December 2010
49 posts
“Is New York the hardest place to order a coffee?
I went into this fancy coffee...”
– new york mag interviewing Biutiful Director Alejandro González Iñárritu
courtesy http://jjjjound.com
Shadowplay [Children play in the slums of Lahore,...
Courtesy Wall Street Photo Journal
STARTING YOUNG: Elementary- and middle-school students rubbed their bodies with snow during a winter military camp for kids on South Korea’s Daebu Island Monday. (Ahn Young Joon/Associated Press)
the beauty of a worn persian
“Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.”
– J.C.
Dream Come True, courtesy Vanity Fair
Warning: The Tom Waits Reissue Will Turn You Into a Beautiful Loser
by Marc Spitz December 21, 2010, 2:40 PM
Today, Rhino is issuing 180-gram vinyl editions of Tom Waits’ first four albums: Closing Time (1973), The Heart of Saturday Night(1974), Nighthawks at the Diner (1975), and Small Change (1976). If you’re a full-on fetish-item collector, you can order them now in limited-edition red...
From Glass Magazine Blog
http://glassmagazine.co.uk
Love Blogging 08/11/2010 15:05:14 | 0 comments posted by Creative AssociateThe argument pitching the validity of fashion blogs versus traditional, conventional fashion media all came to a bit of a head earlier this year. Toys were flung out of the pram hither and thither during the exchanges concerning a young girl’s over-sized ‘headpiece’ and an...
Frank Gehry keeps going nuts
University of Technology, Sydney’s Dr Chau Chak Wing Building by Frank Gehry, set to commence construction in 2012
all kinds of things turn me on. how about you? ......
why why why
Inside Ralph's Garage (Vanity Fair) →
Heritage Chic, from the NYT Year in Ideas.
Heritage Chic
The Great Depression inspired American fashion this year, from men’s wear by John Bartlett that looked like a stylized version of Lewis Hine’s New York to frocks by Ralph Lauren that wouldn’t feel out of place in a Dorothea Lange photograph. Meanwhile, off the runways, many sturdy American outerwear and workwear brands that were actually around during the...
Beautiful photograph
REACHING UPWARD: Shiite Muslims participated in Ashura celebrations outside the tomb of Imam Hussein in the holy city of Karbala, Iraq, Tuesday. Shiites are visiting the city to mark the death of the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson. (European Pressphoto Agency) Courtesy WSJ. http://blogs.wsj.com/photojournal/2010/12/14/photos-of-the-day-dec-14/
'Take your time son. Take your time.' "
Here Paul Shaffer frantically tries to reach Sammy Davis Jr. to select a song and schedule rehearsal before his appearance on the David Letterman show: “Every time I called [Sammy Davis Jr. to try and select a song or discuss rehearsal] he was either working or sleeping. He never did return my calls. The morning of the show I was feeling some panic. Sammy was flying in and we still...