Vivienne Westwood, Bringing New Romanticism Back

All things 80′s are back.  I saw a woman today wearing a pink tank top with white shorts, right out of Nagel, at a racquetball court, and a threesome of young black girls rocking bright coloured bike shorts, all within about a two-hour period.  Saturday night at the opening for the OCMA California  [...]

Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous – Jeffery Deitch Edition

The above tour of Jeffrey Deitch’s new house is courtesy of NOWNESS.   Deitch hosts the little tour of his new pad in Los Angeles.  Apparently it used to belong to Cary Grant.  Wonder if there’s any leftover LSD in the freezer.

Don’t miss the part where Deitch says “golden showers” with a [...]

My Next Ride

Dekotora is slang for “Decoration Truck”, a kustom vehicle culture out of Japan that’s arguably the most baroque evolution of the automotive era of human history.  Uber-Japan blog Pink Tentacle has a hot post up with a pile of photos and videos of these beautiful, beautiful machines.    Every time I see pics of [...]

Keith Haring’s Bike?

OK, so maybe I’m more into bikes than is healthy, but I was watching  The Universe of  Keith Haring on LOGO, and a few minutes after his sister mentioned that he went from bike messenger to famous artist, a shot appeared of Keith on the phone with what I’m going to assume is [...]

Kanye West x Vanessa Beecroft

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Vanessa Beecroft, whose career has been devoted furthering my principle that anything in sufficient repetition can pass as contemporary art did the art direction for Kanye’s newest exploration of his own genius. No embedding, so you’re going to have to follow the above link.

31 minutes (plus credits) of Kanye West [...]

Now we’re just grasping at straws…

Annoying Sound Warning! The video below is accompanied by what I can only imagine is the rejected soundtrack from Atari’s ET: The Extraterrestrial II or something of equal quality.  It will loop and repeat itself for the entire 10:43 of the video, so I strongly suggest turning off your speakers before you hit play.

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Jazz Hands, Faces and Everything Else

818 photographs of the New York Jazz scene, 1938-1948, courtesy of photographer Down Beat magazine photographer William P. Gottlieb, via the Library of Congress.  There’s a total of 1600 in the archive, and they’re adding more to Flickr each month, so if this tunes your piano, keep checking back for more.  Everyone is [...]

Your Giant Holographic Icon, Hatsune Miku

Hatsune Miku is a software-based, Japanese singing voice that manifests in many forms, including live concerts. She has a specific appearance, long blue hair, loli-esque body and a Sailor Moon-y outfit, and can be seen and consumed in just about every media imaginable. I guess this is the Aidoru phenomenon in yet another fruitful [...]

RIP Bob Guccione

Here’s an all-to-brief YouTube toast to the man who brought us OMNI Magazine, Caligula and letters that began with “I never thought it would happen to me…”

Yes, I had a subscription to OMNI, and believed everything I read because I was like 10 years old at the time.  The hypersuggestabilty of prepubescence [...]

Bling Hands

Seen recently on a BART train in San Francisco.  I have a feeling I’ve seen the whole watchband as ring thing before, but never on this epic scale.  This guy also had a hat with a metal watchband, but I was sneaky shooting and couldn’t get a shot of [...]