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Classic Family Guy clips on youtube, HOPE YOU ENJOY! :D

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Podstęp- Więc trzeba tak zrobić: w pełnię miesiąca wybierzemy się we trzech do źródełka; na odzienia nasze naczepić należy gałęzi świeżo zerwanych, najlepiej lipowych, kwiatem okrytych, żeby syrena człowieka nie poczuła, bo się nie pokaże; zaczaimy się przy samym źródle, a gdy wynijdzie i śpiewać zacznie, wtedy zarzucimy na nią sznur, spleciony z cienkich witek wierzbowych, święconą wodą skropiony, ile, że[6] takiego żaden się czar nie ima[7]; zwiążemy i miłościwemu księciu na Czersku zawieziemy w darze.

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La primera academia de Sirenas y Tritones del Mediterráneo. Conviértete en sirena o tritón con nuestros instructores y haz tu sueño realidad! Conócenos!

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VICE Jako syrena dorabiała do studiów doktoranckich.

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VICE Jako syrena dorabiała do studiów doktoranckich.

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Jeśli umiesz zrobić dobry ogon, złote płetwy są już w zasięgu ręki.
https://www.vice.com/pl/article/o-zaletach-bycia-profesjonalna-syrena

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Urodzić się nie tej płci jest kiepsko, ale urodzić się w połowie nie tego gatunku to już całkowicie przesrane. Kitty-Madison jest Holendrem/erką, której jedynym celem w życiu jest stać się jak najbardziej podobną do syreny. Oto wzruszająca historia opowiedziana jej własnymi słowami (w tym momencie zaczynają grać skrzypce).

Jak miałam 15 lat zobaczyłam „Plusk" - film z 1984 roku o syrenie, która zakochuje się w zwykłym mężczyźnie z Nowego Jorku. To historia Małej Syrenki, tylko że z prawdziwymi ludźmi. To właśnie ten film stał się dla mnie przyczyną rozpoczęcia nowego życia. Fabuła nie interesowała mnie tak bardzo jak zdjęcia robione pod wodą. Syrena Madison jest tam naprawdę pełna wdzięku, kobieca i elegancka, nie umiem nawet tego opisać. Ciągle pragnę przeżyć to, co przeżyła wtedy Daryl Hannah. Do dziś za każdym razem kiedy oglądam „Plusk" muszę wejść do wody, bo tam znajduję spokój, tam jest moje miejsce.

Urodziłam się chłopcem. Od początku żyłam w pomylonym ciele, a chęć zostania syreną tylko wzmocniła moją kobiecą stronę. Na rękach mam tatuaże, bo przez długi czas próbowałam żyć jak mężczyzna. W końcu musiałam zdecydować: stać się kobietą albo skończyć z tym wszystkim.

Po obejrzeniu filmu miałam tylko jedno marzenie: spróbować przeżyć życie jako syrena. Nie mogłam przestać o tym myśleć. Na przekór wszystkim, którzy ciągle mnie krytykowali i nie wierzyli w moją wytrwałość, siłę i miłość do syren, dążyłam do celu. Starałam się, żeby to co robię było jak najprawdziwsze. Nurkowanie z butlą nie wchodziło w grę, więc nauczyłam się nurkować na wstrzymanym oddechu. Dzięki temu mogłam zostać pod wodą przez długi czas bez butli tlenowej. Oczywiście potrzebowałam też ogona. Pierwszy zrobiłam ze starych legginsów i płetw. Próbowałam poprawiać moje ogony na najróżniejsze sposoby, niektóre szybko się niszczyły, inne nie wytrzymywały kontaktu z chlorem. Wreszcie, po wielu próbach, na zjeździe nurków spotkałam chłopaka, który robi stroje do nurkowania na zamówienie. To on zrobił moją pierwszą monopłetwę. Potem, kiedy już zostałam Kitty-Madison, kupiłam taki sam ogon jaki Daryl Hannah nosiła w filmie, pomarańczowy i połyskujący, zrobiony specjalnie dla mnie. Od razu poczułam się lepiej. Kocham wodę i do tego czasu mogłam bez problemu zostać pod wodą przez parę minut. Ale ciągle moje marzenie nie było do końca spełnione. Byłam męską syreną.

Ostatnim krokiem do prawdziwego syreniego życia była transformacja. Od tamtego czasu mam na imię Kitty-Madison; moja stara sąsiadka miała na imię Kitty i tak pokochałam to imię, że wzięłam je dla siebie, Madison to imię syreny z „Plusku". Mój sen prawie się ziścił, ale przygotowania do operacji były okupione wielkim psychicznym bólem. Jako chłopiec czułam, że urodziłam się w złym ciele, a do tego wszystkiego chciałam zostać syreną. Kiedy byłam mężczyzną wiele razy bałam się, że nie będę w stanie osiągnąć postawionych sobie celów i to było bardzo bolesne. Po jakimś czasie skontaktowałam się z zespołem specjalizującym się w sprawach zmiany płci, który pomaga w procesie stawania się kobietą. Jednak już po 30 minutach zorientowałam się, że to zajmie zbyt dużo czasu i ani trochę mnie nie uszczęśliwi. Poza tym czułam, że oni nie zrozumieją mojego marzenia o zostaniu syreną. Moje życie wisiało na włosku.

Po tym ciężkim okresie postanowiłam wziąć sprawy w swoje ręce. Znalazłam psychologa zajmującego się tożsamością płciową i po zaledwie czterech tygodniach dostałam zielone światło. Byłam na hormonach, które sprawiły, że ciągle odczuwałam zmęczenie i niepokój. Przez jakiś czas nie mogłam nawet być syreną. Nigdy nie doświadczyłam żadnego poważnego bólu fizycznego, ale ból psychiczny ciągle jest głęboki. W tamtej fazie przemiany straciłam wiele osób z mojego otoczenia, ale to nie byli prawdziwi przyjaciele. Do dziś dostaję wiele pełnych nienawiści komentarzy od nieznajomych na blogach.
Życie jako syrena wymaga wielkich poświęceń finansowych, ale nie przeszkadza mi wydawanie pieniędzy na rzeczy, których naprawdę pragnę. Ogon trzymam w ognioodpornym pokoju, bo to najcenniejsza rzecz jaką posiadam. Nie tylko finansowo, ale też emocjonalnie. Żeby spełnić swoje marzenie musiałam kupić jeszcze parę innych rzeczy. Prawdziwa syrena widzi pod wodą i nigdy się nie krztusi, kiedy woda wpada jej do nosa - te problemy musiałam rozwiązać. Kupiłam specjalne soczewki zerówki, około 2,5 cm średnicy, żeby woda nie dostawała mi się do oczu. Kupiłam też zatyczki do nosa, takie same jakich używają pływaczki synchroniczne.

Teraz jestem szczęśliwa. Jeżdżę na rowerze, pływam, uprawiam jogę - wszystko po to, by być w formie jako syrena. Chodzę na basen cztery, pięć razy w tygodniu. Pierwszy raz jak zanurkowałam z płetwą miałam mieszane uczucia. Zrób to, to twoje marzenie, nie? Ale z drugiej strony, co jeśli się utopię? Teraz mam doświadczenie w pływaniu, założyłam nawet własną firmę. Prowadzę warsztaty z pływania jak syrena i można mnie zabukować na występ. Nie zarabiam na tym biznesie, ale to mi wystarcza. Gdybym mogła na tym zarabiać, nigdy więcej nie chciałabym pracować. Tak bardzo kocham życie syreny, że bez wahania poświęciłabym dla niego swoje prawdziwe życie. Cieszę się jednak, że nie muszę wybierać. Kocham mojego chłopaka, ale jeśli chciałby, żebym przestała być syreną, wybrałabym życie jako syrena Kitty-Madison.

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Urodzić się nie tej płci jest kiepsko, ale urodzić się w połowie nie tego gatunku to już całkowicie przesrane. Kitty-Madison jest Holendrem/erką, której jedynym celem w życiu jest stać się jak najbardziej podobną do syreny. Oto wzruszająca historia opowiedziana jej własnymi słowami (w tym momencie zaczynają grać skrzypce).

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Foto: Dzień Dobry TVN | Video: Dzień Dobry TVN Syren Ariel był gościem "Dzień Dobry TVN"

- Od małego wolałem pływać w ten sposób niż kraulem. Jest to fajne, bardzo przyjemne i można pokonywać dłuższe dystanse - mówi Eryk.

