so courtney love has a blog-STOP THE PRESSES BC SOMEBODY HAS FULFILLED MY DREAMS
well actually, its a tumblr about her with three authors (all affiliated with c-love) and she sends them photos of what she wore today/that day.
how obsessed with it am i? oh, incredibly. i check it at least four times a day.
just as often as i browse through my favorite (underlined, boldfaced, italicized) book FASHION: a history from the 18th century to the 20th century
what do i think of the entries? i'm so digging c-lo's (her nick name on the tumblr) new look- super elegant but a little raw- imagine lanvin with worn out louboutins, amazing bangs and an elongated bob that curls in just at her shoulder length.
o wowowowo
but wait, there is also writing on this blog, in which one of hte three authors breaks down her look. sometimes it's witty, most times its not. it kind of falls onto that schticky "fashionista" talk that the last two seasons of sex and the city championed, where everything has a double entendre, hidden joke or just catty and thus "WITTY" one liners. not really for me. but i like the blog.
this is my mother's house. and sometimes, i just take photos in it.
it's rather hot in new orleans, so this romper-being so incredibly festive- was incredibly appropriate to wear around. i think the print of this romper really matches the disposition of the city of new orleans.
thanks to my lovely cousin jennifer leigh for helping me! she is the best assistant/test monkey.
so some outfits i thought were a best of and then some random photos
teeshirt i wanted to steal from my friend nick monique being a flapper doll my friend hannah, on a smoke break during brunch and flea market shopping
what i wore ebay rachel comey dress, new prada sample sale shoes, rly old miu miu bag raaska dress, new hat b/c its waaay hot out, super old miu miu shoes with big ole holes in the sole
now off to sushi with my god sister madeline! tata, c
soooo right now, im updating from the airport, waiting for my flight to new orleans (i got here waaaaaaaay to early-oh well, i'll just watch buffy until the flight comes! ) *yawn* i had a long day, starting at moma with the lovely miss emma, and a late night last night, so late in fact that i really only slept two hours. why do yo say that caroline? well last night was a night of hellos and dear goodbyes! first MoMA we went to the maya deren exhibit, and saw a documentary on maya deren. it was incredibly illuminating, i had no idea she had done such such extensive work with haitian voodoo rituals. maya deren is one of my favorite video artists but after the documentary, she became one of my favorite artists. the documentary showed clips of a large portion of her films, most i had never seen before. she filmed the body in such a poetic way. ze photoz this is a from the bruce nauman "days" instillation (which was the US entry to the venice biennale in 2009) marilyn minter video still i took. i am kind of obsessed with her work. most of it is oil painting that is just so lush, juicy and all about sex. the frankness of it is incredibly refreshing. emma and i were talking bout if i was drawn to it b/c it was a woman portraying sex so frankly and thus exploring female sexuality or was it the subject matter, medium and execution? and honestly, i think its all of that combined. it is interesting knowing that woman created it and it is so frank about sex. however..i just really like how it's rendered. the colors, the use of anatomy, of close ups and everything is incredibly slick...i just like it. hey, look! it's an emma looking at art! what? i was really excited about my shoes, they are new! american apparel skirt, tatty devine T REX necklace, loeffler randall shoesies
first for the hellos MISS ISABEL IS IN NYC and we met up for a hot second. it was really cool to finally talk to her face to face as opposed to blog to blog chit chatting via comments. we went to jalopy in redhook brooklyn and had all around a swell time. however, it sucks a wee bit that isabel came to visit nyc when it was so hot, swampy and gross gross gross out. aviva and isabel switch glasses. aviva kind of has the best shoe and glasses collection this side of the universe. well...my friend stephanie has pretty sweet glasses as well.
so that is all...i'll update lots more when i'm down south.
around a week or two ago, i was invited by hasted hunt kraeutler to accompany one of the gallery owners to visit paolo ventura's studio, who is one of my favorite artists. paolo ventura makes miniatures and dioramas and then photographs them, which is the most basic way to describe it. a more elaborate way, is that paolo creates little scenes that hint of yesteryear and fairy tales, of european stories that were told a long time ago. imagine, if you will, a traveling theatre group stops in the woods, a man wearing a soldier's uniform and bird head masks standing amongst snow and birch trees; paolo creates beautiful scenes that are based in both in fantasy and reality. to say that i like his work is an understatement. but the even better part, is that paolo is a very nice guy. and he welcomed my critique and opinions of his current work.
some photos of his studio
mr ventura, the artist and mr kraeutler, one of the gallery owners
what i wore (and what i've been wearing to move furniture as it is very very comfortable and does well in this swampy, murky weather)
last night i went to MoMA to see sally potter's "rage." this whole month and maybe even summer is about women in film at MoMA. i'm a little obsessed with watching cinematic films at MoMA, the last one i had seen was JAWS two summers ago. there is just something kind of romantically peculiar about watching a cnimenatic film in an art musuem, usually b/c it is afterhours (the film was over at 10), which feels so "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler." so sally potter's rage
sally potter answering questions about the film it's about a handful of deaths and murders over the course of a week at a fashion show. at one fashion show. a student named michelanglo interviews all sorts of people associated with the fashion house (seamstress, event planners, the designer, the owner of the investor behind the designer's label, models, ect). but he interviews them with his CELLPHONE. that's a key point to this story. he interviews ppl for an entire week, after the first day he edits and uploads the interviews to his website, the second day uploads the second days worth of interviews, ect. sally potter released this film first on cellphones, then cinemas, then dvds. she shot the film for the format of its presentation- ie cellphones. so she chose the interview process to show b/c the background was going to be so unseen, thus people are interviewed in front of a greenscreen that changes colours. i think that this actually works better for the film b/c it is a caper, essentially, there's murder involved. and what it does, like vintage crime noir films, is that it masks the death and violence we are seeing, leaving it up to the viewer to imagine what happened. this is powerful b/c not only is it forcing us, the audience, to interpret what has transgressed from what people are saying in the interviews, we also have to imagine exactly what happened. what i also find brilliant about the film is that sally potter made it as a reaction to this fear of the internet, a lot heads of companies and what not were saying that the internet and piracy will kill cinema and her reaction was no it will, it will evolve. which is true, photography didn't kill painting, introducing sound didn't destroy cinema. it just evolved. i mean look at our ipods, we can watch movies on those, why not make some films that are just to exists for a medium that small? anywho...a great film, i totally recommend seeing it.
what i wore there: the new apt! built by wendy sample sale dress (i'm trying to buy the majority of my clothes now from ebay, sample sales or thrift stores), miu miu naked woman collar, repetto shoes. i think, if i would tweak this outfit, maybe change the shoes. but over all, i feel vaguely jackie kennedy in this. but it's probably just my hair. cos i attempted to straighten it when its oh, you know nearly 100 degrees out...
the summer heat inspires so many things one of my favorite films is my neighbor totoro
today was a friend's bday, we went to prospect park in the hot, hot heat (95 degrees at least!) and me and my sunburn and pecan pie went out there to celebrate. anywho, i love miyazaki and his story telling. inspired by his film my neighbor totoro, which takes place during the summer new hat! american apparel skirt, rag and bone shirt, my worn out repettos
