Hi Everyone,

Many of you are aware of my sanguine aspiration toward a life of professional artmaking. An aspiration which resoundingly began at first sight and seeks the infinite.
Observing my current lot in the landscape of art, I am a mere sapling, tentatively reaching upward with the vigors and ignorances of youth. But there is an undeniable burgeoning happening. A hope, that past the skeletal temporality of buzzworthiness, money, notoriety, etc, lays truth: an image that articulates the perfect beauty of life's imperfection. Something that made sense before words existed and will make sense after. It is my desire that you will observe, through my website, as my experiments to find truth are carried out. I am at the beginning of a long road and I humbly seek audience along the journey. I look forward to hearing your critical input, suggestions, approvals, disapprovals, and offers, as my career progresses. And please pass the word on!

www.andrewbirk.com

Thanks!!

Sincerely,

Andrew Birk

Theresa's Sound Layers

LOST IN PARADISE

GHOSTYFACE

that nick knight shit is real. i want the photoshop fashion gig.

Naomi by Nick Knight - ShowStudio.com. Its real.

DOIN IT BIG TOP MOD MONTAUK MONSTERS

Sonic Youth - Moon In The Bathroom

1. is it possible for a human to indiscriminately enjoy ?

this is one of my favorite photos

fuckit

last night many beers philosophy art graduate school contemporary landscape buzzwords
feel like frame of reference is off kilter
thinking planning ensues

BAD ART in 2009

Still Sneezin' at Armani

YOCK BITCH

no reason is the best reason

the world went crazy......

almost spring.

it is a beautiful week in milan

      .........................................................My brother passed away today. I don't like discussing death for the simple reason that I have a different perspective than most on the issue. I almost don't know why I'm speaking about it here, because the last thing I want is anybody to feel sorry... The point is I feel a sense of peace and euphoria today as opposed to what i feel are false and imposed ideas of depression. I simply cannot afford to do anything but honor my brother by working harder on enjoying my life and achieving things that he can continue to enjoy vicariously from wherever he is in the universe today, and in the future. When I went to the city above for the first time, I spoke with him the day prior. He told me in cinematic fashion, "Enjoy Paris for me..."... I knew what it meant. We had shared many moments like this. Now, it's an everyday thang for me. Enjoy your lives. The little things. Fuck the bullshit. PEACE. I'm celebrating life tonight.

I love you Sam. You taught me everything you knew. Thank you.

Marc Jacobs shows to favorable review

 http://www.style.com/fashionshows/complete/F2009RTW-MJACOBS

i wish people still took drugs in the arts: The Face 3/97

Paolo Roversi V italia 10/99

Kate Moss Vogue Russia Mario Testino 98'

Magnum P.I.- Simon has mastered the game.

look fo yo self

Ness. Unknown

Paul Maffi Rodeo Magazine feb

BAY SHIT







LIKE THAT????!!!!!>>!>!>!>!>!>!>!>!> COGNAC LOUNGE BEAT

hottest building in the world to me right now. Pantheon of Rome. finished in 126. + Too Short - Punk Bitch

whoever the backstage models.com photogs are, im a fan. hanlin suffa

always boss ...... favre

One Two Punch Full-Frontal: 'New York Times' Sells Ads Below Fold

The New York Times made history. Again. On Monday, it ran an ad on its front page for the first time in its existence--yet another indication of how dire the fortunes of big newspaper publishers have become. As the industry reels from the one-two punch of Internet competition and recession, once-sacrosanct barriers to advertising are coming crashing down.

The Times inaugurated the new inventory availability with a display ad for CBS, appearing in a two-and-a-half-inch horizontal strip at the bottom of the front page. Advertisers will only be able to place ads below the fold. The CBS ad promotes some of its most popular shows, including "CSI," "Two and a Half Men," "60 Minutes," "The Mentalist" and CBS Sports' football coverage.

Although many big newspapers have offered advertisers front-page spots, The New York Times long prided itself on presenting readers with nothing but news--in keeping with the paper's reputation for substance and gravitas.

However, advertising has crept onto the front page of some sections: In August, The New York Times Sunday Magazine debuted its first cover wrap, a half-page advertisement for U.S. Trust, Bank of America's private wealth-management division. The newspaper has also begun offering spadia ads in some sections, such as "Business Day" or "The Arts," with unique positioning for online ads and single-sponsor magazine issues. (Spadias are a page wrapped around the spine of a section of the paper that appears as a partial page.)

The Times finally yielded the front-page spot amid great financial distress, as print ad revenues plunge and online revenues don't make up the difference. In the third quarter of 2008, ad revenue fell 8.9% to $687 million, compared to the same period in 2007. While fourth-quarter results are not yet available, total revenues decreased 9.4% in October and 13.9% in November.

