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“life is a big sea of lava, morphing and melting, turning and twisting, and i am but a pebble despite the rock, my destiny melting away into a sea.” – werner davrak by dd
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happy halloween: a brief history
i was wondering what this funny business was about, that every year we dress ourselves up silly and walk around town knocking on doors. what started this anyway? so i looked it up.
halloween is based on the christian holy day of “all saints day” or “all souls day”. its roots go back to the celts, signifying the early days of winter which were generally associated with death and darkness in the northern regions. halloween, unlike the mexican day-of-the-dead where you honor and celebrate those whom have past, is a reminder to all us sinners. this of course was adapted from the celts ritual and peppered up with the idea of sin. on this day all the dead saints (the believers) ascend to the heavens, and the lost souls get stuck on earth. the ghosts scurry about,”causing trouble and damaging crops”, and the rest of us undecided fellows on earth (who are still alive) have to then dress-up as ghouls and ghosts, (or pimps and prostitutes these days) to hide from the real ghosts. the pumpkin is the american version of the european turnip, as it’s more prevalent on this land. back then, turnips were carved out and used as lanterns and placed on the door steps to ward off “evil spirits”. now, the pumpkins are made of russell stover’s chocolate intended to chubby up the little children more than the evil spirits. anyhow, this is the story of how halloween came to be. isn’t it funny that even today we still follow all this silly stuff? by dd
THE GENTLEWOMAN – FLORIANE DE SAINT PIERRE
the gentlewoman, beautiful little sister of the fantastic man features a lot of really interesting interviews and articles. one is quite fascinating, it’s the floriane the saint pierre’s interview. premier fashion head hunter (even if she dislikes the appellation) she is responsible for a lot of the latest big mix matching in the fashion world from alber elbaz at lanvin to christopher bailey at burburry among others. the quite surprising thing in this article to me comes right at the beginning when numbers are mentioned. it’s saying that galliano would have made 15 millions euro a year at dior before the he’s breakdown and that dior would have offered 20 millions euros to nicholas gesquierre to move to dior… i don’t know if i’m being really naive but i would never have guessed fashion designers were making that kind of money… by pp.
better late than never… wait, it may never come
harold camping might have been wrong on his may 21, 2011 prediction and well see if hes right by moving the date back till october 21, 2011 in his revised prediction; i just hope if he is right the raptor jesus comes in style like this!! by jr
the business of blogging
i’m sure dd won’t be happy but this article on the sartorialist’s business is really interesting and you can only admire what the guy did. so read that, it’s interesting by pp.
dumbing-down a nation: when did being stupid become cool?
albert einstein in one of his lectures
now that’s really stupid!
albert einstein at the first of solvay confrences in 1911
albert einstein with hopi indians
albert einstein and charlie chaplin at the premier of limelight
ever playful albert einstein and his bicycle
architect le corbusier and albert einstein: a conversation on cool
the sarcasm i’m afraid is very much lost. sooo funny, i’m not laughing. these “stupid” ads were made by a bunch of frat-boys at new york agency, anomoly, who by the way should be fined for public larceny
i was at the airport the other day and was skimming through a pile of uninspiring shit mags at hudson news to kill some time when i saw a “special issue of time magazine on albert einstein“. flipping through its B&W pics and seeing little einstein’s life growing up in italy and switzerland, prague, and eventually the u.s. (pasadena of all places) i thought… now here’s a really cool dude. if only i could have been his piss boy when he was around. then i thought, i can’t really remember at what point did becoming stupid sound like a good idea? and to whom exactly? was it when we cut down funds on education or when we started being fed ben stiller, adam sandler, renee zellweger, and jessica parker as role models? or was it when we dissed kerry because he was “too much of an intellectual”? or was it the arugula’s fault? i mean who wants a smart guy when you can get a silly b-actor to push around? i can’t really blame a bunch of frat boys at diesel jeans for all this either, as stupid was well around before them, and besides stupid probably sells… to a lot of stupid people. we can’t be proud of that now can we?
