Cosmic Cement

I haven't updated in an unforgivable amount of time. Please forgive me and blame it on the visual overload from the past six months. And a really slow macbook...

Moving forward I have a lot of really exciting things to share--new designers, amazing images, and lots of behind-the-scenes for a movie I'm working on in August. I'm going to try to find some way to facilitate uploading images to the blog. And of course make up for the last few months.

First though, look at these pieces by NOGA WINOKUR. She is a jewelry designer based out of Tel Aviv and the loveliest person i've ever encountered. She finds crushed cement pieces around her neighborhood and weaves these outrageously intricate pieces--both delicate and crazy hardcore, her work just blows me away. I didn't get a shot of it but the necklace is actually grounded by a metal car parts. The earrings are mounds of cement with mirrored porcelain. And just wait til i get a shot of the bracelet with shards of glass...

Venice Bungalow

I landed in L.A. 3 1/2 weeks ago, and with deep gratitude to several of my friends, have successfully couch-surfed until I moved into my new house (!) over the weekend. Meanwhile, all last week, I had the greatest pleasure to (over)stay at a friend of the family's Venice bungalow.
The interior: Think cob-webbed Basquiat genius anarchy. It was beyond cool, although it smelled a bit like moth balls and cat (on a bad day, what i think my future might smell like). Here are some snaps!











PS the next few posts will be more Venice!

Tilt

"Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles." - Frank Lloyd Wright

Rick at Joshua Tree

Spirit and Truth and the band's found it's prophet.

Everything Glitters

Streetwalking, Paris
Makes you feel dull in comparison.

X Ray Vision

Nina Ricci, Avenue Montaigne

One at a time

Rose Bakery, Paris

Center Fold

Past few days. Draw your own conclusions! Hint: Bagel Bites.

Hibernation

I've been out of sorts in the best kind of way now that my job is my own (1 week and counting!). And not by a computer for a while, imagine that. The first real snow, numerous attacks on the Element, and me on the tramp by AJB.



and a soundtrack: click here

"Well, I don't think so, they're not here very often"

Sigur Ros - Við spilum endalaust - A Take Away Show from La Blogotheque on Vimeo.

Film Strip

Flounce= Flutter and Pounce

Photographer:Alex John Beck
Model: Skye Stracke

After this shoot, and my breakthrough- "I can now die happy and fulfilled since I have fondled an entire rack of vintage 70s YSL safari suits"-moment in the Exquisite Costume basement, it got me thinking about my quest for certain vintage items that I have dedicated my life to (yes, high aspirations for this School of Foreign Service graduate). These include (but are not limited to): 1920s Velvet dresses, a YSL Le Smoking jacket, Victorian army boots, the perfect striped navy breton top, Argentinian riding boots, a '70s trench, a scarab ring, and a buttery leather briefcase with a messenger strap. I'm sure there's more--everytime i see a french film, another gets added to the list. What are your vintage quests?

Band Meeting. Present.

Just got back from a shoot this past weekend. Lot's of music (inside-outside speakers). Exquisite Costume is my favorite vintage store in the city and they let me pull from their basement. It was just color, air, feel and lots of other moody fabrics from decades past. Here's some b-roll, as usual.


(this was purchased by me at cost $30. It's from the 1930's and all torn up, in the best way)

Lush Color

It's odd when you find yourself drawn to polar opposite agendas. My palette is rigidly muted. My favorite colors are black, grey, ecru, putty, greige, nude, and every such variant. But i find myself often collecting and crushing on images with the opposite, lush, candy colored, impossible-to-resist ROYGBIV ethos. I keep them these tacked up on boards and glue-stuck in little notebooks. Here are a few. Could there be anything more childishly obvious and heart-achingly lustworthy? I think it's instinctually appealing. Like bees to a buttercup.








(from Luxirare)




(from The Selby--Christina and Swaim Hutson)





(still from the first film in the Trois Coulers series, Bleu by Krzysztof Kieślowski.)


(photographer Alex John Beck)




(Le Ballon Rouge, 1956 and Le Voyage du Ballon Rouge, 2008)


(Laduree macaroons)


(sharpies!)


(best of beauty!)

Colors arranged like this are often cues for my own shutter as you can tell my a lot of the photography i've featured here. You need only look! But here's an example:



The blog MY NYC IN COLOR also has so many divine photographs of new york alive with color, along this vein, you could spend hours feeling breathless over it. I couldn't even start to post all of the images i like, and it would ruin it to isolate them from her insightful writing, and discerning edits.