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Inspiration

Saving New York x Jarrod Valliere

"Saving New York" a Timelapse Film by Jarrod Valliere from Nite Vision Media on Vimeo.

Shepard Fairey

Shepard Fairey spent several weeks in New York in July 2011 and February 2012, creating and printing the works for his forthcoming exhibition at Pace Prints. In this video, he discusses the ideas behind the works and the printmaking processes that he used. All the works were created at the Pace Paper studio and Watanabe Press in Brooklyn.

Terry Richardson

Just some recent shots off of Terry's Diary for your viewing pleasure.

A Love Story

Splitscreen: A Love Story by JW Griffiths : cute!

I ♥ NY

Congrats, NY! :)

Swoon x Acclaim Magazine

SWOON INTERVIEW for and by ACCLAIM Magazine - a New Yorker's artistic point of view.

Alex Profit

Take a tour of the world with Alex Profit, the traveling photographer, and see Paris, Barcelona, Berlin, St. Petersbourg, Shanghai, Tokyo, New York and London - all in under 6 minutes!

P.S. Check out The Weeknd - Glass Table Girls. Here's hoping WJT won't tell me I'm late on music again... :)

Moncler x Grand Central

MONCLER GRENOBLE FW 11-12 AT GRAND CENTRAL a flash mob in honor of NYC fashion week in the amazing Grand Central terminal to promote their winter 2011-2012 collection. (Slightly long) choreography inspired by the great Bob Fosse. Fair isle winter fun!

Levi's Waterless

Sorry for doing so many video posts, but here is a funky Gondry-esque video for Levi's by New York based agency m ss ng p p eces. Eco-friendly fun.

Inspiration

OLEK x Wall Street's Charging Bull

OLEK AND THE CHARGING BULL ON WALL STREET by OLEK. LOVE!!!

Inspiration

GOOGLE STREETVIEW by Sehsucht™

Brandan Cass

Brendan Cass in his studio in New York from Lars Bohman Gallery - I love seeing artists in their own element: it feels like a sneak peak into their mindsets and is a great way to see the techniques with which their pieces are actually made.

Mia Pearlman

Mia Pearlman created the Inrush sculptures, featured at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York using paper and genius. They're quite beautiful to look at and have a sort of otherworldly air to them. The precision of the cutting on these pieces is striking to say the least!




Song of the day: Unkle Jam - What Am I Fighting For? (La Priest Remix)

Jean Shin

Korean-born New Yorker Jean Shin is a young artist who takes objects from the everyday and transforms them into recognizable structures that are representative of singularity as opposed to the plurality of the original materials. In other words, she takes many of one object and turns it into a larger, single entity; a mosaic of commonality. Innovative!

Song of the day: D.A.M.B. - Daylight

Improv Everywhere

My new favorite thing/idea/concept that I find to be absolutely amazing/hilarious/ingenious.

It's called Improv Everywhere and it's a group that "causes scenes of chaos and joy in public places. Created in August of 2001 by Charlie Todd, Improv Everywhere has executed over 100 missions involving tens of thousands of undercover agents. The group is based in New York City."

My favorite one (amongst the most recent) is Where's Rob?

I find the whole idea so amazing in it's non-disturbance. Does that make sense? What I'm trying to say is that all of these "pranks" are in good-natured fun and aren't meant to upset or disturb anyone, which is why they are so great. They're well thought-out events for people who need a good story to tell at the dinner table, perhaps accompanied by some visual evidence (there seem to be lots of people with camera phones and other image-capturing trinkets for visual keep-saking in the videos).

Halloweekend

Ah, all hallow's eve. Also known as Halloween or The One Night A Year Girls Can Dress Like Not-So Classy Ladies And Get Away With It. I'm not a huge fan of chicks wearing a bra and panties and some fabric ears, deeming themselves bunnies. I find that the best way to celebrate this secular tradition is either to go all out or, if you don't have the time, go safe or funny. Never go skanky. It's not cute and being a drunken mess clad in a short skirt, glasses and tie because you are a "Naughty Teacher" doesn't scream "treat me like a lady!" My friend Numa, above, went for all-out AND funny. I think he looked absolutely phenomenal as Karl Lagerfeld - he even had cut-off leather gloves and plenty of sparkly rings to boot. I think, more importantly, what really made his costume a hit was the fact that he was in character all evening. I recall someone bumping into him by accident, to which he responded calmly and simply: "That was NOT Chanel". I, on the other hand, decided this year to go for a cute and feminine - but NOT skankoween-y - look: Aphrodite. She is the Goddess of Love and was born when Cronus cut off Ouranos' genitals and threw them into the sea (thanks, Wikipedia). Therefore, not only is she beautiful, but she is also bad-ass. I DIY-ed the toga-look with the help of an old sheet, some gold ribbon and my mother's sewing skillz. They're so good they get a "z". Draped across one shoulder and criss-crossed around the waist with the ribbon, plus more glitter than I've worn since the sixth grade school dances, I thought I was pretty convincing.

In NYC, people are creative and I mean it. I was in the subway with the ENTIRE Sesame Street gang - Bert, Ernie, Cookie Monster (with a box of cookies of course) and Oscar amongst others - and saw about four thousand Michael Jackson reincarnations. I absolutely loved each Kate Gosselin imitation (check out the fastest selling wig this year here) and saw several hot messes clad in Lady Gaga's signature blonde and leather.

Halloween was overall amazing and I was lucky enough to not have been somewhere where the majority of young, respectable, educated and beautiful women are dressed as hookers. My ONLY disappointment was that I didn't see even one Green Man (see him dance here!) from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.