{ modern aesthetician }

What the what?

2009-02-17T14:39:00.001-05:00

So Bre and I have talked it over and we are shutting it down. I think a few of you good old friends read this silly blog but really nothing of substance has been done with it in a long long time. It has no focus and there for it's time to move on.

I leave you now with the famooos words of Tomas Payne, "Taste the pain!"

Oh wait that was my 5 year old brother Max...

see what I mean?

Peace

new year, new ideas!!

2009-01-26T00:45:00.003-05:00

Hey blog, its been a while, sorry to have been away!!

This year is all about taking inspiration for anywhere and everywhere. Opening my mind in that hippy dippy LA kinda way and really soaking it in.

A.) this video!!!

Friendly Fires 'Skeleton Boy' by Clemens Habicht from Nexus Productions on Vimeo.

B.) Navajo Couture (big in Echo Park)

C.) The depth and breadth of Neil Young's work:

old man, a new song in this vid, look how young he was!!

take that!

2008-12-18T18:58:00.001-05:00

SCARVES! FINALLY!!!!

2008-11-26T14:35:00.005-05:00

Peter and I finally put a small collection of scarves online. It only took 4EVA. Please take a look and let us know what you think!
We are super duper bummed not to be in California for T-givez but are making due with our amazing friends and yummy food here. Our menu as follows:

A 30lb turkey! (a collective first)
Curry stuffing
Garlic mashed sweet potatoes
Cranberry lime ginger sauce
Cranberry pumpkin bread
Potato and artichoke soup
Asparagus
Sweets
Cocktails GAH-LORE
other stuff I'm probably forgetting...

Otherwise, we are *this close* to finishing the exposure unit. And. WE. CANNOT. WAIT. to start printing for reals. Especially cuz we've already got about 3 jobs lined up. This past monday morning, I rolled out of bed and printed (in my pjz!) some samples for Wayne that turned out amazing but we postponed our meeting to friday so I will post the results thereafter. Needless to say, it felt great to print again. We also tried a different brand of textile ink that worked much, much better than the regular 'ol speedball that we normally use.

Oh, and Jeff and I started a project here.

ziad / rykiel

2008-11-03T13:15:00.003-05:00

Our friend Ziad is printing new tees and ever since he emailed me these test prints (bottom pic), these eyes have been popping up everywhere (including URBZ). My hope is that he gets his up on the interwebs ASAP cuz they are TCFS. Also, I just love this velvet bow shirt. Can you say DIY xmas project? The bow and bag are Sonia Rykiel.

LA: close to hell

2008-10-29T12:03:00.006-04:00

I am loving living in LA but let me tell you it is torture right now! its 90 degrees everyday and I feel sad every time I look at my fall wears...

I've figured out how to enjoy fall and live here at the same time, here is my guide:

Plaid mini:

Accessorize with care (and non fabric items):

Go for feathers instead of fur (which is excruciating!):

And last but not least, wear big bags, not big coats:

Good luck not leaving sweat marks!

a rare day

2008-10-20T13:40:00.005-04:00

here at modern aesthetician we try not to re-post or just plain rip off the other blogs of the world but i have to do it today. this lady is A.M.A.Z.I.N.G. her blog is called the glamourai and it f-ing rocks!

her style is bangin'. she mixes couture with foreves 21 and vintage to make an outlandish inspiring look and i think she deserves our nod of approval, heck! maybe a head bang of approval... enjoy!

FOODICO

2008-10-20T12:47:00.003-04:00

i just discovered the most amazing place to read articles about stuff i really care about that doesn't often get into the main stream media!

GOURMET: POLITICS OF THE PLATE

its amazing. i am always gobbling up anything i see on nytimes or cnn about food, FDA, organic politics and all. i think it is so interesting how organic certification process works and the back lash from farms that have been organic without the certifications (which cost a lot) since their inception. its crazy how there are farms posing as organic since the green movement has taken off and how much wiggle room the definition of "organic" gives certain farms.

crazy.

shut up right now.

2008-10-16T07:29:00.004-04:00

i dream of being bi-coastal. and all things henrik. lest you forget, liv posted about him right here. unfortunately, his site isn't current and only showing s/s 08, but oak has a bunch of fall stuff to peruse. dude can sure do some nat-am and knitty pattern stuff, which reminds me that we need to tackle the knitting machine over xmas holidaze.

PS: i can't even write about anything politico. except, why is obama's "eloquence" such a liability to mccain? srsly. un. be. lieve. able. and, "5K" for health care? thanks but no thanks. also, no one is "pro-abortion." idiot.

PPS: THIS.

i have a column in vibe called mue-singz

2008-09-28T12:37:00.000-04:00

although not the most comprehensive look (and certainly not unbiased and not exactly properly edited), i've been compiling pictures and mental notes from fall fashion week 09 (fyi dudes who read: this really means they are showing stuff for spring 09).

1. anne of green gables and eley kishimoto fall08 (see above image) as inspiration for marc jacobs. come on people, am i right or am i right??? the kitty is just because i love you.

(above L to R)
marc jacobs - eley kishimoto spring 08
marc by marc - eley kishimoto fall 08

2. patterned tights. looooooove. cannot wait to start wearing tights (and double tights): top shop, eley kishimoto

3. prints prints and more prints. simple prints, print comboz, and subtle comboz of the two. obviously this is a duh, especially coming from me: diane von furstenwhatever, marni, luella, temperley

4. color combos, etc. still loving this electric blue but also the softer sherbert colors (mmmmmm) mixed with greyscale: temperley, alexander wang, marc by marc, rodarte. PS i totally had a paul smith picture to post but the model's hair was so greasy and yuck - as were the rest of the models' hair in the show. the really wet look is kinda gross.

