Word: askew
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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However, like many Gen Xers who forswear the rat race, Smith seems seduced by it. Sure, he still lives in the Jersey 'burbs, with his View Askew Productions only a few blocks from his new condo in Red Bank. Sure, he's invested his profits in buying the local comic-book store. And sure, he claims that moviemaking--especially with his girlfriend as leading lady and a close buddy as producer--is "an easy way to avoid manual labor." But what about the pressure of writing the script for Warner Bros.' big-budget Superman Lives...
...character)? Only a boomer fixated on the Brady Bunch would find it puzzling. "I'm a jaded optimist looking behind the doors of small-town America," says Smith. "My generation believes we can do almost anything. My characters are free: no social mores keep them in check." View Askew's Website invites fans for a chat: "Feel the power of communication, as you can actually interact with the losers who hit it big with their movies of smut and conscience...
...cadmium red paint that is both mundane and menacing, forcefully aggregates scraps of metal and designed objects into a figure that evokes both the atom and our fear of its power. A core of barbs and chain links lies at the center of the work, surrounded by two askew rectangles of jagged metal forms. Recalling Escher's surreal staircase designs, Smith's work depicts technology as both embedded in all our forms of life and constituting the greatest threat to their continued existence...
There is even a mildly subversive touch. Some of the skinny, tired-looking models who wear them have very short blond hair and bear a more than passing resemblance to Mia Farrow in Rosemary's Baby. Purposely the hair is not quite groomed and the garish lipstick is mildly askew. Perhaps some of these busy women are not quite coping. Or maybe it's just as the designer said: They're bad girls...
...Hamelin 29 14 27 41 7 32 Tim Regan 30 8 19 27 3 86 Wayne Clarke 28 14 12 26 4 28 Jeff O'Connor 27 10 13 23 1 46 Eric Healey 32 11 11 22 3 31 Patrick Rochon 32 4 18 22 1 54 Kelly Askew 27 6 15 21 2 60 Adam Bartell 30 3 14 17 1 28 Eric Perardi 30 6 11 17 0 46 Jeff Matthews 29 8 7 15 0 14 Jon Pirrong 31 3 9 12 0 56 Jeff Brick 28 4 5 9 4 44 Pat Brownlee...