L O V E S O N G 04 _ Fame Irene Cara
photo Steven Sprouse

Logo Lollipops

CHANEL LUSCIOUS LILAC
photo_ Massimo Gammacurta

AARC re_DAY07_Antarctic radiolaria

Radiolaria are marine protists. The remains of their beautiful houses can be found on the bottom of the ocean as well as in fossilised rock.

An Incomplete Manifesto For Growth

1. Allow events to change you.You have to be willing to grow. Growth is different from something that happens to you. You produce it. You live it. The prerequisites for growth: the openness to experience events and the willingness to be changed by them.
2. Forget about good.Good is a known quantity. Good is what we all agree on. Growth is not necessarily good. Growth is an exploration of unlit recesses that may or may not yield to our research. As long as you stick to good you'll never have real growth.
3. Go deep.The deeper you go the more likely you will discover something of value.
4. Capture accidents.The wrong answer is the right answer in search of a different question. Collect wrong answers as part of the process. Ask different questions.
5. Study.A studio is a place of study. Use the necessity of production as an excuse to study. Everyone will benefit.
6. Drift.Allow yourself to wander aimlessly. Explore adjacencies. Lack judgment. Postpone criticism.
7. Keep moving.The market and its operations have a tendency to reinforce success. Resist it. Allow failure and migration to be part of your practice.
8. Slow down.Desynchronize from standard time frames and surprising opportunities may present themselves.
9. Don’t be cool.Cool is conservative fear dressed in black. Free yourself from limits of this sort.
10. Collaborate.The space between people working together is filled with conflict, friction, strife, exhilaration, delight, and vast creative potential.
11. ____________________.Intentionally left blank. Allow space for the ideas you haven’t had yet, and for the ideas of others.
12. Stay up late.Strange things happen when you’ve gone too far, been up too long, worked too hard, and you're separated from the rest of the world.
13. Repeat yourself.If you like it, do it again. If you don’t like it, do it again.
14. Don’t clean your desk.You might find something in the morning that you can’t see tonight.
15. Make new words.Expand the lexicon. The new conditions demand a new way of thinking. The thinking demands new forms of expression. The expression generates new conditions.
16. Think with your mind.Forget technology. Creativity is not device-dependent.
17. Power to the people.Play can only happen when people feel they have control over their lives. We can't be free agents if we’re not free.

Extracts above is cut from the Incomplete Manifesto ,written in 1998 by Bruce Mau,exemplifying his beliefs, strategies and motivations.

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Bat for Lashes _ Daniel
Dazed and Confused April 2009
PHOTO Josh Olins STYLING Nicola Formichetti

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Where Old Planes Go to Die

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Places commonly referred as – Boneyard. Once a plane arrives here, it will usually not leave intact, but will be cannibalized for parts until nothing but scrap metal remains. There are many such places around the world specially in South-West USA, due to the particular kind of climate and the chemical characteristics of the soil which helps to preserve the aircraft. Shown above is a part of the biggest Boneyard of all - Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG), a USAF aircraft storage and maintenance facility in Tucson, Arizona, located at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. It takes care of more than 4,400 aircraft. The planes are generally sealed and can be harvested for parts or reactivated as needed.

Pseudo

15-03-2009 til 18-04-2009
Galleri Christina Wilson
Project Room: Absalon Kirkeby

Chloe Sevigny for Opening Ceremony
Elisabeth and James,Spring 2009 Lookbook

Twisted Little Sister

Alexander McQueen Fall 2009

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"The Antarctic Treaty was signed in 1959 by twelve countries; to date, forty-six countries have signed the treaty. The treaty prohibits military activities and mineral mining, supports scientific research, and protects the continent's ecozone. Ongoing experiments are conducted by more than 4,000 scientists of many nationalities and with different research interests." from Wikipedia

My Antarctic State of Mind

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CASE STUDY : Antarctic Research station
MAIN COMPONENT : Excess Airplanes

Antactica, the very Absence of the Architectural object.
Within these frames I have been asked to do research for an architectural invention,investigating in the field of possible (re) uses of excess airplanes as main building component for base camps and research stations. This work will together with additional projects,
be presented in a (maga)zine/scene dedicated to the topic, hitting the streets of Copenhagen later on this spring.

to be continued...

I K O N 03 _ Katie Grand....to be continued

L I T T L E W I N G _ Jimi Hendrix

Well shes walking through the clouds
With a circus mind thats running round
Butterflies and zebras
And moonbeams and fairy tales
Thats all she ever thinks about
Riding with the wind.

