{"id":1,"date":"2012-05-26T03:30:14","date_gmt":"2012-05-26T07:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bluesunglassesproject.org\/blog\/?p=1"},"modified":"2013-05-18T09:07:20","modified_gmt":"2013-05-18T13:07:20","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bluesunglassesproject.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/26\/hello-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The Purpose of this Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several years ago I started photographing friends, and friends of friends, wearing a pair of 1970s vintage blue sunglasses that had belonged to a performance artist friend who had died of AIDS.\u00a0 I had been the custodian of these glasses for over a decade, yet their somewhat overt style had made me hesitant to don them for any sort of daily sartorial function.\u00a0 I wanted to put them to use, though.\u00a0 And they had such a glamor to them that fun <!--more-->was created whenever they came out.\u00a0 It was like a dress-up game.\u00a0 So why not let others wear them, get their glam on, and me photograph them in the process?\u00a0 A project was initiated, and can be viewed on its own website, <a title=\"blue sunglasses project\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bluesunglassesproject.org\" target=\"_blank\">bluesunglassesproject.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The photos have had a life of their own, having been exhibited in various venues on the east &amp; west US coasts.\u00a0 The project is in a temporary halt as I struggle to reproduce these vintage frames which have, not surprisingly, deteriorated with age (i.e. cracked in too many places to mend.)\u00a0 But although I cannot at this time continue to photograph faces decked in those blue lenses, I am thrilled to be able to carry on the project&#8217;s spirit by recording the links between the AIDS epidemic and the cultural response.\u00a0 On this blog I&#8217;ll be reporting any events or actions occurring within the arts, and popular culture in general, that are a channel for awareness of the continued global AIDS epidemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several years ago I started photographing friends, and friends of friends, wearing a pair of 1970s vintage blue sunglasses that had belonged to a performance artist friend who had died of AIDS.\u00a0 I had been the custodian of these glasses for over a decade, yet their somewhat overt style had made me hesitant to don [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-blue-sunglasses-project","post_format-post-format-image","three-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluesunglassesproject.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluesunglassesproject.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluesunglassesproject.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluesunglassesproject.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluesunglassesproject.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluesunglassesproject.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":578,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluesunglassesproject.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluesunglassesproject.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluesunglassesproject.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluesunglassesproject.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}