FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2010
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2010
sweet bard of the youth
the most recent issue of vanity fair is running an excellent set of articles and photos profiling the late john hughes. included are a set of photographs documenting some of the director's personal belongings, acollection of short stories, and a feature tracing, among other things, hughes' legacy and his passion for music and writing. here's a bit out of a segment on molly ringwald's muse-like hold on the director:
As the story goes, commercial considerations weren’t the only impetus for Hughes’s writing Sixteen Candles. While leafing through headshots in search of potential Breakfast Club cast members, he froze upon the glossy of a pale-skinned young actress with red hair and puffy, tired eyes—pretty, but not conventionally so.
“From what I heard from him,” says Ringwald, “he put my headshot on the bulletin board by his desk and wrote Sixteen Candles over a weekend. And when it came time to cast it, he said, ‘I want to meet her: that girl.’”
read more.
and a few of the photos:
a box of demo and mix tapes hughes compiled for use in his films.
the backing of hughes' director chair from the set of sixteen candles - signed by cast and crew.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2010
the (st)art of spring
essie's the art of spring collection is marking the start of a cheerful coming spring. ever since chanel launched it's highly coveted mint green nail polish (modeled wonderfully here) color makers have been trying to capture brilliant, luminescent shades that are neither garish nor tacky. with names such as "pop art pink," "tart deco," and "red nouveau," essie's fresh line is inspired by the art milieu and includes enchanting colors that are the perfect initiation to the spring season.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2010
Somewhere Over the Rainbow: Marc Jacobs Fall 2010
The Marc Jacobs fall 2010 presentation, as always held at the Lexington avenue armory, was typical of his collections. If this were being said of any other designer, it would certainly carry a negative connotation, but the opposite is true of Jacobs. In fact, his intention was not to focus on visual neologism; as the designer remarked after the show: "there's so much striving for newness now that newness feels less new."
What this translates to both on the runway as well as for the customer is singular pieces that aren't overly intellectualized, and somehow manage to be dramatic, unique, and utterly wearable simultaneously. Fall 2010: lingerie layers, pilgrim coats, heavy knits, sequins, Mongolian lamb fur, romantic dresses, drop waists, bows, ankle socks, optical wovens, antique velvet, grunge...all fresh, all familiar, all Marc.
american bitch
nytimes writer david segal presents us with a look into the world of dog showing. basically, if you aren't spending $100,000 on ads for your dog and don't have a professional handler showing it, you don't stand a chance. i couldn't help thinking of christopher guest's best in show while reading this...winky was really one hell of a longshot.
from the article:
Among breeders, owners and handlers, it’s understood: you can’t just turn up with the paradigm of the breed, if such an animal exists, and expect a best-in-show ribbon. To seriously vie for victory, a dog needs what is known as a campaign: an exhausting, time-consuming and very expensive gantlet of dog show wins, buttressed by ads in publications like Dog News and The Canine Chronicle.
Seriously, ads. Lots and lots of them. They usually hype recent victories at local shows, with the hope of influencing judges at future competitions. “A top 10 toy dog!” reads a recent full-pager for Bon Bon the Pomeranian, listing an assortment of triumphs under a picture of the animal panting atop some logs.
read more.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2010
peter schjeldahl on tino sehgal at the guggenheim
Never-Ending Story by Peter Schjeldahl (The New Yorker, February 15, 2010)
You will enjoy your visit to the Tino Sehgal whatchamacallit at the Guggenheim—“show” doesn’t fill the bill—or else expose yourself as a hopeless grouch. The thirty-four-year-old London-born artist’s “relational” works can seem chichi in theory—arch twists on the readymade—but they afford dizzying experiences. The museum is bare of everything but people. Young dancers, a man and a woman, mime lovemaking with flowing, stylized postures, on the ground floor. You may like that or not. But then you are met, as you ascend the ramp, by a relay of conversationalists—a child, a teen-ager, an adult, an oldster—who pose abstract issues (for starters, “What is progress?”) and seem fascinated by your views. I arrived at the top of the building with no clear sense of how I had got there. So I did it again, with different interlocutors but the same result. Now I’m remembering the encounters as a collection of short stories, of which I am the bumbling protagonist. They continue to unfold, endlessly. ♦
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2010
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2010
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2010
ode to broken things
last night i had a dream that my apartment was smashed to pieces. it was like pete townshend had been spent the night, and everything was broken; lampshades, hairbrushes, jewelry, plates, cups, silverware, walls, frames. it was strangely beautiful, though, and in my dream i didn't seem to mind it much at all. it brought me back to a poem by pablo neruda i read in professor maraniss's class at amherst. the poem is titled "ode to broken things" and is from neruda's 1956 compilation of odes to commonplace things calledodas elementales. i especially enjoy the last line, "tantas cosas inútiles/que nadie rompe/pero se rompieron." the poem resonates much better in spanish, so those of you blessed with bilinguality jumphere. enjoy.
