A Little Lank

neon cinderella

2012-02-19T11:23:00.000-05:00

Isn't Miroslava a bit of a modern Cinderella here: Stopped on the steps of the palace in her S/S 2012 Jason Wu? I was obsessed with this dress when I first saw it in September and it seems that my enthusiasm hasn't dulled a bit in the passing months. It fulfills all of my childhood princess-dress fantasies, but while also indulging my current weakness for anything neon!

(via Buro 24/7)

bic pen octopus

2012-02-17T23:23:00.000-05:00

by Sarah Esteje via Colossal

feet on the ground, head in the sky

2012-02-17T11:23:00.000-05:00

This must be the place: Beaver Brook

(via Kinfolk)

whale fall

2012-02-16T11:23:00.000-05:00

Radiolab is one of my favorite shows on NPR. It all started with their episode "Animal Minds," in which they talk about if animals have feelings - or at least feelings like humans. The last part of this episode was my favorite. They talk with Paul Nicklen, a contributing photographer for National Geographic, about his encounter with a female leopard seal. They're vicious predators but I also think they're beautiful and, having never met one in the wild, very cute. Anyway, he talks about how this female leopard seal seemed to have fallen a little bit in love with him and tried to woo and feed him for several days. His story struck a chord within me and I haven't been able to forget it since.

(image via National Geographic)

Which finally brings me around to the point of this post: the fanciful video below about what happens to a whale after it dies. The video was inspired by the Loops episode of Radiolab that included a section on the after life of a whale. I have not yet listened to the show, but I am sure it is just as informative and fun as this video. On a side note, Radiolab does not exclusively do shows about sea life, though this post sure makes it seem that way. I've also listened to shows about cities, games and so much more. I just happen to have a soft spot for sea life.

Whale Fall (after life of a whale) from Sharon Shattuck on Vimeo.

I love everything about this video: the combination of the artistic and the scientific, the music, the storytelling, the fact that a whale's body can sustain a community of organisms for 50-75 years! Thanks to Sweet Fern Productions for their inspirational creativity.

(still from Whale Fall)

baldessari sings lewitt

2012-02-15T11:23:00.000-05:00

I remember seeing a Sol Lewitt sculpture for the first time when I was really young. I think it was at the Denver Art Museum, and it looked something like this:

(via Joe Kitsch)

and at the time I also remember thinking that I didn't really understand how it was art, that it mostly seemed like these Cuisenaire rods (see below) that I had learned how to do math with when I was about 7 and 8.

(via Rainbow Resource)

So fast forward to college when I started learning more about art and delving into what really interested me and lo and behold I became something of a Conceptual Art Enthusiast. Still am today, for better or for worse. I love Lewitt's Drawing Series... at Dia Beacon, his installation at the Columbus Circle subway stop, and also his Sentences on Conceptual Art, as sung below by John Baldessari, who is also a lovely conceptual artist. What a quirky combo!

what has the world come to?

2012-02-15T09:23:00.003-05:00

At this moment, I'm literally signing up for one social media platform (Twitter) to sign up for another social media platform (Pinterest) to avoid another social media platform (Facebook Timeline). What has the world come to?

Crazy Little Thing Called Love

2012-02-14T12:47:00.000-05:00

Happy Valentine's Day from Me and Queen, and may it be filled with as many leather jackets, ripped shirts, motorcycles and big hair as your heat desires!

chicken dance

2012-02-14T11:23:00.001-05:00

Has anyone in this family ever even seen a chicken? Just in case you haven't, here you go. Check out the other classic dancing diagrams from Dancing Plague of 1518.

(via Vulture)

cats #3

2012-02-13T11:23:00.000-05:00

(via Buzzfeed)

celine typeface focus

2012-02-12T23:23:00.000-05:00

Are these even real advertisements?

Wood paneling t-shirts.

Sheer and pink like an underbelly.

That TYPEFACE.