5. let's be honest. i'm for defs not gonna be walking around in rodarte heels or dvf dresses anytime soon. mostly because my fall fashion to-do list includes modifying my grandma's denim jumpsuit and trying to find shoes that actually fit. most wearable: marios schwab, charlotte ronson, jaeger london, alexander wang

ANECDOTE: a.n.n.n.n.n.n.n.n.e.q.d.o.t.e

2008-09-26T20:00:00.004-04:00

ok i am going to have take a break from our usually scheduled non-sense to discuss current affairs... presidential debate 1.0

did anyone else feel like McCain looked like a kid at a spelling bee who couldn't spell Ahmadinejad? i mean, what is his problem? can't you look at Obama or are you afraid if you make eye contact with a black man you'll turn to stone? wheres your body guard "thanks but no thanks?"

anyway, if i have to hear one more fucking story about John McCain's vacations i swear i'll scream. its called flickr, or you could put those awesome minnnnnd numbing stories about the roaring 20s on your myspace blog...

but seriously, look at Obama, hes so cute.

chip in!

2008-09-26T19:39:00.000-04:00

Peter and Breanne started a shop fund! They've already built the print table and its huge - 4' x 8' - but still need other stuff to get going... exposure unit...ink...rent (jk!)

i swear they'll make you a scarf or tee! do it!

xoxoxo

totally craving big knits

2008-09-24T18:41:00.003-04:00

...and a haircut.

that just happened.

2008-09-10T20:46:00.004-04:00

Peter and I are back from Cali vaykay and I've never had a worse case of jetlag. UNBELIEVABLE!!! As we walked to the Promenade today, I realized that coming home this time registered the fact that we live in the city.

Regarding the image above, Liv has inspired me to make digi collage of my fall wishez and personal forecast. While putting it together I found my color and silhouette choices to be kinda predictable. Turquoise? No way. Um yeah, for now its a mix of classic / fem / equine / yummy knits, though not enough opaque tights. (rachel comey, bbw, alexander wang, heidi merrick) I've already started compiling images for another and will update when I don't have a million other things to do. And I've got some things to say about NYFW spring 09 shows. Most notably, MJ meets Anne of Green Gables.

Speaking of a million things, we are almost done setting up our print shop. Just need to jam out the exposure unit and we'll be good to go!

PS: While in Sonora, I totally scored my alexander wang coat from above: a tweed menswear-inspired overcoat. With bits of color in the weave and ubiquitous 80's cat claw leather accents on the shoulders.

request

2008-08-25T11:02:00.000-04:00

We have had a request to lay out our top picks for men this fall since our blagh is too girl orientated... so here is what we think dudes should sport this fall:

1. Baggy hats (not to be confused with beanies!!!!!!)

2. Adorable layers with loose trimmings

you can be business but throw in the causal by loosening that tie and muss that hair... yum.

3. Minimal plaids

classic and will last season after season if you get a nice neutral plaid. investments!

4. Shoe boots (kick those converse! at least for a season...)

5. P.I. Chic

Give the rocker within a rest for a few months. You can find some really nice meeting worthy jeans that don't have poppy bullshit all over them everywhere. A nice coat, some serious shades that aren't neon? i think you'll thank me.

easy breesy be be weny

2008-08-21T21:45:00.005-04:00

there will always be a soft spot in mah heart for built by wendy. it was around the time when i secretly subscribed to sassy (my mom despised it) that i found out about her guitar straps and dresses... you know, when i was 13. man, i wish i had held on to those issues.

the new fall line is the most sophisticated of her's yet, though still somewhat demure, wholesome, Midwest americana meets lederhosen vibe.

speaking of BBW, we went to hope's open studio last night. i love the gestural quality of her paintings and expanded color palette. her show at richard heller in LA opens on september 6th. (hope does illustration for BBW)

notes on proximity aka nerding out: a) i visited booklyn last winter, which is in the same building as her studio; b) wendy sold me a pattern once. she was much shorter than i expected. however, i always forget how tall i am.

sunshine and shadow

2008-08-20T10:10:00.003-04:00

I tried on a couple of Sunshine and Shadow pieces back when Liv worked at iheart. Love the patterns and material but the fit just wasn't quite right. These photos are from past collections... oh, and the designer-gal also went to risd. So much risd in new york.

a head for business and a bod for sin.

2008-08-19T23:18:00.002-04:00

Olivia and I just got back from seeing Working Girl in Central Park. I've never seen it before and it was utterly duh-mazing. I tried finding choice screen shots but am sorta pooped from all the Bloomy popcorn. PS: Note to Bloomberg PSA Ad Thing - the stretchy type sucks.

In lieu of aformentioned screen shots, here's this fantastic digi collage and ahem, monotype.

DUHMAZING, people!

the feel of fall

2008-08-10T21:22:00.012-04:00

ok, i am gonna girl out hard for a minute so plug your ears if you are the type of boy who hates girl stuffs. i just wanted to run down my top 5 inspirations for fall so here it is:

1. Maxi Plaids

Its kinda perfect, I mean who doesn't have 20 plaid things in their closet from last fall? with the economy the way it is we are recycling from good old yesteryear (not that i don't normally, economy eshomony).

2. Russian Stuff

Ok so they are invading Georgia but their patterns are so cool. NO SERIOUSLY RUSSIA, QUIT IT.

3. Over the knees

That way you can still rock the mini dress you have from summer but be warm!

4. Buffalo Check

I was informed by a good friend of mine that is THE ONLY plaid made in the Americas and its been having a good year, feel free to steal from your b.f.

5. Gray gardens/old lady floral

It feels so good to have a darker spin on Spring's favorite play.

