Take a look at small town America, where 16-year-old Juicy Star 07 sits in her pink-walled bedroom, revealing her stash of goodies from a day’s shop at Forever 21. Juicy Star 07 shows the anonymous viewer her new black blouse, her new cardigan, and the bargain-to-die-for, her $6.99 jeans, whilst giving a running commentary on each.

“OK, so normally it would bother me if my jeans didn’t have any detail on the rear end,” she says. “But I was actually reading and they say that if there is not any design on the back pocket on your jeans … somehow it makes your butt look smaller. So way to go for these jeans!”

Other Haul Girls, like SoCal Ashley just go for fashion, music & make-up, while Beauty Cakez puts out her own Beauty Show from her aquamarine Hello Kitty bedroom.

While there maybe those who tut-tut and disapprove, it is more than apparent these smart and sassy girls are using technology in a creative and imaginative way, providing a free service that connects with a community of like-minded individuals.  And that can only be for the good.

Yet, it is not just Haul Girls who like to show and tell.

The YouTube Boys prefer to take apart and fix their latest gadgets, while feverishly telling you what they’re doing. It’s almost like a Deconstructivist techno-porn.

For the YouTube Generation it’s ‘I show and I share, therefore I am”