(via The Model Burnbook)

orcas on a disposable camera

2012-02-11T11:23:00.000-05:00

by Brad Miller via A well traveled woman

by Juergen Teller

2012-02-10T23:23:00.000-05:00

Juergen Teller - now showing at Lehmann Maupin Gallery in NY

(via Buro 24/7)

washed out

2012-02-10T11:23:00.000-05:00

Daydream Nation by Petra and Tavi of Rookie

art poem lovechild

2012-02-09T22:54:00.000-05:00

This poem is by Yoko Ono, but it also feel like the love child of a William Carlos William poem and a Lawrence Weiner sculpture.

(via Chasing the Sun)

pink iris

2012-02-08T23:23:00.001-05:00

I don't believe that irises come in this color in Nature but they sure do in Givenchy. I think that if I had an extra $1500 lying around I would find something better to do with it, but if I had an extra $30,000 I just might spend a small chunk of it on this shirt.

(shirt from farfetch.com)

vice quotes #2

2012-02-07T23:23:00.001-05:00

"She shows up at the bar wearing a Mexican blanket thing and carrying a Borges book, wagging her finger in your face for still being out at 4 AM on a Tuesday. And what do you do? Follow her home like a puppy while your friends belittle you. Because look at her."

Wer Kommt?

2012-02-07T17:00:00.000-05:00

These are illustrations from a German children's book published in 1910, Wer kommt?, or Who's coming? in English. The entire book can be found online at the State Library of Berlin. In case you can't tell: I really like children's literature. I really like illustrations. These have a wonderful wobbly line quality that's really swell. Also, the perspective isn't quite right, but it's there. You're not exactly standing on the same plane as the picture, but you're not that far away either? The point is that I love these and want prints of them for my future home. I think they'd look splendid in a big white kitchen with a rustic table and some jars for glasses, filled with warm tea.

(via Bibliodyssey)

schoolboy looks

2012-02-06T11:23:00.000-05:00

"Love goes toward love, as schoolboys from their books,

But love from love, toward school with heavy looks." Romeo

(photo via the model burnbook)

cats #2

2012-02-05T11:23:00.000-05:00

I could want nothing more than a pile of kittens.

(via Buzzfeed)

date stamp paintings

2012-02-04T11:23:00.000-05:00

Federico Pietrella makes these "paintings" using only a date stamp - like the ones they used to use for the library cards in the pocket on the front or back cover, letting you know when you had to return the book. Actually I was recently reminded about those funny slips (since I rarely go to the library anymore because of my Kindle, which makes me pretty sad when I think about it, but this has just turned into a tangent of a tangent, so I'll stop) when I read Rebecca Makkai's fabulous book The Borrower. If you loved the library and devoured books of all types as a child, then this is just the quirky, sweet weekend read that you are looking for!

Anyway, I love stamps. I love dates. I love date stamps. I even have a date stamp like the one that it looks like he may have used to make these. It's leftover from my final thesis as a "Visual Arts" major in college, and I spent hours sitting in my studio stamping it for the final product (more on that some other time). These are pretty crazy amazing though, a new pointillism, no? It looks like they are different dates - how does he decide? He doesn't use the same date for the whole painting. Does he rotate, have different stamps? I'm so curious and so very impressed. They're beautiful to boot.

(via Colossal)

red wings and a long pleated skirt

2012-02-03T11:23:00.000-05:00

Recently I've been wanting a pair of vintage Red Wings but with my tiny elf feet I don't know if I'll ever be able to find a pair! This look would be so much less without them. The whole style it's oversize for sure, there's masculinity in the color palette and details, but still feminine as well with the long pleated skirt, that halo of ringlets. I'll be trying to capture this essence in the way I dress for a while yet. I almost did it once in Cape Code last year with a red pleated skirt, brown Bean boots, and a navy coat, but something wasn't right. Next time...

(image via The Sartorialist)

in case you forgot...

