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my favorite _____ is:
–film: sunset blvd. by billy wilder
(david is a man of few words)
(david is a man of few words)
ask: david lynch-director
my favorite _____ is:
my favorite _____ is:
NICO IN LIGHT
from nico’s final studio album, produced by john cale.
also from her last album, one of her darker pieces. by kl
Pattie Boyd + Harrison
by dd
FABRIC FUTURE
The BMW GINA Light Visionary Model is made of fabric, a feature that makes it genuinely cutting-edge.
All too often a concept car is little more than a marketing exercise disguised as pioneering design. By beefing up the form of a forthcoming model, a car manufacturer can begin the PR machine for a new design and gauge public opinion by effectively employing a mass focus group. Stunning as these cars often are, rarely do they break with convention.
Recognizing this fact, BMW does not refer to their latest design as a concept car, for the non-production car is based on the GINA principle: Geometry and Functions In Adaptations, which the company says, promotes innovative thinking by allowing maximum freedom of creativity. With the aim of challenging previously pursued solutions in car design, this month the BMW Group Design team revealed the groundbreaking GINA Light Visionary Model. A two-seater roadster with seemingly sculpted body, the GINA references some of the great cars of yesteryear with its steeply inclined windshield. Yes there are three elements that mark the GINA as truly forward-thinking and make it worthy of a superhero owner. that fabric cover, a structural form that changes shape, and intelligent interior. by kl
Mark and his melody
photographer/musician/exceptional cook/host and artist mark borthwick, with leonora hamill, and ucef hanjani in london. by dd
backdoor man
no comment! by zz
ARTISTS WHO SURF: robert longo
Robert Longo
Untitled(V Land)
charcoal on mounted paper
48 x 108 inches
Robert Longo
Untitled(Dragon Head)
2001
charcoal and graphite on mounted paper
82 x 66 inches
for those of us on the east coast, the last dregs of summer bring the big waves generated by hurricanes born in the south atlantic. the unrelenting shore break drags posh beachfront real estate and frolicking beach-goers right out to sea without prejudice. this is the best time of year for east coast surfers, it certainly is for me. but this summer, the biggest waves I’ve seen are on paper in robert longo’s studio. We’ve had shit for surf all summer because there haven’t been any hurricanes.
earlier in the summer i decided to do a video project that i’m calling “artists who surf.” it is the perfect no-brainer, a moderate amount of studio interview time and a whole lot of surf time. robert longo, bill komoski and michael halsband were my first choices among a growing list artist-surfers. the way I see it, a good art video is one with a little chat with an interesting artist and then a lot of wave action. don’t you agree? read more from artnet by pp
john lennon: erotic
one of my favorite purchases from street book tables. from the march 1970 issue of avant garde, these are ‘john lennon’s erotic lithographs’. beautiful. by kl
muddy waters
an interesting time capsule of one of the greatest waters around. fiji eat your heart out! by dd
art + fashion
it’s not a new observation that the realms of fine art and fashion have been bleeding into one another for quite some time. fashion has more obviously been attracted to the random creativity and legitimacy of visual artists.
and fashion has been bleeding into the realm of fine art in more than visual sensibility, we have ….., and have now big-banged together at the recent met gala for the opening of the fashion based “superheros fashion and fantasy” show. there are times when either side creates an appropriate union but all in all they are definitely cousins visiting on the weekend, and not husband and wife.
jean nouvel in advertising campaign for poltrona frau
GAP artist edition t-shirts – featuring barbara kruger, jeff koons and marilyn minter. by pp
tobias wong : a beautiful mind
originally from vancouver, canada, tobias wong creates in new york. after studying art and architecture, he graduated in sculpture from the cooper union. wong treats design as a medium rather than a discipline to show how it embraces the aesthetics traditionally relegated to the fine arts. he’s coined the term “paraconceptual” to describe his dismantling of the hierarchies between “art” and “design.” in wong’s hands, both have similar goals.
tobias wong in his studio
remote control light switch designed for conduit group
real gold capsules… so you can shit gold… talk about social criticism
the “mirror” puzzle set a black one was done in collaboration with commes des garcon – good luck with that
wong has a way of looking at the ordinary and transforming it into something extraordinary, as expressed by his bent pencil (above), and reverse diamond ring (below) a weapon in the time of need against your husband
(below) smoking mittens for those very cold days
“protect me form what i want”
not merely conceptual, his work mocks its own consumption. wong literalized this message with a jenny holzer tattoo on his right forearm: “PROTECT ME FROM WHAT I WANT.” this maxim was written on wong’s flesh by holzer herself, then made permanent with injected ink. equally indelible are wong’s readydesigneds (replacing the anonymous readymade objects with well recognized designer pieces) refashioned. these new forms and aesthetic concepts brace against, appreciate, and invite desire. wong’s continuing exploration of this conundrum goes beyond the paraconceptual to projects he now refers to as “postinteresting”… by pp
