mina loy

poet, futurist, feminist, mother, designer, beauty, personal inspiration.

There is no Life or Death,

Only activity

And in the absolute

Is no declivity.

There is no Love or Lust

Only propensity

Who would possess

Is a nonentity.

There is no First or Last

Only equality

And who would rule

Joins the majority.

There is no Space or Time

Only intensity,

And tame things

Have no immensity.

by sv

magazines vs books: must there be a difference?

lid magazine cover with rolling stones’ young mick jagger

my neighbor and pal keith richards in earlier days with his rolls royce

maxime de la falaise and a young veruschka

this guy is dead but not forgotten… donald or something… i just can’t remember his name

model elle macpherson naked with dog

pix from lid magazine by david croland and dagon james $15… by far the best magazine out there and perhaps one of the only other true “magazines” next to permanent food.

once upon a time, there was a difference between books and magazines. photography books were expensive, and rightly so since the money you paid supported the artists. magazines were cheap because they got their money from advertisers… and at that, the advertisers were limited to the few pages “in-between” the editorials. today, the magazines are nothing but lame catalogs selling their advertisers’ crap disguised as honest editorials. editors don’t even have to work, they just sit there and get press releases and free lunches and fill their pages with whomever panders to them most, be it in copy or photography. the pictures dished out as editorials are simply unpaid ad-vetorials where the stylists are subject to humiliation by farming out looks that suit the advertisers. photographers are simply told to shoot what is placed in front of their lens; yet, told to pay for it since they are contributing to such a creative endeavor.  bullshit, you can fool some people sometime… but the rest of us buy lid. magazines like vogue, bazaar and elle are simply too pedestrian for me to comment on here, so i will focus my wrath on self-service (and ezra) and purple magazine (and olivier) and the like whom have sold their soul for few euros (worth nothing by the way today). i was looking through a bunch of mags tonight, and i gotta tell you, there was not a single magazine i would pay $3 that was worth it. with self service and purple prices at $40 and up you begin to wonder how stupid they think we all really are, and your hard covers mean jack when you look at the 3,000 shit filled pages. it makes me puke to see even these so called “alt magazines” bow to their masters like they do and then get the praise they get. isn’t m. ezra petronio making enough dough with his advertising work for every brand that’s out there? how about m. olivier zahm with his commercial work for chanel? did he really need to pander to armani on his blog that i haven’t looked at in a year? what happened to your philosophical writer partner mr. zahm? these guys seem to monopolize the fashion world between them yet i guess they sell themselves too cheap and still need your $40. makes me wanna occupy purple headquarters instead of wall street. somebody save this disaster please. what happened to interview mag or details of the early years? is everything up for sale except love, dd? by xy

encens magazine – the white issue

cool fashion magazine with cool choice of paper. images are hit or miss but some are actually pretty good. it looks like a cross between a book and a magazine, in content too, mixing the worlds of art and fashion. if you read it on the subway, people might actually think you’re reading to learn. by ak

where is my pistol


there is something romantic about hidden objects in books; from secrets and money, to jewels, to drugs, or to guns. literature has been not only been the salvation of society, but also the culprit of criminals from all walks of life. makes me want to go home and carve out a few books myself… hmmm but what books? proust’s “a la recherche du temps perdu”? maybe not thick enough, how about mann’s “joseph der ernähre”? now what could i put inside them? by xy

pasolini and pound


pound was never one of my favorite poets, I always found him rather fleeting; however, this is a remarkable interview.  subtitles on the bottom. by sv

thoughts of a dry brain in a dry season


T. S. Eliot – Gerontion by poetictouch

an audio of thomas stearns eliot reading his 1920 piece gerontion. the poem represents the view of a gerontic or elderly man and his Modernist views on religion and sexuality, amongst other topics. although the line, “thoughts of a dry brain in a dry season” is a metaphor for age, I thought it would be rather fitting for this peculiar new york weather we’ve been having. plus, I cannot think of a more satisfying way to hear eliot read than by the genius himself.

by sv