When Im sad, she comes to me
With a thousand smiles, she gives to me free
Its alright she says its alright
Take anything you want from me, anything
Anything.

Fly on little wing,
Yeah yeah, yeah, little wing

HORSE AND I _

Greg Kadel Studios for German Vogue.To view complete works,click here
"Horse and I "_ by Bat for Lashes,click here.

Index of the Ordinary

L A U N D R Y_by Andrew Elliott
March 3rd, 2009

ExtraOrdinary

1 a: going beyond what is usual, regular, or customary <extraordinary powers> b: exceptional to a very marked extent.
To view the exceptionally beautiful Ice dance scene from Edward Scissorhands,click here.

Black vs. White

COFFEE & CIGARETTES

"I always think the Sex Pistols and the Ramones as very, very important because they stripped things down. " Jim Jarmusch

Wings of Desire

A N G E L _
a supernatural being placed between God and humans. The Christian hierarchy has 9 orders: seraphim, cherabim, thrones (who contemplate God and reflect his glory), dominations, virtues, powers (who regulate the stars and the universe), principalities, archangels, and angels (who minister to humanity).

Partly Albino Bald Eagle

“The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand.”

White Magic vol.3

X E L - H A B Y A F L O A T


JUN AOKI, architect. Having graduated from Tokyo University Jun Aoki worked at Arata Isozaki & Associates before establishing his own Tokyo-based practice in 1991 to do 'anything that seemed interesting'. Subsequent works have included diverse directions such as a series of houses, public architecture, and fashion boutiques as a current series of Louis Vuitton stores.

White Paper

P O R T R A I T _

"...nothing can compare with that first flash of black ink on white paper."

What triggered your move into fashion illustration - was there something specific?
Absolutely. In 1996 I was sent to draw at the Paris haute couture shows for a magazine. It blew me away! I was totally unprepared for it. Couture really is a parallel universe - I've heard it described as the kingdom of indulgence, which is true, but it is also extremely inspiring for an artist or illustrator; the worlds most beautiful women, designers working without constraint - the sheer theatricality of it all - there is a lot to draw!

What makes an interesting fashion subject?
I think the most important thing is the sense of the body in the clothes. After that, proportion, colour, a detail. Anything can catch the eye - but what is interesting in fashion terms isn't necessarily what makes a good drawing and vice versa.

Lets talk about your work methods. How do you arrive at the elimination of detail?
In order to leave something out, first you have to put it in, or at least understand how every thing works. I do dozens of drawings on to layout paper taking the best from each one as I go. When the drawing looks right I start to eliminate, to de-construct if you like. I keep working until it looks spontaneous.

What for you makes a successful fashion illustration?
Fluidity, mastery of the medium - capturing a sense of the moment, layout and use of space and most important of all, strong drawing.

So would you call yourself a portrait painter?
No! Absolutely not. Lucien Freud, Graham Sutherland and Jenny Saville are portrait painters.

DAVID DOWNTON INTERVIEWED BY TONY GLENVILLE .

TONY GLENVILLE IS A FASHION WRITER, LECTURER AND HISTORIAN

I K O N 02 _
Sonia Rykiel is in France considered a living fashion legend, a title that seems only fair when you consider she has been one of the country's foremost fashion designers for 38 years. This would be enough for most people but "fashion designer" is just one of Madame Rykiel's many hats. This woman, who sold 360,000 jumpers last year alone, is also an acclaimed author of books like Les Levres Rouges (The Red Lips) and Je La Voudrais Nus ( I Would Like Her To Be Naked). She has also illustrated children's fairytale books, moonlighted as an interior designer (reworking the decor of two Paris hotels), inspired Robert Altman's film Pret-a-Porter (her friend Anouk Aimee played her) and, three years ago, she herself played a character role in an arty French film called Riches, Belles et Jolies. Rykiel was also persuaded to turn her talents to music when Malcolm McClaren asked her to record a duet with him for his album Paris.

IS: Sonia? If I was to come to Paris tomorrow, and said I'd like you to take me to places so I could understand the essence of Paris over different decades, where would you take me? Let's start with the '60s. SR: Well...Crazy Horse Saloon, for the '60s. You will see that and die, because it's fantastic.

IS: I'm sure. And the '70s; would that also be the Crazy Horse Saloon? SR: Why not? Yes.

IS: For the '80s, where would we go? SR: A cemetery. Le Cimetiere Montparnasse or Le Pere Lachaise. You can see all the young people going around the tombs of Baudelaire, Maupassant, Man Ray, De Musset. It is absolutely fantastic.