2012-02-01T13:55:00.000-05:00

by Maira Kalman

It's February: the worst month ever. Global Warming is FOR REALZ y'all and so far it has been a remarkably mild winter. Take yesterday for example: a 58 degree January 31st. But I'm not fooled! Maira knows what's up, and it is that February on the East Coast kills your spirit, makes you feel rotten, and is one big "uggh." Don't pack up those scarfs, mittens, hats, long underwear, snowboots, parkas, and gloomy faces yet. I'm sure we'll have our own Misery Day Parade yet.

(image via Underpaid Genius)

cats #1

2012-01-30T11:23:00.000-05:00

So.... I'm all into series now!! But I'm also lazy and never label anything and used to be concerned about posting things that might not be *cool* but then liking cute things and kittens became cool. Or so I am busy convincing myself. So because of the lack of labels (this one would be #cats #hugs #catshugging) and because I also can't be bothered to go through my archives (even though I only have like a dozen previous posts) I don't know if I have posted many cat things before! Well get ready for this roller coaster - a cat roller coaster! Oh, if only that were not only a figment of my imagination...

AREN'T THEY CUTE?!?!?!?

(via AnOther , via putyourpawsup)

vice quotes #1

2012-01-29T23:29:00.000-05:00

"New York fashion people are fine and everything but they’re preaching to the converted. It’s the suburban weirdos that really matter. They’re the missionaries of the Retro Versace Thug Movement."

it's dark, look up

2012-01-28T23:23:00.000-05:00

(via a well traveled woman)

a vice quotes series

2012-01-27T11:23:00.000-05:00

I used to read Vice Do's & Don'ts a lot. The don'ts were always a bit too vulgar for me, and I thought maybe it was just because I wasn't cool - even if most of the time they totally had a point. The do's were usually pretty amusing and I tried to pick up some tips on how I could be cool.

Every once in a while they imparted some actual wisdom that made me happy, smile, think or laugh. I saved my favorites in a sticky note on my desktop for the past forever, never quite sure what I was going to do with them.

Now I've decided to share them! Genius, I know. I'm sure if you Google the quote, you can find the picture originally associated with each one, but I like them just they way they are: words.

Vice Quotes starts tomorrow. Keep your eyes peeled!

deep blue whale shark moment

2012-01-26T11:23:00.000-05:00

so many

koalas, expressing my feelings

2012-01-25T11:23:00.000-05:00

(via mischiefchampion.com)

KLOSS

2012-01-24T11:23:00.000-05:00

This one, Body by Kloss, caused quite the hullabaloo when it came out years ago in the December 2011 Vogue Italia. Karlie, totally nude? Never, we all thought! But she is growing up and letting the world know. Stephen Meisel caught the whole thing on camera, Franca Sozzani put it up on the web, and the internets went wild. I'm biased, so I'm sure you know what I think: Kloss is Hoss. Hey, if Taylor Swift still wants to bake cookies with you, you can't have shed your girl-next-door image entirely, right?

(images via fashiongonerogue.com)

the moses bridge

2012-01-20T23:23:00.000-05:00

A bridge in the Netherlands that leads to a 17th century dutch fort. Sunken below water level, it parts the waters for those who cross it.

(images via inhabitat.com)

/cloud/

2012-01-18T11:23:00.000-05:00

I wrote my thesis in college on the golden clouds found in folding screen paintings from Mexico, what was then New Spain, during the 16th and 17th centuries. I know. Talk about esoteric, but it totally made sense at the time. I was into Japanese art, regular art, writing in Spanish, talking and thinking in Spanish, blah, blah, academics, blah, blah and I put all those things together to come up with something that I was actually super proud of at the end of the day!

Anyway, this is also to say that I tried to do a bunch of research about clouds and their place in art history. I tried -- I tried so hard -- to read and understand, Hubert Damisch's book A Theory of /cloud/ and it is brilliant. Read it I did, but I definitely did not understand it. Most likely because my background was less in actual art history and more in art... and so the ideas of semiotics and dialectics within painting were all a bit over my head. Even trying to read a summary of what it means at AnOther his point escapes me. And so, the book sits on my bookshelf (okay, in my suitcase under my bed where I keep all my books since there is no room for a bookcase in my room), waiting for me to pick it up again one day and delve further, with more patience, and perhaps a good dictionary.

