June 2011
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self service magazine, 1997-2002
I can’t get over the absolute goldmine that is Self Service’s new online archive — I think I saved half a dozen images from every issue posted to my hard drive and Pinterest today. I wish I could take all my damn outfit photos on a disposable camera, complete with date stamp and requisite lens-viewfinder parallax-induced decapitation due to double lens reflex. Also maybe I...
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Some days you wake up and really, “slutty punk rock paralegal” (with neon blue nails?) is the only acceptable option. #bizbro2k11
shirt free people tank apc skirt yigal azrouel shoes urban jewerly oak, glam rock, miscellaneous cheap nosense
Looks like I’m back in an eyeliner/shadow phase (here: MAC eyeshadow in Handwritten, Black Tied, and Sketch mixed with pigment in...
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bon duke x vanessa hegelmaier for stylecaster
Loving basically everything about this ed from, of all places, Stylecaster by photographer Bon Duke — the makeup! (green eyeshadow in the inner corners?! THOSE EYEBROWS!) the hair! the layers and the mix of 90s punk tomboy streetwear and then the slick red, black, white, and leopard! all that stuff from Bess, I will never get tired of stylists putting something from Bess into every...
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HEDI SLIMANE
You know, just when I go blogging about how I’m so tired of Hedi Slimane style photos and of studs on everything for the past three years, these show up, and I have to eat my words. [from Hedi Slimane diary via CBD]
More after the jump.
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danny lyon | brooklyn, summer 1974
How wonderful are these photos of Brooklyn in the summer of 1974, from photographer Danny Lyon? For the unacquainted, as always: Lyon, along somewhat more widely acclaimed contemporaries Mary Ellen Mark, Robert Frank, and Larry Clark, was among the photojournalists known for their focus on imperfect reality and on the photographers’ involvement with their subjects’ lives, rather...
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mtv generation
I don’t know about you guys, but in my head the entire world basically exists through a wide-angle or fisheye lens in a room with quirky wallpaper or maybe on some street corner/field/highway in LA/fire escape and then run through some super cross-processed high contrast or desaturated sepia filter. We have already noticed this little 24mm addiction problem I have, yes? There also are a...
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shangri-L.A.
Monthly moodboard image dump post time! Still on this summer kick of post-apocalyptic Los Angeles punk tween girl clothes: half old-weird-America meets super-saturated 90s pop, and all that heavy black and studs I’m used to combined with the acid-brights of cross-processed 35mm film.
As usual, more after the jump.
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ON MARRIAGE EQUALITY IN NEW YORK
Let’s take a moment to get uncharacteristically personal and political and gratuitously emotional and also open myself up to a hell of a lot more nasty trolls than usual, shall we?
There’s about a third of you who are reading now who know me, either on the internet or in person, or who are here because we share similar politics, or who have already contacted me recently about gay...
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a modest call for help
Rodarte for OC; Altuzarra; Marjan Pejoski; Gaultier; Alex Wang
Let’s talk about things I need like I need a hole in my head, shall we? Except these things in particular take up a solid third of the rolling rack in my bedroom (so maybe thereby a tenth of the room?), and are things that I guiltily covet almost as much as I covet every last pair of impractically high wedge boots that comes my...
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MARTIN LEWIS
More things we know by now: I am, it seems, a completely incurable nostalgist for all things New York and something of a weird local history fetishist,. (Wait! We need to point out some greatest hits of my obsession! The jail on Ludlow for suffragettes! Lady pirates of the Hudson! The dangers of petticoats in snow! My undying love for Bruce Davidson’s Brooklyn Gang!) Naturally, the...
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A BRIEF CATALOGUE OF THINGS THAT NEW YORK HAS MADE...
• “Yeah, the last place I was subletting was a railroad and we didn’t have a sink in the bathroom and the entire kitchen ceiling collapsed this one time because the alcoholic upstairs fell asleep in his bathtub and flooded the apartment and it took the landlord over a week to fix it and there were bedbugs in the building, but we never got them in our apartment and we only had to pay...
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ERIKO NAKAO X RIE SHIRAISHI
More in things I know I ought to be ambivalent about but really just AM VISUALLY KIND OF OBSESSED WITH: all of these images from Eriko Nakao, T Y, and Rie Shiraishi, all from here. Maybe it’s just some lingering obsession (STILL) with Fiona Apple’s “Criminal” video which I think somehow still nailed the aesthetic that I want, oh, I don’t know, everything ever to...
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marinated shrimp and confetti orzo salad
More in summer dinner favourites: shrimp, marinated for a few hours in a Caribbean-ish mixture of soy sauce, olive oil, ginger, garlic, scallions, lime, cilantro (buy it fresh! not frozen! it’s life-changing!), and hot pepper, then grilled (or sauteed, depending on what you have available: we know grills are hard to come by when you live in a 350 sq foot walk-up in a 52-unit building in...
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MY SO-CALLED ADULTHOOD: MEG
You guys! Look! This is really happening now! Look! Sarah and I wrote fancy things and a bunch of you did too and we’ll post that soon, and if you haven’t written us something fancy yet, well, get on that. You can submit here or by emailing us something lovely at therayanneproject[at]gmail[dot]com. Or just go follow all the updates on Tumblr or just RSS, or on the project’s...