His latest body of work, called The Girl Studies, focuses on the strangeness of what it means to be a teen girl in America today. The picture below, entitled Teen and Transgender Comparative Study #5 is from a series of portraits that places pubescent girls beside startlingly congruent male-to-female transsexuals. Another series of pictures from The Girl Studies presents pubescent models indifferently replicating poses from tween tabloids like J-14 and Teen Beat, unnerving the viewer by highlighting the sense of uncouth voyeuristic desire that pervades images created by adults for the consumption of young girls.

My favorite part of the The Girl Studies, however, is a series of animated shorts called OMG BFF LOL. Concentrating on a pair of teen girls who love shopping at the mall, OMG BFF LOL is a pastiche of the nauseating consumerist-aspiration crap that monopolizes young girls’ entertainment today, from Bratz to Barbie to Disney Channel cartoons to video games that send girls on shopping sprees. The fact that both teen girl characters are voiced by Charlie White adds another layer of creepy. But aside from all that scariness, OMG BFF LOL is just kind of hilarious. It’s like Daria minus Daria, plus a terrifying, droning sense of capitalist alienation.

Check out the first installment of OMG BFF LOL, “Mall,” below, and then watch the other two shorts, “Bedroom” and “Bathroom,” along with a thematically related short film White made in 2006 entitled “Pink,” after the jump.

Merry Christmas, superhighway-surfers! I hand-made this podcast just for you. It’s not Holiday-themed or even any kind of year-end retrospective. It’s merely a tight, carefully tested mix of songs. It’s a new age/punk rock concept album about the life cycle of a cyborg. No it’s not, I just made that up.