i’ve never really been excited about september in terms of school starting and all that, but i do always really look forward to the massive fall magazines.  i’ve been trying to wane my addiction, but i feel like september is my last valid excuse to just go for it…  i can say that my feelings [...]

there are a lot of great bowie images out there, but this tribute poster by graphic designer edwin servass really stopped me in my tracks.   it’s just so great on so many levels.  check out more work on his site.

summer’s officially in swing here.  temperatures are hovering around 100 all this week.  and probably into the foreseeable future.  i don’t feel like doing anything other than laying by a body of water with a vodka snow cone. probably not going to happen soon… but this picture’s nice, isn’t it?  it’s one of renate aller’s [...]

amy bennett is a brooklyn based painter who works from miniature three dimensional models.  she describes her work as “glimpses of a scene or fragments of a narrative.”  the top and bottom image are monotypes, and the center is from her series “neighbors” for which she built a model neighborhood, and created personalities and relationships [...]

i’m all for things that are a little over the top.  it’s no secret that fashion has been borrowing heavily from punk for some time.  good or bad?  it is what it is, i guess.   i’m not really sure that delfina delettrez fendi or damien hirst had that in mind when creating either of these [...]

hope everyone had a good christmas.  i did pretty well on the present front this year, and amassed quite a bit of reading material.  confession– i used to read actual books, but lately due to lack of time, attention span, whatever, the most complex reading i’ve done are my daily blog stops and the new [...]

i love marilyn minter’s work.  she does large scale paintings and photography that illustrate what she describes as a “love-hate relationship” with the contemporary beauty ideal.  the result is really stunning. she doesn’t have her own website, but you can see her work on salon 94.

earlier today, i was watching a random morning show on the tv and they had annie leibowitz on talking about her new book that was just released. seeing her talk about her body of work reminded me of a photographer that started out as her intern, but who’s work has now graced the covers [...]

iris van dongen’s art is really incredible.  large scale drawings featuring models that are at once iconic, or as figures of mythology, as she describes it.  much of her work features skulls as part of the clothing to “show that it is from the present day: a symbol from a contemporary subculture and, at the [...]