mexico manana

i wish i had faith

there's nothing like

christmas eve mass

in mexico.

dia de los muertos

is also an experience

off to the

baja desert

hasta luego

y feliz navidad!

walt cotten

he used to tell me

he got claustrophobic

when there were too

many trees around.

walt cotten

was a true boy

of the desert.

walt always liked

being on top of the world,

places of long vistas

and

wide   open   spaces

words by beth nelson

1. unknown

2. desert gloves by walt cotten
3. walt's studio, molino street, LA by beth nelson
4. walt's studio, molino street, LA by beth nelson
5. beth in sevilla by paul redmond
6. muley point by walt cotten

mexican serape

eureka

the perfect

mexican serape

1930 / 40's


via r4h 

found my animal

on a walk with
found my animal

you get a better hold

and a better look

with some jute

my friend

bethany makes

rope leashes for

adopted dogs

and you can wrap

the rope around your body for

a more comfortable hold,

like a fisherman.

this is how

we did it mexico.

it made our little guy

look a bit tougher.

rip DUKE

BUY A ROPE



ph: nadav benjamin 

studio toogood

 studio toogood

corn craft 

I'm going to say it

right here and right now.

I want to work

for toogood.

ph: tom mannion

Kate Moss at 15 by corrine daye

15 by corrine day

 

"i was just having a laugh.

Corrine just wanted to bring out

everything that i hated

when i was 15.

my bow legs,

the mole on my breast

 the way i laughed."

- kate moss

ph: corrine day, kate, 1990

les halles

les halles

Paris 1962

before les halles,

the "belly of paris"

was torn down

for 800 years

les halles was the

central wholesale

market of paris

 

brewing revolution

with its pungent cheeses,

loitering thieves, lively cafés

and jungle of steel arcades.

"sending the blood of life

through every vein of the city"

 emile zola 

le ventre de paris

can't live without

a triangle and t square

a glue stick!

what are
your tools?

just 1 prop
a chair.

charlotte gainsbourg

a model of simplicity

5:55 and IRM

confetti system

a cold ny day,

but with confetti

jjjulie in her studio

wrapping a pinata for

partners & spade

we couldn't

bear to take off

our coats.

CONFETTISYSTEMS

is also at maryam

ps: one day

i will have a wall

dressed in confetti

there's nothing like it

"The City is an addictive machine

from which there is no escape."

-rem koolhaas

delirious new york

it was not enough

to just visit nyc.

 

 the city cast a spell

on me some years ago.

it makes me

delirious!

the lady at dosa

maria moyer

spotted the perfect

70's pioneer outfit in

Los Angeles

just one glance from

two true americans

and i'm inspired

ph: maria moyer

dosa showroom

los angeles

wayne levins

remember when

we talked about that feeling

 of being sucked under...

fish schools

encounters at the end of the world

werner herzog (2007)

ph: wayne levins

my dad's story
on electric vehicles


COP 15
is the talk of
the town these days.

suede boots

no. 9394

sigerson

j'laime beaucoup

mais, il sont tres cher

credit: Jonathan Alpeyrie

someday a real rain will come 

and wash this scum off the streets

- robert de niro, taxi driver (1976)

nyc is white glove

clean these days

you know

a lot of new yorkers

who lived here in the 70's / 80's

have an uncanny nostalgia

for the old filthy gotham.

i've heard a lot

of stories.

a taxi driver once

told me with light in his eyes

"it was a dirty town, man, but

the city had soul...i can't

explain it. soul baby."

jack hitt

The Super

ph: dylan coulter

rudy's new york 

reminds me of my new york.
always modest furnishings.

a furnace, a window

a chair, a desk.

and a glass of pens.

  

nyc tomorrow

places to go, people to see

i hope i haven't missed 

the first snow.

ph: rudy burckhardt

via happy accident

lighter layers

when will it end!

the aggressive 80's fashion

swarming the city streets

 magazines and stores.

it's been 2 years
of severe severe darkness.

leather, shoulders, spike heels

studs, ridiculous fashion editor attire

everyone looks so "affected"

well all need to chill out.

ah, but i feel a sweet feminine

revolution beginning to blossom:
nouveau french seventies romance

floral crop blouses, long skirts

patch work jeans, beige,
suede, and floppy hats
chanel sp 10

i have no desire
to look edgy.


i'm good to go with
some patched jeans and
a flower in my shirt pocket.



ps: until spring,
my winter uniform:
ali mcgraw in "a love story"
 plaid skirt with tights & pea coat
anna karina in band of outsiders
red stockings too.



photo credits:

1. filippa berg  2. marni sp 10
3. facehunter 4. sartorialist &
 facehunter 5. jak & jil
6. sartoralist 7. jak & jil

half frames

 by darren foster

this is what happens when
you loan your camera to
two fine journalists

tyler manson

likes to share

his pen ee

it's important to

share our favorite toys

so we can

see how others

use them.