Eryk organizuje imprezy urodzinowe, pracuje też charytatywnie z dziećmi. - Uwielbiam spotykać się z chorymi, którzy mają terapię zajęciową w basenie. Możemy razem pływać, pośmiać się i pobawić sprawiając dzieciakom sporo radości - opisuje.

Autor: mjp/kk / Źródło: Dzień Dobry TVN

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Syren Ariel - jedyny w Polsce mężczyzna z ogonem

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Od małego wolałem pływać w ten sposób niż kraulem. Jest to fajne, bardzo przyjemne i można pokonywać dłuższe dystanse - mówi Eryk. Eryk organizuje imprezy urodzinowe, pracuje też charytatywnie z dziećmi. - Uwielbiam spotykać się z chorymi, którzy mają terapię zajęciową w basenie. Możemy razem pływać, pośmiać się i pobawić sprawiając dzieciakom sporo radości - opisuje.

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With all the negativity going on this... - NC Mer-Mania 2017 | Facebook

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With all the negativity going on this week we thought you needed more cheering up. Let's revisit how fun Mermania was with some clips and photos from Raina and Sean. We're looking forward to January!

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50 meters in 13 seconds....this is what 3.6 meters/second looks like! #Finswimming

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"I'm going to be a mermaid. I'm going to swim free in the ocean where nobody could ever hurt me again." 🌊

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Mermaid Kariel ∆ - My Unicorn is a Mermaid | Facebook

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CLUB WATER DISCUS by BALAM ACAB, released 19 August 2016 1. FAIRYLAND 2. LOOK 3. DOLPHINSTOMP 4. WANNASEEU 5. DUBAI SIREN made in an underwater hotel in dubai

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Pierwszy raz usłyszałam określenie seapunk na początku tego roku, kiedy poznałam Niki Takesh (powyżej). Niki jest słodką, dwudziestokilkuletnią dziewczyną, która stała się gwiazdą swojego własnego programu internetowego „ S**t Stoner Girls Say". Jej Tumblr stał się inspiracją dla kolekcji S S 2013, Jeremy'ego Scott'a. Kiedy ją poznałam, miała włosy pofarbowane na zielono i nie mogła przestać podniecać się swoją ostatnią podróżą do Japonii, gdzie brała udział w sesji zdjęciowej dla magazynu NYLON. Ktoś odniósł się do Niki, używając określenia seapunk. Pomyślałam wtedy „O! To tak się to nazywa!". Wreszcie znalazłam określenie na subkulturę, o której istnieniu wiedziałam od kilku miesięcy.

Mówiąc bardzo ogólnie, seapunk jest nurtem mody, który rozprzestrzenia się w internecie, głównie za pomocą hashtagowania na Tumblerze. Pierwsze pastelowe włosy pojawiły się już na początku 2011, tak samo jak nurt muzyczny, o tej samej nazwie. Jest on jednak bardzo trudny do opisania - w przeciwieństwie do wizualnej części. Seapunk można poznać po włosach potarganych, pofarbowanych we wszystkie kolory tęczy, inspirowanych syrenkami. Ciuchy pokrywają grafiki w stylu new age, przedstawiające kosmos lub pocztówkowe delfiny. Dzieci seapunk tęsknią do niedawnej przeszłości lat 90-tych i wczesnych 2000, lubią kreskówki, samojebki i gry komputerowe. Przedstawiciele tego gatunku gardzą czasami kiedy internet nie istniał. Są ekstremalnie kreatywni i wrażliwi emocjonalnie, często nie opuszczają swoich sypialni. Uważają bowiem, że poprzez sieć są w stanie dosięgnąć każdego zakamarka świata bez przymusu opuszczania własnego domu. A nawet jeśli nie są podłączeni do kabla to i tak świadomość internetowej rzeczywistości dodaje im otuchy.

Jak każda subkultura przeżywająca swój złoty czas, tak i seapunk posiada historię powstania. Jest ona jednak o tyle inna od wszystkich innych, że zrodziła się w dobie internetowej rzeczywistości. Więc jeśli chcecie zweryfikować wersję producenta z Brooklynu, Lil Internet-a, że obudził się któregoś czerwcowego poranka 2011 roku i począł cały nurt seapunk za pomocą posta na Tweeterze, to jedyne co musicie zrobić to... jedna chwileczka... o, tutaj:

Jednak później Lil Internet i jego kumple zabili seapunk. Mieli dosyć tłumaczenia wszystkim, że to oni zapoczątkowali cały styl, który nieustannie wykorzystywany był przez takie gwiazdy jak Rihanna czy Azealia Banks. Tak więc ten prawdziwy seapunk odszedł, właśnie tu, na Noisey. Dyskutuje się teraz, na temat istnienia tego nurtu w muzyce. Tak naprawdę od początku nie miał on większego sensu na tym polu. Jednak jako wizualne doznanie, subkultura jest nie do zatrzymania.

Jeśli nadal nie kumacie czym jest seapunk to sprawdźcie to:

To jest #seapunk: Azealia Banks

To jest #seapunk: Brooke Candy.

Teraz mam zamiar narzucić wam trochę szybsze tempo rozkminki. Napiszę coś, co siedziało w mojej głowie na długo przed poznaniem Niki i naprawdę nie mogę uwierzyć, że jestem jedyną osobą, która tak myśli. Seapunk jest z grubsza nowocześniejszą wersją popularnej w latach 90-tych kreskówki, o nazwie „Czarodziejka z Księżyca". Wiem to dlatego, że wychowałam się w Hong Kongu, gdzie Czarodziejka (animowana bajka fantasy, opowiadająca o nowoczesnych uczennicach, które transformują się w międzygalaktyczne wojowniczki) pojawiła się z dnia na dzień i skutecznie zdominowała tematy wszystkich naszych zabaw na najbliższe 10 lat.

To ja w 1993. Wpływ Czarodziejki widać już po kolorze moich włosów. Jest również zdjęcie kiedy miałam 11 lat (maksymalnie po prawej). Dzięki za fryzurę modo lat 90-tych!

W tamtym okresie podobizny bohaterek pokrywały plecaki i pudełka na długopisy wszystkich znanych mi dzieciaków. To było coś o czym marzyliśmy za dnia oraz śniliśmy po nocach. Ja sama byłam całkiem niezłym „czarodziejkowym" maniakiem aż do momentu wyjazdu do Anglii. Nazywałam siebie Czarodziejką z Merkurego. Nieźle.

Nie żartowałam o tych pudełkach na długopisy.

Powodem, dla którego tak bardzo kochaliśmy Sailor Moon jest fakt, że była to najbardziej kolorowa, stymulująca wyobraźnię kreskówka, na którą się natknęliśmy. Główne postaci serii kreskówek i komiksów, były grupą japońskich dziewczynek, które dowiedziały się od gadającego kota, że są reinkarnacjami super wojowniczek, których zadaniem jest chronienie Księżycowej Księżniczki. Czarodziejka z Księżyca była ich przywódczynią, a jej koleżanki nosiły nazwy innych planet. Jako gang nosiły nazwę Sailor Senshi, miały różnokolorowe, pastelowe włosy oraz wielkie, błyszczące oczy. W swojej szkolnej codzienności były niezdarne, zupełnie jak prawdziwe dzieciaki. Jednak potrafiły podróżować w czasie i przestrzeni, zazwyczaj dzierżąc w ręce jakąś uroczą, kosmiczną broń.

Grimes i jej znajomi. A teraz porównajcie...

10 PODOBIEŃSTW SEAPUNKA DO CZARODZIEJKI Z KSIĘŻYCA

Tak tylko pomyślałam, że wkleję zdjęcie Olivii Munn. Czemu nie.

1. Czarodziejki noszą marynarskie stroje.

Tak jak powiedziałam, są dziewczynkami posiadającymi nieśmiertelne dusze i członkiniami międzygalaktycznej jednostki, ale noszą te marynarskie mundurki. #seapunk

2. Kolorowe włosy.

Ten punkt jest zbyt oczywisty. Czarodziejki można było rozróżnić dzięki kolorom włosów, do których miały dopasowane uniformy. Tak samo jak w seapunku, tendencja kolorystyczna trzymała się różowego, zielonego, niebieskiego oraz platynowego blond. Sprawdźcie jak bardzo podobna jest Czarodziejka z Merkurego do seapunkowej artystki Zombelle.

