this is a post about underwear.
underwear + strong magnets
underwear + voice recorder
but it’s not just any underwear.
(i couldn’t embed the video, so click here to see it)
lebanese artist ayah bdeir played on the “Syrian tradition of hacking electronic toys, integrating them into panties, and selling them in the most casual of fashions at popular ‘Damascan’ souks” by taking panties from victoria’s secret and rigging them with different devices. the result is both adorable and kind of terrifying.
bdeir has some more pretty awesome, non-underwear related work, the majority of which uses technology to make a statement about the middle east. check it all out at her website.
I found this post quite humorous. I am certainly taken aback by the underwear + strong magnets, because imagining using that kind of terrifies me. I’ve never heard of this idea before, and I agree that it’s definitely interesting and perhaps “adorable”. It’s quite suggestive, but in a strange, creative way. But quite honestly, I’d rather not know what they do in Syria…or what ever place practices that Syrian tradition…
It’s definitely not what I would expect from such a conservative country.