Apr
29
Paper Picked a Pack of People
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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 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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With the bit of sun that comes with spring, so does many closeted (literally!) ensembles of what to wear during summer transition.
Vests might be the fashion culprit of transitional seasonal wear. Read more
Apr
22
Raise the Roof!
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Jeff Koons is on the Roof!
Apr
21
The Hole View
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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
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.
Apr
15
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).
Apr
13
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.
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