3. Czarodziejka z Neptuna.

Na Facebooku jest strona o nazwie Czarodziejka z Neptuna było Seapunkiem, która ma tylko 19 lajków. Czy możemy zgłosić to do Avazz? Czarodziejka z Neptuna mieszkała kiedyś na Neptunie, w zamku, który nazywał się Triton. Mówi się o niej, że nosi szaty koloru morskiej fali. No i jej moce też są oparte na motywie oceanicznym. Znana jest jako Czarodziejka z Morskich Głębin. #seapunk

4. Czarodziejka z Neptuna jest lesbą.

To w sumie nie ma nic do rzeczy, ale obczajcie jaką śliczną parą są Czarodziejka z Neptuna i Czarodziejka z Uranu.

4. Czarodziejka z Księżyca kocha kotki.

Wojowniczki Senshi zostały reaktywowane przez kota o imieniu Luna. Czarodziejki kochają kotki. Seapunk kocha internet. Internet kocha koty. Na zdjęciu jest kot. A mnie się ten kot bardzo nie podoba.

5. Lady Gaga jest fanką Czarodziejki z Księżyca.

W artykule z New York Times'a, poświęconym powstaniu i upadkowi muzycznego nurtu seapunk, możemy przeczytać wypowiedź Zombelle:

„ W moim środowisku są ludzie, którzy współpracują z Lady Gagą".

Dalej artystka oskarża Lady Gagę o notoryczne kopiowanie jej stylu. Wiecie od kogo jeszcze ściąga Lady Gaga?

Wcale nie taka innowacyjna, nasza królowa mięsnych sukni, zaczerpnęła inspirację od największego czarnego charakteru, który zaatakował wszechświat Czarodziejek- Czarodziejka Galaxia. Nie da się opisać słowami mojego podziwu. I spójrzcie tylko na te dziurki w kabaretkach, tak bardzo przypominają pęknięcia w sieci rybackiej- po prostu #seapunk.

#seapunk.

6. Britney Spears w magazynie POP

Britney nie jest ani całkowicie #seapunk, ani Czarodziejką z Księżyca na tej sesji zdjęciowej, zrobionej przez Takashi Murakamiego dla magazynu POP w 2010 roku. Jednak ta okładka sprawia, że każdemu opadnie szczęka i bardzo dobrze pokazuje wyjątkową relację pomiędzy modą o japońską pop kulturą. Chętnie zobaczyłabym Britney w odrobinę bardziej seapunkowej odsłonie.

7. Teledysk do Genesis Grimes.

Grimes wyznacza swój własny nurt, ale z całą pewnością możemy odnaleźć motywy seapunkowe i mangowe w jej teledysku. Jeśli jesteście uważni to na pewno obczailiście już jej strój marynarski na poprzednim zdjęciu. Zobaczcie jeszcze to:

#seapunk

8. Brooke Candy wygląda jak Czarodziejka Chibi Moon

I obie wyglądają tak zabójczo!

Niki myśli sobie: "Jebać to, mogę szamać sushi na plaży." #seapunk

9. Niki Takesh lubi sushi.

W Czarodziejce z Księżyca nie ma nic o sushi, ale jestem pewna, że dziewczyny z kreskówki też lubią tę potrawę. Częściowo dlatego, że są Japonkami, a częściowo dlatego, że każdy lubi sushi. Jestem pewna, że każdy muzyk, o którym mowa na tym portalu lubi sushi. A jeśli nie to w każdym razie powinien.

10. Wyglądają nieziemsko.

Na zdjęciu powyżej wszystko co ekipa Sailor Senshi miała w sobie najlepszego. Laski wyglądały nieziemsko. Cały czas. Obczajcie tylko ten kosmiczno- gotycki ślub. Albo Czarodziejkę z Plutona, która uzupełniła swój strój tą przepiękną kopertówką. Już nie wspomnę o wyluzowanym, piżamowym stylu Czarodziejki Chibi Moon.

A tutaj jest Gwen Stefani w stylu #seapunk przed #seapunk-iem. I Lil' Kim dająca 150% seapunku.

Prawda jest taka, że jestem zajarana jak dziecko wizją, że znowu będę żyć w świecie, w którym każdy chce być choć troszkę jak Czarodziejka z Księżyca. Czarodziejki są magiczne, dziwaczne, dziewczyńskie i zajebiste. I myślę, że seapunk też jest zajebisty.

Poza byciem najsłodszą dziewczyną na świecie, Emma-Lee Moss jest też muzykiem- sprawdźcie ją tu. Obecnie pracuje nad swoją trzecią płytą oraz powiększa groteskową kolekcję akcesoriów inspirowanych sztuką anime. Możecie zobaczyć jak je nosi na Twitterze- @emmy_the_great.

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The Abyss: #seapunk #splishsplash #oceangang

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Seapunk's placid angles are more than a little slippery. Part music, part aesthetic, part fashion, part meme, the concept embraces the immersive nature of water. The best introduction to seapunk appears in a recent blog series at Mishka Bloglin, where dj Pictureplane describes it as "a mostly internet-based phenomenon, birthed out of the tumblr and twitter universes as a means to describe a lifestyle aesthetic that is all things oceanic and of the sea." The hashtag #seapunk, and supplementary tags like #splishsplash and #oceangang have already made ripples in the twitterverse. The tag evokes a particular sound and look: turquoise-bleached hair, tumblrs with aquatic backgrounds, and mellow dance and rap music featuring aquatic or sea mammal sound effects. It is a thankless task to confine seapunk to a definitive term like "genre" "movement" or "style," because its fluidity is its strength. For example, "Follow the Sun" by MIL3¥ $3RI*VS features a playful/ironic sample of Midnight Star's 80's club hit "Midas Touch" pitched down and filtered and cutely layered with marine sounds, but shares very little with the ambient, slower tempo "underwater juke" track "Kensington," an original composition by Indigo Bunting. They do not have much in common musically, but both tracks can thematically categorized as seapunk.

Post-ironic and consciously teen-oriented, seapunk's ocean is a hungry tumblrsphere reveling in the retro-futurism of the 1990s. Its aesthetic influences include 16-bit video games like SEGA's Ecco the Dolphin and Sonic the Hedgehog, 3D screensavers, Lisa Frank, rave culture, bratty teens, anime, and "Bad Boy"-esque pleather ghetto-fab, all rendered beyond the wildest wet dreams of cyberpunk-era Angelfire and Netscape Navigator surfers. More than regurgitated future-of-the-past, seapunk's champions catalogue, assemble, and take the above source material to its extreme saturation point with almost spiritual fervor.

Before I knew what seapunk was, I could only wonder about the subtle references to the wavy and the oceanic cropping up in blissed out, pseudo-baptismal electro-r&b tracks of early 2011. It wasn't until I did a radio show with rapper Le1f and dj/label impresario Taliesin that they gave me the context to the fact that this "water made on computers" has a traceable narrative, edging me to look more deeply.

Sub-cultural trends tend to gain traction when accompanied by a compelling origin myth, and seapunk's fittingly began in a dream tweeted at 4am. Dj and dystopian twitter wizard Lil Internet had a vision one night about a leather jacket bejeweled with barnacles instead of studs. He promptly woke up and tweeted about it, thus birthing the #seapunk hashtag. According to him, "the dream became a meme and the meme became a scene, but aside from having the dream and coining the term I had little to do with it's evolution into an actual real-life subculture."
[Artwork by Kevin Heckart for Coral Records]
That evolution exists in a precarious position. Memes are both infectious and ethereal. As much it is a delight to both consume and participate in #seapunk culture by delving into its origins and manifestations, the rise and abandonment of seapunk's older siblings: witch house, chillwave, and based rap, provokes anxiety. Additionally, its navel-gazing nature and nostalgic lean ensures almost instantaneous disregard by the hipster-phobes among us. When trying to describe it to friends, I've observed excitement slowly drain from some of their faces as I try to unpack how it is more of an aesthetic than a genre, the infinite nature of tumblr culture, and its linkages to universal and ancient water-worship systems. "That's fucking stupid," is a common reaction.

Yes, its trendiness can feel silly, but there's also something very seductive in how seapunk re-infuses the natural world into the screens and speakers we humans use to connect to each other. We are all aware of the accelerated depletion of the wonder and beauty of our planet and the cordoning off of what remains for ecotourism or conservation. We are also very tied to rigid classifications of art, music, and technology. The soothing imagery and sounds of seapunk are a reaction and a sedative.

