a visual collective outlet of inspiration
was checking the Phoenix diary the other day and i saw this old post by christian. he was basically saying he went to one of those small theater in paris for a screening of rosselini’s roma, citta aperta, and was alone in the room, so i guess he had fun… well i think the images are really nice. worth sharing. by pp’
Month: May 2010
don’t forget to shave: no appointment necessary at the F.S.C. barber shop
men only. no dogs. no cats. no ‘boys’ with long hair.
was never a big fan of straight edge razors, i’ve actually had one for 12 years (and still have) but never dared even try it, that said, under a capable hand, and in such a manly atmosphere… why not! let’s give that a try.
F.S.C. barbershop:
barber services price list: $25 men’s trim, $40 men’s haircut, $40 straight razor shave, $75 shave and a haircut, $25 hangover treatment. 8 rivington street (between bowery & chrystie). hours of operation: monday to friday – 11:00 to 8:00pm, saturday – 11:00 to 7:00pm, sunday – 12:00 to 6:00pm. by dd
man is back: freemans sporting club NYC
from the boys that brought us freeman’s alley and that little tribeca joint, comes: “freemans sporting club (rivington between bowery & christie) was borne out of a gathering of close friends playing pool, carousing, and drinking whisky above freemans restaurant in new york city. the regular meetings led the group to organize trips to camp, shoot, fish, and enjoy time in nature outside the concrete canyons of new york.” o.k. i know it all sounds a bit pretentious, to act like you live in a cabin in the woods, with deer heads on your wall, when you actually live in new york f#@kin’ city but what the hell, i guess a mans gotta do what a mans gotta do. lets all go fish, or at least dress up like it… cause the stuff looks damn good. by dd
hollywood bowl
never heard about this place before yesterday but i’ve been instantly fascinated by the hollywood bowl. after checking a bit on the net, i found out it was built in 1929 and it’s having a seat capacity of 17,376. sounds amazing. i love the retro/shell look of the stage.
so, ok i know it’s not looking as good as it used to on the pictures attached but it’s a real piece of great america. would love to see something there (not from the back row though 🙂 by pp’
the ghost who walk – the model who talk
one would says that a model singing in not very new and surely not very promising exept we’re talking about karen elson who is madame jack white and that was really not deceiving on stage with her burlesque band few years ago. so let’s hope for the best, i already love the artwork around the cd “the ghost who walk” released date is supposedly on the 25th but they seems to play the thrill on us. will check for sure. by pp’
for sale
the most famous house in brooklyn is for sale! located at 70 willow street, it’s the place where truman capote wrote “breakfast at tiffany’s” in 1958. the infamous writer lived in this victorian house overlooking manhattan from 1955 to 1965. the yellow house with it’s spectacular 38 windows, 11 fireplaces, a fresco copied on the white house one and a gigantic garden as only the houses in the south have is on the market at sotheby’s for $18 millions. not exactly a brooklyn hipster house. truman capote rented the basement from broadway art director oliver smith who is remembered for the sets of “west side story”. in his book “house in the heights”, capote wrote that he made smith drink way too much in order to convince the art director to let him rent the basement. friend george plimpton, wrote that capote was waiting for smith to leave and organized fancy parties while acting as if the house was his. giving guests tours of the house, talking how he had it entirely redecorated.
he only left the house to move permanently to the plaza.
anybody? i’m interested in renting the basement by pp’
TWO-LANE BLACKTOP: the criterion collection
two-lane blacktop is a fantastic film from the archives, now available from the criterion collection. i picked up 3 copies, just to be safe. the issue includes a beautifully printed script book worth the full price alone, plus a whole dvd of additional content like interviews with monte hellman and james taylor. it’s a must see film if you haven’t seen it. by dd
la beaute cache des laids se voit sans delai. the sons of lee marvin
“the sons of lee marvin” is a secret society created by jim jarmusch few years ago, he describes it as:
“i’m not at liberty to divulge information about the organization, other than to tell you that it does exist. i can identify three other members of the organization: tom waits, john lure, and richard bose. you have to have a facial structure such that you could be related to, or be a son of, lee marvin. there are no women, obviously, in the organization. we have communiques and secret meetings. other than that, i can’t talk about it.”
by pp’
ed ruscha is burning
still a fan of ed ruscha’s artwork and very little reason that will change. so no need good reason to post some ed’s. of course the first one is well known but the second and third ones are a bit less known. putting the three together sounds relevant. the dates are respectivly 1963, 1966, 1968. ed is on fire! by pp’
arthur rimbaud
this is a picture that was widely talk about in europe in the last few weeks but never heard of or read a line on it on this side of the atlantic. well, the story is pretty nice, until very recently there were very few known photos of poet arthur rimbaud. basically, only one real, from when he was a late teen (see attached) and four others on his death bed but they are so dark and out of focus that it’s almost abstract… whatever, two parisian booksellers found a picture and had an intuition when the checked the dating and place where the shot was taken. after verification, double checking with biographers and all sorts of people, it seems it is then the second real picture of arthur rimbaud… nice. makes me wonder how many shots of rimbaud or people alike are sleeping in some people’s drawers. the photo, dated to the 1880ies, shows arthur rimbaud surrounded by seven people on the terrace of the hotel univers in Aden, Yemen. by pp’
hell x wool
painter christopher wool and poet/writer/singer richard hell teamed up together on a serie of drawings and a book called psychopts and presented at john mcwhinnie gallery a couple a years ago.
what is interesting there is that beside the visuals, the collaboration is about coming back to a roots for wool. the paintings that made him famous where based on hell’s words. there is this nice story about wool asking courteously to hell about permission to use his words when hell in a punkish way was assuming the words were not his own. just words together.
this one is for dd’
richard hell: i went over to christopher’s and saw his painting. on the original album cover i’m standing there holding my jacket open, and i don’t have a shirt on underneath. and in magic marker i have across my chest, in all caps: YOU MAKE ME ____. it was just a blank. an underscore. anyway, when i saw the painting, christopher had filled up its entire surface with “YOU” on top of “MAKE” on top of “ME.” and i said, “wait a minute. where’s the ‘blank’?” and he said, “well, how about i just leave a space at the bottom?” which is what he did. there’s an empty line below the last word. so it worked out great. i was impressed by how casually he was willing to make what seemed like a major change. it seemed gallant. and like . . . self-confident, and suave. the guy was a gentleman and an artist. by pp’
edward weston first nude
is it possible that a first of a kind outdo the followings? well to me this nude which is supposed to be the first edward weston took is my favorite. not that i don’t like the others but there is something more here. maybe what we call a “supplement d’ame” in french (a little extra soul) by pp’
