A Conversation About Modeling
Share This is for all you young models, enjoy! The rewards, disadvantages, and lessons of a youth spent modeling for the fashion industry. “Cindy Crawford interviews Beverly Johnson, Linda Evanglista, Naomi Campbell, Christy Turlington, and Lauren Hutton for House of Style Special.”
“Paris Is Burning” Director & Drag Queens Interview, Joan Rivers Show!
ShareParis is Burning is a movie to watch. There’s the annual latex ball at the Roseland Theatre uptown.. where in 2008 I saw 8 year old Diva Davanna compete and walk off against another young girl. “The Joan River’s Show with Jennie Livingston, director of “Paris is Burning”. Legendary ball divas Dorian Corey, Pepper LaBieja, [...]
The Balancing Act of Art & Sedation
ShareOne of the nice things about art is that it’s esoteric. The varying levels of abstractness, symbolism, and perspective seem to contain hidden messages, which more or less fly under the radar of anyone who isn’t capable of mentally grasping the message (ie. an appropriate audience, whether in agreement or disagreement). There is an idea [...]
A good way of pricing it..
Share“My feelings [have] always been that a great shoot if done in 5 seconds or 10 hrs has the same value. Just think of your 5k+ [laser eye surgeon's two minute job].” –forum post I stumbled onto (and then corrected grammar of) via http://robertbenson.com/blog/ . I’ve been addicted to reading that blog tonight. I love [...]
Great Articles on Understanding Model Releases
ShareI came across some terrific articles written by Dan Heller tonight. They’re the most comprehensive (much more so than the ASMP’s site) guide to understanding the huge fuzzy unknown area of if a photographer even needs a model release, and what you can do legally with the photos you take. It takes about 2 hours [...]
The Public Baths of New York City
Share Hamilton Fish Pool, 1936 (All images in this post courtesy NYC Dept of Parks & Recreation) I’ve had the above image of a massive visually endless pool with dividing walkways strongly imprinted in my mind from a dream I had a couple years ago. I’m not sure if I’d seen this imagery before, or [...]
How to: Coconut Milk, Thai Basil Chicken, & more videos at Thaifoodcast.com
ShareSorry for the diversion. My friend was telling me how she loves vegan ice cream and that it’s made with coconut milk. Then I got curious how you make coconut milk, so I wiki’d it, and it had a link to a video.. I *love* coconut milk! I want to do this right now! I [...]
Nicola Formichetti Interview on Models.com
ShareNicola Formichetti Interview on Models.com: http://nicolaformichetti.blogspot.com/2009/07/interview-on-modelscom.html Q. Japanese Mother, Italian Father…two very strong cultural influences to be born of. What traits do you carry today that you would put in the column of your Father/Italian side vs. the traits you may associate more with being the influences of your Mother? Both cultures are a big [...]
Thoughts on: Privatization Publication
ShareA social crisis goes critically unaware- The privatization of public space, and the publication of private space. -10/3/2008
Luc Sante’s Low Life
ShareLow Life preface xi “There and about town, once useful objects are presented as decorative artifacts, bereft of purpose except to evoke vague images of an era about which little need be known other than that it was a “simpler time”. The common word for this kind of distortion is “nostalgia.” This word can be [...]
Janis Joplin
Share JANIS JOPLIN, Port Arthur, Texas September 3, 1969 [from PDNGallery : Legends] I have like what anyone would call like, say, a loneliness, a loneliness of my own. But it’s just a private trip and probably shouldn’t be forced on other people that much, you know what I mean? God, fuck it. Who cares [...]
Shared (telepathic) and precognitive dreams
ShareThis theoretical field of thought has been a *huge* fascination of mine since childhood. I believe that if you increase your mental presence in your dreaming, you’ll have greater recall to notice correlation between dreaming of things to come (places you haven’t yet been to, situations that haven’t happened yet), and also the ability to [...]
Thoughts on: the next art movement
ShareIf the next art movement after postmodernism is truly contingent on the fall of capitalism, then isn’t that the strongest argument against our idea that we can define ‘art’? We are nowhere in control because we are bottlenecked by social circumstance; we further do not have the ability to define a new art movement because [...]
Thoughts on: Work (marxism)
ShareThe black horse of private equity is a prime example of the usurpation and destruction of the arts. Free creative expression is no longer self-sustaining and cannot survive against a system of forced buyouts, as the foundation for the arts is not the same as the foundation of capitalist culture (exploitation). The concepts of the [...]
Thoughts on: A Compilation
ShareWhat does one do when you’re caught.. not in the middle, but caught being not even involved in either? Do you support the old guard because you understand it, or the new guard which you don’t understand but because it’s new? 7/27/2009 – “Everyone wants a formula!” 3/27/09 – “Capitalism, consumerism, materialism drive me mad!” [...]
Observations on Los Angeles
Share1. LA is the experimentalist and New York is the hard traditionalist that takes experimenting seriously. LA has already lept into the digital world; it is the largest urban planning social experiment I’ve seen to date. 2. LA will probably be the first to experiment with grid driving on an x-y-z axis. 3. Suburban sprawl [...]
David Bailey, the sixties and ‘bloody’ feminism
Sharehttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1924630/David-Bailey-the-sixties-and-bloody–feminism.html Models, film stars and now Westminster’s movers and shakers… David Bailey’s lens has caught them all. He tells Roya Nikkhah about his life. David Bailey directs a model during a photoshoot in 1967 David Bailey makes Gordon Ramsay sound like vicar giving his Sunday sermon. Such is his love of expletives, barely a sentence [...]
The Vanishing Point – The New Male Silhouette
Share NOW YOU SEE THEM Sascha Kooienga, left, and Artem Emelianov represent the current silhouette on the men’s wear runway. More Photos > By GUY TREBAY Published: February 7, 2008 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/07/fashion/shows/07DIARY.html?adxnnl=1&8ur=&emc=ur&adxnnlx=1202486872-cOTMM05ORBaO0ELAz/a4pw CREDIT Hedi Slimane or blame him. The type of men Mr. Slimane promoted when he first came aboard at Dior Homme some years back [...]