Cosplay... Is An Art: Planet Comic Con 2017

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#FavTweets 2017 May Photography

#photography #buildings #longexposure #SonyAlpha #mysterious pic.twitter.com/tXUOBSo7zv

— Michal Lichota (@see_in_berlin) May 2, 2017

Ashkey Graham photographed by Steven Klein for V magazine 2017. pic.twitter.com/2pHW8jqzPH

— Joan Darc (@joandarcdoll) May 3, 2017

Photo taken today at Bear Lake, Utah. Near the Idaho boarder. What a lovely sight! #photography pic.twitter.com/E8Ua7QT07R

— David Sandum (@DavidSandum) May 8, 2017

Stunning sunset photo by David Guttenfelder!https://t.co/EUSMGjRB5p

Instagram: @dguttenfelder#Photography #PhotoOfTheDay #Photographer pic.twitter.com/XnuFvVSLGA

— DIReporter (@DigiIReporter) May 30, 2017

' Lone Tree' #Photography by Bess Hamiti pic.twitter.com/T4LAhMFsKB

— Indie Art (@Indie_Art) May 31, 2017

Album Cover: Bruce Springsteen Born in the U.S.A.

Album Cover

Album: Bruce Springsteen Born in the U.S.A.
Released: June 4, 1984
Photographer: Annie Leibovitz
Model: Bruce Springsteen

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_in_the_U.S.A.

#FavTweets 2017 May Politics

My wife and I welcome a new baby and it is quite a story... https://t.co/VTT0oBsRFK

— Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel) May 2, 2017

Frustrated by failures, @realDonaldTrump now demands more power. America this is how a dictatorship begins. https://t.co/fDPUdlNK9b

— Vicente Fox Quesada (@VicenteFoxQue) May 2, 2017

Take note: this, right here, is called "projecting". https://t.co/9xTLV3aI2s

— Francis J. Underwood (@RepUnderwoodSC) May 4, 2017

Macron is on course for a decisive win over Le Pen in the French presidential election, exit estimates say https://t.co/cPstthtRYN pic.twitter.com/oTfYqLNare

— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) May 7, 2017

The #DailyShow can't keep track of all the excuses the Trump administration has used to explain the president's atrocious behavior. pic.twitter.com/4j9rBubHAz

— Comedy Central (@ComedyCentral) May 12, 2017

#PeaceOfficersMemorialDay and#PoliceWeek Proclamation: https://t.co/o4IXVfZuHw pic.twitter.com/UMJ6hklx4a

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 16, 2017

Nixon White House lawyer calls Comey memo a "smoking gun": https://t.co/yWifBdq8Wl pic.twitter.com/e2TsjB85pv

— The Hill (@thehill) May 17, 2017

.@RepTedLieu's new bill: The Stop Waste and Misuse by the President Act -- or SWAMP Act.

Well played, Congressman. https://t.co/X6H027MC8R

— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) May 20, 2017

.@FoxNews won't show you this, but hundreds of Mancunians (who happen to be Muslim) marched yesterday against the Manchester Attack (EVN) pic.twitter.com/BTS5nGwDXG

— Julia Macfarlane (@juliamacfarlane) May 27, 2017

I don't know who did this, but they've won the internet. #covfefe pic.twitter.com/kSrM1qe0zJ

— Jemima Sampson (@Jemima1989) May 31, 2017

People in covfefe houses shouldn't throw covfefe. https://t.co/M7oK5Z6qwF

— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) June 1, 2017

#FavTweets 2017 May Cosplay

"It took about 2 days to make since only the hat, pants, part of the jacket and the signs are hand made the rest are all found items." pic.twitter.com/N8Bn8VQGAy

— ejen @ #AX2017 AA (@cosplayamerica) May 30, 2017

Here's another shot of Chii! Dress made for me by the very talented @eveillecosplay <3 #cosplay @ShareMyCosplay pic.twitter.com/tQMJ3WLGoU

— AI | LolitaBot (@LolitaBot613) May 31, 2017

Album Cover: blink-182 Enema of the State

Album Cover

Album: blink-182 Enema of the State
Released: June 1, 1999
Photographer: David Goldman
Model: Janine Lindemulder
Taken: March 12, 1999

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enema_of_the_State

When Art and Comedy Crosses the Line?

Art is defined as something that is created with imagination and expresses important ideas or feelings. Yet, are artists limited in their creativity and expression of ideas to fit within the confines of appropriateness? Are artists becoming more provocative and disregarding decency in order to gain notoriety?

This isn't anything new, however. Art is supposed to capture the viewers attention, whether it's the oohs and aahs or boos and hisses. If art makes a group of people talk, then the artist's goal has been met.

Examples of highly provocative art includes: D. W. Griffith's highly controversial 1915 silent film, The Birth of a Nation, which depicted black men as sexually aggressive towards white women; Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris; Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange; Fernando Botero's Abu Ghraib 52; Andres Serrano's Piss Christ; or photography and artwork by Gottfried Helnwein and Robert Mapplethorpe.

Last night, comedian Kathy Griffin and provocative photographer Tyler Shields made headlines for a video and image that was tweeted. An unemotional Kathy Griffin is captured holding a severed head of President Donald Trump.

Kathy Griffin tweeted the photo with a caption of "there was blood coming out of his eyes, blood coming out of his...wherever," a reference to Trump's comment to Megyn Kelly, "You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes. Blood coming out of her wherever."

After receiving backlash, Griffin deleted the tweet and provided an apology. Unfortunately, this didn't stop CNN from firing her from the NYE show with Anderson Cooper.

I am sorry. I went too far. I was wrong. pic.twitter.com/LBKvqf9xFB

— Kathy Griffin (@kathygriffin) May 30, 2017