IS: How about the '90s? SR: I don't know if you like Proust...You know, the more grown-up you are, the more you like Proust. And there is a place in Paris. It's on Boulevard Haussmann. It's open only on Thursdays. It's in the middle of a bank, on the second floor. In this bank, there is the bedroom of Marcel Proust, where he wrote most of A la Recherche du Temps Perdu.

Taken from Ingrid Sischys interview; Inside Paris Fashion. For full version clik here.

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Elvis Presley + unknown cover _ Fools Rush In

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P O L A R O I D S

For Dash Snow photography becomes a way of engaging with environment and memory. Each snapshot captures a place, time, and emotion, freeze-framing the individual components of everyday experience, mapping out the compilation of an identity. Using a Polaroid camera for its instantaneous results and association as keep-sakes, the familiar format of Snow’s photos replicates the sentiments of his images: cheap, disposable, and plebian mementos become humble evidence of discarded beauty. Documenting his life through a lens, Snow’s photographs explore personal existence as a periphery to globalised culture. Presenting an unabridged account of his marginalised lifestyle, Snow’s often uncomfortable images paint an intimate portrait where topical issues such as sex, drugs, poverty, and anti-social behaviour are confronted from a frank position of personal participation. Translated through the generic quality of his medium, Snow’s photos convey the disoriented fragments of memory as voyeuristic observation, conceiving the experience of ‘self’ as a bi-product of mass media dissociation. Offering a unique insight into an alternative lifestyle, Snow uncovers a p o e t i c beauty within the dissolute and discarded.

www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/

www.tinyvices.com/dash_snow.html

White Magic

The male peafowl,or peacock,has long been valued for its amazing tail feathers.The bright spots on it are common known as "eyes",and inspired the Greek myth that Hera placed the 100 eyes of her slain giant Argus on the tail of her favorite bird.

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Joan as a Policewoman _ To be Loved

I C O N 01 _
Daphne Guinness is a fashion stylist, film producer and member of the Guinness brewing family.
She grew up in an artists’ colony near Barcelona with Salvador DalÍ and the Surrealists;" My dress sense is very coloured by my youth. Everybody around me knew that DalÍ was the most crazy; you’d go to his house and he would have lobsters in his pool." There’s fancy dress and armor, clothes that say, “Come here” or “Stand back,” that whisper, “Trust me” or “Respect me,” that shout, “Fear me.” But there are very few people, just a handful, who have a relationship with their clothes like Daphne Guinness. She dresses out. She has never had a look, never once, never remotely, that was anyone’s but her very own. With a penchant for armor and feathers, the fashion muse Daphne Guinness has been to known to turn heads. But in her short film “The Phenomenology of Body,” the beer heiress cum director puts the politics of fashion on display. Taking the viewer through a revolving journey of how clothes have defined, constricted and liberated women throughout history, Guinness presents a stark catalog of vintage, new and costume pieces. The result — a spare voyage set to “Great Release” by LCD Soundsystem.

Daphne Guinness has worked on a shirt collection and fragrance for Comme des Garçons, and supported Sean Ellis in the making of the price winning shortfilm "Cashback" _ sometimes love lies within the seconds of you life.

Clouds Hugging Mountains _ N o r w a y

‘New York, I Love You’ Trailer : New York, I Just Met You And Yet Also I Left You

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iB270fk-FhM

The Tagline: "The city that never sleeps never stops dreaming."

The Verdict: "That's one of the things I love best about New York," Julie Christie says in the trailer for the second movie in the anthology series that began with Paris, Je T'Aime " Everyone came from somewhere else ."

The Plot: New York, I Love You is a collective work of twelve short films, with each segment running around 5 minutes long. Some of the directors have international status, with each shooting their part in one of New York´s five boroughs. Similar to the previous film, Paris Je'Taime, the shorts presented together will not relate but will all tie into the common theme of finding love.

2009 MoMA/P.S.1 Young Architects Program _ MOS

F O R T R E S S- Experimental Software Development with S. Greenwold, Parametric Growth of self-structuring trusses
http://www.mos-office.net/


M O S is an interdisciplinary practice engaging in architecture and design through an inclusive methodology of research, expansive collaboration, and extensive experimentation. The work develops through research ranging from typology, digital production, structure, material, program and use, to larger networks of social, cultural, and environmental consideration.
The scope of M O S's research constantly shifts and expands as each individual project has the potential to engage a unique set of parameters, specific to its condition. This process of "radical inclusion" allows M O S to participate in design at different scales-from product design, to private residences, to cultural institutions to large-scale urban infrastructure.

http://www.hedislimane.com/diary/index.php