Thursday, November 12, 2009

Photographer: Kris Krug


I came across KK when I was perusing the fine files at flickr.  I am obsessed with anything Lily + Jae so naturally this find wasn't too much of a coincidence.  I am also thinking I may secretly be Canadian or something.  I just love what is happening up there. The photos are from a roadtrip Kris took assisting photographer Fiona Garden for their Spring/Summer 2010 lookbook.  All of these images were shot on an Analog XPRO and are so beautiful.  In fact, most of his photos have that sort of over-saturated lomo feel to them.  And he shoots film a lot, which I really dig.
To see more of his UH-Mazing photos, check out his page.




Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Railroad Lanterns.

These will look great in your place, don't you agree?
We have a bunch!  

Meet Ducksauce.


Ducksauce is A-Trak and Armand Van Helden who became friends and started making some throw-back funk jams. Disco-esque, a little stardust, and here you go.
This stuff is seriously my new obsession.
Overwhelmed with excitement about this.
The guys the hired for "the face" of Ducksauce in this video is perfection.






My soul is just a whisper trapped inside a tornado.


When I go for a drive I like to pull off to the side
Of the road, turn out the lights, get out and look up at the sky
And I do this to remind me that I'm really, really tiny
In the grand scheme of things and sometimes this terrifies me

But it's only really scary cause it makes me feel serene
In a way I never thought I'd be because I've never been
So grounded, and so humbled, and so one with everything
I am grounded, I am humbled, I am one with everything

Rock and roll is fun but if you ever hear someone
Say you are huge, look at the moon, look at the stars, look at the sun
Look at the ocean and the desert and the mountains and the sky
Say I am just a speck of dust inside a giant's eye
I am just a speck of dust inside a giant's eye

When I saw Geneviève I really liked it when she said
What she said about the giant and the lemmings on the cliff
She said 'I like giants
Especially girl giants
Cause all girls feel too big sometimes
Regardless of their size'

When I go for a drive I like to pull off to the side
Of the road and run and jump into the ocean in my clothes
And I'm smaller than a poppyseed inside a great big bowl
And the ocean is a giant that can swallow me whole

So I swim for all salvation and I swim to save my soul
But my soul is just a whisper trapped inside a tornado
So I flip to my back and I float and I sing
I am grounded, I am humbled, I am one with everything
I am grounded, I am humbled, I am one with everything

So I talked to Geneviève and almost cried when she said
That the giant on the cliff wished that she was dead
And the lemmings on the cliff wished that they were dead
So the giant told the lemmings why they ought to live instead

When she thought up all those reasons that they ought to live instead
It made her reconsider all the sad thoughts in her head
So thank you Geneviève, cause you take what is in your head
And you make things that are so beautiful and share them with your friends

We all become important when we realize our goal
Should be to figure out our role within the context of the whole
And yeah, rock and roll is fun, but if you ever hear someone
Say you are huge, look at the moon, look at the stars, look at the sun
Look at the ocean and the desert and the mountains and the sky

Say I am just a speck of dust inside a giant's eye
I am just a speck of dust inside a giant's eye
I am just a speck of dust inside a giant's eye
And I don't wanna make her cry
Cause I like giants    

-Kimya Dawson             

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Artist: Rebecca Paul





Becca's totally gonna hate me for putting this up, but I am obsessed with how talented she is.
I sit at her house and just can't get over the portrait she did of her grandfather [pictured top].
With his little whispy hair. She told me he was also a portrait painter.
That painting speaks to me.
I love it.
And I love her.

{Becca currently writes for INHABITAT one of my favorite green places to visit on the web.}

Monday, November 9, 2009

El Guincho: Palmitos Park

This song is pure magic.

Selector Magazine




Came across this gem of a publication, late as always.  
Large format magazine similar in scale to ANP Quarterly.
Issue one (which I think that is all that she wrote so far) features a lot of great work from No Age, Handsome Furs, Jody Rogac and more.
More pages from this trinket over yonder.

Saturday, November 7, 2009

Jan Hammer & RapMan


I love this guys keyboard enthusiasm.  
Note what is happening in this musical perfection.
Stripes on the keyboard.
Stripes on the shirt.
Amazing contrasting keyboard strap.
O.G.



Speaking of Original Gangsters:
This sweet little pup is the RapMan and comes equipped with rap voice effects.



Friday, November 6, 2009

Halloween Contest: Bjork


Absolutely incredible Iris. This dress was custom made {insert rap song} by new designer
Viktor Luna.
His dresses are gorgeous! He really knows how to drape and shape!
{I really know how to shake and bake!}
GOD.
Gimme a break guys.
At least it's Friday.

Friday Fix: Toro y Moi

Chaz is special.
I met him at my friend Jay's [congrats on his sweet new gig at Nylon].
He was playing for a small group of us and we had such a rad time.
I was reminded of him yesterday and how much I love what he is doing when Jay swung by and told me he was headed to Canada with him.
If you haven't heard the sounds of Toro y Moi, now is the time.

Great Little Gifts.

I just got this new line in that is a little edgy and super affordable.
Great gifts for the closed wallet.
This skull necklace is silver toned and hangs really long so it has a nice appeal for men as well.
$52


Brass Bangles.  Also come in brass and silver toned studs.
$12 or 2 for $20

Stainless steel cuff.
$40
Delicious.

Vintage Post Cards

You know how sometimes you buy a piece of stationary never intending to send it?
Well, Surfing Jesus was that for me. I loved this post card so much I bought the entire stock.
Also a shocker to send.
Love these vintage postcards.
[by the way all you judgers out there: I am still getting used to the SLR, okay?]

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Photographer: Joshua Hoffine

Wow.  Seriously smashing.  Combining two of my favorite things into an art-form?
Horror Photographer, Joshua Hoffine is speaking my language.
Not the making little kids cry part, the jungian psychology part.
With one photograph Hoffine plays with some viewer's personal unconscious [things that scared us as children that we have suppressed] but experimenting with the collective unconscious [inherited categories that are recognized by all people] that is primal in us all.
...
"I believe that the fear they are re-experiencing originates from the biological Collective Unconscious. Our fears as children are primal in nature. Fear of the dark, fear of lurking danger, fear of being eaten. I regard my photographs as culturally inflected variations on primal fears that arise from our biological Collective Unconscious. I just use the mechanism of the Personal Unconscious to bring it all back to you."

I spent a good deal of time on his blog
and I am glad I did. 
There he pointed out small details in his photographs that at first glance you don't notice at all.
The photo above, Lady Bathory is his modern day take on a 16th century serial killer that bathed in the blood of virgins to keep her "youthful appearance."  Here he photographs her in a sort of spa treatment.  
On his blog he shows you the process of the shot, and close-ups of things like the skull "claws" on this tub.
As far as the children in his photograph go, they have through the years been primarily his 3 daughters and his niece.  He has gotten little commercial work, lots of press, and print sells.
All in all, he doesn't do this for money [although hopefully these will make him a very rich man] he does it because he loves it.


Inspiration for this post comes from The Daily Notch.