Either way, I spent a lot of time looking at clouds and thinking about them and what they might mean or signify or allude to. And I love them all, but some can really be particularly exquisite and out of the ordinary. Which finally brings me to these beautiful specimens: undulatus asperatus. They look like snow banks, or milk drifting through coffee. Aren't they empyreal?

this is my life

2012-01-17T20:41:00.000-05:00

by Esther C. Werdiger

Esther writes and draws these comics for The Hairpin every week. I love her for putting into words and drawings how I feel all the time. Ditto for most people on The Hairpin actually. But anyway, this comic hit particularly close to home as I had pretty much this exact conversation with myself this morning while I was "running", except it was about the cute boy I saw walking his dog in the park, and you can replace "dumb hat" with "dumb shoes." UGH.

Also, this: Color.

2012-01-12T13:29:00.001-05:00

"While we admire Pantone's packaging and judicious use of helvetica, we resent choosing from their limited options."

Tom Sachs again.

VIII. Always Be Knolling

2012-01-12T13:13:00.001-05:00

from 10 Bullets by Tom Sachs

Happy Christmas!!

2011-12-25T12:39:00.001-05:00

i'll be there

2011-12-05T20:52:00.001-05:00

one day, you and I, let's build a house. I mean just a structure like a treehouse. cabin room place. out of wood I would think. we can build that. and then sit in it. hang out in it. like, I'll decide to go hang out there and open its door and you'll already be there, lying on your back reading, so I'll just join you. - lpr

youth culture in post-soviet russia

2011-12-04T23:14:00.001-05:00

photos by gosha rubchinskiy

I can't remember where I first got these photos, but in re-researching Gosha, I've come up with a few choice quotes that I surely didn't find the first time around. Gosha is young - only 25 - but he is a designer, a photographer, an artist, etc. The Times did a little piece on him and I learned about some of his muse's influences are the Bible, Victor Pelevin's novels, orthodoxy, runes, numerology, football, Satanism and shamanism. The article also mentions the "most popular blog for Moscow teenagers" but doesn't link to it?!?!?! Anybody know the blog? I need it! And I like these photos. That's all.

Sick of dressing like a human when I'm feeling like a leopard

2011-11-28T21:33:00.001-05:00

Sometimes I take photos with the sub-par quality camera on my near-ancient blackberry. Here are a couple from the past few months. They are fairly representative of how I live my life and what interests me.

1. Some graffiti on the way to the J train stop at Bowery.

2. Jelly belly flavored soda at the Bodega right off the Marcy stop.

3. One Sunday, I decided to learn how to make roses out of icing.

4. Didn't end up buying Lulu soda in Sunset Park - I got two Squirt sodas instead.

5. Not only does my camera take grainy photos, it takes photos when I don't want it to because it works so slowly. But sometimes the colors from fast photos of my fingers, the ground, my pocket, etc., are pretty!

6. Amateur braiding practice is a great way to pass the time while cookies bake.

7. I think this is on Rivington, just off of Bowery. If I ever need to know where to go for BOO, I can just remember this photo.

8. Kittens at the animal hospital around the corner from my apartment. I go in sometimes just to hang out and say hey to whoever is there.

9. Saw Revenge of the Electric Car in Chicago, and couldn't leave without taking a picture of this AMAZING old poster. Sick graphic design and fairly-tales?!

10. Gus Gus may as well be my dopplegänger. Now I have him in miniature to carry with me wherever I go.

11. Sunsets in Colorado always kill it! Taken just before the car wash on the corner before you turn left to go to my house.

