We are truly in the midst and full swing of a social-media driven society. Although the development of it has been subtle, its impact has been phenomenal. Nearly everywhere you look, you see a hashtag, an @ symbol, or a QR code to encourage us to open up our smartphones and log in to our social media accounts. If you even log out at all in the first place!
And what is even more subtle and at times even straight-up denied by a good majority of people, is how much social media has influenced our appearance. How we present ourselves, what we aspire to be, and even what constitutes as attractive. With trends coming and going sometimes within a blink of an eye. Basically, when you take a selfie, you don’t just want to look attractive. You want to look impossibly attractive. Some resort to specialised third-party apps to improve some features or even erase them completely. Turning an element of reality into something that can be seen, witnessed, and even believed, but never truly experienced. We become avatars in a sense. Wearing digital costumes to hide our true selves.
Within such a polished imperfectly perfect digital environment, however, sometimes the unordinary does break through mediocrity. Someone who challenges what we view as “normal” or “acceptable”. Someone who may go as far to say that instead of trying to look as good as possible on social media, he actually wants to look worse, in order to portray a far more honest representation of humanity.
One such man you may come across, goes by the name of DavidHenryNobodyJr, an ever changing, ever evolving and ever captivating character played by performance artist David Henry Brown Jr, from New York City in the United States. David has really made a name for himself within the digital world, sharing countless clips and images of his bizarre and extravagant costumes, each with their own unique theme, to an audience of over 120,000 followers on Instagram alone!
Just to visit his Instagram page and explore his collage of strange faces, masks and props is enough to make some of you go: What the heck am I looking at here?!" Well, that is (hopefully) where I can help. After meeting him, watching his mini documentary and learning his story as well as his ambitions as a creative, there is so much we can learn from him about just how limitless artistic expression can be as well as a great deal we can learn about ourselves and the current world we live in.
Welcome to another video, everybody. Today we’ll be exploring the mind of DavidHenryNobodyJr.
DHNJ Instagram: / davidhenrynobodyjr
DHNJ Linktree: linktr.ee/davi...
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Sources:
Keith Aronowitz Documentary: • DAVID HENRY NOBODY JR.
Opening interview: • David Henry Nobody Jr.
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Artist Corner:
For this video's Artist Corner, I present to you the beautifully mysterious art by Urikedi! Please show some love and check out more of her work through the links below:
Twitter:
Instagram: / urikedi9
Deviantart: www.deviantart...
Art Station: www.artstation...
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Submit your art or say hi:
Email - blinddweller@gmail.com
Instagram - / blinddweller
Discord - / discord
Patreon - / blinddweller
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Video Music:
Airport Lounge - Disco Ultralounge by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. creativecommon...
Source: incompetech.com...
Artist: incompetech.com/
Electro Sketch by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. creativecommon...
Source: incompetech.com...
Artist: incompetech.com/
With a Stamp by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. creativecommon...
Artist: www.twinmusicom...
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