So here you have em, my picks for fall. I think you can build a nice little look out of these components separately or all at once! Obviously getting them at thrift town and salvy not gucci and d&g. Money is way out of style this season.

leap year/gap year

2008-08-04T14:57:00.004-04:00

Talk about serious summering. Its monday and I just had a margarita with lunch. whooa whoo! But seriously ever since leap year (the date my boyfriend and i got together) i've been having a serious gap year (his term). That is why I am packing up, sadly leaving the proximity of Breanne and Peter, and moving to The A, yes you heard me correctly, L.A. here I come. WHY?!?!?!?!?! you might say. I understand your confusion, trust me, i felt the same at the thought of that strange far land... then I visited it and met some really nice people who didn't get high colonics and botox everyday. I realize that is where i have to be if i am going to make some serious splashes in the costuming world.

So now i get to really live up to my print assistant nic-name: HOLLYWOOD!
I just hope I can survive without Peter and Bre, I don't know what I am going to do
every night without them!!

recommendations?

2008-07-14T17:49:00.004-04:00

Weekends in the park are so nice. Obnoxious music festivals in said park, not so much. Between scouring the internibs, getting in touch with everyone I know about our new biz, fantasizing about being the next Chip Kidd and a new collaborative project with allison, I've been reading. Reading my little heart out, like I'm 12 years old again, and can't put down the latest Baby-Sitter's Club Super Special.

(wow, i just read on the wiki that some of the books were ghostwritten, and by a dude. Peter just said, "Of course they were ghostwritten.")

Maybe its that I have a lot of extra time on my hands post post post grad school, or that I need to brush up on my grammar stylie stylez since failing the NY Mag copy editing test (really, what a letdown, and after editing so many theses).

In the past week or so, I've read: A Million Little Pieces, The Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing (again), Julie & Julia, started Naked (again) and Chip Kidd: Book One.

So, what I need from you, dear readers (judge? chris? anyone there?) are recommendations. And preferably something funny, memoir-esque and that I can borrow.

Seriously my faves back in the day (and I'd probably re-read them all now if i didn't sell them at mom's garage sale 15 years ago):

duh.

2008-07-02T10:00:00.001-04:00

mag-a-log

2008-06-22T14:44:00.005-04:00

have you ever noticed that magazines are not magazines any more? Bazaar, I love the editorials normally but this month it just wasn't cutting it. when did fashion become the promotion of next season instead of whats fresh and interesting? i find my self more interested in what Beth of Vintage Society and Siri of Ringo Go Have a Banana are wearing than what kate moss and gemma ward are wearing.

i guess i take solace in Lula but really twice a year? and for $54? Oouf. Anyway here is some content that isn't selling anything that I am totally in love with right now...

toile tattooed men by mimi kirchner, her felting is amazing too!

my friend mimi from s.f. is doing some great printz...

ok the world is right again, geez! that took a lot of internet healin'!

hello, internebz

2008-06-20T10:32:00.004-04:00

Our tees are finally online!
For the time being, we are selling them on etsy == forestobject.etsy.com!

have you seen this graduate? ...

2008-05-30T09:06:00.004-04:00

hello faithful (judge) modernaesthetician readers! i wanted to post to say wtf, where have we been! well, i've been in africa and breanne has been drum roll, dddddddddddddddddddddcrash! GRADUATING! tomorrow is the ceremony but baby is done!

now we are looking forward to the future. we are finding her a job (which i find silly, i don't have "a job" per se and i'm fine... sorta) and a place to live in brooklyn and then modernaesthetician reunites! we are already working on a corprate identity project together for an antiques dealer in London! yea! we are looking forward to a really good summer.

vaykay where iz you?

2008-05-24T14:08:00.003-04:00

New scarves and tees and stuff will be posted soon on FOF!

the heart of lightness

2008-05-06T11:26:00.002-04:00

i am going to malawi africa! breanne is in the throws of finishing school and i wish i could be there with her but i will be in far away lands. anyway, if anyone wants to see what i'll be doing here is the foundation's site. i suggest donating because its not just as one very nice young lady said "donating is like not going out for one night and giving a kid a chance to go to school for a year"

i dig it...

omg. blogger is so buggy lately.

2008-05-01T21:20:00.003-04:00

I forgot to mention the other day that I'm working on a large farewell edition for trades with peepz at school. With all my love, a nest of Pomeranian puppies. There's also 'ol goat cat in the works if I can ever finish writing and making stuff for my installation. And looking for a job and apartment. SOON!

thoughtsicles

2008-04-28T18:01:00.006-04:00

I am so ready for summer and new spaces and projects and ideas. Big and BIGGER. We have collectively been super busy lately but here's a couple of shapes and patterns that I really like right now. Both from creatures of comfort - karen walker and rachel comey.

its a net... made of magic

2008-04-14T23:49:00.003-04:00

we're worried. now that i am getting into "fashion" there is a pretty good possibility i am gonna get dummer. i mean, lets face it: girls that eat-breathe-sleep clothes get less and less interesting every season if they don't do something to keep their brains from turning to cloth. as a result i've been doing some thinking about electrical fields, gravity and black holes.

as my brother explained it last night, scientist are conducting an experiment in france where they are trying to move particles at near light speed. that, in theory, could ignite a black hole, or as he put it "create a world wide dog pile" which would be bad.

supermassive black holes create a compact region called AGN or active galactic nuclei which is essentially super bright string of stuff that allows us to measure enormous distanced and isn't effected by time in theory. luminous and timeless? i wanna be an agn. anyway, fighting the decay.

how many mr. huns is this gonna cost me?