12. See # 6.

13. A Laurence Weiner on the side of the Denver Art Museum.

14. Clyfford Still Museum in Denver: "Still" one of my favorite abstract expressionists.

15. Was Miuccia looking at Clyfford's sketches of his wife when she designed Miu Miu's Fall/Winter 2011?

dashwood books

2011-11-10T16:57:00.001-05:00

"El Hoyo Maravilla" by Janette Beckmann

"Color'd" by Jim Mangan

"Back to Mystery City" by Andreas Laszlo Konrarth

These are each photos from mini-photograph books (like a super high class zine) from David Strettell, the owner of Dashwood Books. Aren't they nice?

via t magazine

side parts and pastels, dirt roads and old chairs

2011-11-03T17:15:00.000-04:00

2 & 4: Giedre Dukauskaite by Jane McLeish Kelsey for Lula // #10 Fall/Winter 2011 Rackk and Ruin

1 & 2: Guinevere Van Seenus by Josh Olins for Vogue Nippon // January 2011 Rackk and Ruin

5: Guinevere slow motion crawl

trick or treat

2011-10-31T13:00:00.000-04:00

Happy Halloween!!

A little black and orange from Catherine Opie X Rodarte

(via cat party)

Feathers

2011-10-29T23:29:00.002-04:00

...

I know you need to find what you thought you left behind in a past life

I won't question why the only light that you have, you give away

She feels like, a stranger has come in the night,

Stolen her life, and left her with this.

- Man Man

#uniform

2011-10-28T17:14:00.000-04:00

would wear this every day if I could

christy turlington in louis vuitton via slow motion crawl

wig central

2011-10-26T17:13:00.000-04:00

Gisele Bundchen by Nino Muñoz for Numero Tokyo // #46 May 2011 via model couture

life without you is like a broken pencil... pointless

2011-10-24T17:38:00.000-04:00

that's some belated back to school vibes, for ya...

Gisele Bundchen by Emma Summerton for i-D // Pre-Fall 2011 (via buro 24/7)

snail mail forever

2011-10-24T12:57:00.000-04:00

The New York Times Op-Art Section is consistently one of my favorite sections. This gem is by Tucker Nichols.

hard and soft

2011-10-23T10:00:00.000-04:00

Maryna Linchuk by Patrick Demarchelier for Vogue Russia // May 2011 via model couture

A Functional Jumpsuit

2011-10-22T17:11:00.000-04:00

Let us not forget that one-pieces have a long history of being useful, for people, working and doing their jobs, and not just for making it awkward for me to go the bathroom. Besides, he's working this look better than I could ever hope.

via The Sartorialist

IKB

2011-10-20T17:07:00.000-04:00

via geometric sleep

via katespade

via c4 gallery

Maybe I'll go as International Klein Blue for Halloween. I just can't seem to get enough of it lately.

joanie

2011-10-19T17:02:00.000-04:00

I love the layering, the prints, the attitude in that last photo. Also, let's add this to a running list of places that exist only for fashion editorials. What is this, an abandoned, fancy parking garage? An empty construction zone? Why is the light so white?

Joan Smalls by Boo George for New York Times T Style // Fall 2011 via Rackk and Ruin

stripes galore

2011-10-18T10:00:00.000-04:00

via nerd boyfriend

lucian / james

2011-10-16T12:00:00.000-04:00

bananas, two ways

top, lucian freud from portals and bottom, james cooper from tinyvices

Donkey Skin

2011-10-15T15:00:00.000-04:00

An editorial inspired by this "inspired" movie: Peau d'âne

Let's just say, if it were available on Netflix Instant, you know how I'd be spending my Friday night ;)

Carter Smith for Vogue Nippon // 2006 via Cat Party

te extraño mucho

2011-10-13T21:59:00.000-04:00

I would if I could...

via Topo Designs

Tea-length Circle Skirts

2011-10-11T17:19:00.000-04:00

Marco Zanini was really feeling the fifties housewife at Rochas Spring/Summer 2012, and I'm not complaining!

via style.com

saturation

2011-10-11T16:49:00.000-04:00

photos by Eric Cahan via Mary & Matt

a 1:1 map

2011-10-10T17:36:00.000-04:00

"To truly use the country as its own map, it turns out, involves weaving discomfiting images of the country directly into the fabric of the map. The result is not a tidy diagram of the world abstracted onto a blank slab—as nearly all maps since Mesopotamia have been—but rather a patchwork that chronicles, among many other things, the troubling process by which the map was composed."

