While I have obviously been aware of media storm around the LA Clippers owner, whose racist comments to his alleged mistress found their way into the public realm, it’s not the sort of story I tend to follow closely. But I did a double take yesterday when I saw, on an airport TV tuned to CNN, the headgear the alleged mistress has been sporting in public lately: a bizarre-looking, face-covering visor. It stopped me in my tracks: What the hell is that thing? When I got home I was pleased to learn that I was not the only one who was curious. Gawker helpfully explained that Vanessa Stiviano (that’s the alleged mistress) was wearing a “solar visor,” pointing to this 2004 post about the “craze” for this object in China back then, describing it as: “a typical sun visor with a swivel down piece of dark transparent plastic which shades the face from the summer sun’s harsh glare.” (This source suggests that the object is of South Korean provenance, although it does not offer details.) But let’s put aside the question of how this object came into existence. What I’m interested in is how Stiviano is using it: Not to protect herself from the suns glare, but rather from the media glare. In other words, she is misusing, but I’d say rather effectively. This is a pretty good object-use hack. designobserver/feature/object-in-the-news-the-face-privatizer/38456#.U2QH4EJQWR
Posted on: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 14:16:38 +0000
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