Vibe, Vibrations

Illustration by Brian Standeford / type + layout by me
Mark your calendar, this is gonna be a fun one

Best Foot Forward

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(Alexander McQueen Fall 2011 edition.)

Navy patent-leather ankle cuff pumps,
$825 at net-a-porter.

While we're on the subject of navy:

Navy suede buckled punk boot,
$1225 at Alexander McQueen.

Instant good times:

Suede ankle boot, in red or fuschia,
$1075 at Alexander McQueen.

Image of the Day

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"Buffalo; Galloping," by Eadweard Muybridge, 1887 – featured in the buffalo room of The Great American Hall of Wonders, a new exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.

From Edward Rothstein's review in the New York Times: "The United States was a realm of vast spaces and enormous resources. And the show suggests that those resources were used with more enthusiasm than wisdom." Read more, and see more images, here.

The Great American Hall of Wonders is up through Jan. 8 – info here.

(Image credit: Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center of Visual Arts, Stanford University)

In the Studio

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Hausu

Need vs. Want

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Lanvin suede sneaker, made in Italy, $495 at Barneys. Want.

Image of the Day

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Scale model of Spire, 2011 (Aluminum mesh, wood, poured paint), an installation by artist (architect? master draper?) Alois Kronschlaeger in the elevator shaft and surrounding floors of an abandoned building in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Get more info about the project here, and if you're in New York, check out a discussion with Kronschlaeger this Thursday, July 28th, at SVA as part of the ongoing forum Reconfiguring Site: New Approaches to Public Art and Architecture. Indeed.

I Got the Hands to Hold On To Them

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Kurt Vile "Baby's Arms" from Smoke Ring for My Halo (2011, Matador). Video by Todd Cole.

Image of the Day

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Lucian Freud, Reflection (Self-Portrait), 1985.
Another giant...Freud died Wednesday
at his home in London, at the age of 88.

Need vs. Want

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Alexander Wang leather shirtdress

with sheer back,
$1225 at shopbop.

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Theyskens' Theory ankle-strap platform,
$139.50 (originally $465) at theory.com.
Want.

Live at Pacific Standard

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Craft Spells "You Should Close the Door" from Idle Labor (2011, Captured Tracks)

I'm momentarily breaking our radio silence to announce that tomorrow at noon we are hosting the Seattle Times' Matson on Music Live, featuring performances by local groups Craft Spells and Hausu. It's not open to the public (this ain't Budokan, our studio is very small) but you can watch the whole thing on live webstream here.

Oh Hi There

and Emily

Please forgive us for the long absence!
We will be back, and stronger than ever, after we finish a major special project. We'll tell you all about it very soon!

Buggin' Out

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Trailer for Beats, Rhymes and Life: a documentary on A Tribe Called Quest by Michael Rappaport

Best Foot Forward

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Alexander Wang Britt sandal, $725 at Barneys.

Peace & Love

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Happy 71st birthday to Ringo Starr, pictured above with Raquel Welch in The Magic Christian (1969), which has been on our queue for way too long.


Must watch soon.

Black & Light

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Sasha Pivovarova expertly styled by Mika Mizutani and photographed by Hedi Slimane for Vogue Japan, August 2011. I love the way the light shines on that massive bracelet, and the light through sheer black in the photo below.

More from the same story here.

Image of the Day

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Cy Twombly, Pan II, 1980.
The artist died today at the age of 83. Read more about Twombly's life and career here,
and view more of his work at his website.

Need vs. Want

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A red suit. I am a bigger dude (let's call it "husky"), so it wouldn't look like this – Lanvin, Spring 2012 – but I think I could rock it in the right time and place. Need.

Riding for the Feeling

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A couple pics from our weekend crabbing/boating excursion...

Emily reading Timothy Egan's op-ed to our friend Josh.

Bald Eagle guarding the Hat Island Marina.

Emily's traditional boat food, Chicken in a Biskit (sung to the tune of "This Is How We Do It").

First pull of the day... a couple keepers

We pulled this crab pot up to find a giant starfish hogging the bait. (We threw it back.)

Later on Emily and I motored a couple hours up to Coupeville.

We stayed overnight in the boat, docked up to the wharf.


Low tide the next morning

Delicious breakfast at the Knead & Feed, just down the street from the wharf.

"So... the blue parts must be land"

In short, one of the best weekends in recent memory and we can't wait to get out there again.

America

.Jasper Johns

Steven Meisel



Camila Akrans

Tlingit man, Alaska, ca.1910. Photography by Warren Elbridge Merrill

Conway WA

Karolina Kurkova photographed by Tom Munro

Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, February 23, 1945. Photograph by Joe Rosenthal

Design for American Flag with 50 Stars, 1959, by Donald Edwards

Kayt Jones

Guam, 1944, by W. Eugene Smith

Ballard WA

Mario Testino for Paris Vogue

Paul Sahre for the New York Times Book Review

Guy Bourdin


Gisele Bundchen photographed by Hedi Slimane
George Maciunas / Fluxus


Jasper Johns


Richard Sandiville (Nez Perce)

F.I.T. Museum


Tacoma WA

Elliott Erwitt

The Cobrasnake x Irregular Choice Americana

Lopez Island WA

US Army deserters, 1968, photographed by Bill Ray

Cat Power

New York City supports the Selma, Alabama Civil Rights Movement, 1965. Photograph by Diana Davies, 1965

Asger Juel Larsen



Leo Castelli

Collier Schorr

A family stands by the train tracks in honor of Robert F. Kennedy's funeral train, June 1968. Photographed by Bill Eppridge.

"Like It or Unfriend It" By Teddy Wayne, Mike Sacks, and Thomas NG from today's New York Times (click here for more).


Bicentennial video (1976) by Vincent Collins for the US Information Agency

More America here