I cannot stress enough how much I love the article from which this quote came. It's called The Grand Map, and it's by Avi Steinberg. The article includes references to Lewis Carroll, Borges, Google Maps, and you should go read it now! Love maps as much as I do! If you dare...

photos colllected by Jon Rafman from Google Maps

good dog

2011-10-10T17:14:00.001-04:00

Carl x Tischi x Miles McMillan

via cailin @ modelburnbook

Rah Rah Prada!

2011-10-08T14:45:00.003-04:00

Hot Rods, Rosettes, Flames, Pleats, Leather, Jewels

Prada Spring/Summer 2012

via style.com

when I open my eyes

2011-10-03T13:22:00.000-04:00

Gisele was back on the runway at Givenchy S/S 2012! Tisci and Team sent out some remarkably wearable looks without any snarling panthers or psychedelic florals. It was beautiful nonetheless, and he killed it with few sequin numbers in the middle, and oh yes, bare-face models wearing single split-sequins on their eyelids. So simple and yet the effect is STUNNING.

all images from style.com

(panthera tigris)

2011-09-28T15:33:00.001-04:00

You know, just being part of the felidae family, eating chicken strips, petting house-cats and coaching soccer teams.

"Tigers" by Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks

not with a bang but a whimper

2011-08-29T12:48:00.001-04:00

via stweedy's flickr

oh, alber!

2011-08-29T09:26:00.001-04:00

via carimpong loves you

Heaven is Real

2011-08-28T21:24:00.002-04:00

by Corrine Day, via Nowness

wah wah watusi

2011-08-18T15:36:00.002-04:00

a couple of things about the watusi:

it was the "second-most popular dance craze in the 1960s in the United States"
it "may be enhanced if one imagines that one's feet are on sand"
the dance shares its name with a breed of cattle that boast impressive horns
this video of wednesday was literally the only video that a (very cursory) search for actual watusi-dancing produced #i'mlazy
it was deemed an "acceptable dance" by the playboy club bunny manual in 1968

"chalked their lightning-flash insignia across rockfaces"

2011-08-18T11:51:00.002-04:00

good color daydreaming, watermelons
campfires, stone masters

heads up, oki-ni

get it

dance magic, dance

2011-08-12T12:57:00.003-04:00

put that baby spell on me
put that magic jump on me

SF Ballet

james cooper

2011-08-07T12:33:00.000-04:00

from tiny vices

Which leaves us where?

2011-08-06T13:58:00.000-04:00

"As if the fullness of the soul did not sometimes overflow in the emptiest metaphors, since no one can ever give the exact measure of his needs, nor of his conceptions, nor of his sorrows; And since human speech is like a cracked kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to make bears dance when we long to move the stars."

- Flaubert, Madame Bovary

pull up in your fast car... watchin' all our friends fall

2011-08-05T11:57:00.002-04:00

she's made the rounds, somehow i missed it until now, but fantasia, skaters, paparazzi footage, cartoons, doomsday, come together and it's magical... this is on repeat

#1 & #3

2011-08-05T11:25:00.000-04:00

karlie by mr. richardson

terry's diary

is it only because i am surrounded by walls and recycled air, overhead lights and bright screens that these are so achingly beautiful?

2011-08-04T11:18:00.004-04:00

choire sicha goes on vacation and takes beautiful photos

this and this

a superfluous correspondence

2011-08-03T13:45:00.005-04:00

My Dear Madame,

I just noticed that I forgot my cane at your house yesterday; Please be good enough to give it to the bearer of this letter.

P.S. Kindly pardon me for disturbing you; I just found my cane.

