{ Mike Kelley, Horizontal Tracking Shot of a Cross Section of Trauma Rooms, 2009 | Acrylic on wood panels, steel video monitors, DVD players | Gagosian Gallery, 555 West 24th Street, NYC, until December 23, 2009 }
{ The spring/summer 2010 round of catwalk shows, which ended last month, was a watershed moment for the bloggers and the fashion industry. In New York, as photograph after photograph appeared of Tavi, a 13-year-old blogger from the suburbs of Chicago [above photo], embracing famous designers such as Yohji Yamamoto and Alexander Wang, it suddenly became clear that the fashion establishment must now share shoulder space with, as one blogger has put it, “outsiders looking in”. | Financial Times | Continue reading }
{ Pagan magazine, 1966 | Richard Kern and Jo Ratcliffe, V Magazine September 09 }
{ Katsura Funakoshi, The Sphinx is Eating a Grasshopper above the Forest, 2007-2008 | Asger Carlsen }
{ Oscar Santillan, Failed dawn, 2008 | Stéphane Vigny, Lustre, 2007 }
{ Thom Puckey, Black Penitent, 2000 | Mask, dated 1745, Inscribed by Myochin Muneakira | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York }
{ Facial expressions, Charles Darwin argued, are a universal window into emotion. But new research challenges that notion, showing that east Asian people struggle to recognise facial expressions that western Caucasians attribute to fear and disgust. By focusing on eyes and brows, Asians miss subtle cues conveyed via the mouth. | NewScientist | Continue reading | Read more: BPS Research Digest blog | Images: D*Face | Jonathan LeVine Gallery, NYC | How to paint a mural in the Meatpacking District. }
{ The Barbarian Group and McLeod, Biomimetic Butterflies, 2007 }
related:
By the time I reached my senior year in 1997, my experience with the internet was limited to poking around on AOL while I was home for Christmas. (…)
Seven and a half years ago, Benjamin Palmer (CEO of The Barbarian Group) approached me and asked if I would be interested in starting a company with him. (…)
Our first job was for Nike (through Wieden + Kennedy). Our second, Volkswagen (through Arnold Worldwide). Not too shabby for a start-up working out of Benjamin’s apartment. Ever since then, its been success after success. We received a ton of press, a ton of awards, and never had to go searching for clients.
{ Robert Hodgin | Continue reading | Related: Flint C++ framework }
photo & quote { Alain Finkielkraut Rock | More: C’était super samedi }
{ Playboy may finally publish an issue that nobody jerks off to the cover model. | Playboy November 2009 cover feat. Marge Simpson | Playboy October 1971 cover feat. Darine Stern }
related:
{ Andrea Mantegna, St Sebastian, c. 1470 | Esquire magazine, April 1968 | And: Radar Magazine parodies 1968 Muhammed Ali Esquire cover }
