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suicide: ghostrider
…suicide’s lead singer vega, owed an obvious debt to elvis presley and rockabilly singers, but his muttering, shrieking, nervy delivery was unique, sounding… at once both fragile and threatening. on the rhythm dept, rev’s simple, keyboard riffs, initially played on a battered “farfisa organ” (that is before he acquired an actual synthesizer) were accompanied by primitive drum machines of the time. this proved to be an ideal backdrop for vega’s vocals, and guaranteed them to get “booed as soon as (they) came onstage”. their albums and performances in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s are regarded as some of the most influential post-punk recordings that helped form the shit we listen to yesterday and today. including but not limited to that boy band joy division, too bad poor ian took the groups name too seriously!
viktor & rolf – wow or is that pow
on showstudio, political fashion: viktor & rolf… brilliant. by pp
champagne iii – researching the (shape of) legends
while researching these legends, i also dizzily came across the name of lee miller. miller was a model, photographer and the muse-lover of man ray (many of his most famous nude images are of lee miller)! much has been said about lee miller’s breasts in the art world, but i never thought i’d see her name in association with champagne coupes. nonetheless, tony perrottet of tony’s secret cabinet–a blog of historical anecdotes from his forthcoming book napoleon’s privates: 2500 years of history unzipped–writes, “miller was widely regarded to have the most beautiful breasts in the city [paris] – thus, it’s said, inspiring a french glass company to model a new coupe on her form.” this is the coupe form that was all the rage in the 1930s and the one uber-designer marc jacobs allegedly copied for his winter 2007 glassware collection (as seen in the food and wine link).
well before the problem of the solidity of the glass was completely determined, and the opaque bottle in the shape of a pear had definitively been chosen to preserve this precious wine, the amateurs already knew the best manner to serve it and to taste it. the height of its refinement consisted, in fact, of pouring it from very high above to allow it to foam. if the goblet (which, according to the legend, was molded on madame de pompadour’s breast, a favorite of king louis the fifteenth) had been used for a long time, it was soon realized that it presented two defects in the tasting of champagne: the quick loss of bubbles owing to its too big opening, and the almost total absence of a bouquet. therefore, the flute was soon the preferred beverage recipient. today the connoisseurs still give preference to the flute, which they recommend to fill only at 60% in order to allow a space and thus preserve all the aromas. a true connoisseur knows also that to maintain its freshness, 8 to 10 degrees celsius, and to enjoy the spectacle of the bubbles that climb back up to the surface as if by magic with a delicate murmur, the flute must be held only by the stem.
madame de pompadour not say: “champagne makes woman more beautiful and… gives spirit to the men!”
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A view Backstage
nike ‘the dance’ fashion week exhibition featuring work from ryan mcginley and hrafnhildur arnardóttir a.k.a. shoplifter by xy
assembly new york
assembly new york just opened on ludlow and is brilliant, based on “concepts with a history and reference outside of the contemporary that creates a quality beyond the current trend-driven market.” read more… by dd
ask: frank scali – dissector / artist / researcher / inventor / physician
my favorite _____ is:
villain: those who believe humans have the answers to anything. in reality, we have been wrong about everything thus far.
hero/ superhero: overlooked underdogs who learn via unbiased observation, are not burdened by money, and are a deep source of imagination. you know … children.
book: the brain that changes itself, norman doidge
smell: summer rain and cocoa butter.
band/musician/composer: thomas newman, god is an astronaut, russian circles, this will destroy you, pretty lights, caspian.
-drink/ cocktail: sambuca
-advice: everyone should donate their bodies to science so that they can be a source of something interesting at least once.
-pick-up line: I know your girl parts better than you do.
-vice: networking websites.
-woman (of all time): mom – taught me patience.
-man (of all time): dad – taught me work ethic.
-hobby: discovering beauty beyond skin through different mediums.
-prized possession: even though intangible, my mind. it is the only thing I truly own… everything else I leave behind when I die so they aren’t true possessions now are they?
-way to go (die): reflecting on life and being able to raise the final thought, “that was awesome”.
Afrika Bambaataa-Planet Rock Kraftwerk Original Video
dig it, afrika bambaataa gets on with a couple of white boy electro german nerds, aka kraftwerk. wait there were four of them not 2, or was it one guy just cloned?
Kinsky bored filming
as the story goes, he was scared shitless of the bugs in the amazon… standing all tough in his YSL safari get up. what a guy that klaus.
More Backstage
on set at milk studios. print shoot for nike white label with photographer terry richardson
christene barberich and emma reeves for nike fashion week event
on set with hiroko kawasaki of HK, brian de may and ali michael (DNA)
print shoot for nike white label. photographer terry richardson
by xy
zeitgeist : the movie… does god exist
zeitgeist: the movie is a 2007 a home made film on a string budget by director peter joseph
the film received almost universal hate and condemnation from the media, although it also attracted “massive interest from the public” making it an instant cult hit when it first came out. the filmmaker, peter joseph, attended university of north carolina school of the arts and the new school for social research. he is an american independent filmmaker and activist.
if not playing here try this link
if you look past the childish sensationalism of its war footage, and forgive the few inconsistancies brought about by lack of resources and funding, i think you will find the first chapter of this film (mainly based on the work of acharya s.) rather interesting. it traces back the origins of religion from pagans to egyptians to greeks to judaism and christianity… making a point how all this was created by man and not a god. makes a lot of sense to me even if pisces was not in retrograde. by kl
champagne i – on bubbles
champagne over ice cubes: ideally, the french champagne house piper-heidsieck suggests that champagne and rosé wine get better when served “over ice”- to boost taste. moet and chandon seems to agree as well. go ahead – drink it!
the bubbles and the glass: an initial burst of effervescence occurs when the champagne contacts the dry glass on pouring. these bubbles may form on imperfections in the glass that facilitate nucleation or on cellulose fibres left over from the wiping/drying process as shown by gérard liger-belair, richard marchal, and philippe jeandel with a high-speed video camera. . however, after the initial rush, these naturally occurring imperfections are typically too small to consistently act as nucleation points as the surface tension of the liquid smooths out these minute irregularities.
“contrary to a generally accepted idea, nucleation sites are not located on irregularities of the glass itself. the length-scale of glass and crystal irregularities is far below the critical radius of curvature required for the non-classical heterogeneous nucleation.” g. liger-belair et al
the nucleation sites that act as a source for the ongoing effervescence are not natural imperfections in the glass, but actually occur where the glass has been etched by the manufacturer or the customer. this etching is typically done with acid, a laser, or a glass etching tool from a craft shop to provide nucleation sites for continuous bubble formation (note that not all glasses are etched in this way)
nice fact about bubbles: dom pérignon was originally charged by his superiors at the abbey of hautvillers to get rid of the bubbles since the pressure in the bottles caused many of them to burst in the cellar. as sparkling wine production increased in the early 1700s, cellar workers would have to wear heavy iron mask that resembled a baseball catcher’s mask to prevent injury from spontaneously bursting bottles. the disturbance caused by one bottle’s disintegration could cause a chain reaction, with it being routine for cellars to lose 20-90% of their bottles to instability. the mysterious circumstance surrounding the then unknown process of fermentation and carbonic gas caused some critics to call the sparkling creations “the devil’s wine”.
