a visual collective outlet of inspiration
true true and yet funny. by ars
think different apple: homage to steve jobs
can’t argue with this one dd. by xy
the art of not blogging
oh child, spare me. everything i love about bill cunningham, is what i hate about scott schuman. they are the opposite poles in the same sector. bill is a spirit, the other pure flesh. bill is about life the other about fame. bill is about grit the other about flash. bill is about art the other about business. bill is about love… bill is humble… bill is light and the rest is darkness. in the end ,it does come to be about who you are as a person and bill is the epitome of all that i love about new york. no offense! when you become famous, you have to be able to take some shit. scott is surely loved and respected by many and i can be the one hater (not sure he can handle that). sorry i see no interest in satorialist or scott’s work nor his fame or how business smart he is. business smartness and fame mean nothing to me, if anything they tell me a bit about who you are and it’s generally not good. that brand is built on pandering to the status quo, not supporting the the fringe that feeds that status quo. when you photograph a bunch of vain editors and models after the shows you too can expect guaranteed traffic. bill just never wanted the attention or the fame or the money. i admire that tremendously. by dd
the business of blogging
i’m sure dd won’t be happy but this article on the sartorialist’s business is really interesting and you can only admire what the guy did. so read that, it’s interesting by pp.
my bedroom beats your bedroom 2
sorry, it was getting a bit dull. by dd
a bullet with your name on it: louis vuitton bullet
as some comedian once said, “forget about banning guns, if you make each bullet like a 1,000 dollars the nigga’s gonna think twice before shooting anyone”. by dd
discodeine & jarvis
found this in our draft section i guess it was never published. better late than never.
jarvis is back! at least on this discodeine mix, better than nothing as we say in french, right? by pp.
quote of the day: Patti Smith
in art and dream may you proceed with abandon. in life may you proceed with balance and stealth. – patti smith
green scores of top brands
find the most responsible large brands in each sector based on www.climatecounts.org
climate score rates the big brands as they make the largest impact. busying from smaller, local, and more responsible brands is the key and the smaller ones are not listed here. but if you buy big this helps.
airlines: south west (not jet blue), see others in this sector
electronics: HP (not apple), see others in this sector
apparel: nike (not gap), see others in this sector
consumer shipping: UPS (not fedex), see others in this sector
cosmetics: l’oreal, see others in this sector
appliances: GE (not miele), see others in this sector
by ts
goodbye genius: steve jobs dead
the original apple logo… phew, we sure dodged that bullet!
we need more people like this please. farewell to the man who thought different and did something about it. the son of a syrian muslim father (a professor) and an american mother (a pathologist) he was an unwanted child. set for adoption, and raised by paul and clara jobs in california, steve surely made up for his childhood set backs by becoming the most wanted man. he went on to build perhaps the one company that its products and software sold themselves with one leap innovation to the next. he created the company that made us ask “why doesn’t everything work the way this does?”
despite the efforts to insure us all that apple is bigger than one man, unfortunately it will never be. in 1985, after apple’s board-of-directors fired jobs from the company he had built from his garage into a 2 billion dollar business, apple lost its way, despite the presence of co founder and friend steve wozniak and the newly appointed hack of a ceo john sculley, from pepsi (sorry! steve may have forgiven you but we haven’t), and apple nearly disappeared from the face of this earth by talking about processor speeds and chips inside their grey boxes not to mention sculley’s brilliant , the apple newton, a total bomb, which i have an original model of. now without steve, there’s no saying where its future will rest. with apple stocks overvalued by 10 folds, banking not on apple but on steve jobs and his vision, they have a heavy legacy to stand up to, and the announcement of the 4GS isn’t quite gonna do that. at the end, brands are nothing without the people behind them, despite what corporations, and businesses would like us to believe, and jobs will truly be an irreplaceable citizen of this earth. thank you steve, but also paul and clara, and dog bless. by dd
gold tip – marilyn minter
just because by pp.
Markus Jans & Reisende – amerika
well, if you happen to be on the other side of the pond and precisely in berlin then you should hurry up to catch the last days of Markus Jans & Reisende’s show amerika at the galerie fur moderne fotografie, it’s nice. by pp.
