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Guy Bourdin

Film study by Guy Bourdin

Live model drawing at the National Arts Club is becoming a Monday evening institution for me. The prestigious and historic private club in Gramercy opens its doors to the public for a drafting class every Monday at 7p. Perhaps I'll see you there.

William Eggleston

Storefront window of Obscura Antiques, Greenwich Village

I want to live in this room. I can picture myself in it, in some small city in southern Spain, laying on that couch with my books, watching the days go by in total bliss.

Impressions, The John Coltrane Quintet

John Coltrane Quintet - Impressions
by Delta_Mike

Spring! And not at all too soon

photo by Kurt Hutton

Robert Doisneau

1947, Howard Hughes inspecting the Hercules

An engineer at Hughes Aircraft stated that Hughes was constantly sneaking around trying to observe the scientists unnoticed– however the stench from his old tennis shoes he refused to change usually gave him away!

Photo & quote from the Selvedge Yard.

James Dean

"Boy, when you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetary. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody."

J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

The show will be held at the Deitch Projects studio in Long Island City, with a performance tonight, Friday, 3.07 from 7-10p.

4-40 44th Drive, Long Island City

TRAILER REPULSION 1965 ROMAN POLANSKI DENEUVE
by kirivalse

The Seduction Moltrasio, Italy 1998

"I read this book once, at the Whooton School, that had this very sophisticated, suave, sexy guy in it. Monsieur Blanchard was his name, I can still remember. It was a lousy book, but this Blanchard guy was pretty good. He had this big chateau and all on the Riviera, in Europe, and all he did in his spare time was beat women off with a club."

J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

Fall 2009

Images from the Fall 2009 collection will be posted soon.

You Are Cordially Invited

Untitled

Lara Stone, photographed by Hedi Slimane; excerpts from Vogue Paris Feb. 09. This month's entire issue was dedicated to her.

She's a femme fatale in every sense of the word, and my unofficial muse.

Two Pence Magic, Hans Richter

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by XLanig

Spring Summer 2009

Mr. Powers

"I saw that individual for a moment or two in your office yesterday, but one cursory glance at his face was enough to convince me that he was a scheming, quarrelsome, sycophantic swine."

Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

Debbie Harry & Phil Spector; photo by James Wasser

Sergei Rachmaninov, 1897

Marcel Duchamp

Henrik Heinz (1932)

Deitch Projects window

Rock and roll futurism takes over Deitch's Wooster St. gallery during a showcase of the late NY designer Stephen Sprouse's rarely exhibited artwork.

January 09, 2009 — February 28, 2009
Deitch Projects
18 Wooster Street, New York

Rendez-Vous: Paris Comes to NY Fashion Week

if mohammed will not go to the mountain, then the mountain must come to mohammed



photo by Guy Bourdin

The French trade show Rendez-vous will have its NY debut during Fashion Week from February 20-23 and I am proud taking part. Rendez-vous is spearheaded by members of the design team Surface to Air, whom I have a great deal of respect for. Needless to say I am eagerly looking forward to it.

www.rendez-vous-paris.com

Purple Haze

Jimmy Hendrix - Purple Haze (Live Atlanta 7-4-70)
by fuzz59

"In Mexico women gather in small groups by the beach to smoke cigarettes"

Spring Summer 2009

Available February 2009

Frank O'Hara

POEM

Instant coffee with slightly sour cream
in it, and a phone call to the beyond
which doesn't seem to be coming any nearer.
"Ah daddy, I wanna stay drunk many days"
on the poetry of a new friend
my life held precariously in the seeing
hands of others, their and my possibilities.
Is this love, now that the first love
has finally died, where there were no possibilities?

1956

Title cover of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde. First Edition (1886)

How did this short novella become one of the most enduring stories in modern Western Literature. Perhaps people can relate in some way to the Dr.'s dual personalities? I know that I can.