Mariana van zeller

and Darren Foster

photo credit: Darren Foster

chapeaux artisanaux de gris

a tip from joey roth

listening to cymande

we had a dance party

on thanksgiving.

a little shewolf
action x 20


 ps: i was looking at
nyc apartments on craigslist
and stumbled upon a brilliant post.
Instead of writing about the loft
they posted this video.


i want to
live with the
brat pack.

the old man and the sea

tell me a "big fish" story

or some kind of

an exaggeration

of the truth

forgotten frames

do you see yourself

growing old in the city,

or out in the country?

 

country.
but 45 min
to a city

enjoy your thanksgiving

tumbling tumble weeds

here on the range i belong

pledging my love to the ground

i'll keep rolling along.

drifting with the tumbling

tumble weeds.

ps: the tumble weed in my sister's

bungalow really ties the

room together.

down in LA

...where the light

makes me feel a bit

closer to Mexico

I'm not mexican

but mexico has always been

a great comfort to me and my family.

i think it might be a california thing.

you know,

our population is

almost 50 / 50 now.

i would be down

if we all switched

to spanish.

regardless,

if you live in california

you gotta speak some spanish.

it should be a requirement.

lou dobbs

is spitting on

me right now.

i'm not young enough

to know everything
- oscar wilde

Plain I see you Western youths

 

GO FORTH!

We debouch upon

a newer, mightier world,

varied world.

 

For we cannot tarry here,

We must march my darlings,

We must bear the brunt of danger,

We the youthful sinewy races,
all the rest of us depend.
Pioneers! O pioneers!

excerpts from
Pioneers! O pioneers!
by walt whitman

ps: every book G.M. Stewart 
has given to me

what are your apartment

prerequisites?

 1. wood floors
2. white walls
3. a fireplace

and tall windows

i like to scatter
color and artifacts
in clean white spaces.

ps: i have a fear

of non-lived in spaces

one of the reasons

 i didn't pursue architecture,

was that i didn't want to

build anything new.

1. white chapel via remodelista 

2. a store on mulackstrasse, berlin 

3. my rental in berlin

mono rothko scarves

assembly ny 

aesop

today's design

 challenge:

list the most handsome,
graphically alluring
skin products

khiels

dr. bronner's

malin + goetz

dr. hauschka

?

do the products

live up to their

packaging?

nevertheless,

the aisles and aisles

of products and promises

shoved down our throats today

seem to sell us more insecurity

than transformation.

 it's a vicious cycle.

maybe we would all be

a lot happier if we had

fewer choices.

ps: i stick to 3:

egyptian magic, skin food

bronner's magic soapbox

sold at whole foods.

credit:
aesop via: lark

that moment in cinema
when capturing the human face
still plunged audiences into
the deepest ecstasy,

when one literally lost oneself
in a human image as one would in a philtre,
when the face represented a kind of
absolute state of the flesh,

which could be neither
reached nor renounced.

—Roland Barthes

 the time has come

my friends

if you look to your

left, you'll see an ad

...or two.

after a year of

holding back, weary

 of advertising on a blog...

i have decided to
embrace an ad or two

as a means to sustain this

 curious & exposed lady

i call 2 or 3 things

and in this rhythm
of surrendering to new
ideas and possibilities

i have made it

a personal design challenge

to advertise companies that
mean something to me.

companies that try look
at objects, design, media

in a different way.

 I expect you
to be suspect

and thus, i hope this

continues the dialogue

i enjoy so much
 

-cerré

mountain of storms
part 1 (1968)


was a big hit
when i projected it
on my wall last
december


well, the secret
is out now.


starring: yvon chouinard
doug tompkins, dick dorworth
and chris jones.


it doesn't get better
than this.


ps: 180 south

i leave
when things
get too stuffy
or, too restrained



le corbusier &
charlotte perriand
dormitory room


diet saylor

in search of eustace

scottish photographer
david eustace chronicles
his 3 week road trip with
his 16 yrd old daughter

they hiked canyons,
got caught in rainstorms,
played guitar and visited
eustace, texas.



and they will forever
remember where they were
when the king of pop died.


a very moving
photo essay

ph: david eustace
and rachel eustace

unexpected details

1. La Cappella
degli Scrovegni

2. lothar baumgarten

3. louis kahn

ceramic speakers

joey roth


porcelain wood and cork.
much better than plastic.


i like products that
show the nuts & bolts
of their making.


because if it
happened to break,
i would feel more in tune
with its workings and
attempt to fix it.


it's the attempt
that counts.
right?


zen and the art of
motorcycle maintenance

you are your airport code


SFO and JFK

one must not confuse
velvet with velour

there's an art to lounging


dress your best
or wear nothing at all




1. shalom harlow & amber valetta
ph: patrick demarchelier

2. jean-etienne liotard
marie adelaide of France, 1753

3. ph: ana kras

4. charlotte rampling
ph: juergen teller

5. sandy and agar, 1961
ph: hunter s. thompson

6. vogue italia,08
ph: steven meisel


ps:

best book
reading women
by stefan bollmann

ramón casas i carbó
after the ball, 1895

observing the world
through soundproof windows.

like an astronaut observes earth from space


so quiet

like the

birth of a flower

and this scene in grey-blue