P.S.

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...I couldn't resist adding:

The flower room at the Ritz Paris [click to enlarge].
Photograph by Tim Walker.

Happy Spring

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Officially, that is.

Wes Lang, Time Will Tell, 2011
(11 x 8.5 in., acrylic on paper).

One of the works produced by Lang last year, during a month-long stay at the Chateau in L.A. (all done on the hotel's stationery). The series was inspired by Martin Kippenberger's hotel drawings. See more here.

New Rule

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Fresh flowers always. (Preferably white.)

(artwork by Izzie Klingels)

Lavender

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A video by Thomas Giddings for Test Mag. Currently playing in the elevator at the St. Martin's Lane hotel in London, where I've been staying on a work trip.

A Thousand Islands in the Sea

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Destroyer "Leave Me Alone" (New Order cover) for the Feb 2012 issue of MOJO magazine.

(hat-tip Suspence / image: Henri Fantin-Latour A Basket of Roses, 1890)

On the Town

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Some quick weekend snaps...

Chad VanGaalen at the Sunset Tavern in Ballard

BOO HOO by Theresa

Dalen rocking shit on the turntables at Twinline Motorcycles party

Wu-Tang x Wooooo Magazine pumpkin by yours truly. (New issue of Wooooo out now with James Franco on the cover... one of the more brilliantly designed magazines I've ever seen.)

Jamie and Annie at Twinline

Jamie's brilliant kitty-cat pumpkin

Jamie and Emily (yes I'm on Instagram now though I don't really know how to use it)

Flowers Emily got me when I came back from New York

Image of the Day

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[+] 1967 Alfa Romeo Spider. No particular reason, just an awesome photo [photographer unknown].

Beautiful Decay

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Not exactly in compliance with the fresh flowers policy but these not-fresh Iris look so cool I'm having a hard time throwing them out.

New Office Policy

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Fresh flowers at all times.

May

. Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott: Kate Moss in Valentino couture, styled by Emmanuelle Alt for the May 2011 issue of Vogue Paris. More images from the same shoot here.

Image of the Day

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A student demonstrates at Pace College, NY, on the first Earth Day – April 22, 1970).

While we're at it, here's a trailer for the documentary Earth Days, about the founding of the modern environmental movement:


Visit PBS.org to watch the whole thing.

Image of the Day

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Uta Barth. Untitled (05.3), 2005 (Chromogenic color prints. Henry Art Gallery, gift of Burt and Jane Berman, 2009.38 A) from a selection of Barth's photos curated by Sara Krajewski at the Henry through May 8th. Info at henryart.org.

Image of the Day

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John Wood, Gun in Landscape: Daisies, 1965 (Collage mounted to board, 5 x 5 3/4 inches) via Bruce Silverstein Gallery, exhibiting at the AIPAD (Association of International Photography Art Dealers) show at the Armory in New York, March 17–20.

私たちの心は日本とされ

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Odetta "Sakura" from Odetta In Japan (1966, RCA)

Via the Japan-America Society of the State of Washington: Pacific Software Publishing (based in Bellevue) will match 100% of your donation to the American Red Cross:
1. Make a donation online at American Red Cross (choose "JAPAN EARTHQUAKE AND PACIFIC TSUNAMI").
2. Keep your confirmation email and forward it to JapanRelief@pspinc.com.
3. PSP will match 100 percent of your donation up to $10,000.

Photo: Cherry blossoms (sakura no hana) in Brooklyn

Image of the Day

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The Maguire Daisy, a tiny wildflower native to Utah,
was removed from the United States' endangered species
list yesterday. When it was initially listed as endangered
25 years ago, only 7 known plants were in existence.
The daisy is one of only 21 species in the United States
and its territories that have been removed from the
list due to recovery.*

*The others, and the dates of their delistings, are: the Brown pelican (Atlantic coast population 1985, rest of the range in 2009), Virginia northern flying squirrel (2008), Bald Eagle (2007), Eggert’s sunflower (2005), Tinian Monarch (2004), Columbian white-tailed deer (Douglas County Population, 2003), Hoover’s woolly-star (2003), Robbins’ cinquefoil (2002), Aleutian Canada goose (2001), American peregrine falcon (1999), eastern gray kangaroo (1995), western gray kangaroo (1995), red kangaroo (1995), Arctic peregrine falcon (1994), gray whale (eastern North Pacific (California) population, 1994), American alligator (1987), Palau ground dove (1985), Palau fantail flycatcher (1985), and the Palau owl (1985).

[photo via the U.S. Forest Service]

Image of the Day

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Robert Mapplethorpe: Iris, 1982 via mapplethorpe.org. Robert Mapplethorpe was born on November 4th, 1946 in Floral Park, Queens.

Image of the Day

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Select spread from a collaboration by photographer Wendy Bevan and London-born, Seattle-based illustrator Izzie Klingels for Test Magazine. Click here for video and more images from this story, and see more of Izzie Klingels' work – for Topshop, Vogue, Calvin Klein, The V&A, and many others – at her website.

Morning Walk

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Family Slideshow Part 2

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Some pics from our rainy second day of mini-vacation a few weekends ago on Whidbey Island – hiking up beautiful Mount Eerie, on to Anacortes for lunch, and later to near-empty Fort Ebey State Park.

Click here to see pics from day one.

Image of the Day

Untitled 15 M, 2008 (Tulip Bulbs), by David Bailey. An exhibition of Bailey's still life photographs of flowers and skulls is on view through July 2nd at Hamiltons Gallery in London.

[via Nowness]