10 3 / 2013
Part photo, part model, part sculpture, these creations by Ingrid Baars are hard to describe, but easy to swoon over.
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10 3 / 2013
10 3 / 2013
Studio Fridays: Madcap sketches of Armory Week
The painting above is by a guy named Jonathan Meese. He seems like a real trip. Meese is some german version of an emotionally unstable Dave Grohl. I consider him my new fashion icon. he’s not okay. I like him.
His painting stood out to me because it was big and angry and silly and he made a swastika on it which is truly taking a dump on a thing you’re in theory trying to sell. Watch the video above to hear his rationale behind this and also his leering psychobabble and riff on scarlet johansson as pure art.
I’m not saying his work is heroic. It just stood out given the context. I do like the paintings in the end. He seems genuinely fucking crazy in a good way I guess. He is a raging ambivalent.
08 3 / 2013
Bail for Oscar Pistorius, but Doubt About His Story
Pistorius’s affidavit, Nair said, was deeply dubious in many ways. But it was also more detailed than what many defendants present at that stage. In offering it up, Pistorius had indicated that he had a story he wanted to tell, rather than that he wanted to run. And for the moment, that’s what he needed to do.
Amy Davidson on the latest in the Pistorius case: http://nyr.kr/XQtY4Z
08 3 / 2013
INVISIBLE BEAUTY: Fashion Legends and Insiders Weigh-In on the Current State of Diversity Within the Industry
08 3 / 2013
Think Your Home’s Small? Look At Hong Kong’s Illegal Microapartments
COMPLAINTS ABOUT NEEDING MORE SHOE STORAGE OR HAVING NO SPACE FOR YOUR THIRD BIKE? PLEASE. IN HONG KONG, THE PRICE PER SQUARE FOOT AVERAGES $1,300.
It can be tough to grasp the reality of living in what amounts to a very functional closet through facts and figures, though. These images, which show us a bird’s eye view of several Hong Kong microapartments, do a much better job. They were produced by a Chinese human rights group called the Society for Community Organization, whose mission is to promote equality amongst citizens. “Grassroots people are struggling day in and day out to keep their head above water,” SoCO explains. “Standing in the line of dejection are caged lodgers, tenants living in appalling conditions, aged singletons, street-sleepers, mothers with no one-way permit to live in Hong Kong, families made up of new immigrants and boat dwellers.”
They estimate that over 100,000 people are living in unauthorized apartments in the city, a number that may well be low.