on the other hand a small company out in california thought being intelligent was cool too, and they did make a few buck on that sector of the market. now that, we can be proud of. its by far one of the best campaigns and on every level. no other brand can say “think different” and back it like apple. so i guess there’s a place for all of us after all.. o.k. so back to fashion : ) by dd
lesson 101 in reaganomics: who was the worse U.S. presidents to increase the debt
you’ve probably seen this but just in case you haven’t… mind numbing!! (for all you doubters source of the info is from the treasury department!) “reagan proved deficit doesn’t matter?” oh really? why were we celebrating him as the best president during Bush? i thought the republicans were so careful of spending our hard earned money, they are usually so kind they stand-up, on our behalf, against those bad democrats who try to raise taxes on us poor folks. looks like, maybe some of these commercials you see are laced with false information, and just maybe, fox news isn’t so “fair and balanced” after all. oh lord, i always looked up to our preachers and politicians for my moral values, such as how to treat my neighbors or advice on marital issues until those bad presidents and priests all got busted getting blow jobs, some from little boys, others by fat unattractive girls. now it seems we can’t even trust the news anymore. what is next lord? a president that will put the well being of corporations above that of its citizens? source by xy
Ernest Hemingway and Jean Patchett: by Clifford Coffin
Spam emails: getting pretttty creative
what kind of an idiot would fall for this? and better yet this person is too talented to be waisting time on this shit, dog knows hollywood doesn’t have script writers this good. Im all teary eyed, sob!
“hello, in life, we only get one chance to do things right and also affect the lives of people. when i was much younger, i always wanted to make a difference in the lives of others but i never was able to do so, in the capacity that i was able to, because i didn’t have sufficient funds to do so with. when my family died in an automobile crash, i felt devastated and suffered a great emotional and psychological trauma. this is not why i am writing you now, i am writing to you because i want you to start a charity project for the less privileged people, anywhere in the world, wherever you might find them. my husband left behind a whopping sum of about 3.5 million in our account before his death. i have no need for the money anymore as i have been diagnosed with cancer and i have less than 9 weeks to live. i want you to carry out this legacy. i have no friends that i can trust with these resources. you might be wondering why i trust you? the answer is “i don’t know if i can”. i have to give you an opportunity first… my name is katherine rohaya.” by xy
AND WHY NOT?
that is everything i stand for… by cm
the $28,000,000 “x-rated teen” t-shirt from Urban Outfitters?
did i miss something? x rated?
LA photographer jason lee perry’s images were sold supposedly without the models “consent on the usage” (bad! bad! bad!) countering a lawsuit by the models parents. what happened was, that this was an early test-shoot when model hailey clauson was 15 years old (or rather under 16 like 99.9 % of all models now). she has since become quite a success shooting for gucci and the like. now, sounds like haley’s luxury career didnt quite jive with the cheap t’s sold at corner stores. agent try’s to resolve to no avail. opportunity knocks when “child modeling” becomes topical issue on american TV broadcasted to a “puritan society”, calling the image on this t (in the lawsuit), an “x-rated images of our daughter”!!… (bad! bad! bad people) someone help tell these good parents that modeling isn’t exactly a convent school, maybe you should not be shopping your poor 9 year old daughter around and taking her out of school to sell someones rags! or maybe we should hold parents mental IQ responsible for not attending these shoots? its like “mom. meet olivier zahn, really swell guy” or “dad this is terry richardson, doesnt he look funny?”…. god!!!! do we not take any responsibility? now they want to get paid too for being retarded parents? aaaaargh…. jr, when was jesus coming again? by dd
correspondencia magazine
beautiful magazine. correspondencia is a literary and arts magazine published twice a year in buenos aires. approx 80 pages of images in color and 80 pages of texts in spanish and english. to locate one visit their site. by dd