The ocean isn't a new source material for progressive, collective electronic music. Kodwo Eshun described their aquatopian ideal in his 1998 article in The Wire on the anonymous Detroit collective Drexciya. The group, influenced by '90's rave culture as well as early Detroit techno acts like Cybrotron and Juan Atkins, was more than a little obsessed with the element of water:
"Well, water is the most powerful element on this planet. Water has many different properties. It comes in many different forms and many different shapes and different weights. And that's the way we see our music-we can come in any different size or shape that we want depending on the rhythm of the song, how aggressive the song is, how transparent or how big it is, how clear, how diluted, how fast, how slow, it all depends-the same properties as water" - Interview with Andrew Duke
Drexciya's music is more aggressively militant both thematically and harmonically than seapunk tends to be (see the synth-heavy funk of "Bubble Metropolis"). All of their productions were deeply rooted in a mythology that during the transatlantic slave trade, the fetuses of enslaved African women thrown overboard mutated into a water-breathing species living in an underwater world called Drexciya. The narrative goes deep and addresses political issues of forced migration, reparations, and urban conditions.

It is unclear how much of an influence Drexciya has had on musicians producing seapunk, but Boody B & Le1f's "Born Underwater" seems to me the closest progeny of the Drexciyan mythos from current seapunk producers. In the track, Erykah Badu's distorted wails (sampled from "On & On") edge forward what sounds like a soundtrack from an eerie afrofuturist thriller. It is an encounter with an isolated, mutant sea goddess, empowered by her surroundings, welcoming the listener into her lair. It has a rare emotional depth.

Beyond Drexciya, references to water have been bubbling up all over the global electronic music scene for the past decade. Videos have featured water ripple effects, waterfalls, and climate change imagery (like dj/rupture and Matt Shadetek's S olar Life Raft medley), and the use of waves crashing and other aquatic noises as sound effects as transitions are pervasive, particularly in French House (see Crydamoure Presents Waves Vols. 1 and 2). Noticing the waterfall background in Nguzunguzu's DIS Magazine mix "The Perfect Lullaby" and the imagery in the video for "Water Bass Power (Timesup Sand Mix)," I asked them about their relationship to seapunk. They claimed not to have too much knowledge of it, but noted that the aquatic themes in their videos and productions are not incidental. "Since the beginning we've been water based. It's a theme we've stuck with-Nguzunguzu is on the boat in the water warding off evil water spirits, and guiding vessels." The call of the sea has clearly been resonant under the surface of cultural consciousness.

The most visible node of seapunk is Coral Records, led by Fire for Effect/Albert Redwine. Their official releases have been "#Seapunk Vol. 1," "The Beach" by Fire for Effect, and a split by Kansas City's Ari and Papoose called the "Soaked EP." The sound of Coral Records is rave music "lite"-wet industrial softened around the edges with grown and sexy chiptune, the occasional juke track, references turn-of-the-century filter house, and ambient sound collages. According to Redwine, seapunk is "more than just a conceptual movement but a real one. The label is simply a vehicle to propel likeminded individuals onto a higher plane of the crystal grid consciousness." These manic-panic'd children of Yemaya are poised to (*ahem*) make the most waves, and also profit the most, from seapunk's popularity.

While Coral Records exists on a more dance-oriented tendril of seapunk, there is an equally curious parallel within the rap community. Soulja Boy might be most visible ambassador of the aquatopian ethos in popular culture. His track "Came Out the Water" and subsequent tracks by Ocean Gang affiliates have no clear spiritual or political agenda, but are more "based". Using the vocal looping technique, and free association lyricism popularized by Lil B The Based God, their communion with the sea is atmospheric and invokes a meditative trance state. The most sophisticated seapunk rap out there could be the collaborations between psychedelic hip-hop producer Sea Things and art rappers Main Attrakionz. "On Deck" is a trippy, layered ode to being on the brink of fame. It feels like my favorite daydream about The Avalanches producing for Young Money.

There's something fantastically uterine and telekinetic about how a seemingly disparate constellation of influences has coalesced so quickly around a single theme. In a great article on the seapunk visual aesthetic and the new web, Luna Vega writes, "it literally sounds like how it looks, but unless you're online or familiar with new web culture, that concept is extremely confusing." But for those who are familiar, it presents an opportunity to #splishsplash around. Like the seemingly magical nature of the wireless technology that drives our social economy, #seapunk is invisibly tethered together within a vast network of musicians, net artists, and youth culture enthusiasts gazing around at the rising waters and trying to make sense of it.

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The Abyss: #seapunk #splishsplash #oceangang - The Cluster Mag

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Seapunk's placid angles are more than a little slippery. Part music, part aesthetic, part fashion, part meme, the concept embraces the immersive nature of water. The best introduction to seapunk appears in a recent blog series at Mishka Bloglin, where dj Pictureplane describes it as "a mostly internet-based phenomenon, birthed out of the tumblr and twitter universes as a means to describe a lifestyle aesthetic that is all things oceanic and of the sea."

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Peace, Love, Unity, Respect

An Internet trend based around 1990s mermaids and dolphins has trickled onto red carpets, runways, and music videos. Misty White Sidell on the backlash.

In September, Proenza Schouler's Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez released a video titled " Desert Tide," to celebrate their new store on Madison Ave. But instead of casting a big-name model, as other fashion labels might, they created a futuristic animation with online simulator Second Life. Stringy-haired avatars wandered through a desert oasis dressed in Proenza's spring collection as dolphins waltzed through the air. It was a trippy reenactment of a '90s video game, like the countless retro designs that have recently become popular online. It came as no surprise, then, that Hernandez and McCullough based their latest collection on images they found on Tumblr.

And Proenza is not alone. This year, everything from Twitter memes to Tumblr photos have inspired fashion designers. Though one Internet trend has stood apart from the rest: Seapunk. An Internet phenomenon born on Twitter, Seapunk is a visual language that blends the look of the mid-90s Internet with neons and oceanic elements-as Anya Kurennaya, a sociologist at Parsons put it, it's defined by a "very web 1.0, Windows '95 aesthetic." And now, like the Proenza animation, the fashion world is drawing inspiration from Seapunk-much to the chagrin of its founders.

The movement (characterized by smirking dolphins, palm fronds, bubbles, tropical fish, and Caribbean-colored waters) began in 2010, when a Brooklyn-based DJ named Lil' Internet recalled a trippy dream on Twitter: "Seapunk leather jacket with barnacles where the studs used to be." From then on, #Seapunk has taken a larger hold in music and fashion, with elements of the trend being reflected in designs by Versace and Givenchy. Another staple of Seapunk is turquoise-colored hair, which this year has been worn by Lady Gaga and Katy Perry. There's even a Seapunk record label, Coral Records Internazionale, that distributes albums with titles lsuch as "Frozen Ocean," "Soaked," and "The Beach." Even singers such as Rihanna and Azealia Banks have adapted the movement's imagery into their own music videos and performances-outraging the Seapunk community who wants to remain underground.

But Seapunk's adaptation into popular culture doesn't come as much of a surprise. Historically, fashion and entertainment have always pulled inspiration from emerging fringe movements. Though in the age of information, that adaptation happens with rapid speed-rendering a subculture as 'mainstream' in the blink of an eye. "The industry is always looking for something new and it just happens that new fashions are consistently plucked from subcultures," says Yuniya Kawamura, a professor at FIT and a fashion sociologist specializing in subcultures. "Music, fashion, and subcultures are always interrelated, it doesn't matter which time period you look at." Kawamura sites the rise of punk as a contending model for subculture proliferation. "Punk fashion started in London in the mid 70s and came to Asia five or 10 years later. Now if you want to spread something, you can just tweet it," she explained, "You can use the Internet to recruit new members, but you're spreading the subculture as well." As a result, an outpouring of media attention has surrounded Seapunk, with profiles penned by everyone from Vice to The New York Times.

It helps that Seapunk is entwined with a 1990s aesthetic, which has taken hold in the fashion world. This year alone, Dries Van Noten tied plaid around his models' waists à la Kurt Cobain, and Urban Outfitters began selling a range of archival items by '90s backpack outfitter Lisa Frank. "It's funny that we have a nostalgia for something from 10 or 15 years back, but it's something that has to do with the speeding up of information," Kurennaya said, of the '90s 'vintage' appeal.

