Representable

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Kate Moss Vogue Russia Mario Testino 98'

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

look fo yo self

Monday, February 16, 2009

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

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

Sunday, February 15, 2009

Friday, February 13, 2009

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.

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Air - Mike Mills

MORE DOPE

for me this is bad

svenska winter

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Polly Come Home

THAT PURO FOR YOUR RODS AND CONES

Monday, February 9, 2009

Aurora Borealis

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

Heather Marks on NYmag

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