Ode to broken things by Pablo Neruda
Things get broken
at home
like they were pushed
by an invisible, deliberate smasher.
It's not my hands
or yours
It wasn't the girls
with their hard fingernails
or the motion of the planet.
It wasn't anything or anybody
It wasn't the wind
It wasn't the orange-colored noontime
Or night over the earth
It wasn't even the nose or the elbow
Or the hips getting bigger
or the ankle
or the air.
The plate broke, the lamp fell
All the flower pots tumbled over
one by one. That pot
which overflowed with scarlet
in the middle of October,
it got tired from all the violets
and another empty one
rolled round and round and round
all through winter
until it was only the powder
of a flowerpot,
a broken memory, shining dust.
And that clock
whose sound
was
the voice of our lives,
the secret
thread of our weeks,
which released
one by one, so many hours
for honey and silence
for so many births and jobs,
that clock also
fell
and its delicate blue guts
vibrated
among the broken glass
its wide heart
unsprung.
Life goes on grinding up
glass, wearing out clothes
making fragments
breaking down
forms
and what lasts through time
is like an island on a ship in the sea,
perishable
surrounded by dangerous fragility
by merciless waters and threats.
Let's put all our treasures together
-- the clocks, plates, cups cracked by the cold --
into a sack and carry them
to the sea
and let our possessions sink
into one alarming breaker
that sounds like a river.
May whatever breaks
be reconstructed by the sea
with the long labor of its tides.
So many useless things
which nobody broke
but which got broken anyway.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2010
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2010
underwater peoples
i'm really into the music that label underwater peoples is putting out. based in washington, dc, the label manages a small roster of artists and cultivates a pretty distinct hazy, lo-fi sound - lots of phased-out rhythm tracks and jangly leads. believe it or not, a lot of the tunes sound like they could've been recorded "underwater"...hence the name? perhaps so.
underwater peoples recently released their "winter review" compilation, which offers a nice cross-section of the label's offerings...if you like the tunes below you can download it for free (and legally) here, so hop on it.
fluffy lumbers- "adoration"
alex bleeker - "these days"
as a related side, real estate is one of the bigger acts associated with the label and is definitely worth checking out - they released a well reviewed full-length late last year. more than any other of the acts on the label, real estate invokes a serious beach-vibe...not really "surf" music, but laid-back, very melodic, and drowned in reverb. they sing about the jersey shore too, which is sweet. i leave you with the album art and a few of my favorites off of that album ("atlantic city" is pure euphoria...so is the outro on "beach comber").
real estate - "beach comber"
real estate - "atlantic city"
real estate- "suburban beverage"
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2010
music television
it's no secret that MTV hasn't played music for some time, and now it's official...MTV is NOT music television. MTV has launched a redesigned logo (above right) - one that is monochromatic and conspicuously omits the "music television" tagline. the previous logo had been in use for 30 years.
from the press release:
“[the new logo] represents a new visually defined MTV, stimulating its past, present and future and embracing it’s diversity. Everything from Jersey Shore, to the VMAs to collaborations with the MoMA. The logo is part of MTV’s re-invention to connect with today’s millennial generation and bring them in as part of the channel."
via /film
monday
it's impossible for me to listen to queen's "crazy little thing called love" and not get all jazzed up. the tune owned the no.1 spot on american charts almost exactly 30-years-ago to the day* . freddie mercury allegedly wrote the song in less than ten minutes while soaking in the tub between recording sessions at the bayerischer hof hotel in munich. enjoy the video:
*1980 was thirty years ago...
Queen Crazy little thing called love
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