But while Seapunk's proliferation has mainly been visual, the movement also represents a lifestyle of self-discovery and free expression. "As a mentality, the [Seapunk] lifestyle is about looking at your own surroundings," Seapunk performer Zombelle, who goes by the offstage name Shan Beaste, explained of the movement. "If you are not happy with them, change them and make your own paradise. A lot of that can be done on the Internet which is why it's mainly Internet-based."

As a result, Seapunk's embrace by the public has become a Catch-22 for the movement's die-hard participants. Tumblr has proven a remarkable tool for sourcing new members everywhere from Brazil to New Zealand, but has also accelerated Seapunk's adaptation into the mainstream. In early November, Azealia Banks released the music video for her single "Atlantis" in which she swims alongside seahorses, catches a ride on a humpback whale, and lounges amid mermaid iconography. The Seapunk community erupted at Banks's use of unfriendly sea creatures. "Mermaids are vicious harpies who lure sailors to their death, they aren't PLUR," Beaste explained of the outrage, referencing the raver philosophy that stands as an acronym for "Peace Love Unity Respect," ideology that has also been adapted by Seapunks. Things got worse later that week, when Rihanna used Seapunk graphics as a backdrop during her performance of "Diamonds" on Saturday Night Live.

It triggered an outpouring of complaints against celebrity endorsement. "Wow amazing Rihanna performance, I love seeing my Tumblr on SNL," Bebe Zeva, a teenage Seapunk posted on Twitter. "Tumblr is so public and serviceable to anyone that its not surprising how Rihanna and someone on her team would have seen this and thought it was a great visual," Kurennaya explained to The Daily Beast. "I think people came down on her use of the aesthetic because she had never identified with that idea before ... for her to use it in a one-off way seemed [to them] like a half-assed attempt to include a Seapunk visual, one that could really be interpreted as inauthentic."

But Seapunk diehards may not have the right to complain if celebrities endorse their imagery. "They don't want celebrities to spread it, however if they want to remain marginal and exclusive then they shouldn't tweet or blog about it," Kawamura explained, "once people start talking about it then it's no longer marginal." Kurennaya agreed, offering, "A classical definition of subculture is 'something that exists in opposition to the mainstream,' and if you think about that, that's no longer the case [with Seapunk]. I think once something hits public consciousness, things have begun to fall apart."

In September, Proenza Schouler's Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez released a video titled " Desert Tide," to celebrate their new store on Madison Ave. But instead of casting a big-name model, as other fashion labels might, they created a futuristic animation with online simulator Second Life. Stringy-haired avatars wandered through a desert oasis dressed in Proenza's spring collection as dolphins waltzed through the air. It was a trippy reenactment of a '90s video game, like the countless retro designs that have recently become popular online. It came as no surprise, then, that Hernandez and McCullough based their latest collection on images they found on Tumblr.

And Proenza is not alone. This year, everything from Twitter memes to Tumblr photos have inspired fashion designers. Though one Internet trend has stood apart from the rest: Seapunk. An Internet phenomenon born on Twitter, Seapunk is a visual language that blends the look of the mid-90s Internet with neons and oceanic elements-as Anya Kurennaya, a sociologist at Parsons put it, it's defined by a "very web 1.0, Windows '95 aesthetic." And now, like the Proenza animation, the fashion world is drawing inspiration from Seapunk-much to the chagrin of its founders.

The movement (characterized by smirking dolphins, palm fronds, bubbles, tropical fish, and Caribbean-colored waters) began in 2010, when a Brooklyn-based DJ named Lil' Internet recalled a trippy dream on Twitter: "Seapunk leather jacket with barnacles where the studs used to be." From then on, #Seapunk has taken a larger hold in music and fashion, with elements of the trend being reflected in designs by Versace and Givenchy. Another staple of Seapunk is turquoise-colored hair, which this year has been worn by Lady Gaga and Katy Perry. There's even a Seapunk record label, Coral Records Internazionale, that distributes albums with titles lsuch as "Frozen Ocean," "Soaked," and "The Beach." Even singers such as Rihanna and Azealia Banks have adapted the movement's imagery into their own music videos and performances-outraging the Seapunk community who wants to remain underground.

But Seapunk's adaptation into popular culture doesn't come as much of a surprise. Historically, fashion and entertainment have always pulled inspiration from emerging fringe movements. Though in the age of information, that adaptation happens with rapid speed-rendering a subculture as 'mainstream' in the blink of an eye. "The industry is always looking for something new and it just happens that new fashions are consistently plucked from subcultures," says Yuniya Kawamura, a professor at FIT and a fashion sociologist specializing in subcultures. "Music, fashion, and subcultures are always interrelated, it doesn't matter which time period you look at." Kawamura sites the rise of punk as a contending model for subculture proliferation. "Punk fashion started in London in the mid 70s and came to Asia five or 10 years later. Now if you want to spread something, you can just tweet it," she explained, "You can use the Internet to recruit new members, but you're spreading the subculture as well." As a result, an outpouring of media attention has surrounded Seapunk, with profiles penned by everyone from to The New York Times.

It helps that Seapunk is entwined with a 1990s aesthetic, which has taken hold in the fashion world. This year alone, Dries Van Noten tied plaid around his models' waists à la Kurt Cobain, and Urban Outfitters began selling a range of archival items by '90s backpack outfitter Lisa Frank. "It's funny that we have a nostalgia for something from 10 or 15 years back, but it's something that has to do with the speeding up of information," Kurennaya said, of the '90s 'vintage' appeal.

But while Seapunk's proliferation has mainly been visual, the movement also represents a lifestyle of self-discovery and free expression. "As a mentality, the [Seapunk] lifestyle is about looking at your own surroundings," Seapunk performer Zombelle, who goes by the offstage name Shan Beaste, explained of the movement. "If you are not happy with them, change them and make your own paradise. A lot of that can be done on the Internet which is why it's mainly Internet-based."

As a result, Seapunk's embrace by the public has become a Catch-22 for the movement's die-hard participants. Tumblr has proven a remarkable tool for sourcing new members everywhere from Brazil to New Zealand, but has also accelerated Seapunk's adaptation into the mainstream. In early November, Azealia Banks released the music video for her single "Atlantis" in which she swims alongside seahorses, catches a ride on a humpback whale, and lounges amid mermaid iconography. The Seapunk community erupted at Banks's use of unfriendly sea creatures. "Mermaids are vicious harpies who lure sailors to their death, they aren't PLUR," Beaste explained of the outrage, referencing the raver philosophy that stands as an acronym for "Peace Love Unity Respect," ideology that has also been adapted by Seapunks. Things got worse later that week, when Rihanna used Seapunk graphics as a backdrop during her performance of "Diamonds" on Saturday Night Live.

It triggered an outpouring of complaints against celebrity endorsement. "Wow amazing Rihanna performance, I love seeing my Tumblr on SNL," Bebe Zeva, a teenage Seapunk posted on Twitter. "Tumblr is so public and serviceable to anyone that its not surprising how Rihanna and someone on her team would have seen this and thought it was a great visual," Kurennaya explained to The Daily Beast. "I think people came down on her use of the aesthetic because she had never identified with that idea before ... for her to use it in a one-off way seemed [to them] like a half-assed attempt to include a Seapunk visual, one that could really be interpreted as inauthentic."

But Seapunk diehards may not have the right to complain if celebrities endorse their imagery. "They don't want celebrities to spread it, however if they want to remain marginal and exclusive then they shouldn't tweet or blog about it," Kawamura explained, "once people start talking about it then it's no longer marginal." Kurennaya agreed, offering, "A classical definition of subculture is 'something that exists in opposition to the mainstream,' and if you think about that, that's no longer the case [with Seapunk]. I think once something hits public consciousness, things have begun to fall apart."

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Seapunks Internet Trend Takes High Fashion, From Proenza Schouler to Versace (PHOTOS)

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Peace, Love, Unity, Respect An Internet trend based around 1990s mermaids and dolphins has trickled onto red carpets, runways, and music videos. Misty White Sidell on the backlash. In September, Proenza Schouler's Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez released a video titled " Desert Tide," to celebrate their new store on Madison Ave.