2008-04-13T22:22:00.003-04:00

{you know it is the end of the semester when:}

*you wake your computer up and there are 49576 open document icons bouncing at you.
*you sleep on half of your bed because the bookies sleep on the other half.
*you start another book that isn't assigned.
*you buy kleenex again, whoa is that shit expensive.
*you stop budgeting for prismacolor and start looking for bathing suits!

so its exciting! breanne and i are both going to be done done with school for a long while and in the same town! so many magic nets will be made. we went to the salvor sale the other day and scoped their studio. hers is gonna be way more ORG for sure. everyone put out the good vibes about finding a live work space in fort green!!!!!!
i leave you with this... because i can.

DOES ANYONE KNOW SOMEONE ONE WHO WORKS FOR ELEY KISHIMOTO? WE GONNA NEED TO HAVE SOME CHATZ.

flashdance makes you feel like you can do anything.

2008-04-06T00:19:00.004-04:00

Our 100th post! Oh, what a feelin'. Yeah, I'm about 15 years late on this one. Better late than never, I suppose. A tiny glimpse into what I've been working on lately:

blogger just took a crap or a dump in the printer

2008-04-02T13:26:00.004-04:00

no seriouly, its only when i want to send a link to someone that blogger goes off the deep end and sucks it up...which is why bre and i are working on moving all the content somewhere else.

f you blogger, thanks for nothing

if you want to look at our blog make sure and do it safari, geez.

{ aesthetic interview : yvan the face hunter }

2008-04-02T13:07:00.007-04:00

Oh London, how lovely are your transport closures? Well a 23£ taxi ride and a coffee later I was sitting with Yvan the Face Hunter, one of my favorite bloggers and he was essentially interviewing himself:

"I was just in Poland," he said. Its rare when someone has more to say than I do so I was thrilled that he talked for 20 minutes about the situation in Warsaw without prompt. I have to admit that I was pleasantly caught off guard when he did not want to talk about what people were wearing there but how about they have reacted to Westernization; I was flat out shocked at how well versed and articulate he was about their socio-political and economic situation. He explained that the people he encountered were not very self confident and there was a lot of hostility to the kind of creativity he was searching for. He explained football hooligans to me and the way in which they organize violence which startled him deeply. "They scream the word 'WAR' and run at each other," he said with fearful fascination. " After we talked about the communist architecture I had to ask some interview questions to cover my bases:

O: How did you get started?

Y: In the beginning I had no conscious about it, it was a pocket camera, a present.
I took pictures at parties in Paris but there was no blog. Then I shared it and people sent it to each other, making a network. People blogged about it and after 2 months in May 2006 Cool Hunter did an article about the evolution of fashion media. I was Paris in the NY/Paris/Tokyo street style blogs. GQ called and I had my first big job.

O: What were you doing before?

Y: Copy editing, writing about trends, cool hunting. After GQ I quit my other job. what is this for again?

O: Its for my blog, I just wanted to meet you honestly.

Y: I see its was just a pretense then? (the he smiled with some of the most tackful charm i have seen in a while)

O: Ah yes, um, not stalking you fyi. So how do you feel about other bloggers like Mark the Cobra Snake and the Sartorialist?

Y: Why, do you think we do the same thing?

O: Ah...no, I mean no.

Y: Its like this, you go to a party and over there there is a tall red haired girl and over there there is a tiny girl with brown hair and there is no use even comparing. There is something for everyone in a way.

O: So what do you look for when you ask some one to take their picture?

Y: Its about the seduction of the outfit. This guy could be wearing all Commes de Garcons and I could absolutely hate it and this guy could be wearing all H&M. Its the way they put it together. Its the seduction.

So maybe Yvan thought I was stalking him but in truth I decided recently if you want something ask for it. I've always been really uncomfortable with celebrity and all that it entails but I can now reconcile how I feel about it with the advent of internet celebrity. I wanted to meet him so I asked. As he told me "after that first interview in May 2006 I have had an interview everyday," which I have to admit was kind of intimidating. I mean I could have probably googled him and read a few cute little interviews about how he got started and all. Really, who am I to interview this awesome person when I am writing for my blog with a readership of... well lets not put numbers on it shall we? My point is, that's the thing about internet celebrity, he was totally willing to meet with me before he jetted off to Germany. He was just a real person doing things that he loves which I find totally inspiring. He turned a simple and fun hobby into a jammin' job that has rocketed him into the fast lane. Yvan the face hunter, we salute you.

mini vs maxi

2008-04-02T11:47:00.002-04:00

i am in a serious pickle about dresses right now. i hate them all. what the fuck is going on with this season right? i mean everything is totally pretty and such but i just don't feel like anything is wearable. maybe thats because we stressed about finding a dress for some serious events... here is what we have going so far...

and i really don't love it as i like to say. what to do?

i've always felt this way

2008-04-02T10:12:00.002-04:00

but stuff white people like totally confirmed it:

right?

'ol goat cat.

2008-03-28T02:06:00.008-04:00

The last full fledged spring break of my academic career is slowing coming to a close. Wah. Its been awesome and wine 'o clock on the dots but there's laminating and writing and life starting to do. Like, yesterday, ya know?

We've been making charts. I updated the mod aes site; it is semi-functional with semi-content. I definitely need a dog.

Little Peter Cat Pawz is asleep under that bear coat rug:

Our flight isn't for another hour. I could live-blog the shit out of this but that would make for boring blogosphere. We took lots of pictures - a couple new ones here!

I am really tired.

art school or art?

2008-03-17T12:23:00.003-04:00

i've been having this really funny dilemma recently where i want to go to my art school classes but i have an opportunity to be involved in actual art that the class i am going to would be hypothetically training me for.... whadya think? is art school useless? that aside, i've been busy, i just realized that i've only really been in nyc for a month so all things considered i guess i am going pretty good. i'm not leaving yet, well at least i'm not moving, but i am getting antsy... so off i go for a week to jolly ol' london (its just as cold as here but not sunny, great). I guess we all get a little wanderlust every once and a while.

bue the warrior.

