Thursday, January 12, 2012
Juggalos Meet Pierrot in Vogue Italy
What happens when you take one-part creepy Pierrot clown, mix it up with a touch of American Juggalo, and then toss it all onto Dutch model Querelle Jansen? The makings for a perfectly high-fashion magazine editorial, of course! Brought to us once again by the molto bene minds over at Vogue Italy, the shoot titled Power of Love features the somber damsel on her daily grind – shopping at Dior, taking gloved baths, and snubbing her husband, naturally. Because as we all know, rich people are all just SO tortured inside…
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Papering the Afterlife
Before reincarnation, you might need your stuff — your machine guns, cars, shoes, servants — you know, stuff. There’s an old, outlawed but tolerated Chinese custom of creating folded Joss paper into the form of their dead’s beloved earthly possessions and burning them as well-meaning effigies at the funeral ceremony. With the influx of capitalism, paper prostitutes, Viagra, ecstasy, gambling junk was sited smoldering at the graveyard. Artist and photographer Kurt Tong made you these, plus iPods, Louis Vuitton and some Mickey D. Safe travels, ghosts! “In Case It Rains in Heaven,” Kurt Tong, Jan 28 – Mar 4, Jen Bekman Projects, NYC. from ANIMAL
Saturday, January 7, 2012
Bonnie and Clyde’s Guns for Sale
Hey, badass. Looking for a romantical gift? How about his and hers Bonnie and Clyde guns, seized at the outlaw couple’s Joplin hideout in 1933 after a shootout. The rare weapons are going up for auction in Kansas City this month.
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Barbie Is a Hoarder
Barbie Is a Hoarder:
Barbie Trashes Her Dreamhouse is a 1/6th scale model of a hoarder’s home. It’s furnished with actual generic Barbie™ and Bratz™ toys and tiny, tiny props hand-crafted by artist Carrie M. Becker. Trash mountains, gaping pizza boxes, books, paper, crap, many unnecessary stockpiles… add in a few animals and some missing art, and you’ve got the National Arts Club’s old diggs. Nifty.
What makes this excellent are the personal touches, not just the authenticity and details of the tiny, tiny artifacts. The dusty computer monitor stickered in notes, the classic composition books and corny inspirational poster replicas, Steve Jobs peaking from a Time magazine, the dingy water in the backed-up toilet, the scum on the drawers, the strewn about copies of The Sun.
See at the Riney Fine Arts Center Gallery at Friends University in Wichita, Kansas in September, 2012.
Barbie Trashes Her Dreamhouse is a 1/6th scale model of a hoarder’s home. It’s furnished with actual generic Barbie™ and Bratz™ toys and tiny, tiny props hand-crafted by artist Carrie M. Becker. Trash mountains, gaping pizza boxes, books, paper, crap, many unnecessary stockpiles… add in a few animals and some missing art, and you’ve got the National Arts Club’s old diggs. Nifty.What makes this excellent are the personal touches, not just the authenticity and details of the tiny, tiny artifacts. The dusty computer monitor stickered in notes, the classic composition books and corny inspirational poster replicas, Steve Jobs peaking from a Time magazine, the dingy water in the backed-up toilet, the scum on the drawers, the strewn about copies of The Sun.
See at the Riney Fine Arts Center Gallery at Friends University in Wichita, Kansas in September, 2012.
Rich People Almost Screwed Up NYC’s Grid
Rich People Almost Screwed Up NYC’s Grid:
As we’ve noted, there’s an ongoing exhibit on how radically awesome New York City’s grid system is and the fascinating history behind it when first proposed back in the early 1800s.
The plan was quite the controversial undertaking and the Times reports how the wealthy created all sorts of problems: “One obstacle was that the island was already parceled into irregularly shaped, privately owned properties.”
At first they were opposed to the grid, but soon discovered that their newly divided lots were worth a lot of money, and this is what birthed the city’s real estate market. Although not even these visionaries could have expected an era when $88 million apartments aren’t the most expensive and can be topped by offers on property that doesn’t even exist yet. (Image of 1st Avenue between 54th and 55th Streets circa 1866: Museum of the City of New York/NYT)
As we’ve noted, there’s an ongoing exhibit on how radically awesome New York City’s grid system is and the fascinating history behind it when first proposed back in the early 1800s. The plan was quite the controversial undertaking and the Times reports how the wealthy created all sorts of problems: “One obstacle was that the island was already parceled into irregularly shaped, privately owned properties.”
At first they were opposed to the grid, but soon discovered that their newly divided lots were worth a lot of money, and this is what birthed the city’s real estate market. Although not even these visionaries could have expected an era when $88 million apartments aren’t the most expensive and can be topped by offers on property that doesn’t even exist yet. (Image of 1st Avenue between 54th and 55th Streets circa 1866: Museum of the City of New York/NYT)
Light-sensitive inks by Lumi
Photographic print design team Lumi has come out with a line of awesome, permanent, light-sensitive inks that allow you to make light-transfer images on a variety of surfaces.
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
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