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As anyone who's ever had a great idea knows, the good and the bad of the thing is that as the idea spreads - even within a small set of friends - it becomes increasingly difficult to assert ownership over the concept or control how it's used. If your peer group is a geographically disperse group of people who bond over a niche taste via publicly viewable online forums, well, you should understand this better than most.

But the progenitors of the seapunk aesthetic style - all yin-yangs, aquatic imagery, and 3-D renderings cribbed from '90s fashion and early web memes - appear for all the world to be deathly slighted anytime the mainstream jacks their flipper-fueled swagger. The seapunk story has two chapters so far: the Chicago Reader piece declaring the movement, and the Times article in which founder Zombelle called Lady Gaga out for biting.

Enter the third - or perhaps chapter 2.5 - in which Zombelle and other probably influential self-identifying style icons rise up against a twin assault on their proprietary rights to cheaply rendered goopy imagery by: A) pop star Rihanna, who went buckwild with the 3-D on Saturday Night Live over the weekend, and B) SPIN cover star Azealia Banks, whose brand new "Atlantis" video is a dolphin-lover's wet dream, um, so to speak.

Some select Zombelle tweets:

GUYS WE CHANGED POP CULTURE/NOW PERFORMERS LIKE @ rihanna R SINGING ABOUT ENLIGHTENMENT/ LOVE HENCE SHIFTING MASS CONSCIOUSNESS W OUR IMAGERY

- ?SHANTASY?ISLAND??? (@ZOMBELLE_) November 12, 2012

JUST REALIZED I'VE BEEN CRINGING FOR THE PAST 15mins (that musta been @ azaeliabanks 15 mins of fame glad that's over) RELEASE

- ?SHANTASY?ISLAND??? (@ZOMBELLE_) November 12, 2012

HOW MUCH DID AZAELIA BANKS GET ON BUDGET TO MAKE THE VIDEO FOR ATLANTIS? HOW MUCH DID SNL PAY RIHANNA TO ACT LIKE GRIMES ON A GREEN SCREEN?

- ?SHANTASY?ISLAND??? (@ZOMBELLE_) November 12, 2012

THE LONGER WE'RE ONLINE THE MORE SUSCEPTIBLE ARTISTS ARE TO THE RICH POACHING OUR CULTURE AND IDEAS AS WELL IDEALS USED AS MARKETING PLOYS

- ?SHANTASY?ISLAND??? (@ZOMBELLE_) November 12, 2012

Articles by BuzzFeed and even VH1 have focused on a tonally ambiguous quote from Jerome LOL of the pretty freaking awesome LOL Boys production crew. He's also a video artist, and his 2010 "123" clip has been held up as an example of the kind of visuals that both Banks and Riri are borrowing from. (Compare below.) But while that early Twitter comment of his could've been read as showing offense, later posts prove he's not mad.

U mad, JeromeLOL? Nah, bro:

Rihanna I See you

- Jerome LOL (@JeromeLOL) November 11, 2012

No one Owns the 90s

- Jerome LOL (@JeromeLOL) November 12, 2012

Internet is Culture's Playground it's the Best.Stay Posi.

- Jerome LOL (@JeromeLOL) November 13, 2012

While 19-year-old model/blogger and seapunk defendaar Bebe Zeva continues to earnestly rage, via Twitter, about the injustice at hand, Jerome LOL seems to get the inevitability of the situation: You come up with something awesome; you share it on the Internet; and then URL becomes IRL, which seems to be part of the seapunk manifesto anyhow. There are reasonable discussions to be had here once you get past the bluster.

Assuming the rise of an inspired thought is an inevitable thing, and taking for granted that we understand the basic tenets of capitalism, the best case scenario is that monetarily backed performers are hiring real artists to create the imagery they'd like to co-opt. While it's unclear who provided art direction for Rihanna's SNL feature, Banks' video was directed by Fafi, a French graffiti writer who came up with Banksy in the early aughts.

As for the exact moment in Fafi's Tumblr history that she began to explore seapunk-type themes? It's irrelevant. Like Jerome LOL, she's an artist who works across a variety of mediums and styles. Her motivations are her own to know, but is genuine inspiration such a hard one to imagine? And for all we know, Riri's backdrop designer could be seapunk OG Lil Internet, who was hired to direct a video for Diplo and Dillon Francis last year.

It should be noted that Lil Internet has been totally chill on the subject:

KIDS! #SEAPUNK IS SAFE! CULTURE IS FREE FOR EVERYONE TO SHARE! @ azealiabanks HAS BEEN INTO THAT STYLE FOR A LONG [email protected]rihanna HOWEVER...

- @ LIL INTERNET (@LILINTERNET) November 13, 2012

@ 2010ebz @ azealiabanks HEY NOBODY SAID ANYTHING BB :)I LOVE @ rihanna

- @ LIL INTERNET (@LILINTERNET) November 14, 2012

So what have we learned? Banks might've summed it up best for both sides when she told SPIN back in July that, "Seapunk isn't real." In other words, it's tough to wrangle a definition of an amorphous aesthetic trend that was virtually birthed. And also: Banks might not have much respect for those who helped usher it into style, which is curious since she's taken others to task for borrowing imagery she alleged they had no right to use. The dance continues.

And now, at last, some of that seizure-inducing cheese-dipped eye candy: Watch the offending clips below, their legit seapunk counterparts after than, and then visit DIS for some amazing stills presented as a kinda brilliant gossip-mag-spoofing "Who Wore it Best."

Rihanna does "Diamonds" on Saturday Night Live:

Azealia Banks in her Fifi-directed "Atlantis" clip:

LOL Boys' Jerome LOL-directed video for "123":

Dillon Francis and Diplo team up for "Que Que," directed by Lil Internet:

Also: Tim and Eric, M.I.A., Danny Brown, Wallpaper., Isaiah Toothtaker, and Wedidit.

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Seapunks Salty Over Rihanna and Azealia Banks' 'Net Aesthetics

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According to a D.J. in Brooklyn who goes by the Twitter handle Lil Internet, he coined the term "seapunk" last June after having a surreal dream, which he tweeted about: "Seapunk leather jacket with barnacles where the studs used to be." His friends added a hashtag to "seapunk," and a trend was born, like Aphrodite from the foam.

"The surprising thing is that it really was cohesive," Lil Internet said by iChat; he declined to use his legal name, saying he is now known solely by his Twitter handle. He also described seapunk's vibe as "Venice Beach Acid Rave 1995," and cited surf-wear logos, yin-yang symbols and round holographic sunglasses as part of its look.

Seapunk has also given rise to a tiny music sub-genre, although the "punk" element would not be recognized by Joey Ramone. The spacey electronic dance music borrows from Witch House, Chiptune, Drum & Bass and southern rap. Some tracks remix songs from R&B acts like Beyoncé and Aaliyah.

Despite their subculture status, seapunkers insist that their sensibility has been appropriated by the mainstream, or at least leeched by celebrity stylists. There's no concrete evidence of piracy, but pop culture has indeed seen recent splashes of aquamarine: Nicki Minaj painted her skin blue for a Vogue shoot; Katy Perry wore a turquoise bob; a Google Image search of "seapunk" pulls up a photo of Lady Gaga with a neon blue wig.

"No one will actually credit it to us," said Zombelle, who lives in Chicago and said her offstage name is Shan Beaste. "There are people who work for Lady Gaga that are in my circle of friends."

Azealia Banks, a rapper from Harlem, is the rare notable who has publicly praised seapunk: she wore green hair, name-checked the genre on Twitter and has described herself as a mermaid. But Ms. Beaste dissed Ms. Banks, too. "Mermaids are vicious harpies who lure sailors to their death," she said, scorn cresting in her voice.

As with any online trend, seapunk is probably fleeting. Chino Amobi, an artist from Richmond, Va., who makes electronic music under the name Diamond Black Hearted Boy, has already shifted from seapunk to slimepunk.

"It's the toxic waste of 2012," he said. On March 9, Mr. Amobi will hold a slimepunk rave in Brooklyn during the Arts Not Fair. "It's going to be the saddest rave you've ever been to."

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Seapunk, a Web Joke With Music, Has Its Moment

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According to a D.J. in Brooklyn who goes by the Twitter handle Lil Internet, he coined the term "seapunk" last June after having a surreal dream, which he tweeted about: "Seapunk leather jacket with barnacles where the studs used to be." His friends added a hashtag to "seapunk," and a trend was born, like Aphrodite from the foam.