2008-03-09T11:41:00.005-04:00

More here.

i am really busy right now. - s.r.s.n.

2008-03-03T14:53:00.004-05:00

but clearly i need a haircut.
love, little badger face

thu tran

2008-03-01T19:25:00.004-05:00

whoa! i am in love with thu tran's food party. my friend just gave me her dvd and i peed myself it was so good. she and her industrious friends create THE coolest shit. i'm so excited about all the fun people i met on the set of the gogol bordello shoot. d.a.m.

my music mania

2008-02-25T23:50:00.003-05:00

whoa, i miss breanne you know? i just want to be in print heaven in the pvd sometimes. luckily when i'm not there bangin' out celeb tote bags i get to work on videos. this week i am rocking out with gogol bordello, strange concept but fun energy and a whole but load of extras so a new challenge for sure.

anyway, grant, the director and i were stoked to find out that the first vid we all did together just made it onto mtvu!

check it out!

i won't get out of bed for less than 10k.

2008-02-20T12:17:00.006-05:00

"Resort wear."

Left (one of my all time favez) and middle are Cavalli from a couple of years ago and the right is Gucci 08 (though it totally screams charlotte park avenue princess to me). Sometimes I feel like I'm the biggest fashion prude baby. Where is the Louis Vuitton? And Marni? Plus Missoni won't load. Guh. Fashion week is the ultimate for procrastinating. I'm exhausted by it yet can't stop looking. Oh, but I really love Vivienne Westwood's collection (ahem, houndstooth and digi patterns). Its quirky and weird and honest; one of the more wearable lines I've seen. House of Blaholland. I'll put that one out there just for his knits and sense of color. OK, I think I'm done and shall retire to thesis land for a bit.

Wait, Mr. Dior Coutureface?
I need a job.

slim aarons (i'm at the BEACH!)

2008-02-20T09:31:00.005-05:00

I love his beach and resort photographs, they make me want to wear only navy blue and kelly green. And everything else. MIAMISPRINGBREAK!?! N/S and domino have used and published his stuff (n/s quite a bit) and there's a ton more here. A couple of my picks:

I'm looking at a bunch of "resort" wear, you know... Gucci, Cavalli, I'd totally wear to the beach. In my quest I found one of my favorite Cavalli dresses EVER, which I'll post later.

soft and pretty.

2008-02-16T12:33:00.002-05:00

http://www.ilemiparis.com

sass

2008-02-15T16:26:00.004-05:00

i am loving sass & bide this season. i want to curate my whole look for transitional winter to spring around PVC Military Romance. i've got my work cut our for me considering my whole wardrobe looks like i dragged it out of the dumpster behind the set of Charlie's Angles: The Later Years. Anyway, one can hope right?

falling in and out of love

2008-02-14T23:04:00.005-05:00

i really do fall in and out of love with the 80s from month to month. well, i'm back in it for a few really good reasons: nagel.

the 80s inspired fall season of house of holland (fashion boner):

and of course the most obvious one:

duh squared.

forest objects.

2008-02-14T20:11:00.004-05:00

jus sayin'

2008-02-14T16:44:00.004-05:00

L: Phillip Lim Fall 08 RTW
R: Marc by Marc Spring 07

"Interesting."
That's all.

PS: Topshop in NYC

i heart working for i heart

2008-02-12T19:33:00.000-05:00

so i've been interning (it sounds worse than it is, its like free business spying for fun) for jill at iheart. she is so cool, kinda my hero, creating a successful, creative thriving business with little help. she got an amazing eye for whats out there and searches out different price points for a wide variety of shoppers. she carries some of my favorite designers, eley kishimoto, lover.. and introduced me to some brand new ones like pam (perks and mini) which i spent all day fit modeling (jamming myself into a size too small, down right cute stuff) the fall line, what a job!

anyway, her on-line store should be up soon so i'll post that as asap as possible. i can't wait to open our glorious store. its going to be amazing!

hey, BABY... you are bizarre.

2008-02-12T11:39:00.000-05:00

I'm on my second cup of coffee, clicking through fashion blergs on nymag. The Top 100 Fab looks, which readers poll in on, totally bore me though I'm not surprised. What's super neat is that you can browse various "details" which document some of the designer's accessories. But I'm not posting to give a running commentary / walking tour of the site. Olivia and I were just ijazzing after I sent her a detail photo of marc by marc bag:

I won't post any photos, you can see for yourselves.

Stargate.
Replicant.
Jackie O.

ruminate.

2008-02-11T21:00:00.000-05:00

I've been looking forward to Eley Kishimoto's new line the most lately. They always do so much with color and pattern - lovelovelove. However, I have to say that this fall line is a little dissapointing, but maybs my hopes were a little too high. Some of my favez (and I'm thinking bottom left including hat for graduation):

more fall prints.

2008-02-08T12:03:00.001-05:00

Tibi, Temperley

Matthew Williamson, Rebecca Taylor
(my favorite shows so far, along with tibi)

The Temperley dress on top reminds me of an elongated ikat version of this.

i'm in yr webspace, takin up yr bandwidth.

2008-02-06T10:28:00.001-05:00

I happened to see and pick up the current issue of the PVD Phoenix at the grocery a couple days ago. What caught my eye was the Hello Kitty illustration on the cover - GUN GO BOOM! The word cute probs comes out of my mouth dozens of times a day / week / whathaveyou but I've been thinking more and more about its meaning. Guh = thesis baby. The article is not the most innovative piece of journalism but the four page spread is interesting with lolcats/speak all over the place; its funny to see it all in print. (However it did remind me to look up Robert Thompson, the pop culture guru @ Syracuse. Crazy, I almost went to Syracuse)

THE CUTENESS SURGE

Watch the video on mute!

the oneone update.

