Thursday, May 8, 2008

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

An artist in the Game



"Men love women but he cannot create a masterpiece for her, because he is not a woman, so he doesn't know the real soul of a skirt, or a dress. In my studio, I let boys make only men's clothing, all tailoring"

Yohji Yamamoto, Feb ID london 2008

Peter Gabriel - San Jacinto


Monday, May 5, 2008

shandruk redux

Burial - Etched Headplate


Not A Map

Just found out about this new dub-step album Untrue by Burial. Radiohead took over Zane Lowe's BBC Radio Show on January 17th, 2008, and within that time played a Burial track titled 'Archangel', afterward saying that this Burial album is "the sound of 2007/2008". I have to agree. Ironically, after this week I feel like having a burial myself...listening to Untrue all day today healed my frayed nerves.

Sunday, May 4, 2008

spring film





had the pleasure of doin it really gigantic with superstar maitland mcconnell in town for a few days during the film festival. she got the juice.... ...........


......... JJones still keepin it bossied up

more fashion more funny










make it through the controlled recession!! more colors, less black. more parties hahaha more funny

Thursday, May 1, 2008

Citizen Cope - Deep

VeeV
Went to a 'fashion party' last night in SoHo. Downed champagne liberally. Looked at blah clothing. Laughed when hearing a man refer to the guests as "the Zoolander crowd", hahaha WTF were you hoping for my friend?
All in all- my gear was bossed up, forcing me to stand out, and the night was a successful venture.

...I wonder how old Andy Warhol was when he started making the rounds at these functions.
...I wonder if Harry Crosby would have left sooner.

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

The Teenagers - French Kiss


Natanz

Pictures, words, and sounds: Driving human thought heavenward for millenia.

Just got the new cd Reality Check by The Teenagers a french pop band (thanks for the heads up JJones). Yes, the tone of the songs can be a bit redundant, but the album greets listeners with cynical cheer, drawing influence from the youthful & neon-colored American culture of the 90s. If you want to reminisce to an upbeat step about Reebok Pumps, Heroin Chic, and BevHills90210, this album is all you. Catch me @ Union Square with 'the teens' slappin in my headphones

Heres a link to the Pitchfork Media review of the album . I give personal promise that the songs are NY summertime 2k8 appropo. indeed.

The Teenagers are having a show @ the Music Hall of Williamsburg (Brooklyn) on the 3rd of May. Come push and shove!

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“I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”
-Jack London


Saturday, April 26, 2008

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Sigur Ros - Saeglopur

I hope Francis Bacon would have appreciated this butchering

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Monday, April 21, 2008

Her. Hedi Slimane






Yeah, the 'now' image should have been this..... 3-7-08

Sunday, April 20, 2008

Saturday, April 19, 2008

Radiohead - Wierd Fishes/ Arpeggi


oldskool high contrast B&W + new imagery = an updated version of Picasso's Guernica (the most prolific 20th century painting).

Fourth Summer of Love 08




L'immagine è in alto a destra. Corinne Day è quella che fino .. Selvatici da oscurità a fronte di tutto questo. Prende uno a uno significa essere in grado di che hanno un impatto molto più di quanto non importa. La sua iconografia, che è sempre più pertinenti. Di trascendere un settore, e di rientro nella cultura moderna, unbeknownst per la maggior parte, è stupefacente.

Thursday, April 17, 2008

Needle in a Haystack




In times of green sources, renewable energy, climate crisis, and all out self righteous causes for concern, people should take note that the extent of their existence is not determined by themselves. We have been on this planet only for 1/4600th of earth time; +4.6 billion plus. in that range, the earth's entire being has changed dramatically, sometimes violently, many, many times over.... and far beyond human understanding. One of my favorite times in earth history is the carboniferous era(286 million years ago), where six foot spiders and insects, and some reptiles ruled and mammals simply tried to survive. This was a far cry from our world today, on the same planet. Violent electric storms caused by this concentrated heat and chemical content in the air consistently tormented the swamp forests that covered a more equilateral North America. I Think of this everytime I hear of carbon levels rising due to fossil fuel consumption, which is true, yet mentioned for the most selfish of reasons. People simply want to maintain their way of life in places as beautiful as my home, New York, that will likely be affected as waters rise with the heat. During much of 'prehistory', the land masses were ~30% missing thanks to submersion in water due to lack of much, if any polar ice. The earth is changing, and people will be able to change with it. Part of that adjustment is going to be a population check. Nature controls all. When things get out of hand, or even if things are divine, the earth has a way of flushing itself out. Believe it or not, people, as a species, are not in control of their own destiny. We have been here only a short time and it looks that we have created our own recipe for... well only really societal disaster. As far as the earth's concerned, its nothing new, infact this is one of the most temperate eras in earth's entire history. This is an anomaly, not 'global warming'. The earth is more diverse the hotter it gets. Just look at any tropical rainforest. beautiful. Humans are the anomaly. The value of human life is merely an illusion. Dinosaurs flourished for 185 million years, 1850 times our total existence, the amount of our entire evolutionary process, or 100,000 years. Please believe that some of those organisms were highly evolved, and highly intelligent. Their speech patterns, decision making and problem solving were on par, and in the opinion of the author, more sophisticated than human logic. Because humans are the product of their own tragic flaw. We are too smart. Humans think too much. Instinctual predators such as velociraptors and such actually had true beauty, balance, in their existence. Why? Because they lived in harmony with nature. There was a race of people who in my biased opinion lived the ultimate life of sustenance and balance on this very soil before the euros. But, they were wiped out by a more 'human' civilization that only a hundred years later (remember 100 is a sixty millionth of earth time... nothing) is confused, crying and self destructing and ruled by a monopoly... slavery is kickin harder than ever.. i guess thats coo. Democracy is dead, but Obama still doin his thing.. thats wassup.... aannyway..Basically, enjoy your life, do whatever you want, because no matter what any uber liberal fucker tells you, your footprint is going pretty much unnoticed by the earth, as long as your not out there eating endangered turtles eggs or shooting one of the last 600 wild gorillas or something. Besides, an asteroid might hit the earth in 2028 anyways and cleanup you mess for you, while wiping the slate clean for a good millennia. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/64871.stm Start over with an ice age and it all keeps going... hopefully with more intuitive beings next time. Just don't give me any of that 'let's save the earth' stuff, because the earth is so beautiful that people don't even understand it is a power in it's own right far, far beyond their comprehension. this is real science. the more you know, the less. let go... meditate or something and just be. the earth will love you for it. One Love.

yea, the picture of that dude and the prehistoric fish is SCIENCE FIC.... haha. that fool would get straight served up w A1

Ryan

Citizen Cope - Hurricane Waters



With its rich color, I just couldn't stay away from the lineage of pop art as a source of imagery.
..And disregarding the fact that I'd prefer pop art to be locked in the darkest dungeon of Art's history, I am pleased with this piece.

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Kaiser Chiefs - Modern Way

portrait of the artist

Self Portrait


I want to apologize for enveloping the entire blog with images... Syke!
If I could wrap the whole world in pictures I would...

The Knife - The Captain

Cai Guo-Qiang's "Head On"

My rendition of Head On


Last but certainly not least, this was drawn inside of MoMA. I sat underneath Cai Guo-Qiang's piece "Head On" for about 3 hours sketching the energy that his piece conjured in my mind.

I LOVE the result!