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At the end of December I noticed an uptick in online chatter-especially in niche networks within Twitter and Tumblr where up-to-the-second knowledge of microtrends in dance-music culture is generally assumed-regarding something called " seapunk." The term refers in part to a style of electronic music that incorporates bits of 90s house and techno, the past 15 years or so of pop and R&B, and the latest in southern trap rap-all overlaid with a twinkly, narcotic energy that recalls new-age music and chopped-and-screwed hip-hop mix tapes in roughly equal measure. In a broader sense it's an aesthetic-slash-philosophy built around ocean imagery, the color turquoise, the rave-era ideals of "peace, love, unity, and respect" (PLUR), and a cyber-utopian outlook that updates that distinctly 90s concept for the era of the animated GIF.

If there's a geographical center to the exploding seapunk scene, it's probably Chicago. In late December-about when I noticed that surge in chatter-its main architects, Albert Redwine and Shan Beaste, moved here from LA, where they'd started the seapunk ball rolling this summer. Redwine produces music under the name Fire for Effect and DJs as Ultrademon, and Beaste records and performs under the name Zombelle; both previously lived in Kansas City, where Redwine worked with electro-disco weirdos Ssion. This fall he launched Coral Records Internazionale, which is already seapunk's center of gravity despite having only four releases, all download-only or limited-edition CD-Rs. He's planning a vinyl release of his own material in the spring.

There have been seapunk parties in Minneapolis and Los Angeles as well as Chicago (the first was December 29 at Berlin), but the scene's real home is on the Internet-specifically Tumblr. A combination social network and microblogging platform, Tumblr has an interface that encourages not only the creation of original content but also the reposting (with or without comment) of other users' material; this has helped make it a fertile breeding ground for online memes as well as a booming success with media-saturated users, especially younger ones.

The definition of seapunk "depends on where you're at, honestly," says Beaste-meaning online or off. As she puts it, "It depends on if you're URL or if you're IRL. . . . Your mentality based off of that answer alone will determine whether or not you're gonna be able to understand it."

Most of the people who do understand it are young and constantly Internet connected, like Beaste and Redwine-who carry on conversations via their Twitter feeds with the two roommates who share their Logan Square apartment, even when all four are home. Entire virtual communities on Tumblr are awash in signs of seapunk allegiance: turquoise color schemes, emoji (Japanese emoticons), graphics heavy with Omni magazine-style ersatz chrome a la the Netscape-era Internet, SoundCloud streams of Ultrademon DJ sets.

The raid that Odd Future pulled on pop culture, launched from Tumblr, is proof that a very small number of people can instigate a wide-reaching aesthetic-social phenomenon in a hurry without money or assistance from traditional culture-biz institutions-the labels and mainstream media outlets that flocked to the group were latecomers to a party that was well underway by November 2010, the month of OF's breakthrough profile in the New York Times. Tumblr is the quickest and most efficient meme amplifier yet, and makes it possible to watch a catchy concept propagate across communities in real time.

That fact that myriad musical microgenres exist almost solely on the Internet is old news. For me what makes seapunk more interesting than the rest is that it reflects how communities function on Tumblr and in similar spaces. IRL it wouldn't just be difficult to pull together a community of people with a shared interest in techno-utopian philosophies, turquoise hair dye, and rap beats from songs about dealing cocaine -it'd be almost impossible to create the circumstances under which those elements would've cohered into a package. But in a churning remix engine like Tumblr, bizarre collisions like that happen all the time.

Redwine admits that the seapunk concept came about through the largely random accumulation of ideas. "Originally the term came from a friend of ours on Twitter," he says. "Well, a friend of ours IRL too, but on Twitter he hashtagged '#seapunk' because he had this dream about a leather punk jacket that had barnacles on it. It kind of evolved from there, but all of us were really attached to this, like, digital kind of paradise, ocean-themed aesthetic, and we're making music and art based off of it, and seapunk just was a name and a way to unify everybody."

Seapunk is still a rather modest phenomenon- Beaste and Redwine each have fewer than 1,000 followers on Twitter, and some of the biggest coverage the scene has received was in September on the blog of NYC fashion line Mishka. But there are a number of indications that it's creeping toward a larger audience. Cool hunters have been casing seapunk for months, possibly drawn in by Beaste and Redwine's roommate Molly Soda, an Internet personality with an outsize influence on an audience of media-hungry youth; Los Angeles trend-forecasting firm Trend Era has been including seapunk in its client presentations since November. Beaste also suspects that Lady Gaga has been stealing style ideas from her, which isn't as far-fetched as it sounds given the underground inspirations of many of Gaga's sartorial stunts. (Gaga did dye her hair turquoise recently.)

Redwine says that one of his career goals is to produce beats for Soulja Boy-he's been bugging Soulja Boy about it on Twitter-but it remains to be seen how much effect seapunk will have on mainstream pop. It could end up zero, but it's worth noting that two years ago chillwave was a tiny, obscure sub-subgenre named after a snarky Internet joke at the music's expense-and now a rising number of major pop albums bear its influence.

Of course the mainstream pop-culture infrastructure may not know what to do with seapunk, or with the vast number of similar microscenes willing themselves into existence at this very moment. Not only are they ridiculously idiosyncratic-imagine an A&R guy trying to explain seapunk to an executive who doesn't know how to put music on his iPod-but they also evolve at a blinding rate. An audience constantly looking for a next big thing can always find a next big thing. By signing Odd Future and Kreayshawn to big contracts, Sony and Columbia have shackled themselves to fenceposts while their audiences are sprinting away.

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At the end of December I noticed an uptick in online chatter-especially in niche networks within Twitter and Tumblr where up-to-the-second knowledge of micro­trends in dance-­music culture is generally assumed-regarding something called " seapunk."

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Jean Paul Gaultier Spring 2008 collection

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" The mergirl-mariner theme made a neat excuse for another of Gaultier's signature cross-gender mergers. "

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Parisian haute couture designers have been diving deep for inspiration this season-literally. Jean Paul Gaultier, like Karl Lagerfeld at Chanel, plunged into an aquatic adventure, though in his case, it was "Little Mermaid says, 'Hello Sailor!' " You can always count on JPG for a fun tableau to get things started, so there she was: Coco Rocha, posing on a rock against a watery backdrop with soap bubbles floating up around her.

The mergirl-mariner theme made a neat excuse for another of Gaultier's signature cross-gender mergers. It opened with a couple of memorably chic twists on Parisian classics: a stunning slim navy coat over a striped sweater and sinuous gold-sequin column skirt and a semitranslucent scallop-edged trench that might have been made of fish skin. From there, he trawled the oceans for similes: macramé made to look like fishing nets, plissé inserts suggesting underwater flora, chiffon fronds floating like seaweed, cascading paillettes imitating fish scales or mother-of-pearl, necklaces fashioned into spongiform beads.

It ended with Rocha, making an entrance as the mermaid bride on coral crutches, with a pair of conical shells for a bra. That was a typical ta-da Gaultier punch line, and the couturier was certainly in a cheery mood afterward. "When I started couture, I really thought couture customers were dead or dying," he said. "But now there are all these new clients. We're working all the time, and I love it-it's a permit to create!"

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Parisian haute couture designers have been diving deep for inspiration this season-literally. Jean Paul Gaultier, like Karl Lagerfeld at Chanel, plunged into an aquatic adventure, though in his case, it was "Little Mermaid says, 'Hello Sailor!'

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The Siren by Pavel Denisenko for DESIGN SCENE

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Design Scene - Fashion, Photography, Style & Design

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The Siren story captured exclusively for D'SCENE by Design Scene online stories by fashion photographed Pavel Denisenko. For the striking fashion editorial the photographer teamed up with fashion stylist Colin Anderson while makeup and hair styling was handled by Elena Gharbigi.

The Siren was the gorgeous Kara Del Toro from Elite Models in Los Angeles. Kara is wearing showstopping pieces from Fiori Couture, Pendola Marcelo and Sue Wong.

For more continue after the jump:

Find more of Pavel's work at www.paveldenisenko.com + Instagram @paveldenisenko

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The Siren by Pavel Denisenko for DESIGN SCENE

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The Siren story captured exclusively for D'SCENE by Design Scene online stories by fashion photographed Pavel Denisenko. For the striking fashion editorial the photographer teamed up with fashion stylist Colin Anderson while makeup and hair styling was handled by Elena Gharbigi.

