Need vs. Want

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One bedroom, 3/4 bath, house boat in South Park, Seattle. $75,000.

WAAAAAANT.

Image of the Day

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Lee Ufan: From Line (1977), a painting featured in a new show at the Guggenheim, Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity. Read Ken Johnson's review at nytimes.com; the exhibition is at the Guggenheim through September 28th.

In the Studio

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Robert M. Wolfe, multi-talented designer and videographer, and drummer for the excellent Seattle band Stephanie.

The Dune Sea

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I just ran across images from this shoot by photographer Marlene Marino in Purple Fashion no.15, featuring Sarah Heller and Valerie Gold in Givenchy SS2011.






Marino has a truly unique point of view – click here to see more of her work.

Best Foot Forward

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I'm in the market for a new pair of take-you-anywhere, classic, black pumps.

Christian Louboutin Pigalle 120 patent leather pumps,
$595 at net-a-porter. Low-cut toe = toe cleavage.

Jimmy Choo Abel pointed patent leather pumps,
$495 at net-a-porter. Totally work appropriate.
Not that I really pay attention to such things.

Stella McCartney patent pumps, $675 at Kirna Zabête.
I love the shadow platform detail.

Manolo Blahnik BB pump, $854 at shopsavannahs.com.
O.G.

Peace Is On The Rise

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I've been so busy I haven't had a chance to work on these for a long time – my Sunday morning ritual of taping various clippings and stuff into black books. Most of these are from last year but you can click here to view all of the pages I've posted in the past, and click the images to enlarge.

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.

Idle Times

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Times New Viking "No Time, No Hope" from Born Again Revisited (2009, Matador). I believe I remember hearing that the entire album was recorded on VHS tape.

Times New Viking plays at the Sunset tonight with Pacific Standard favorite Idle Times and Sister Wife.

Air Time

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Randomly came across this 2007 television commercial for Oxygène by Lanvin, directed by Bruno Aveillan and starring Gisele Bundchen. Kind of cool.

Image of the Day

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A photograph by Elliott Erwitt, whose solo exhibition Elliott Erwitt: Personal Best just opened at the International Center for Photography in New York. The show runs through August 28th; click here for info and visit Erwitt's website for much more.

R & R

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Céline Resort 2012. More at fashionologie.

A Lit Match

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Artists’ Magazines: An Alternative Space for Art is a new book by Gwen Allen which surveys American and European artists’ publications from the '60s to the '80s.

Among the magazines Allen examines are Aspen (1965–1971), a multimedia magazine in a box—issues included Super-8 films, flexi-disc records, critical writings, artists' postage stamps, and collectible chapbooks; Avalanche (1970-1976), which expressed the countercultural character of the emerging SoHo art community through its interviews and artist-designed contributions; Art-Rite (1973-1978), an irreverent zine with a disposable, newsprint format; Real Life (1979-1994), published by Thomas Lawson and Susan Morgan as a forum for the Pictures generation; 0 to 9 (1967–1969), a mimeographed poetry magazine founded by Vito Acconci and Bernadette Meyer; FILE (1972–1989), founded by the Canadian collective General Idea, its cover design a sly parody of Life magazine; and Interfunktionen (1968–1975), founded to protest the conservative curatorial strategies of Documenta. These and the other magazines Allen examines expressed their differences from mainstream media in both form and content: they cast their homemade, DIY quality against the slickness of an Artforum, and they created work that defied the formalist orthodoxy of the day. (A work by John Baldessari from the late 1960s shows a photograph of Artforum, captioned "THIS IS NOT TO BE LOOKED AT.") Artists' Magazines, featuring abundant color illustrations of magazine covers and content, offers an essential guide to a little-explored medium.

Looking forward to checking it out. The book is published by The M.I.T. Press; get more info and order from Printed Matter.

Best Foot Forward

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It feels both somewhat sacrilegious to contemplate straying from the original, and sad that at this time of year anyone should still be thinking about rain boots, but there you have it:

Hunter Lapins in dark olive
(also available in black and navy), $225, Hunter.

Coming to Flex

.Front and back cover of the forthcoming Flexions LP Golden Fjord, designed for the newly-minted Cairo Records by yours truly.

The album is out August 2nd and in addition to band members Robin Stein, Devin Welch, and Tyler Swan, also features Margaret Jones and Morgan Henderson (Fleet Foxes, Past Lives, Blood Brothers, and, perhaps most importantly, Mt. Henderson).

Here's the first video, by Chris Ando and the homey Robert M. Wolfe, who is best known for design work with Wavves and Best Coast:


Flexions play at the Wildrose on July 9th and the release party is August 5th at Chop Suey. Mark them calendars. More info here.