Hong Kong x Terry Richardson

Sweet expo in Hong Kong right now featuring the work of Terry Richardson (partnered with Diesel). The photos were taken in 2007 as a candid perspective of Hong Kong. On display until the end of May 2011 for the Hong Kong International Art Fair.

Diesel Fresh & Bright

"Making the world a brighter place" is the new slogan for Diesel's "Fresh & Bright" campaign, based on underwear-ing superheros. It's definitely bright, that's for sure! I'm loving the colors that both replace and update the "Be Stupid" campaign from last season.

Buffalo Exchange

My sister found out about this magical cave of wonders and told me (and our massive amount of unused clothes) about it. We decided to give it a go. Basically, Buffalo Exchange is a thrift store that buys clothes too - so we packed up all of the clothes in our closets that either didn't fit or weren't worn anymore and drove down to Brooklyn to test our luck in the selling game. There was a little bit of a line (other hopeful vendors) and this nice woman went through all of our stuff, taking some and putting back others (and she did the "putting back" part very nicely might I add - there was no judgement of any kind, just "well, what we're looking for is stuff that pertains to current trends or really great basics or cool vintage" as she placed back an old H&M jacket into our suitcase). This is how it works: she would buy something, say a pair of jeans, and price it at $10 (the price at which people would buy it in the store) and tell us that we could either take 30% ($3, for the mathematically challenged) in cash home with us or we could have %50 ($5) to use in the store. We ended up taking the cash because the store was closing, but there was some amazing stuff in there! Tsubi jeans, Diesel, Rag & Bone, some amazing vintage shoes, more Nike Air's than I can count! Can't wait to go back when I have more time (and more clothes to recycle!). Highly recommended.

Song of the day: Bermuda - Kisses

Neon Lights

Craig A. Kraft.

Framed neon by Porenstein.

Neon lights are very bright. They are also very pliable and can be molded into any shape (such as the magnificent neon pink flamingo above) and any letter (even the @ sign - which, interestingly enough, does not have a grammatically correct correspondent word; it's just called the "at sign" (although some have tried - and failed - to make "asperand" or "monkey tail" the general consensus)). I plan on having a couple in my home but have yet to decide in what shape. If you decided to go for lettering or - even more daring - wording, you must choose the right letters and/or words - so many give off the wrong impression. For example, if you put up your own initials, plug them in and light them up, you are a conceited imbecile. If you wire in the word "Love" or "Peace", you become the fake hippie i.e. hipster who thinks this is the "cool" way to show that they care about the world. ish. Either way, I like them and I plan on finding the perfect technique to both not looking like a pretentious idiot and having some sweet lighting fixtures.

Some plain, long neon bulbs standing in the corner at my brother's apartment in Paris. Tres cool.

Sweet fixtures.

Neon in Las Vegas, NV.

Holland's Interior Adventures for Real, launched in Milan circa 2007.

"Homographies" by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

Chandelier VII by Yuichi Higashionna

Bones by Fiona Banner.

USB key if you can believe.

Design at the Diesel store in NYC.

Song of the day: Kirstenana - Love Love Love (Bit Funk Remix)