david bowie “pin ups” – the story behind the cover

“I remember distinctly that I’d got it with the first shot. It was too good to be true. When I showed Bowie the test Polaroids, he asked if he could use it for the Pin Ups record sleeve.

I said: “I don’t think so, since this is for Vogue. How many albums do you think you will sell?”

“A million,” he replied.

“This is your next album cover!” I said.

When I got back to London and told Vogue, they never spoke to me again. Several weeks later, Twigs and I were driving along Sunset Boulevard and we passed a 60ft billboard of the picture. I knew I had made the right decision.”

Justin de villeneuve on the picture he made that ended up being the cover of bowie’s “pin ups”.  the entire story here by pp+tg.

CATEGORIES: album covers, music, photography

harmony korine’s spring breakers – girls gone wild

“When I wrote the script, I started thinking about girls in bikinis with guns, wearing ski masks,” Korine recalls. “I was like, ‘Where would you see that?’ And the idea of spring break came to me. I just started imagining girls on spring break robbing places.”. hk

leave it to harmony korine to come up with crazy movies, the new ones don’t seem to be different, but are still fun in perspective by pp.

CATEGORIES: must be considered films

calling all aspiring losers: here’s kim kardashians awesome IMDB biography

IMDb writer jon hopwood penned a very honest and thoughtful biography for kim kardashian…

“kim kardashian is emblematic of the shallowness of american culture in the first two decades of the new millennium. while some cultural critics call her the prime avatar of the “famous for being famous” faux celebrity crowd, she along with paris hilton is a new breed of cat whose celebrity comes from the release of a sex tape and the canny exploitation of the resulting publicity. like her good friend miss hilton (their relationship predates kim’s “celebrity”, kardashian is possessed of photogenic good looks but is short of any other discernible talents outside of the bedroom. both expanded their celebrity by becoming reality tv “stars”.

“…in the decadence that is america of the $15-trillion deficit and no serious plans from either party for a solution to the economic problems of the “great recession,” kim kardashian is welcomed to her second white house correspondents association dinner in washington, d.c. in 2012 and made fun of not only by host jimmy kimmel but by the president of the united states…that the woman’s fame rests on the february 2007 “leaking” of a four-year-old home sex [tape] (for which she ultimately received $5 million from vivid entertainment) is an apt metaphor for socio-economic-cultural malaise in washington and the country beyond, where everything seems to be run by amoral prostitutes in bed with each other and merely out for a buck.” by fm

CATEGORIES: read

kid_in – not your typical kid magazine

alice bertay and stephanie arpage, the creative force behind the scene of kid_in magazine came up with a great alternative to lame kid’s magazine for moms dealing with baby blues. no smiling toddler in ridiculous clothes here, just the same great stuff you crave from your favorite magazines but dealing with kids. nice! by pp.

CATEGORIES: fashion, mom and dads

Supreme store nyc: and the lines go on…

not all fans look like fans


ok we all loved supreme, and that red box with its bold type is pretty cool. but like all punk rock bands that start out cool and soon find a bunch of losers pretend moshing at their feet, supreme has also come full circle. maybe its all those lady gaga ads that did them in? i never really got that! i mean, what does supreme have in common with gaga or her fans?  i pass by the store often when in town, and i see the lines round the block like its “born this way” at ticketmaster and think to myself “who are these people?” they are nothing like what you’d think to see from supreme’s projected image, but rather a bunch of nerdy, zit faced, trust-fund masterbaters who line up the street mid-week, from morning to night, for a piece of that red tape. you can’t blame supreme for that, but it just makes things worse when you see the “store clerk” step out like henry rollins, fluff up and try and drop some attitude upon these god-forsaken souls. i mean yeah, that must feel really grand to boss around a bunch of  teenage nerds who are dying to buy your logo clad t-shirts… i would at least drop the facade and fess up to selling out, and when you do, this is who you get at your doorstep, so don’t act all evil. by pr

CATEGORIES: ny places, surf-skate

yummy saturdays black coffee skateboard decks


growing up in california, i kinda’ find anything surf related in manhattan to be rather pretentious, but i just cant help myself but want to buy a couple of these slick minimal decks from saturday’s surf on crosby street. you can have it in black if that’s how you take your coffee, or milky grey to your taste. by dd

CATEGORIES: surf-skate