The company recently announced plans to raise cash by mortgaging its headquarters in Manhattan and selling its stake in the Boston Red Sox. p> "With a weekday readership of 2.8 million and a Sunday readership of 4.2 million, The New York Times is the largest seven-day newspaper in the United States," said Denise Warren, chief advertising officer for the NYT Media Group. <

"It's exciting that CBS is kicking off The New York Times' inaugural front-page ad," said George Schweitzer, president, CBS Marketing Group. "America's most-watched network will clearly have one of the most-read ads--and we value this new means of prominently showcasing our valuable media properties."

              -Erik Sass

BLACKS ALLOWED IN FASHION????!!!! PPPBBBTTT NAH NAH

I KNEW I SEENT THEM CASTING DIRECTORS AT C-TOWN ON 150th!!!!!

“Some casting sheets actually said ‘No Blacks,”’ the 19-year-old model Shawn Sutton was saying on Friday, backstage at the Duckie Brown show in the Bryant Park tent. He was referring to the model castings at the recent men’s wear shows in Milan.

Times Topics: Professional Models

“It was pretty brutal and, yeah, it was racist,” he added. “But things opened up a lot by Paris, so I paid it no mind.”

Mr. Sutton was one of 24 models in a show whose casting, for once, reflected some ethnic diversity. It is early days in New York’s Fashion Week, but already there are signs that the recent industry habits of exclusion may be undergoing a shift. Call it the Obama effect, if you will.

“Oh, it’s totally about Obama,” said Marcus Lloyd, a 22-year-old African American model from Dallas. “I remember my agent was like, ‘If Obama does become president, there’s going to be a lot more work for you guys.”’

Duckie Brown may not be the most representative of the 200 shows scheduled for the next week, since the label’s designers, Steven Cox and Daniel Silver, have always taken pleasure in showcasing what the writer Grace Paley once termed New York’s “gorgeous chromatic dispersion.” But why not take this as a signal of change?

One welcome effect—should that change occur and should fashion magazines and advertising agencies and designers suddenly decide to remove the Whites Only sign—would be a boost in employment for all sorts of homegrown talent.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg likes to point out that the fashion business supports more than 175,000 jobs in the city and generates some $10 billion in wages. Presumably some of those jobs go to people from the Mysterious Outer Boroughs, although you’d never guess it based on the stuff that sometimes emerges from the mouths of fashion folk.

Was the designer who recently told me she could never quite figure out where Queens is kidding? She was not. “I know it’s out there somewhere,” she said. It must be, she added. It says Queens right there on the taxi map.

Mr. Sutton grew up in a neighborhood on the border of Brooklyn and Queens, a place where the prospect of finding work in the modeling business — where a successful 19-year-old can pull down more in a good year than most mid-career doctors do— never even came up. And it never would have if an agent hadn’t spotted the handsome young man, who is half African American and half Portuguese, hauling bags of ice on his catering job.

The same is true of Courtney Taylor, 20, who recently starred in a Dior Homme campaign, and of Dominique Hollington, a 19-year-old from the Grant Houses housing projects in Harlem, who was scouted while buying a pair of Nike Sharks at a store on 125th Street.

“I never ever thought I’d be in Milan and Paris,” remarked Mr. Taylor, who had previously had in mind a basketball career that “didn’t work out.”

Growing up in the Grant Houses, Mr. Hollington said, “I didn’t think much about modeling.” He had never heard of Versace or Jean Paul Gaultier or Giuliano Fujiwara, to name three runway shows for which he was recently in Europe. For that matter, it had not seemed to him very likely that his work life would include regular trips to Italy and France.

“Fashion shows have basically been Caucasian for a while,” Mr. Sutton said. “I feel like that’s going to change now.” He added: “I’m not really a black model, I’m a model. I just love putting on the clothes and jumping into the character.”

As Mr. Sutton spoke, a producer called, “First looks” and then herded all the models toward the backstage catwalk entrance. Setting down his plastic glass of Prosecco — Shhhh! Under-age drinking backstage at a fashion show? Shock-horror!— Mr. Sutton looked around at a lineup that was black and Asian and white and Latino and Native American in something like the proportions one sees every day on the subway, yet almost never at fashion shows.

“Maybe having a black president will make the fashion industry be a little bit more about reality” he said.

Air - Mike Mills

MORE DOPE

for me this is bad

svenska winter

Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Polly Come Home

THAT PURO FOR YOUR RODS AND CONES

Aurora Borealis

I felt i could see the start of some in southern sweden and it captured my imagination

Heather Marks on NYmag

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  http://nymag.com/daily/food/2009/02/model_heather_marks_loves_toas.html
  
  
  
  Wow, six days of semi-starvation followed by pasta, cheese, and mashed potatoes all on one day. Wednesday's eating was more than the rest of the week combined. Of course, she probably didn't eat anything prepared by the photographer's chef.

