Cabinet of Curiosities

Shana Tova, Cabinet

2008-09-28T15:35:00.000-07:00

- 5769 from the creation of the world -

Happy New Year... to all the closeted cabinets everywhere.

Birthday Caninet

2008-09-22T08:08:00.000-07:00

Today, 68 years ago, Godard heroine (and sometime wife) Anna Karina was born. She is my heroine too. Enjoy the famous scene in Band of Outsiders':

..And all her public photos - click Here.

Cabinet of Flushing Meadows

2008-08-25T03:31:00.000-07:00

Rene Lacoste, 1928

Thank god the Olympic Games are over. Now we can focus on the real sport event of the season, the US Open. As usual, the best way to start the day is to look at the uniforms and the fashion, with the help of New York Magazine, and men.style . In an article (sub)titled "How tennis influences fashion, and vice versa", the writer traces back the history of tennis apparel, and the great moments in recent history where scores weren't the only game in town... Take Big Bill Tilden for example... I want his sweater. Now.
...and if you are into Nadal, he is a sex symbol now (or let's just say he no longer wears his capri pants, god forbid) , shirtless in New York Magazine:

Karl Cabinet

2008-08-25T03:03:00.000-07:00

OMG! Karl Lagerfeld stuffed animal coming soon to Naiman Marcus near you! for $1,500 you can be the proud owner of this ridiculous doll by Steiff, the famous German maker of stuffed animals. Furries around the world hold their breath and can't sleep at night, waiting for their next big thrill. We love you, Karl. More about the Karl stuffed animal? Read here.

Cabinet of Curious Collections

2008-08-21T02:38:00.000-07:00

I love collectors and weird collections. Take, for example, Dr. Lattimer's inheritance: for seven decades he collected more than 3,000 objects that ranged in age from a few years to tens of millions of years. “He was like a classic Renaissance collector,” said Tony Perrottet, a writer specializing in historical mysteries who spent time with Dr. Lattimer before his death. “ The new York Times has an interesting article about him, with great photos of some of his strangest and unique objects. “It’s often said that the collecting passion is an unwillingness to let go of the past. For him, I think it was an attempt to hold onto his past. He had a long, rich past, and he wasn't immune to the solitariness of human existence.”
I would love to have that box, the one that holds Napoleon's penis. I swear, just for the box.
...and speaking of, I'm reading this amazing book, "To Have and to hold" about the history of collecting. Taking as its inspiration Walter Benjamin's dictum that a collector's passion borders on "the chaos of memory," this curiously moving history argues that collecting is driven by the desire to control that chaos. Does collecting is an attempt to freeze the world in its tracks and hold it still? I'm not sure. The answer is in the box.

Masked Cabinet

2008-08-12T07:05:00.000-07:00

Speaking of the Olympics, the new hot trend is the masked look, as reported in Gawker. The mask can be added to the gas mask offered by Louis Vuitton earlier this year, so soon we can have a very stylish third world war! hooray. The devil may wear Prada, but warriors wear Vuitton, so be careful.

Olympic Caninet

2008-08-08T16:20:00.000-07:00

Watching the fascistic spectacle from Beijing, I was longing for something more human, something from a shoe point of view, or rather something more quiet. Kon Ichikawa's Tokyo Olympiad , is a reminiscent of the way in which the world looked at itself that way. Maybe for the last time. In 1964, the Olympics were held in Tokyo, and Ichikawa was commissioned to make a documentary of the sporting events. He ignored the contestants as much as possible, treating them as ordinary human beings, and created a poetic film that celebrated humans before they became monsters of drugs and post-human perfection.
But if not for that optimistic world, it's for the perfect outfits and style that world had. From the countries uniform (Americans in cowboy hats, Russians waving red ribbons at the cheering crowd) to the minimalist logo.For a style report on the Olympic team uniforms, read here.
And speaking of, guest bloggers this week in the New York Times The Moment, are Carol Lim and Humberto Leon, the co-founders of the downtown boutique Opening Ceremony. Leon and Lim, the owners of Opening Ceremony - one of the coolest and more creative shops in the world (both in New York and Los Angeles). They started as a retail take on the Olympics, pairing U.S. designers with 15 international offerings for a competition of sales.

And another update! Apparently there's a controversy over the uniform Ralph Lauren designed for the U.S. team to wear at the opening Olympic ceremonies: Ralph Lauren Polo logos almost bigger than the Olympic rings logo. Also, it looks cheap, and... they are elitist. Project Rungay: wrote that "These outfits presented the United States athletes as rich snobs, frankly. They made the team look like a 1948 yacht club".
I think they should have made it even more of a Rugby style. Ivy league style is always more welcome!

Cabinet of Lost Things

2008-07-24T00:49:00.000-07:00

I was lazy and I was out of focus in the last few month, and I thought I"ll never go back to blogging (or rather, I"ll go back to it when I find the time and patience - something that will never happen), until I stumble upon a story that one of my favourite artists ever - Laurie Anderson - told, regarding her last project "Homeland":
"The project began while I was at the 2005 World Expo in Aichi, Japan. I was doing a film called Hidden Inside Mountains, a series of visual fables presented on a huge stage. They had written words—postcards of sorts. One of them had a story about the feeling of losing things, like when you’ve lost something and you’re trying to put your finger on what it was. And you think, what’s that thing you’ve lost? Car keys… password… The Japanese translator was asking me, “What did you lose?” And I said, “No, it’s about the feeling of losing things, not the thing itself.” And she asked, “Well, when did you lose it?” And I thought, “Ah, now I’m being psychoanalyzed by the translator. How great.” But I really did try to think about when this happened, and I realized it was when we were invading Iraq, and that what I’d lost was my country. That was the moment I discovered I’d really like to write about this sensation. How does your sense of place affect who you are?"
I"ll try to blog again, and regain the sense of places, objects, and people that affect me..

Cabinet of Maps

2008-04-28T06:22:00.000-07:00

A great idea of a map by bytelevel : 245 country code top-level domain (ccTLD) that are sized relative to the population of the country or territory, with the exception of China and India, which were restrained by 30% to fit the layout.

Ahh, I wanna travel to so many ccLTD. I hope that .fr is the first.

Cabinet of Currencies

2008-04-28T06:16:00.000-07:00

Retailing at £195, Martin Margiela's wallets are perfect example of the designer's genious. Too bad, I don't have anough money to buy or to put inside.
More wallets can be found at Refinery29

L.A to N.Y Cabinet

2008-04-17T01:42:00.000-07:00

From Hollywood to Manhattan to in exactly four minutes is a new video by Michel and Oliver Gondry. A cross country trip for those who have busy schedule. Happy Passover.

L.A. Cabinet

2008-04-15T01:16:00.000-07:00

Between Earth and Heaven, the book and the show, mark not only the new interest in John Lautner, the influential American architect whose work in Southern California combined progressive engineering with humane design and dramatic space-age flair, but also the resurface of Googie, also known as populuxe or doo-wop, the futurst architecture that was most frequently used in design motels, coffee houses and bowling alleys.

2008-03-25T15:39:00.000-07:00

I just realized that two of my favorites songs this time of year are all about seeing and not seeing.

The first, "Blind", is by Hercules and Love Affairs, a Brooklyn band that was found by an exe-boyfriend of a good friend of mine. Andy Butler (I adore that name, despite what the Guardian says about it <"Andy's releasing the whole thing under the name Hercules and Love Affair, which is a much more exciting name than Andy Butler Who You Might Know As A Disco DJ From New York Plus An Assorted Cast Of Extras Including Antony Hegarty From Antony And The Johnsons.">) just made one of the first surprises of dancemusic in 2008. "Blind" is a sad dance track. And it's so beautiful.

The Second, "Made in the Dark", is by Hot Chip, and as beautiful as it is sad, it also reminds me that the world began in the dark, just like the fucking-stupid-earth-hour-today. The album ("Made in the Dark") is a little gem too.

Cabinet of Scents

2008-03-17T07:09:00.000-07:00

Can you imagine what "was inspired by the spices and woods that passed through the trade route, linking India to Egypt" and that a "prized Indian ebony is added to resinous guaiac hardwood at the base, while a healthy dose of spice comprises the opening."? My favorite scent by Comme des Garcons Series 3: Incense.

According to the New Yorker's review of two new books, "a taste or a smell can pass you by, unremarked or nearly so, in large part because you don’t have a word for it; then you see the thing and grasp the meaning of a word at the same time, and both your palate and your vocabulary have expanded". John Lanchester says that "to understand perfume, science is a good place to start, since it’s with the nineteenth-century discovery of synthetic fragrances that modern perfumes began." But his enthusiasm lies in the human experience and language, and it's fun to read more scent's descriptions that evoke the "beast prowling the streets, a strange molecule with the feel of a light, volatile top note and the power and tenacity of the most powerful drydown materials." (about Viktor & Rolf's Antidote). I wonder what the new scent by Margiela smells like (due Fall 2009) , especially after Women's Wear Daily reports that "Given Martin Margiela's conceptual bent, one could imagine him putting out a perfume without any scent — or even an empty bottle".

Therapy Cabinet

2008-03-05T23:55:00.001-08:00

The New York Times explores today the interesting subject of design and therapy in its "Home and garden" section. What do therapists think about when they decorate an office? what do patients feel about their therapist's clinics? and above all, what if the chairs could talk and tell us what they think about both...

The article fails to talk about Freud and his office, but thanks to Robert Longo's The Freud Drawings, we can have a look at the place where psychoanalysis was first sitted.

Trends Cabinet

2008-03-05T05:10:00.000-08:00

Gridskipper, my favorite travel guide blog, reports about a new trend called Tecktonik: A dance craze among French teenagers roving through the capital and engaging in public danceoffs. It all started with a teen named Jey-Jey who films himself dancing in the garage. You can tell the rest of teh story: YouTube page, millions of viewers, and the beginning of hysteria. Now they come in teams and websites full of DIY videos, battles between teams, lifestyle agenda and - as usual in our little commercial village - a registered trademark. Available everywhere: a wide range of official products, including clothing, CDs, and energy drinks.

Fashion Cabinet

2008-03-04T05:15:00.000-08:00

Tony Ventresca from filmnoirbuff writes about the “Updated American” suit and jacket silhouette. Ventresca gives a comprehensive and insightful view on men's fashion and the history of the American suit, and uses a lot of exmaples and source material when writing about his subject. So dress up and read. It's good.

In Memoriam Cabinet

2008-02-26T03:07:00.000-08:00

My favorite part of the Oscars is the “In Memoriam”, the montage video honoring those in the film industry who passed away between February 1, 2007 - January 31, 2008. No Brad Renfro though, but yes to Heath. Just wait till the end.

Oscar's Cabinet

2008-02-24T06:57:00.000-08:00

It's Oscar's night, and this cartoon is dediacted for all the smokers around the world, and espeically for the ones who attend The Kodak Theatre, in LA. Good luck, PTA. I love you.

Blog's Cabinet

2008-02-24T06:14:00.000-08:00

One of my favorite blogs out there is the Sartorialist, where Scott Schuman photographs best dressed people on the sidewalks of New York, Paris or Milan. "I thought I could shoot people on the street the way designers looked at people, and get and give inspiration to lots of people in the process. My only strategy when I began The Sartorialist was to try and shoot style in a way that I knew most designers hunted for inspiration. Rarely do they look at the whole outfit as a yes or no but they try and look for the abstract concepts of color, proportion, pattern mixing or mixed genres."

Clooney's Cabinet

2008-02-21T07:01:00.000-08:00

Well, it's the Oscar's weekend, and it's time for more items about movies and stars I like. Time magazine runs an article about the man, who the girls on Sex and the City said about "he is like a Channel dress, he is never gonna get out of fashion". I couldn't agree more, especially after a picture like this one.

Movies Cabinet

2008-02-21T06:02:00.000-08:00

Men’s Vogue put together a piece on movies that influenced men’s fashion. I love the list, and I love the clothes, and I really love Steve McQueen. Lights, camera rolling. Action.

Here is a sample...

The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)

2046 (2004)

To Catch a Thief (1955)

Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

Roman Holiday (1953)

Royal Tenenbaums (2001)

The Graduate (1967)

American Gigolo (1980)

The Deer Hunter (1978)

Luxury Cabinet

2008-02-17T05:02:00.000-08:00

After hiring Mikhail Gorbachev, Andres Agassi and other famous people, Louis Vuitton is doing Philosophy! The Luxury goods brand launched its first ever television advertisement, full of questions, thoughts, and blurred images. What's next? maybe a new Meditations on First Philosophy with a LV leather binding?

Improv Cabinet

2008-02-04T03:32:00.000-08:00

My friends know I hate "groups" and performances, but this one is the most creative players I've encountered. "Improv Everywhere" is a New York based prank collective who interferes with the public sphere. Their latest gig is an amazing comment on time, space, and - how surprisingly - on New York as well.

Design Cabinet

2008-01-13T06:54:00.000-08:00

New Charles Eames commemorative stamp are coming out this summer, and it's exciting. I love the Eames, and since I have two of their red chairs I got for my 30th birthday from Jorge, it does make me proud. Now, I just need a good excuse to send some old fashion letters to my beloved ones.

"In recognition of their groundbreaking contributions to architecture, furniture design, manufacturing and photographic arts, designers Charles and Ray Eames will be honored next summer with a pane of 16 stamps designed by Derry Noyes of Washington, DC. If you’ve ever sat in a stackable molded chair, you’ve experienced their creativity. Perhaps best known for their furniture, the Eameses were husband and wife as well as design partners. Their extraordinary body of creative work — which reflected the nation’s youthful and inventive outlook after World War II — also included architecture, films and exhibits. Without abandoning tradition, Charles and Ray Eames used new materials and technology to create high-quality products that addressed everyday problems and made modern design available to the American public" says the USPS.

Read more about the Eames.

Luxury Cabinet

2008-01-07T04:43:00.000-08:00

Don't get me wrong, but I do love Ralph Lauren's Polo. I even have my old boyfriend's dad white polo that I took long time ago. The new ones are kind of tacky, but they are still classic... so if you can't get enough of those, you can buy a whole bunch at a special price (just $5,000 !): a special edition leather trunk that contains 40 Polo shirts to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Polo brand. A true limited edition tackiness!

Photography Cabinet

2008-01-07T04:18:00.000-08:00

Fan with a Cigarette, 2007

After designing for Dior, the talanted Hedi Slimane continues exploring his artistic side in a new phorography show. In Galerie Alerine Almine Rech he shows "Perfect Strangers", an installation of image and sound, a documentation of the Klaxons’ appearance at indie-rock festival Benicassim, as well as a recent performance by Amy Winehouse.

London Cabinet

2008-01-03T02:55:00.000-08:00

Map on a glove. Genius! and it's from 1851. I wonder how long it takes till we see it in Barney's..
Read more about the map/gloves

End of the Year Cabinet

2007-12-31T02:34:00.000-08:00

I love end of the year resolutions... although I find it hard to put a definite list of all the things I loved this year.
But still, here it goes:

My favorite song, the one I can listen to all day in repeat on my iPod, is definitely "someone great" by LCD SOUNDSYSTEM:

My favorite movie, although hasn't been shown here, is PTA's "There will be blood"

And last, my favorite book, the one I got from Eran as a birthday gift (and unfortunately is out of stock) is "Living Well is the Best Revenge" (a new year's resolution for us all). New Yorker writer Calvin Tomkins re-creates the world of Gerald and Sara Murphy, two American originals who found themselves at the center of a charmed circle of artists and expatriate writers in France in the 1920s. Their home in Antibes, Villa America, served as a gathering place for Picasso and Léger as well as Hemingway and Fitzgerald, who used the glamorous couple as models for Dick and Nicole Diver in Tender Is the Night.

"Person after person - English, French, American, everybody - met them and came away saying that these people really are masters in the art of living".

And on that note, happy new year.

Happy New Year Cabinet

2007-12-24T15:32:00.000-08:00

To all my friends...

New York Cabinet

2007-12-24T03:56:00.000-08:00

Just for Xmas: a New (York) Year Resolution!
New York Magazine reminds us all why we love the city that never sleeps.Read More

Cabinet of Drugs

2007-12-20T06:59:00.000-08:00

Berlin Cabinet

2007-12-04T02:24:00.000-08:00

Weimar Berlin is celebrated for its outpouring of creativity, and the Expressionism pioneered here continues to influence artists today. Architects, too, found themselves confronted with tradition's breakdown in the face of war and revolution, with groups such as Bauhaus and The Ring seeking to align a new theory and practice of building with 20th-century realities. As a painter, film designer, and architect, Hans Poelzig was at the center of this creative storm.

A new show at the Academy of German Art takes a look at Hans Poelzig. Poelzig was a painter, film designer, and architect. His Weimar-era projects in Berlin contributed to the city's early reputation as an oasis of modern architecture, and those still standing offer a glimpse of the modernist city before its wartime destruction.

Black Cabinet

2007-12-04T01:54:00.000-08:00

She keeps going back to it, and we are going back to black. Keep the good work, Amy.

What Would Jesus Buy Cabinet

2007-12-04T01:41:00.001-08:00

Dutch architects Merkx + Girod have won the Lensvelt de Architect Interior Prize 2007 for their Boekhandel Selexyz Dominicanen in Maastricht - a bookstore inside a former Dominican church. At last the world is ready to confess that shopping is holy.
Hallelujah.

Art Cabinet

2007-12-04T01:16:00.000-08:00

Mark Wallinger Wins 2007 Turner Prize. He is famous for his film Sleeper, 2005, 154 minutes of footage of the artist wandering around a deserted German gallery disguised as a bear.

"What are we allowed to dream? The past rises up with all its vivid detail to mock our progress at every turn. The long past of our own fear. Inside the bear’s head I am aware of my own breathing. Looking out of the jaws at my narrow view, my progress from stimulus to distraction gains some kind of animal momentum – to watch and be watched as a foreign, alien, strange, endearing, imprisoned animal."
Read More

Happy Birthday to Me Cabinet

2007-11-29T02:23:00.000-08:00

New York Cabinet

2007-11-15T03:59:00.000-08:00

Jean Nouvel has high hopes for New York. 75-story tower hope, to be precise. According to the New York Times, the new building, which will be built next to the Museum of Modern Art in Midtown and it "promises to be the most exhilarating addition to the skyline in a generation".

New York Cabinet

2007-11-12T08:39:00.000-08:00

I love the building on Perry Street. Richard Meier designed a glass house that reflects everything we hate (or love) about rich people: the problems with the neighbours, the constructions flaws, the arrogant tenants, and last, as I read in the New York Times, the transparency issue.

Movies

2007-11-11T02:16:00.000-08:00

The New York Times Sunday magazine goes west, following Daniel Day-Lewis and the new Paul Thomas Anderson movie he stars in, “There Will be Blood”.
Read the article

White Cabinet

2007-11-11T01:42:00.000-08:00

A beautiful video of Whitest Boy Alive directed by graphic designer Geoff McFetridge (the opening titles for "Adaptation" and "Virgin Suicides,").

Curiosities

2007-11-06T02:48:00.001-08:00

Tracey Emin, Is Legal Sex Anal?, is shown at the Barbican's "Seduced", the much talked about exhibition which explores the representation of sex in art through the ages. Fuck that.

Curiosities

2007-11-06T02:33:00.000-08:00

Another Marc's crap, only this time in video, shot by Jurgen Teller. The blue hair designer has a new video for his new fragrance, Daisy.

Cabinet of Books

2007-11-06T01:40:00.000-08:00

Mario Testino has a new book, "Let Me In", another behind-the-scenes photos of celebrities, for those who can't get enough of US Weekly and In Touch material. For the rest of us, 2 pictures will do:

Trends

2007-11-01T03:09:00.001-07:00

I love the Brain Bag that Jun Takashi designed. Available at Someday .

TV cabinet

2007-10-31T06:02:00.000-07:00

Guess what schizophrenic patients like to watch the most...

According to the story in the New Yorker, it's Lary David's “Curb Your Enthusiasm". David Roberts, a second-year clinical-psychology student at the University of North Carolina, discovered, while teaching social skills to a group of schizophrenic patients, that change had come over his patients when they watch TV:

"So Roberts began showing TV clips during therapy sessions. Soon he had narrowed his selections down to one show: television’s purest expression of social dysfunction, “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” Roberts considers Larry David to be the perfect proxy for a schizophrenic person".

When asked about it, David said: "A lot of the time, it’s just me expressing myself freely. I knew that my own mental health was problematic, but should I be worried?"

Hmm, yeah. Read "We Are All Larry David" in the New Yorker.

Halloween Cabinet

2007-10-31T05:52:00.000-07:00

In celebration of Halloween (today) and Dia De Los Muertos (tomorrow), here is a little reminder of the business of death:

Cabinet of Books

2007-10-25T05:01:00.000-07:00

I never heard about Félix Fénéon, but the title of his book "Novels in Three Lines" caught my attention. Fénéon (1861-1944) was an intellectual anarchist, and he worked on the backstage of literature. He translated, published and even discovered many of the authors of the late 19th and early 20th centuries: Proust, Apollinaire, Rimbaud, Seurat, Gide, Joyce - but rarely affixed his own to any work.

In 1906 Fénéon began producing three-line items for the Parisian daily Le Matin, which now have been translated into English. Take a moment, and taste it:

"There is no longer a God even for drunkards. Kersilie, of St.-Germain, who had mistaken the window for the door, is dead."

Trends Cabinet

2007-10-25T03:26:00.000-07:00

I don't know why (is it a post guilt-trip after eating the amazing pork belly dish at the trendy Momfuko Noodle bar in New York?) but the image of this sleeping pig captures my mind. I think it's beautiful, and I hope we"ll see a lot of it. Bon appetit.

Ugh Cabinet

2007-10-24T04:05:00.000-07:00

Some people never get tired of themselves. Take Tom Ford, for instance. After founding his new fashion house, launching his new perfume, and being photographed with nude Hollywood darlings on the cover of Vanity Fair, he still had some time to show his ass for the upcoming Out Magazine's Terry Richardson shoot.

Curiosities

2007-10-24T03:54:00.001-07:00

I love architecture, and although I lack sense of humor, I like when I see serious matters treated in a whimsical style. Look, for example, at the "Sharp Centre for Design"(part of Ontario College of Art & Design), designed by architect Will Alsop, of Alsop Architects.
Read more from the New Yorker about Alsop.

Curiosities

2007-10-24T02:27:00.000-07:00

How appropriate: A collaboration between David lynch and shoe designer Christian Louboutin. The two made a series of images, using Louboutin's shoes, with the lynch touch of imagery. At least now you don't have to sit 3 long hours in order to see another weird masterpiece from the beloved filmmaker, and somehow it seems the right format for him, with the enigmatic images, the frozen narrative, and the fetish sexy objects that tell the right story.
See more images

Shelter

2007-10-22T08:09:00.000-07:00

Malibu is so hot right now, maybe a little too hot. That's why Jennifer Aniston, Sting, Bill Murray, Nick Nolte, Robin Wright Penn, Mel Brooks, Tatum O'Neal, Rob Reiner, Goldie Hawn, Linda Ronstadt, Jeff Bridges, David Arquette and Courteney Cox, David Geffen,Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, are all on fire watch due to a huge fire...
Read more on TMZ

Design Cabinet

2007-10-22T06:10:00.000-07:00

New York Magazine has a special design issue, and although the theme is not new,I never get tired of reading about Martha ("it's a good thing") Stewart, and about many other prominent figures in New York design world. A rare opportunity is the interview with Massimo and Lella Vignelli, who designed the New York Subway map and signs.

Clostes

2007-10-22T02:36:00.000-07:00

New Butt is out today (‘late autumn/early winter’) and since I need to wait till someone gets it for me, here is the beautiful cover.

History Cabinet

2007-10-21T05:22:00.000-07:00

20 years to October 18, 1977 - Gerhard Richter
Fifteen paintings compose October 18, 1977 -a series of paintings that are based on photographs of moments in the lives and deaths of four members of the Red Army Faction (RAF), a German left-wing terrorist group that perpetrated a number of kidnappings and killings throughout the 1970s. On this date the bodies of three principal RAF members were found in the cells of the German prison where they were incarcerated. Although the deaths were officially deemed suicides, there was widespread suspicion that the prisoners had been murdered by the German state police.
Read more about Baader Meinhof

Closets

2007-10-17T03:12:00.000-07:00

Such a bad joke, and still so funny... Jack is back, and I love him.

Fitting Cabinet

2007-10-17T02:00:00.000-07:00

For those of you who need assistance with the right fit, Details magazine helps you with that.
Click for help.

Curiosities

2007-10-16T03:28:00.000-07:00

The Unicorn in Captivity, 1495–1505
South Netherlandish
can be found at the Cloisters

Trends Cabinet

2007-10-16T02:19:00.000-07:00

OMG. A new trend is threatening the future: Vegansexuality.
"Vegansexuals are people who do not eat any meat or animal products, and who choose not to be sexually intimate with non-vegan partners whose bodies, they say, are made up of dead animals."
Hearing about it, all I want to do is putting a fur coat, ordering Double Big Mac and to have sex with Bin Laden.
Read more about Vegansexuals

Curiosities

2007-10-13T08:03:00.000-07:00

I'm reading two articles this weekend, and for some reason I felt they have something in common. The First, following the opening of his latest movie - "Rescue Dawn", is an interview with its director Werner Herzog. The film (which I still haven't seen) seems to be another chapter in the director's long journey into human wildernesses, and among other things, he also mentions a funny incident in which he got shot. Watch the video below:

The second, a fascinating article about the "Mannahatta Project" in The New Yorker, tells the story of Eric Sanderson, a landscape ecologist who is trying to determine exactly how Manhattan would have appeared to its first explorers in 1609, and to depict the island as it was, just before it came under what is known today as Manhattan. Look at the amazing digital aerial view of Manhattan as it might have looked in 1609, juxtaposed with the outline of Manhattan today.Read here.

And that remind me of this book I heard about, with the interesting title: "The World Without Us" by Alan Weisman. Let's imagine what happens when we are not around here, anymore. Click here to see what...

Curiosities

2007-10-11T02:37:00.000-07:00

Adam Helms's "4 Untitled Portraits"

Read more aboute Helms

Movies Cabinet

2007-10-10T06:38:00.000-07:00

Just saw Wes Anderson's "The Darjeeling Limited" and it's such a gem.
Don't miss this train!

And as usual, don't forget to pay attention to the wonderful soundtrack. It can be played in the official site.