- Marcel Proust to Princesse Clermote- Tonnerre

Oh, to be forgetful and have bearers of letters. To receive and send such niceties. Thanks to the prodigious Maira Kalman and the chalkboard wall at her Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World) that just closed at the Jewish Museum, where I found this.

tiny rabbits

2011-08-03T11:16:00.000-04:00

map addict

2011-07-18T13:00:00.005-04:00

"a magnificent scheme concocted"

"history's logic and anarchy paired with my own obsessive nature"

"old walls with rough, uneven surfaces"

"four great prototypes. alas"

all by Florent Morellet

Christmas Ornament

2011-07-15T22:55:00.000-04:00

from Yokoo

She makes some awesome scarves, yo. And one of her posts has a skirt for which I would die. (I just typed: that I would die for... and then was like, I hate ending sentences with prepositions?! So I retyped it. Nerd? Yes. Nerd that is terrible at grammar, so much so that she is making crazy assumptions about grammar, that are probably still wrong, and phrased wrong with prepositions and adverbs and everything else everywhere else..... YES)

She (Yokoo, in case you forgot because my tangential thoughts are too long and distracting) also posted this beautiful picture that reminded me of one my favorite ornaments on the Christmas trees of my childhood. She (the ornament) was clear plastic, or "crystal" as I like to remember, and really, in my top five ornaments that I busted out, front and center, every year.

You see, my sister was graceful and a dancer and awesome and perfect (and still is), and so I refused to take dance class too because I was like, whatever, that's her thing (this is a weird sibling thing I think) but secretly thought that it was the most beautiful, and am now sad (wistful?) that I didn't follow in her footsteps.

Moral of the story: this.

ms. miroslava

2011-07-13T23:12:00.004-04:00

Girl Groups, Rockabilly and Subcultures

2011-07-13T22:39:00.005-04:00

So these are more than a little reminiscent of the 5 6 7 8's (best known from their Kill Bill appearance) but re-imagined (apparently) here in the latest V Magazine (by Josh Olins) and are really playing into my always obsession with subcultures, and more specifically, nostalgic subcultures that simplify and glamourize something that I will never experience first hand, but like to imagine.

This video I recently discovered (despite being ancient in internet years) gives me the same feeling.

I've always said if I was going to join a subculture and go all the way it would be rockabilly....

colorsplosion

2011-07-01T19:48:00.001-04:00

PRE COLLECTION SS12 from House of Holland on Vimeo.

by Mariano Vivanco / featuring Eliza Cummings / House of Holland Resort 2012

via the Cut

subway encounters

2011-06-28T22:55:00.004-04:00

she was wearing black and white gingham pants. i think they were taffeta, or silk. something luxurious and expensive. like chef's pants, but that check was larger and fancier. bolder. her top was red, so red it was passing through the spectrum to orange. thin, with rolled, cap sleeves, and a seam running across the top through the middle of her chest, horizontal.

carrying a tall white shopping bag, small black, block letters spelled out M-A-R-N-I but was sized for a bottle of wine as easily as anything else. her own handbag was an overgrown coin purse, powdered... sage? with an old fashioned frame and to close it: a ball clasp.

a perfect bob, too long but fine and sweeping bangs, mousy and understated. parted far, far to the side, above her left ear. it was my right side. her face could only be painted with watercolors and there would be no sketching allowed first; everything about her face was so soft that any delineating line would be too harsh.

two thick black bands to strap in her wiry, narrow foot. another, thinner one to hook around the back of her heel with a buckle. the heel: clunky, chunky but slightly rounded, stacked and wooden? and her toenail polish is powdery as well, but bluer.

a bangle dangles from her slight wrist. smoky plastic, all rounded edges and the 1960's.

a dash of crimson lipstick, a swipe of blush in the hollows of her cheek and not a hint, not an ounce, and not a moment of mascara.

...

i lost my camera and if i had not, i can't say if i would have asked for the opportunity to photography her calculated, balanced outfit. but it had to be documented somewhere.

i've never been much of a writer, so i don't know how i feel about these amibitions...

2011-06-16T16:00:00.000-04:00

bubbling up inside of me.

eartha & james

2011-06-15T23:34:00.000-04:00

from awesome people hanging out together

Stripe, Check, Wide Leg, Crease

2011-06-13T23:04:00.000-04:00

the patterns, the shapes, the wide legs, the EVERYTHING about this photo.

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