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  BY DD7 on 02/06/2009 at 11:11am

• i dont know how she could live like this

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  BY JACKSONHEIGHTSLOVESYOU on 02/06/2009 at 12:46pm

• i'm sorry, one glass of light white wine??!! It's almost sad. i could never be deprived in such a way.

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  BY LOUISEPLEASE on 02/06/2009 at 12:53pm

• What's wrong with her diet? It seems healthy to me. Maybe it's because I'm from California - so it seems like every day, regular food for health conscious Californians.

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  BY AZZIZABISAZZA on 02/06/2009 at 1:06pm

• Come on people!! She's a model and wouldn't be working if she ate like most of us. If any of you people made as much money as she does by being thin, you'd eat like her too.

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  BY MC0325 on 02/06/2009 at 1:18pm

• heather's log impressed me!...and i loved missy rayder's when they profiled her around fashion week a year or two ago also. funnily enough, they both mention the dragon bowl from angelika's.
  they seem very healthy and they actually eat. 
  
  when i think of unhealthy people in fashion, i think of this: http://nymag.com/fashion/07/spring/28151/index3.html

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  BY BK84 on 02/06/2009 at 1:40pm

• I think she eats more than I do.

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  BY EWALLACE on 02/06/2009 at 2:35pm

• At least she's honest that she stays away from carbs (most models deny it and claim they eat whatever they want). She's prepping for the shows, I'm sorry but is it so wrong for her to understand that she can't drink alcohol and eat big mac's. Frankly, I respect her understanding the balance of vegetables, protein, and eating three times daily. At least she doesn't look like that skinny nastiness from the show the City. seriously!!!

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  BY KSOLCHOULER on 02/06/2009 at 2:38pm

• I think that her diet is not too bad. I personally would not have exactly the same diet, but it's not too bad. She eats healthy & in small portions. Sounds much better the all of those crazy fad diets.

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  BY REDLANDS123 on 02/06/2009 at 2:46pm

• "If I have a lot of carbs it really exhausts me"....??? 
  
  last time I checked, it doesn't work that way

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  BY WHITNEYMD on 02/06/2009 at 5:10pm

Carmen Kass by Steven Klein Vogue US March 2006

free advertising for best agency (show package)

http://models.com/oftheminute/?p=4793

FASHION WEEK STILL EXISTS???????? hahaha. serious... thank god for leaving bryant park

Andrew Bird - The Barn Tapes

1. a warbling masterpiece of analog music.
   
2. lets forget about twitter and renovate the olden ways.
3. art cannot die once its entered our hearts
   

fuck ryan clark. fuck andrew birk. peace....

continued

Ryan

you should call supreme, paint a b-tch and take a picture

that would be modern

1:24pmAndrew

mod. paint a b-tchs face out

You Are Now Listening

Ryan

bro

its real

you and your girl are on facebook at the same time. it must be the new milleni

1:09pmAndrew

hahah phag

1:11pmRyan

so we're going white huh?

1:11pmAndrew

just over here stepping up my myspace and facebook game- u dig? changed the colors of rep. wadnt feeling that scheme. its all chilly chill

yep

2009 is all about white

1:11pmRyan

ooooh yeah

1:11pmAndrew

taint you know?

1:11pmRyan

its all real. im glad. i couldnt settle on anything

i wanted white

The Cinematic Orchestra - Oregon

i<3d@yz0ff

hum - i hate it too

excuse the shyte photography

Women girl Isa Asklof+ Ill shirt + Striking Alien

 

Hard Times Ahead for Models

Shitty article, but true forecast. Watch out beauties................ unless you're simon nessman  BOI

http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2009/02/its_hard_out_there_for_a_model.html

rome w rodeo team

Maison Martin Margiela Bows out

     We've been tossing back in forth in the office whether fashion is over as we know it. When I heard that Margiela was stepping away from fashion, one of the most inspiring designers for me due to his running the house like an architecture firm, with great distance and precision, I knew that it is indeed the end of an era. Ok, so his staff designs the collections, but that's not the point for me. Clothes are what fashion is all about, but not where all the fun is. The fun is the fantasy, the parties, the 'glamour'- And the allure that it is something aspirational. So, when someone I aspire to emulate at least in part leaves, it takes some luster with. Watch- Marc Jacobs is next. These guys know something is seriously wrong here, and no, it's not just the market/economy. 

 

Nine Inch Nails - 34 Ghosts IV

1. by far one of the most intense images ive ever produced

Sonic Youth - Thought Bubbles

Rickie Lee Jones - Vessel Of Light

well well well

Meisel Vogue Feb 09

fuck, i used to have such a big screen......  (: