Monday, August 31, 2009

Power Suit

Brosnan.

Douglas.
Brooks Brothers guy.
Owen.
Baldwin.
Iron Man.

Saturday, August 29, 2009

EGON: "What sign are you waiting for?"

LOUIS: "Gozer the Traveler. He will come in one of the pre-chosen forms. During the rectification of the Vuldrani, the traveler came as a large and moving Torg! Then, during the third reconciliation of the last of the McKetrick supplicants, they chose a new form for him: that of a giant Slor! Many Shuvs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Slor that day, I can tell you!"

Friday, August 28, 2009

Freemans Sporting Club

Freemans Sporting Club, 8 Rivington St., New York, NY, 10002.

Thursday, August 27, 2009

Sneakers, Flips, Denim

Top to bottom:
Nike Dunk Low - Premium by Chris Lundy
Nike Dunk Low - Laser by Chris Lundy
Ray Barbee skateboarding.
Supreme Rigid Denim Jean (Narrow Fit)

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Thaispinner

Enough cannot be said for clubs. What would these youths be doing if they were not in Thaispinner? One can only imagine. 
However, through the magic of this club, these pen spinning enthusiasts are able to share their passion and dexterity. By the way, specially weighted pens specifically designed for spinning? Sick idea, boys. Also, give the Bangkok Children's Museum credit for allowing these athletes to use their hallway; they are providing a venue for the future of the sport, where new moves will be devised, records will be broken, and young people will push each other to greatness.
If you can read Thai and would like more information about Thaispinner, how to acquire Thaispinner apparel, or pen spinning in Southeast Asia, visit them on the web at www.thaispinner.com/index.php.

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Monday, August 24, 2009

Toward Autumn

Engineered Garments Shawl Collar Field Shirt-Jacket (Blue Wabash Stripe Denim).
Quoddy Ring Boot. (The Shorey family has been handsewing shoes in Maine since 1909.)

Sunday, August 23, 2009

Seize sur Vingt

Seize sur Vingt, 243 Elizabeth St., New York, NY, 10012.
Groupe 16sur20, 267 Elizabeth St., New York, NY, 10012.
Nas shops there.
In 1998, James and Gwendolyn Jurney founded Seize sur Vingt to make finely tailored clothes for men and women.

Saturday, August 22, 2009

The Quick and the Dead

is an exhibition of conceptual art at The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Curated by Peter Eleey, it runs through September 27, 2009. The following words and images are from The Walker's website, www.walkerart.org.

Surveying art that tries to reach beyond itself and the limits of our knowledge and experience, The Quick and the Dead seeks, in part, to ask what is alive and dead within the legacy of conceptual art. Though the term “conceptual” has been applied to myriad kinds of art, it originally covered works and practices from the 1960s and ‘70s that emphasized the ideas behind or around a work of art, foregrounding language, action, and context rather than visual form. But this basic definition fails to convey the ambitions of many artists who have been variously described as conceptual: as Sol LeWitt asserted in 1969, conceptual artists are “mystics rather than rationalists.” Although some of their work involves unremarkable materials or even borders on the invisible, these artists explore new ways of thinking about time and space, often aspiring to realms and effects that fall far outside of our perceptual limitations.

The exhibition title derives from a biblical phrase describing the judgment of the living and the dead at the end of time. But it has been used in innumerable ways since, including by the designer and engineer R. Buckminster Fuller, who in 1947 lauded what he called the “quick realities” of modern physics, condemning the “dead superstitions” of classical, object-based Newtonian theories. This distinction between objects and events underlined many conceptual practices of the late 1960s and ‘70s that pressed at the edges of the discernable—the work of artists like George Brecht, who seamlessly transformed objects into motionless events and asked us to consider “an art verging on the non-existent, dissolving into other dimensions;” Lygia Clark, whose foldable sculptures sought to dissolve the boundary between inside and outside, each “a static moment within the cosmological dynamics from which we came and to which we are going;” and James Lee Byars who, obsessed with a magically gothic idea of perfection that included metaphorical enactments of his own death, declared that “the perfect performance is to stand still.”
With an international group of 53 artists in a range of media, The Quick and the Dead expands beyond the here and now, reaffirming conceptual art’s ability to engage some of the deeper mysteries and questions of our lives. The exhibition brings together more than 90 works, juxtaposing a core group from the 1960s and ‘70s with more recent examples that might only loosely qualify as conceptual. Included in the show are new works made specifically for the exhibition and a number that have not been previously shown or realized. The presentation expands beyond the Walker’s main galleries to its public spaces, parking ramp, the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, and the nearby Basilica of Saint Mary.
Lygia Clark, Bicho , 1960
aluminum 15 x 15 x 20 in. variable Collection Walker Art Center T. B. Walker Acquisition Fund, 2007
Courtesy “The World of Lygia Clark” Cultural Association, Rio de Janeiro
Paul Chan Score for 7th Light , 2007
ink, collage on paper (15 sheets) 15 sheets, 14 x 11 in. Collection Walker Art Center Miriam and Erwin Kelen Acquisition Fund for Drawings and the T. B. Walker Acquisition Fund, 2008
Harold Edgerton, Bullet through Balloons , 1959
gelatin silver print 11 3/8 x 18 7/8 in.
© Harold & Esther Edgerton Foundation, 2009, Courtesy of Palm Press, Inc.
Pierre Huyghe, Timekeeper , 1999
Circular abrasion to the wall revealing the successive layers of paint from past exhibitions Dimensions variable Courtesy the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
© 2008 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP
Adrian Piper, What Will Become of Me , 1985-ongoing

hair, fingernails, skin, jars, shelf and typed text on paper 16 x 69-1/2 x 6 in. installed
Collections of Peter Norton and Eileen Harris Norton