Apr

29

Paper Picked a Pack of People

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Vincent Kartheiser Photo Jacqueline Di Milia

Once again, Paper has launched their annual “Beautiful People” issue, and the selection of the “chosen few” is just as varied from years before. Household names like Danny Masterson and Sia have made the list, but so too has Riley Keogh and a personal favourite of mine, Vincent (Mad Men!) Kartheiser.

Paper’s peeps usually include club kids, actors, musicians, DJs, artists, curators, producers, night-life promoters, and socialites finding cause; emboldened in the mag to be not only current, but relevant too.

Every year (2006, 2007), the people who fit the beautiful bill is a surprise to me, but also a great place of discovery too.

The issue is just another instance where the chosen reflects the chooser and the impact that has on Paper’s New-York-centric-but-globe-trotter-admiring point of view.

Apr

28

Toke My Word For It

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It’s Just a Plant Marijuana

It’s Just a Plant is a children’s book about marijuana. Don’t believe me? Check out some sample pages of the book available online. Let me know if you were equally unimpressed at the politically incorrect part the preview ends at. (Who writes this stuff? And who on earth was sitting at the round table approving the artwork?)

A suggestion: the next book released should be about race and stereotypes, starting with breaking the general perception.

Apr

24

No More Drama. Not Even for Spring.

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Zip Off Sleeves Mary Rocks the Vest Hybrid

With the bit of sun that comes with spring, so does many closeted (literally!) ensembles of what to wear during summer transition.

Acceptable looks, I know I’ll never pull off, are small-floral print dresses with tall Wellies and thick knee-highs; flats paired with skinny jeans and long layered tanks; bolero jackets over vintage concert Ts with shiny, skin-tight leggings. All items, that could very well do double duty come fall and even late winter, except for maybe one item.

Vests.

Vests might be the fashion culprit of transitional seasonal wear. Read more

Apr

22

Art on Top!

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Jeff Koons

Jeff Koons is on the Roof!

Apr

21

The Hole View

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Corbis Pinhole Camera Template Peyote

An announcement: April 27th 2008 is Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day! Image stock company, Corbis, is providing templates for cameras to get you shooting and posting with photography enthusiasts, everywhere. View the gallery of fantastic photos and contribute to the collection. (There was a whole/hole joke there but I will refrain.) The images are incredible!

Apr

16

Handful or Handbag: The Beginnings of Relationsham

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Apple Ashley and Accessory

Over the weekend, I was persuaded to accompany a friend to a small fête attended by people I hadn’t seen in almost ten years. The get-togeth was incredibly fun; catching-up with old friends, picking up where we had last left off as if no time had passed among us.

Well, for some of us.

For some of us, not only was there time among us, but a baby too. Big, beautiful, sighing, gurgling, sleepy-eyed babies, shaken and stirred, to stay up past their bed times with the rest of us.

Throughout the eve the babies, were coddled, caressed, cooed, blown on, bobbed and twirled around in front of the childless, for amusement. The men especially held the fort with folded arms in makeshift swings for baby, moving around the party in total jubilation of their new pride and joy.

That’s when the disconnect happened. Seeing boys with babies instead of married couples with children. Seeing boys with accessories instead of new families. Read more

Apr

15

Houses Made out of Straw, Wood, Brick and Tin.

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Tin House Summer Reading 28

Magazines that are books, or books that are magazines, terrify me. The sheer size of the issues provides unnecessary pressure to read the beasts from cover-to-cover (especially when you factor in the Canadian subscription rate for an American publication) even though, magazines, typically, aren’t read in this way (from cover-to-cover).

The book-mags miss the bites most publications have whittled their features down to (surveys, Q&As, Top 10 lists and more) but somehow never really shed the whole I’m-not-a-book-just-a-big-thick-mag status. (Perhaps if these volumes were catalogued in the fiction aisle, instead of the magazine aisle at bookstores, the significance of what these book-mags are all about might change.)

So imagine my surprise when I was actually drawn to a book-mag this last week, neatly shelved at the library. (No deterring context of any kind; and no subscription pressure either!) Read more

Apr

13

Murakami, “the Japanese Warhol.” I Just Don’t Get It.

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Murakami Warhol No Way

 

 

 

Ever since the Murakami show opened at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the press has repeatedly extracted an aspect of the artist I just don’t understand. Namely, that Murakami is “the Japanese Warhol.” 1

What?

Whether blogs are referring to The New York Times comparison, or The Times quoting director and curator heavyweights at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and more (and the cyclone of oddity taking shape) makes me wonder how the comparison became an accepted truth, and even, undisputed fact.

In an article for New York, Jerry Saltz, used the Warhol-Murakami comparison to make a larger statement about art and commercialism in general. Read more