2012-10-16

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2012-10-16 10:50 am
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The Five Faces Of E.via

If you add in her sounds, her faces number way more than five. This is not strange, to be a variety; but art and commerce and branding often constrain acts to only a few concepts, as does a focus on what you're considered best at; e.g., "I am the underground speed rapper" or "I have switched to an elegant and sexy image." Whereas E.via's chosen to vary and multiply her constraints, rather than constraining herself to a few.*

She's promoted herself with five videos that I know of, each drastically different from the others. What they share is a tendency to go meta, to be about image making and the choices facing her ("image" in the broad sense of "public image," not just "what I look like" or "the way the video shot is framed").

Hey! )

Shake! )

"Pick Up! U!"



A.k.a. Pikachu )

Crazy Fate )

I Know How To Play A Little )

[UPDATE: Turns out she has six video faces; see the comment thread.]