musings

1930 american cinema vs Soviet cinema: walt disney and Sergei Eisenstein… and mickey

walt disney was a huge fan of sergei eisenstein

by the way, mickey was only two when that photo was taken… in the early 1930’s, eisenstein left the USSR with his assistants, embarking on a state-sanctioned trip to the west so that he’d learn more about sound film. his stay in the U.S. was a bust; no studio accepted his projects. after shooting a film in mexico that he’d never edit, he returned to the USSR.  in hindsight, it’s actually funny that anyone expected him to find common ground with the big american studios, but when eisenstein arrived in the US he was feted by the press and given the star treatment — or something resembling star treatment, cut to size for a communist director. and yet, although hollywood did nothing but confirm eisenstein’s hatred of capitalism, some pictures suggest that he still had fun… by xy

CATEGORIES: musings, must be considered films

non gendered reality per saint laurent

i absolutely love the current revisit and further integration into life of the gender/non-gender issue. i might note i am very much a girl, i can’t help but look girly even if i don’t dress so, and i like many a-girly perk, at the same time i don’t like intensional guidelines, and  i feel like the future of identity is finally positively being explored in a way that is infiltrating life. girls who like girls who like boys who like girls? wut? like whoever you want, dress however you want. mix up your boundaries, have fun, be serious. that’s the way it should be. that’s an attitude that makes me love new york, do what you want and no one cares.

and here are some stunning pix of saskia de brauw shot by hedi slimane for his recent Saint Laurent menswear campaign. by kl

CATEGORIES: fashion, musings

art of ironing: silver star

i stopped meditation and quit yoga five years ago, instead i’ve been ironing my own shirts… better than anyone in this world. video link. looking for a decent iron, i was directed to silverstar by the ‘pros’, the very ones i don’t use much. a full review is certain. until then, happy ironing. p.s. the inset painting (ricard canal’s self portrait) is completely unrelated. he just looked too dashing to pass. by dd

CATEGORIES: musings

TS down: debbie harry / ddos / anonymous / reddit / blondie

as you may have noticed, ts went down for over a day last week, and we shuffled about trying to figure out what had happened. the servers were throttling out of control and ts was being hit by over 9,000 simultaneous hits every 15 min and kept going up. it was pretty clear it was a ddos attack, or so we thought. that is to say, hackers who hijack numerous computers across the globe (possibly yours) as zombie modules and then send a code at any given time for all units to connect to a specific url, crashing the servers. this is of course what anonymous did to master-card and the CIA websites taking them down temporarily… but of all places in the world, who would bother attack ts? after all we actually like hackers much better than slackers. it was a puzzle, but after hours of digging around to locate source, traffic, pages, setting up cloud flair, requiring browser checks, and switch-limiting ts to specific IP addresses we discovered that someone had kindly posted a link from ts onto the “social media outlet” reddit and all that drama was simply reddit’s overzealous readers:

one of the comments read: “it looks like they (TS) are doing browser checks now because they think they’re getting DDoS’d. damn, reddit.”

hell of a following you got mister “noneed2powertrip”! now you ask what link? it was the debbie harry playboy pics go figure, but don’t crash us again… by ts

CATEGORIES: musings

ghouls, goblins and ghosts

i don’t care much for, or adhere to tradition in any form…but today is halloween after all, so here is a tiny informative guide to decipher the attributes and differences between ghosts, goblins and ghouls.

GHOSTS, in case you didn’t already know, are considered to be the souls of the dead, often appearing in a seemingly imperceptible fashion.  you know, those white sheets and all.  any red blood cell lacking hemoglobin is also referred to as a ghost, further enforcing the idea of pigmentation lacking.

GOBLINS are typically nightmarish who at times have the ability to adopt human forms and assault or “trick” people into thinking they are otherwise.  the word goblin is derived from the german word kobold, which is a mischievous and naughty household spirit.   the spirit can either be helpful and amuse children, or hide food around the house and throw temper tantrums when he is not attended to.  sounds like every pet/significant other i’ve ever had.  hmm.

lastly, GHOULS are the most dastardly of them all.  the world ghoul stems from the arabic ghul which comes from ghala meaning, “he seized”.  ghouls have been known to eat both stolen corpses and children.  YUM!  by sv

CATEGORIES: musings, read