July 2008
74 posts
“I Wear My Sunglasses At Brunch. (Because I’m drunk.)”
– Mandy Finelli, on her hit single/lifestyle.
Who wants to see the Jeff Koons show at the MCA...
We can split gas or Megabus it to Chicago, I don’t care. No artist makes me smile quite like him. (Thank you sexartandpolitics for the update!)
bream: Just passed a lady ripping open a plan b package as she walked back into the W hotel
bream: Rough night
“I should press charges.”
– Michelle, on the sub-par sex she had last night.
Things Mandy Finelli probably would have said if...
“That gold dress is terrifying. It looks like Betsey Johnson and AA had a child which got all the recessive, less desirable genes.” (via Gawker commenter blogissuchanuglyword)
Foxbaby — “Bid Adieu”
Foxbaby...
WatchAurel Schmidt talks art on ART TALK!. (Part two found here.)
“They have the awesome ability to simultaneously “have” jobs and not...”
– Richard Lawson, on the theoretical superpowers of sexually ambiguous hipster sluts.
Me: Stuffy in the suburbs and consumed by awkwardness: it's like that scene in The Great Gatsby right before all the shit goes down.
Kelly: Everything you say, even the smallest online conversation stab is like a quote from a movie that has never been made, but I know I would love it.
When did it become daring for white men to wear... →
Like a weekend visit from your one super-cool aunt who gives the best birthday gifts and makes your dad slightly uncomfortalbe, JC’s blog posts are few and far between, but each one is an event to celebrate. This time around he discusses the plunging hemlines on men’s shorts and the true reasons behind the epidemic:
Several years ago in a couture issue of Peter Cummings’ celebrated...
Hipster Runoff sums how I've always felt about...
I rlllly hate Portland and any other ‘second tier’ cities that claim to be culturally relevant by playing up the whole ‘alternative gimmick.’ There is an excess of shitty musicians who are Starbucks/Chili’s employees in every city, so I hate when a city’s personal brand revolves around ‘sounding like they really mean it when they make their shitty...
“I like how you have no shame. It makes you an interesting subject.”
– Mir, while photographing her sister carbo-loading a Chick-O-Stick.
MGMT — “Electric Feel”
They...
“Suspended animation blue.”
– Jay, at whileyouwereout.
Gawker's field guide to Bansky.
GOD, we’ve heard so much about Banksy this week. Yes, you know he’s the supersecret anonymous world-famous street artist whose identity may have been revealed at last. But some people do not understand why this is the biggest art story of our generation. At least if you love democracy, freedom, and hilarity! Come along then, as we take a brief whirl through the world of Banksy: An...
Pulse: an emotion visualisation organism.
Created by Berlin-based artist Markus Kison, Pulse is a live visualisation of the recent emotional expressions written on random, private weblogs of Blogger.com. These emotional expressions are parsed according to a list of synonyms created analogous to Robert Plutchik’s Psychoevolutionary Theory of Emotion, and trigger a physical reaction in the shapeshifting, heart-like object around...
Store as sculpture: The Marfa Prada.
Continuing a weekend of fashion+art amalgamations, I give you Prada Marfa: It doesn’t open. You can’t go inside. And you can’t buy anything. It’s a completely faux store outside of Marfa, Texas in the middle of nowhere. Made of earth-friendly earth, this biodegradable adobe sculpture will slowly melt back into the landscape—once the inevitable onslaught of...
Marc Jacobs's Paris apARTment.
Fashion guru Marc Jacobs has opened up his Paris apartment to the cameras of W Magazine. Designed by Paul Fortune, this coveted maison is, as one would predict, impeccably decorated and oh-so-Marc. I was delightfully surprised, however, by Jacobs’s smart, quirky collection of contemporary art.
On the upstairs landing, Damien Hirst’s Paracetamol (2004–05), and Richard Prince’s Island...
SHOWstudio -- Fashion Djs. →
Nick Knight and the starved waifs over at SHOWstudio have invited a number of very special fashion creatives and personalities to be a ‘Fashion DJ’ a la MisShapes. Each will host a set, incorporating a selection of music and chat, as well as invited musical and art performances of the Fashion DJ’s choosing. It’s a three-day music and fashion event held at the legendary...
Custom tattoos by Marian Bantjes.
World-renouned typographer (she’s a fucking artist, okay?) Marian Bantjes designed “Maya” tattoos in honor of her friends’ first born.
“I know what you’re thinking: will I do this for you? Sorry, No. Not unless you’re a friend of mine or you have gobs of cash. That may sound strange, but let’s just pretend I’m Joni Mitchell: “I play if you have the money or if...
“MIRANDO” — by Ratatat.
Color-outs are the new blackouts. →
“Ratatat is really good at taking a simple aesthetic, authentically gimmickifying it, then changing the course of myspace user pics for the next decade. Look at how this simple photo integrates perfectly with their new album’s cover art.” (via HIPSTER RUNOFF)
Matt Irwin does Björk in the back. →
My favorite photographer, Matt Irwin (of Less Common, every Dazed & Confused cover that’s worth a damn and a newly minted photo spread in Russian Vogue), cavorted backstage with my favorite noisemaker and captured some classic, candid moments.