2008-02-05T19:58:00.001-05:00

I met the mystery Salvor gal tonight! One of my students was printing a mass of transparencies for a final project and she came to visit. Alex is a student at RISD and interned at Salvor over the summer. Hi Alex!

Oh, bagman.

I am trying to find images of the stuffed mountains that are @ kiosk, but no go so far. Those are my faves. Maybs they are LTDLLC.

healthy scoop of cap'n crunch soup

2008-02-04T13:53:00.000-05:00

i watched benny & joon last night. when i close my eyes i see this now

does anyone else have that problem?

anyway, looking for a job blows but i just have to remember that everyday i am closer to doing FTFS (full-time fun stuff) with breanne. one more graduate studies semester and we are together again!

i should fire you and burn down your friggin' house.

2008-02-01T14:35:00.000-05:00

stay tuned... i'm trying to make changes to the format but blogger's totally dropping a deuce on itself today. guh. ps: peter says that microsoft bidding a hundred bazill on yahoo is like senile ['ol goat cat] grandpa buying an ugly hooker.

in and out really fast.

2008-01-31T23:43:00.000-05:00

Our Sniffies cards are now available online!!!
Buy them here at Little Paper Planes!

are we going to be tested on this later?

2008-01-30T12:36:00.000-05:00

i started my first day of school at parsons! omg, i can't understand my sketching teacher, my costume professor is awesome and i have construction techniques tonight. busy busy but totally awesome.

i have to do a theoretical version of The Taming of the Shrew and I think I want to do 1978 country club. hmmmm...

"um, kate your bathing suit totally matches my man."

or 1978 interplanetary science club...

Hortensio to Bianca "i loved your presentation of the areology, i love mars as well, obviously... later, whatever"

gondry gondry gondry

2008-01-24T10:55:00.000-05:00

i've heard a lot about gondry recently. like "i want to work with gondry" or "i wish i were gondry's son" who coincidently will be doing a feature with his dad some time in the near future.

i just love what he says about becoming a success in the times article linked above: start a project, finish it. thats the key to success? omg, if i'd known that i would have marched right on down to the marc jacobs store and put my FINISHED dresses right up next to the couture. genius. i love that advice.

i don't care what kind of megalomaniacal statements he makes, i'm stoked about BKR!

is it spring yet? v.2

2008-01-24T09:46:00.001-05:00

Eley Kishimoto:

Chloe:

fun with printz.

2008-01-23T22:35:00.000-05:00

the year of the moto

2008-01-21T18:07:00.000-05:00

Hey, man. All we represent to them, man, is somebody who needs a haircut.

-Billy, Easy Rider

repertoire.

2008-01-21T15:04:00.001-05:00

Custom calling cards for Peter. Double sided, screenprinted, multiple color rainbow LLC on the back. Need some? Email us! We will post our letterpressed Valentine cards when they are available for sale at Little Paper Planes.

henrik vibskov

2008-01-19T13:46:00.001-05:00

amazing.

dude put ski goggle lines on all his models. thats rock and roll.

i love me a dane.

what white dudes

2008-01-14T21:01:00.000-05:00

so bre is doing her homework and i have been watching i don't know, like 7 episodes of 30 rock in a row. so anyway, we found a picture of tina fey's husband (far left) and kenneth from 30 rock on Halloween? or tuesday? not sure but i think the drama club was meeting. way to go tina, i loved the goths too in high school.

enjoy.

is it spring yet?

2008-01-14T17:28:00.000-05:00

i was thinking about what exciting things i would get to wear this spring today while tramping around in the snow. i was like "oh i wonder what fun florals i can expect..."

then i realized everything coming off the runway last fall was complete unwearable because there is a brinkmanship of weird going on. like: alexander mcqueen? BLADERUNNER FOR SPRING 08.

i would totally wear that to work... at the Replicant factory.

how cool are we?

2008-01-14T14:13:00.000-05:00

this is what we do every night after a hard day of designing things about other media: we're pretty cool.

things and stuff.

2008-01-14T13:34:00.000-05:00

i always wanted to be a segerstrom.

2008-01-13T23:17:00.000-05:00

We are in full-on production mode lately. Printing a variety of biz / calling cards, tote bags and surprises. A regular, non-blogger blog is in the works as well.

Its about to snow.

WILDCAT.

antoine + manuel

2008-01-11T11:30:00.000-05:00

http://www.antoineetmanuel.com/
They're like James and Clara put together but still two different people.
And with lots of hand drawn type. So good.

{ aesthetic profile : jeff barnett-winsby }

2008-01-11T01:00:00.000-05:00

Jeffie B. is possibly the single most successful artist I have ever stalked. Wait, I mean met. He is disturbingly honest in the depiction of his subjects which is a quality that is also reflected in his personality. He has successfully grown from just any old stock photo guy to a full blown Phartist (photo artist). He lives and works in New York.

{ the night watch }

{ q + a }
So Jeff, what are you currently working on?

I am finally finishing my super long dragged out prison break project called "Love Notes and Promised Freedoms." I leave tomorrow morning to make the final image in Tennessee at the US marshal's office. [The photo] is of a bird. A parakeet, I think.

This is the project that started as documentation of prisoners rehabilitating dogs and then turned into a wild jail break love story with the dog trainer and a man 15 years her junior? I love that one.

Indeed it is!

How do you think your photos changed over the last year or more, specifically during this project?

