i love seven new york

in the description for this amazing jacket..

"...Featuring three stellar pockets for anything you might like to carry, like a bundle of sage or a chunk of obsidian."

1977

found this in my basement

francis bacon: a centenary retrospective, at the met

with curiosity i recently went to his exhibit at the met. he seemed to be a very impenetrable person but his work is thoroughly emotionally exposing, like peering through a peephole into a dark, almost nightmarish room. i think i read once somewhere that he despised all 'art' save for that of the egyptians – i'd love to read more about him. his paintings are so raw and hard to experience.

self-portrait, 1971

three studies for a crucifixion, 1962

there were also photographs by john deakin, a mainly celebrity photographer in london during the 50's-60's. i especially loved the images he made of george dyer, bacon's lover who was very handsome, but mostly you could tell bacon cared about him immensely (not from the photographs, more so from bacon's paintings of him). bacon often used deakin's images in his painting process.

george dyer in the reece mews studio, 1964

george deakin in soho, 1964

this second image reminds me of some of jean cocteau's drawings of jean marais.

dyer + bacon by john deakin; not included in the met exhibit)

francis bacon: a centenary retrospective is on at the met through august 16th.

gerhard richter and local inspiration

yesterday i pulled out my dusty copy of gerhard richter's atlas. atlas is a collection of richter's own sources of inspiration, with newspaper clippings, personal photographs, photos of texture/color samples- a visual diary. his repetition of images explains why we should appreciate, or at least not take for granted the things we see, no matter how minute they could seem to anyone else. it's about taking stock of the things around you. some of the elements of atlas make you use your inner child's eyes; these are utterly simple things but are completely fascinating if you let yourself disengage a bit.

a couple of favorites:

(sorry for the inferior scans, i was too uneasy about bending the book enough to get better ones)

fire, 1968

betty richter, 1978

(the back cover)

this incredible site has every page of the book: atlas

some of his paintings i adore, outside atlas:

betty, 1988

flowers, 1994

sleeper (barbara n), 1970

woman's head in profile, 1966

nyc

photo by me, moma august 2008

margiela kills me again

these disco ball shoes

from browns

margiela cut-out sneakers

i'm a fool in most sneakers, but these i LIKE.

ocean city, maryland

yesterday

patriotic popsicles

in dc yesterday

jennifer, 2005

she was brave and leaned out my window so i could get this shot.

melodie mcdaniel

moving:

look at her website.

dior fall 09 couture

photos, style.com

minimarket a/w 09

these have the form of every impossibly bad pair of vintage shoes you avoid when thrift shopping- but somehow, with a major blast of color, suede, and zippers, they are great.

from stockholmstreetstyle

lou doillon by vanessa bruno

i'll watch/read/look at anything with lou doillon in it. on september 9th, a short film with her produced by vanessa bruno comes out, and i can't wait.

teaser stills





she is one of the most beautiful people alive, if not the most, in my opinion.

from fashionologie

marc in rio

last year

agyness

adore these photos of agyness deny by Alasdair McLellan for 032c magazine

photos from refinery29

new york

jennifer

a plane in the sky after a big storm, east 100th street.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/30/mamatis-clouds-turn-nyc-s_n_223513.html

surrealism

south korea, from the new york times:

i love spectacles like that, they are like film sets.