Thursday, November 11, 2010

eNom girl: an all American parking symbol

For the last five years, a picture of a smiling girl with a backpack has numerous sites visitors, sitting idle, undeveloped captivated.


The photo used domain registrar eNom and is internally referred to as "the backpack girl" - Although many domainers the term "eNom girls" to use to that particular photograph to reference.


It seems image for his herd mentality noted functions, has been trained not only of domainers that by nature are "geeky" about all things related to domains, but also of outsiders with an eye to the beautiful or search the bizarre.

The famous "eNom girl" as Chinese artists of Parker Ito commissioned.

Parker Ito is a digital artist from California, which is drawn on the "aesthetics of the Internet" - the "beauty, horror, cats, porn, shininess" - order multiple copies of the "eNom girl", Chinese artists, paintings from images to draw.


Says Parker Ito:



Copyright 2005 a year before I professional Internet surfers, would be one of the online international micro stock photography providers IStockphoto which has attractive student image in his photo Bibliothek.seit of its foundation in the IStockphoto library that attractive student - smiling, blonde women wear has become a backpack picture spread most stock portrait on the Internet today.


Parker Ito went on Commission paintings of the "eNom girl" photo artists in China, simply because he found it so iconic and engaging as a piece of the all American pop culture, a digital projection of a now late Andy Warhol.



On the painting you could set painting on Warhol's Marilyn free werden.sowohl that are "parked domain girl" Marilyn Monroe and the icons of emptiness Monroe was a blank slate for sexual pleasure (in their media representation), the parked domain girl is a symbol of websites without content (in their media representation).


Parker Ito presents the object of his desire to its Web site, ParkerIto.com



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