a visual collective outlet of inspiration
not a real amateur of mister newson design that to me is as dated as karim rashid’s and anyone designing donuts like flying cars or so… but apart from that, how cool is that to be able to design such a wide range of things that you can put in your portfolio a pair of sneakers as well as a spaceship and almost anything that comes in between? by pp
murakami takes versailles
a less hyped exhibition of the king of pop-art from the east, takashi murakami exhibits at le chateau de versailles. the same contrast between plastic-pop and gilded baroque as the jeff koons retrospective a couple years back, and even the more poetic xavier veilhan, but i don’t think we’ll ever grow tired of it. by kl
shang xia – hermes
uber luxury brand hermes rocked the fashion world opening a new brand, it’s a first time for hermes, and none the less, it’s a chinese brand, called shang xia and it’s only sold in shanghai for the moment.
rather surprising but after reading some articles about this strange team, i figure out both brand share a hardcore interest in craftsmanship and tradition. so if any other brand had done the same deal, i would think of them as opportunist but coming from hermes, i’m just really wondering… (read the article, it’s interesting) by pp
mudd club – keith harring
love this club member card from legendary mudd club! so cool! by pp + djgm
fela kuti: authority stealing… catch am! catch am! tief tief tief
talking about music greats… saw a nice docu film on fela titles “fela kuti: music is the weapon” loved this one song which i did not have. it was released on felas own kalakuta label originally as no other label would touch it at the time. finally 20 years later, MCA released it in the year 2000. i just ordered the cd! here’s the clip from the docu and the song authority stealing. by dd
when you’re strange
i’m even more impressed now. by dd
1 in 5: jim morrison and pamela courson
the old get older, and the young get stronger. may take a week, or it may take longer. they got the guns but we got the numbers. gonna win, yeh we’re takin’ over. by dd
sephen gan – nice!
no comment. by pp
Halston SS2011 and don quixote
how did i get from the halston fashion show to don quixote… allow me to explain. i arrived at the halston show at the barbara gladstone gallery promptly at 7:30 as noted on my calendar, only to realize that the show was at 6:30 to 7:30 and not at 7:30. oh well, it wasn’t the first time… and besides, i don’t generally frequent the same locations as the horse lady… i’m sure i’ll see the lovely hard work tomorrow.
given i didn’t have tickets to marc, i headed to the chelsea hotel bar next door, the don quixote… while we hung out there for a few glasses of wine and appetizers, i found myself lost in the many irritable versions of don quixote statuettes that lined the walls and every available surface. from porcelain figurines to marble busts, this restaurant bar must have been frozen in time since the 70’s.
once home, i had to buy the book and re-read the masterpiece that both wells and terry gilliam failed to tackle. in my search, i came across these bits and pieces… they don’t come close to my admiration for a single white, scrawny, stick figure statue of a man i saw at the door tonight, but perhaps they’ll do the trick for you… happy reading. by uh
consume – suprematisme
the birds of yucatan
my little birds are lucky to fetch $6. by uh
the most expensive book: John James Audubon’s Birds of America
having just spent days painting birds in mexico i found this book rather curious and desirable. if only i had 9 million dollars to spare, that is. a rare copy of john james audubon’s “birds of america” is heading to the auction block and is expected to fetch between $6.2 and $9.2 million. billed as the world’s most expensive book, it is one of only 119 copies in existence. the 2-by-3-foot tome consists of 435 hand-colored prints of Audubon’s famous illustrations. it comes, of course, from the collection of a british baron who died in 1955. sotheby’s, which will hold the auction in december 2010, has 8.8 million reasons to believe the audubon book will fetch a fortune. that’s how many dollars a copy sold for at a christies’s auction in just 10 years ago! wow! by uh
