In between going to the shark aquarium at Mandalay Bay and PF Chang’s I’ll be here playing jams. If your in town make sure to RSVP.
*bonus here is the remix I did for Telepathe feat. Jams F. Kennedy.
“Letter to Jane Magazine is a new culture zine that is free to view or download at http://lettertojane.com/mag. The project–spanning across 180 ad free pages– features contributions and interviews from Yoko Ono, Passion Pit, No Age, Hedi Slimane, Aziz Ansari, Peter Bjorn and John, and many more. Issue 01 carries the torch for its namesake (Jean-Luc Godard and Jean Pierre Gorin’s 1972 film Letter to Jane) by looking at culture and trying to find new questions to ask of it. Today’s Letter to Jane gives understanding of our 21st century creative community through the lens of the artist’s themselves; their views, their thoughts, their voice on contemporary culture”
Ooga Booga Store is getting a taste of the West Side at Keep Shoes starting this evening. Two ladies who’ve championed one another these past years, are uniting to for the holidays.
Christmas is a comin’ ya’ll, maybe you pickup some kicks and a Calvin Johnson mix tape, I’m a 9 1/2.
Come support two of L.A.’s strongest women!
New York City friends and fellow derels The Wellington Papers just shot a video from their latest single “Berlin,” based loosely upon their first hand cab experiences throughout their world travels. Shot in Manhattan and featuring cameos from downtown delinquents Team Facelift, The Arab Parrot and The Heart Brake Crew, The Wellington Papers’ tales of excessive wilding out and debauchery pair perfectly against the gritty visual imagery and intermittent nudity from the betty’s in this video.
The band takes cues from the sound of 60s garage rockers and intertwines the music with their own modern day stories of drunken tom foolery for a feel good tune sure to provide the theme song to your own weekend hijinks.
Video and Download Link after the jump.
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Updates are up at visual archivist hrstudioplus.
Where The Wild Things Are X Opening Ceremony
I’m always down for animal oriented outer wear. Jams and I were just chatting the other day about horn implants and other changes it would take to become a minotaur. He said he’d get the horns if I’d get a split snake tongue , I told him no go but look out for some BR excess in the future.
“Well, you’ve all been waiting for ‘em, asking for ‘em, emailing about ‘em… so here they are : WOLF SUITS! And not just any wolf suits, beautiful high end wolf suits brought to you in collaboration with our friends over at Opening Ceremony. The slideshow above represents a small taste of the full WTWTA x Opening Ceremony line which will be available via OC WEB on Monday. Guaranteed to sell like crazy. ” – WTWTA
This was the fruits of five minutes and a Google image search for “Mrs.Parker.”
Click on this photo for further enlightenment. You might find Nirvana.
Whoever said print ads were dead? American Apparel advertising has certainly raised a few eyebrows and downright offended others, but one thing is clear, that the clothing manufacturing giant has created an almost cult like following for their ads that hasn’t been seen since Guess or Calvin Klein. Find a sample of some of the most slutiest ads after the jump, or view all 50 compiled by Style Crave here.
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UNC September 11th, 2009
Jordan: History of Flight
Interactive timeline of the man, his achievements, and of course the evolution of his hi tops. I think I can break it down into 3 simple eras. (I’m sure some of ya’ll will disagree) 85-93 Rockable, 94-99 Bobo, 99-Preset Space Jam. I’m actually feeling the Space Jam era joints with the built in spats and the woven carbon fiber face shield. I know they make Esquire say Dauuuuuuuum!
Too Many Naked Women
Helmut Newton was a highly influential photographer best known for his fashion, portraiture, and female nude studies which often had strong erotic stylized themes verging on the fetishistic. “Newton became a regular and major contributor to French Vogue in May 1961 and continued to do his most important fashion work there for the next 25 years. During this period he also worked intensively for American, Italian and German Vogue as well as for Linea Italiana, Queen, Nova, Jardin des Modes, Marie-Claire and Elle.
“Newton’s contribution to the history of 20th century photography lies not merely in his extremely provocative approach but also, and more importantly, in his prescience and intuition, in his ability to imagine and visualize women exactly as they are today, at the dawn of the third millennium: women who take the lead rather than follow it; women who love and desire whenever and whomever they like, and in whatever way they like; women full of health and vigor, enjoying the resplendence and vitality of their sinewy bodies, bodies over which they themselves have sole command; women who are both responsible and willing.
Anticipating the sexual revolution which came with the advent of the birth-control pill, the women of Helmut Newton’s world are women who know and get what they want; they are far removed from the weak, compliant sex-object dominated by the misogynist macho. And this is the reason why Newton’s work has been found so shocking, for his staged photos thematize the discovery of this new kind of freedom and the fantasies which this freedom engenders.”
In 1995 Helmut told Salon Magazine, “The point of my photography has always been to challenge myself, to go a little further than my Germanic discipline and Teutonic nature would traditionally permit me to,” he says, as he walks by blow-ups from the “Big Nudes” series which line his office. “The nudes and bondage shots were my way of going beyond my own bounds. Now that I’ve done that, I want to return to fashion with a fresh and mature eye and do more portraits.
His hobby was buying motor cars he could not afford.
Below are several examples of his work.
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