I think my understanding of what photography does well has changed. I also think my relationship to being a photographic artist is different now. Working over a period of almost two years on this project has been another really strange aspect of it. And actually it is more like 2 1/2 years since I photographed the dogs. That is a crazy amount of time to stay interested in one subject. I guess my photographs are as varied as ever in style and I am more committed than ever to that and serving the idea above all rather than the aesthetic.

In regards to the time spent, I am more fascinated with it all the time. Daily I have new ideas about what was really happening which sort has made me into an observer of my own work as well as its creator.

{ love notes and promised freedoms }

You told me once that you didn’t want to be a part of that “exclusive art crowd.” Now that you are heating up a little under the lime light do you still feel that way?

I'm really not interested. But all my best friends are artists so it might not seem any different from the outside what I am talking about. I guess I am just drawn to smart, creative, and kind people. My friends are the best and I would say that we were super inclusive. God that sounds mushy.

Its perfect. Speaking of perrrrrfect: what do you think your craigslist project says about you?

It says I am super lonely. But, more than that I think it speaks about how we are changing in regards to socializing. (and I should add that it is not necessarily positive.) I think where people get confused with that work is that I really empathize with these folks I am photographing. Its not that we are just strange and zombie like, it is that we all want to be a part of something or do something interesting. We are just not sure what that is.

Well I think you are doing plenty of interesting things. I am always excited to see what is next on your horizon. So what is next?

My very good friend Peter and I are getting ready to launch a website that will change the way you think about travel...
I think also there are a few other web projects on the horizon as well as possibly another foray into the prison for yours truly. I will be teaching this spring in Rhode Island and am looking forward to that landscape again. So, we will see..

{ love notes and promised freedoms }

Check out more of Jeff's work here.

snippets.

2008-01-10T19:13:00.000-05:00

A couple 'a snaps from the past month or so: Papyrus sighting in SF on New Year's Eve. Kick ass knitting at the graduate textiles show back in November. Machine knitting is defs on my / our to-do-eventually list.

PS: stay tuned for the next Aesthetic Profile!!

possible vid

2008-01-10T12:42:00.000-05:00

i've been obsessed with san serac for the last few months, ever since peter has been working on a re-mix of command shift sexy of professional. this shit is so good! anyway, judge and i decided that a music video was in order so here is the plan: all in favor of doing a music video for one of the coolest musicians of the modern age say "AY!" and then go ask someone with money to sign on too!

thanks guys, i love the support. i really do.

make booky.

2008-01-09T19:11:00.000-05:00

Peter published his book! You can buy it HERE.

edukation rawks

2008-01-09T13:53:00.000-05:00

inspired by being back on the east coast and taking breannes amazing print class i realized i need a dose of school again. i just (2 mins ago) enrolled in parsons fashion cert program. i'm pretty stoked because i wanted to brush up on sketching, sewing and rawking out with color so here i go! shout out to my mom. mom + matt = edukation.

mom loves art.

vllg, etc.

2008-01-09T10:55:00.001-05:00

(Vllg has a new poster.)

Liv and I totally decompressed with an interTV sess last night. My class is really great, however I'm losing my voice and when I laugh it sounds like a squeak. I feel like I'm living the art camp experience I always dreamed of. We have four or five print projects to knock out in the next few weeks. Cougar cards, biz cards, stationary, and aforementioned valentines. YAYZ.

I'm also considering integorting 30 Rock into my thesis.

beardcap

2008-01-08T20:17:00.000-05:00

exactly

boogs

2008-01-08T20:13:00.000-05:00

so i am making a series of handkerchiefs that i embroider the stains on them.

this was round one, what do you think?

they are pretty terrible pics with a really old digital... but i am pretty stoked on the project.

roomies

2008-01-08T19:32:00.000-05:00

i am now totally living in pvd with breanne. i am stoked. we cook and print and eat ice cream a lot. i am taking/t.a.ing her winter session print making class and its totally awesome. the kids in the class keep asking me questions and i keep telling them what i know.
i'm in day two of "marital bliss" and tonight we are concepting for our valentines day cards. we decided to go with a SNIFFIES: how to guide. there will be plenty of this:

more to come! exciting time 2008.

del the funkyhomosapien

2008-01-08T11:02:00.000-05:00

so i was in california for a couple of extra days styling and constructing the costumes for a del the funkyhomosapien music video. it was totally fun and i got to hang out with a ton of people i love back in cali.

this was the first job in my adult life that i truly enjoyed. i decided to enroll in the parsons certificate program that i've been thinking about so the next music video that comes along can be even better. more pictures to come but here is a small taste.

kyle lee

2008-01-03T03:00:00.000-05:00

no joke, i'm totally in love with my friends cousins art. check this ish.

shameless plug

two thousand awesome.

2008-01-03T01:58:00.000-05:00

we'll be back next week! liv is in oakland styling a rapper and i'm about to start teaching if we don't get stuck in california due to blizzardtown. not that it'd be a bad thing since we have a few hun hun new year's photoz to edit and such.

getting into being into the internet

2007-12-29T13:47:00.000-05:00

ok, so we've taken an unplanned completely not deliberate break from our blog and are so very sorry. christmas has truly taken some extra effort this year so we took a moment to reflect on the year. this year a lot of wonderful things happened: we met each other, oliveanne was born. we decided to work on store concept together. we collaborated (breanne did it all) on our christmas present project and are going to continue to make new creations that will hopefully be ready for valentines day.

so in closing, thanks for not being pissed. we appreciate it. back at 'cha san diego!

build me up buttercup

2007-12-23T16:09:00.000-05:00

What We Talk About When We Talk About Art

lazr dresses

2007-12-20T13:47:00.001-05:00

i have few fantasies in life, most of them involve 14th century garb and food but this could easily be part of a formulating futuristic fantasy.

i was turned onto dezeen by a friend. cool, no?

taking stock

2007-12-20T13:01:00.000-05:00

i read this article from the new york times that struck me as totally funny. there was this quote from the editor of "domino" (magalooooooog)

“This is the downside of the democratization of design,” said Deborah Needleman, editor of Domino, a magazine with its own fashiony approach. “With everything being available everywhere, and everybody caring about design, your eye gets tired more quickly.” so buy buy buy!!!!!!

i agree with her tho, we are all getting all seasony with our home decor. i get grossed out when i walk in to someone's apt and the first this i see is last seasons design with in reach window display. irregardlessneertheless, it was her and her "magazine" that helped proliferate the rapid turn over of "ID", interior design.

tuesday eye candy.