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Mythology is rife with creatures that mix traits of the familiar and the fantastic. Maybe it's because they resemble us, but half-human legends from werewolves to centaurs have been mesmerizing staples of world mythologies for thousands of years. Particularly alluring is a certain half-woman-half-fish that entices sailors and sea captains with her singing and curvaceous bod. Mermaids have appeared in Polynesian, Celtic, Middle Eastern, and Japanese mythology for centuries, and have swum into popular culture through folk tales, literature, song, and even the silver screen. From Ariel to the Sirens, here are 11 bewitching examples of what you get when you cross a fish and a pinup girl.

1. Hans Christian Andersen's Little Mermaid
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Perhaps the most famous mermaid is the title nymph of the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, who risks her life in order to follow the shipwrecked human prince she loves onto land. Originally conceived as a ballet, the Danish author's children's story appeared in 1837; the original tale includes such elements as the little mermaid's beloved grandmother, who "was a very wise woman...[who] wore twelve oysters on her tail," and the exchange of the princess's tongue for a pair of human legs from an evil sea witch. When her human lover marries someone else, Anderson's mermaid is unable to return to her underwater kingdom and evaporates into sea foam. A statue of her by sculptor Edvard Erikson sits on a rock in the Copenhagen harbor.

2. The Sirens

One of the earliest records of bewitching sea-women appears in the , where Odysseus, the hero of Homer's epic poem, is warned by the sorceress Circe about the sirens whose singing lures sailors to a grisly death shipwrecked on the rocks. Odysseus convinces his crew to stuff wax in their ears so that the mesmerizing song won't affect them, but has himself tied to the mast and more or less goes ballistic listening. The earliest ceramic paintings depict the sirens as women with the wings of sparrows, but in later folklore this image was changed to one closer resembling a modern mermaid (as in the 1909 painting by Herbert James Draper, above). The word itself survives in the Latin root for the words for mermaid in languages such as Italian ( sirena) and French ( sirene).

3. Howard Pyle's The Mermaid

Nineteenth century artist and illustrator Howard Pyle was a celebrity in his time for his illustrations in Scribner's and Harper's Monthly magazines and for his vivid paintings of King Arthur, Robin Hood, and other exotic rogues and heroes featured in his numerous children's books. He invented our modern visual concept of a pirate, and inspired such artists as Norman Rockwell and Hal Foster, the creator of the Prince Valiant comics. Pyle's mermaid is a standalone example of his work in the golden age of American illustration. Though it appears complete, the 1910 painting was left on the easel prior to the artist's last trip to Europe, and only partially finished by a student after he passed away in Florence.

4. The Starbucks Mermaid

Since the Seattle-based coffee company is named for a seafaring character (the first mate of the ship Pequod in Herman Melville's Moby Dick), its designers originally wanted a nautical logo. She's since been watered down to something like the Statue of Liberty with fish bookends, but the original Starbucks queen was based on a voluptuous Nordic woodcut. A more obvious version of a mermaid survives on the coffee shop's green plastic stirrers (go find one if you don't believe me).

5. The First Siren in Hollywood
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On the long list of things Annette Kellerman could take credit for, her distinction as the first mermaid caught on film is only a flippered footnote. The Australian-born swimmer pioneered the first one-piece bathing costume for women (despite being arrested for public indecency for wearing one in 1907) and is credited as both the first woman to attempt to swim the English Channel and the inspiration behind the sport of synchronized swimming. Kellerman had a long-running career in vaudeville and early silent film as well; she was the first major actress to appear nude on film (in Garden of the Gods) and inspired a musical biopic in 1952 starring swimmer-actress Esther Williams ( Million Dollar Mermaid). Her short films The Mermaid and The Siren of the Sea, both from 1911, are considered the first to feature an actress in a swimmable mermaid costume.

6. One Fishy Pin-up Girl

Joyce Ballantyne Brand is best known as the creator of the Coppertone Sunscreen girl, but most of her subjects were a little older: She spent the majority of her career as one of the most successful American painters of pinup girls, and was one of the only women in the industry during the art form's heyday in the 1930s and '40s. One of her tamer illustration gigs was the monthly cover for Sports Afield outdoor magazine. Subscribers to the publication, which usually featured a bird dog or hearty fishermen on the cover, were shocked when the April issue of 1949 came out with a buxom mermaid splashed across the front. Critics even accused Brand of corrupting the legions of young men who read the magazine. No report on whether it sold as many copies as some other swimsuit issues we could name.

7. The Fiji Mermaid

In the summer of 1842, news broke in New York City of what many believed was conclusive proof of the existence of mermaids. Doubters and believers alike crowded to Broadway's Concert Hall to view a curiosity brought from the Fiji Islands by one Dr. J. Griffin, a member of the British Lyceum of Natural History. Griffin's dried specimen appeared to have the tail of a fish and the shriveled head and torso of a monkey-which, it turns out, was exactly what it was. There has never been a British Lyceum of Natural History, and "Dr. Griffin" was in league the whole time with showman P.T. Barnum, whose American Museum of oddities housed the Fiji Mermaid for nearly 20 years of ticket sales after its run on Broadway. A media frenzy in the newspapers of the time included images of voluptuous, bare-breasted sirens that remained in the popular imagination even after Barnum's hoax was discovered. The whereabouts of the original critter (probably made by a Japanese fisherman around 1810) are unknown, but a similar stitched-together creation rests in Harvard's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.

8. Miranda

In the century since Annette Kellerman swam onto the screen, mermaids in Hollywood have enjoyed intermittent popularity. One of the best films featured a young Glynis Johns as Miranda, a wily seawitch who charms a hapless physician into taking her to London to see the human world and seduce as many landsmen as she can wrap her fins around. The film's credits included a specific nod to the manufacture of Johns' tail (the Dunlop tire and rubber company), and a single final frame reading FIN. Of her elaborate costume, the lead actress said, "I was quite an athlete...my muscles were strong from dancing, so the tail was just fine. I swam like a porpoise."

9. Ceasg and Selkies

The British Isles have a long tradition of merpeople lore, and each region has its own incarnation of the half-human-half-fish beguilers. The Scottish Highland ceasg were women with tales of grilse, or salmon, while the selkies of coastal Scotland, Ireland, and the Orkney islands (as well as Iceland and the Faroe Islands) were a race of seals who could shape-shift by slipping out of their leathery skins and cavorting in human shape on land. According to legend, both creatures have been known to breed with humans-the ceasg who married human men produced great sailors and sea captains, while the MacFie clan traces its ancestry to a union between a clan patriarch and a selkie.

10. Disney's The Little Mermaid

A little different than the fairy tale that inspired it (a Jamaican crab sidekick, and no foamy seppuku), Disney Animation Studios' story of a wistful Atlantic princess is nonetheless a charming tale of young love, parental disobedience, and what not to do with a fork. As an animated feature, it broke ground in Disney artistic technique and employed more special effects than any project since Fantasia (1940). Special challenges included creating character color palettes for submarine night and day scenes, hand-painting over a million individual bubbles, and depicting the movement of Ariel's hair underwater, which was allegedly based on footage of astronaut Sally Ride in zero gravity. Actress Jodi Benson, who played the title mermaid, recorded her famous song "Part of Your World" in the dark to simulate the feeling of being underwater.

11. The Weeki Wachee Mermaids

Somewhere in the bowels of South Florida, there is a campground. In this campground there is a pool, and in the pool, mermaids dwell. They are mermaids with day jobs, families, hobbies, and favorite restaurants-one is a bartender, one loves tacos, and one has a cat named Shark Bait. The women who make up the roster of the Weeki Wachee Springs mermaids perform daily synchronized swimming and trick shows for visitors while costumed in 6-foot-long orange tails based on the designs made for Annette Kellerman. They are actually one of several mermaid performance groups that exist from Las Vegas to Cambridge, England, but are recognized as the longest running-and hidden legs aside, the women of Weeki Wachee remind us that the real sirens, while a little less sparkly, may still may be out there.

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Mythology is rife with creatures that mix traits of the familiar and the fantastic. Maybe it's because they resemble us, but half-human legends from werewolves to centaurs have been mesmerizing staples of world mythologies for thousands of years. Particularly alluring is a certain half-woman-half-fish that entices sailors and sea captains with her singing and curvaceous bod.

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