a visual collective outlet of inspiration 
i’m not a huge fan of, dutch photographer, erwin olaf’s work, many of which i find to be derivatives of others, and seldom done with the finese that makes a fashion image current, but i do like this series from his body of work… by dd
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for my dear KL
ok darling, you have to tell us how you came up with this… but i still like yours better : ) by dd
Freudsche Rektifizierung: Erwin Wurm
the 2004 c-print 40.98 x 35.07 by austrian artist erwin wurm who is better known for his one minute sculptures that usually involve him and some everyday objects. “my work speaks about the whole entity of a human being: the physical, the spiritual, the psychological and the political.” – erwin wurm. by dd
obsessed with ito
i don’t really know who is ito and it’s not as if his website was really helping to that matter but his pictures, man… they’re absolutely fab! if i was living in the place i want to live in, there would be a “beyond reason” size print from the man on the wall! and on a less capitalist note, i think what the guy captures is really different from the rest of the crowd but keep a really edgy and modern look… can’t get enough of it by pp.
Martina Hoogla: at dashwood book store Tonight
dashwood books in NY is a great venue for limited edition books. the small store is run by, fashion stylist anne christensen other half: david strettell, who carefully edits every title that makes it into the store. will try and stop by tonight to check out martina hoogland ivanow’s book “far too close” published by steidlmack. should be worth the walk. by dd
christina kruse ruse
not just a pretty face. christina kruse is someone i’m sure you’ll recognize from fashion and advertising over the past many years, but did you know she also makes art? supermodel + artist, what a thing to envy! i recently came across some of her work which you can see here, i hope it’s more than another style of visual stimulation. if anything the results have an atmosphere that speaks of identity and emotional travels. by kl
rob & nick carter – postcards from vegas
i think the following images belong to the category of the ” it’s so bad that it’s nice” or something like that. funny how men couple can achieve this level of suspicious taste, from gilbert & george to pierre & giles. anyway, this exhibition was shown in london at the “fine art society”, posh place indeed, where the contrast between the walls and what they hold might have been even weirder than the piece themselves… there is no absolute good taste, right?
“to create, this new body of work entitled ‘postcards from vegas’ the artists used one of only two remaining cibachrome machines in the world to enlarge the postcards, which are drawn from a collection the carter’s each collected as children in the 1960s and 1970s, to up to 150 times the original size. in addition, the couple have added replicated and reduced-to-scale vintage neon signs spotted on trips to las vegas.“
by pp.
therese + joel
striking images from photographers therese + joel, recently seen in some show at float gallery in nyc. how come i never heard about those two birds before? by pp.
hand carved limestone elephant
hey pp i got your elephant right here! this is a beautiful piece of work, hand carved out of lime stone, its so detailed its sick. inside the solid piece of stone there is baby elephant and inside that baby elephant another elephant. this was all done using a single piece of stone. it was done in india and purchased for $600 which if you divide the days it took to make this by the amount its absurdly low. i mean these days you buy a digital camera for that price and you simply throw it away the next year! any how love it, and look at it daily in admiration of the work and try and remind myself just how much we suck! by dd
Saachi: Top 10 London Shows for April
different abstractions – green cardamom – london: saw this show and another piece of his in the NY exhibit at the danese gallery along side of richard serra’s work, and the piece pictured above was quite unbelievable. the surface is made of thin threads than blur the reality of the physical surface even at a few inches distance. you could swear what you are seeing is a piece of glass suspended and not a physical thread. quite amazing. saachi placed the show as of the best shows in london for April and had this to say about it:
“…all three artists in this exhibition use abstraction interestingly. artist hadi tabatabai makes intensely poised grid-based abstractions. only close examination reveals that their meticulous construction uses threads just off the surface, or grout just below it, to create a stilled zone in which to contemplate the ambiguity of figure and ground, the nature of truth, the meaning of life…” see it if you can. by xy
paul himmel – shadowy women
don’t know much about photographer paul himmel but i think this serie is just stunning. by pp.
Artist Rashid rana : aluminum books
books by rahsid rana. 2007, UV inkjet on aluminum, edition 1/5, this was exhibited at the art dubai week for $35,000, i loved it, and i so wanted it , and i was quite tempetd but i was about 34k short… by dd