2007-12-18T12:44:00.000-05:00

ted

2007-12-17T14:01:00.000-05:00

i know everyone knows about whats going on on the interwebz like i a year before i do so this will come as no surprise to you: TED!!!!!!

nerd out on this, SEA DRAGON.

hobby blogs.

2007-12-17T12:04:00.000-05:00

Our friend Jeff started a blog that documents sitings of the (default -- signage, menus etc) typeface Papyrus. He welcomes your submissions.

A nugget of type trivia: The dude who designed Curlz MT (oh, to be a default) went to RISD. Curlz! Yes, the font used in the movie Elf.
Happy holidazze!

modaes needs an intern.

2007-12-16T13:02:00.000-05:00

Wiksten is straight outta KC and seeing her BBW/midwesty stuff makes me want to start sewing again. Really bad. I was on a big gonna-sew-my-own-clothes-from-now-on kick over the summer but that never happened. I think maybe if we just tried to replicate my houndstooth jumper, that would be a good start.

My vintage pattern cup runneth over.
My time cup? Not so much.

getting a little (a lot) ahead of ourselves

2007-12-12T02:29:00.000-05:00

so breanne and i have not discussed the shop in a while because of many reasons, the great continental divide between us, grad school, my punk ass being preoccupied with shopping for vintage wares all day long...

so i thought it would be fun to get excited about the possibility again!

tada!

retail space! right where we want it and for the low low coast of 98753984 a month!
jk, but seriously, rent, ugh... makes you really believe in the shiny squirrel

stuff that doesn't matter but really does.

2007-12-09T14:40:00.000-05:00

bitting off more than i can blog

2007-12-08T02:51:00.000-05:00

so i decided after looking thru an enormous amount of family pictures that my mom was a fashion genius and i have not been giving her nearly enough credit for her deep influence on my aesthetic. i have all this time on my hands since i'm on perm vay-kay so i've been scanning and up loading. please, if you will, enjoy.

p.s.

2007-12-07T18:53:00.001-05:00

eye candy like whoa.

2007-12-07T18:32:00.000-05:00

Japanese textile / fashion: Mina Perhonen = amazing! So much print, pattern and embroidered goodness. Yes.

I am sort of taking it easy for the next day or so. Doing personal "research", watching MSCL and cleaning the house for Olivia's residency next month. Also editing photoz for my last critique next week and working on secret projectzzzzzzz; I will post documentation after they are revealed.

what up, pucc?

2007-12-05T20:27:00.000-05:00

I can totally appreciate the history behind the label and early psychedelic patterns, but I'm not usually one to gush over Pucci and its def never been my first click on style.com during runway season.

But I am SO loving the subdued color and geometric vs trippy pleasure town patterns in the spring 08 RTW line (on the left, the right is from fall 07, I think).

Fashion yumyumz. Plus check out the Dan Flavin-esque easter egg light runway goodness. If I ever have a house with a long hallway, I want that at the end.

woodz

2007-12-05T02:20:00.000-05:00

so its pretty weird being in the small country town in which i currently reside after 5 years of city life. when i walk out the door of the (my mother's) house to get to the guest house it is shockingly quiet. my day consists of not being on the interweb, doing errands for grand parents and also not being on the interweb. phew. i actually helped put out a forest fire today, no joke.

one thing i do get to do a bunch of (besides of course the occational rescue of a cat out of a tree, i promise i am not a fire man) is thrifting a TON.

the jewel of sonora is its unpilfered salvation army and its plentiful red church thrift store. here are some fun items i got for the ebayz last week.

got some fun posts coming up. got my styling portfolio, stores that bre and i are going to look at in sf (and bk later) and a suprise special sub blog that i think everyone is really going to enjoy. stay tuned? (not allowed to say again.)

livdrawals.

2007-12-03T21:09:00.000-05:00

Blog on, baby. The semester is coming to a close and my biggest critique was today. For which Peter and I printed this over the weekend. 20 feet of paper in 2.5 days = A serious labour of love.

Meanwhile, Liv is snatching up and disseminating vintage goodz left and right. (Dude! save some of your retail energy for me cuz I need some thrift therapy soon.)

Its been slow dayz on the blog lately. We're busy gals... sometimes we have to outsource. This is from Peter, emailed to us earlier today. Apparently, Dustin wants these for xmas. Handle it.

A lot of ideas are in the pipeline.
Because we are idea people.

you know why people like marc jacobs?

2007-11-28T14:09:00.000-05:00

Takashi Murakami retrospective @ MOCA. Video snipz of MJ regarding their collab for Louis Vuitton = its whatever. I was trying to find a NYC date for the exhibition but no luck, though I did find this. Wallpaper has a tolerable slide show of the retrospective. I've never been that into Murakami's sculptural stuff and the red painting above is just not working in the space, but I'm def interested in seeing the exhib if it comes to the east coast. Its a color explosion. NEW SYNERGY.

More in L.A. worth checking out: Glenn Ligon & Ree Morton.