Trends Cabinet

2007-10-09T01:59:00.000-07:00

It might be the biological war that worries him, but Marc Jacobs Louis Vuitton's Spring 2008 show was another crazy showoff of the legendary designer.
Wanna see more? click here

Trends Cabinet

2007-10-08T08:28:00.000-07:00

I haven't decided if it's cool or not, but knowing the smell of a big trend makes me believe that Tom's shoes are the new Crocs. Before I say anything bad, these shoes have good cause, and every pair you buy, the company will match another pair for a child in need.

Read, buy, walk

Fonts Cabinet

2007-10-08T01:41:00.000-07:00

My beloved fonts got a documentary, and till we see the DVD, here is an homage:
To read more about the film click here

Movies Cabinet

2007-10-08T00:56:00.000-07:00

Film Forum is screening Jean-Luc Godard’s 1967 "La Chinoise”, and there is never a better time than this, between the War on Terror and the upcoming Beijing Olympic Games.

Curiosities

2007-10-07T05:43:00.001-07:00

Zaha Hadid won't rest... her new spaceship is called "The Mobile Art container" and it's a collaboration with Karl Lagerfeld.
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And read more about the Channel hand bag inspired UFO here

Movies Cabinet

2007-10-07T05:35:00.000-07:00

Todd Haynes new movie gets a NYTimes Sunday magazine cover + photos inside.read more about the film

Curiosities

2007-10-04T16:18:00.001-07:00

Ron Mueck's "In Bed".How appropriate.

SNL - Iran

2007-10-02T02:02:00.000-07:00

SNL had a great song about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to NYC. Don't miss the Gyllenhaal refernce ("Mahmoud, I remember when it started... You ain’t wrong to me, so strong to me, you belong to me, Like a very hairy Jake Gyllenhaal to me"):

Cabinet of Piracy

2007-10-01T03:54:00.000-07:00

Copying is so cool! From the New Yorker's Style issue, wonderful news: copying designs is good for business: "... a recent paper by the law professors Kal Raustiala and Christopher Sprigman suggests that weak intellectual-property rules, far from hurting the fashion industry, have instead been integral to its success. The professors call this effect “the piracy paradox".

The paradox stems from the basic dilemma that underpins the economics of fashion: for the industry to keep growing, customers must like this year’s designs, but they must also become dissatisfied with them, so that they’ll buy next year’s. Many other consumer businesses face a similar problem, but fashion—unlike, say, the technology industry—can’t rely on improvements in power and performance to make old products obsolete. Raustiala and Sprigman argue persuasively that, in fashion, it’s copying that serves this function, bringing about what they call “induced obsolescence.” Copying enables designs and styles to move quickly from early adopters to the masses. And since no one cool wants to keep wearing something after everybody else is wearing it, the copying of designs helps fuel the incessant demand for something new."

TV cabinet

2007-10-01T02:24:00.000-07:00

Viva la Palestine. There is a Palestinian guy in the new season of Project Runway:
http://www.bravotv.com/Project_Runway/season/4/bios/Rami.php

Images of Curiosities

2007-09-28T10:09:00.000-07:00

August Sander's "Young Farmers" (1914)

Cabinet of Books

2007-09-25T06:03:00.000-07:00

"Once upon a time there was a war . . . and a young American who thought of himself as the Quiet American and the Ugly American, and who wished to be neither, who wanted instead to be the Wise American, or the Good American, but who eventually came to witness himself as the Real American and finally as simply the Fucking American. That's me."

From the much-talked-about book "Tree of Smoke: A Novel

The 50 Most Stylish Men of the Past 50 Years

2007-09-25T02:34:00.000-07:00

GQ just published their 50 most stylish men list... worth checking.
click here for the complete list

The Scavenger

2007-09-24T01:37:00.000-07:00

They say Clooney is like a Chanel dress, because he is never gonna go out of fashion, but what about Coco's apartment? I guess it will always be in style:
http://www.coolhunting.com/archives/2007/09/coco_chanels_ap.php