February 2008
55 posts
“Always falling for the wrong guy, or the wrong …mania.”
– Mir, on the progeny of a certain family.
Polaroid ends instant film production.
“Polaroid has completed its transition from a real company to something that just slaps its brand on other people’s hardware.” — Wired. (via Michelle, Photo by Me/2007).
Ólafur Elíasson wants you to Take Your Time.
Feeding the flame of my passion for large-scale installation art (and, who are we kidding, innovative Icelanders) is the forthcoming Ólafur Elíasson retrospective “Take Your Time,” en route from San Francisco to the New York City MoMA. Elíasson’s work ping-pongs between the organic and the industrial and manages to merge the two in-between. At times he favors ephemeral,...
Coconut Records - Nighttiming
This video is why I love Hillary. →
(via mirnanda)
“Ugly women have a lot more sex than people imagine.”
– Alison Lurie, author of The Truth About Lorin Jones.
michelle: In my design class, if you have an iBook instead of a Powerbook, you're immediately an outcast.
michelle: All the iBook people sit in a little group off to the side.
me: That sounds like Mac-on-Mac crime.
NYObserver: "Williamsburg is sooo over." →
“Their three-way friendship was like a conspiracy, a coven, and they sealed it in...”
– A passage from Edmund White’s My Lives that hits oh-so-close to home.
Slava Mogutin to Marc Jacobs: "FUCK FASHION!"
Bag Lady (Juergen Teller for Marc Jacobs, 2008).
Slava Mogutin wasn’t very pleased with Juergen Teller’s new Marc Jacobs ad campaign, which features Victoria Beckham in a blatant ripoff tongue-in-cheek nod to his now iconic photo.
Ilya_Gucci (Slava Mogutin, 2001)
Project: Projection
Installation art is, to me, the most luxurious medium of artistic expression, while simultaneously one of the most pretentious. It’s difficult not to chuckle at the things some artists come up with when they have a large space and a large amount of time at their disposal. At the same time, though, I’ve been known to fall in love with the absurd at first sight… I am evangelical...
“Kelly speaks to us against the beautiful backdrop of a winter night in Toledo,...”
– NBC Nightline anchor, signing off his colleague. As if.
“If I’m going to be drunk, I might as well be wearing Betsey Johnson...”
– Mandy Finelli, on substance (abuse) vs. style.
Björk - Wanderlust (Ratatat Remix) Oops!
Björk -...
hillaryclintonisyournewbicycle.com →
“Oh, crumbs!”
– Adorable black+British woman who made it through the checkout line and realized she forgot her wallet.
“A broken pair of fake Gucci sunglasses: a tangible metaphor for my life.”
– Lucas, finding philosophy among the contents of his man-bag.
Cat Power - New York
American Apparel are looking for models to feature... →
American Apparel is cruising for some new faces (and other body parts) to star in its advertisements in the upcoming issues of BUTT. Please send in a photo of yourself wearing at least one (1) piece of American Apparel clothing to comply. Please remember: American Apparel is not only looking for tasty men, they want creative photographs that are fit to print too, so feel free! These are the...
Joanna Newsom - Book of Right On
She played at...
me: ssssss
me: ssssssss
me: ssssss
me: my fucking "s" key is being weird.
eric: oh i thought you were just imitating a snake
me: sssssss
me: sssssssssss
me: ssss
me: that time i was.
eric: nerd
“The Audacity of Park Slope”
– Seen in Brooklyn at Mr. Obama’s rally, recently
The New Mannerists
For some time now, my artistic eye has been fixed on objects and sculptures, designers, print makers and typographers. This is partly because these mediums are finally (finally!) getting the mainstream attention they deserve, finally becoming profitable and pushing true craftsmen into the limelight. And maybe also because I was so bored with anything that happened to be on a canvas…
But...
Wish list stuff
a ridiculously early spring
socks that aren’t retarded um, duh.
the ability to grow full facial hair
a new passport
fulfilling employment in a cool office with amazing coworkers
a real sponge, like these are
the perfect exfoliate this stuff is amazing!
Microwave Experiments →
So you don’t have to do them.
“I am determined that my children should have no financial security. It ruins...”
– Nigella Lawson, on not leaving her children a penny