the art of not blogging

oh child, spare me. everything i love about bill cunningham, is what i hate about scott schuman. they are the opposite poles in the same sector. bill is a spirit, the other pure flesh. bill is about life the other about fame. bill is about grit the other about flash. bill is about art the other about business. bill is about love… bill is humble… bill is light and the rest is darkness. in the end ,it does come to be about who you are as a person and bill is the epitome of all that i love about new york. no offense! when you become famous, you have to be able to take some shit. scott is surely loved and respected by many and i can be the one hater (not sure he can handle that). sorry i see no interest in satorialist or scott’s work nor his fame or how business smart he is. business smartness and fame mean nothing to me, if anything they tell me a bit about who you are and it’s generally not good. that brand is built on pandering to the status quo, not supporting the the fringe that feeds that status quo. when you photograph a bunch of vain editors and models after the shows you too can expect guaranteed traffic. bill just never wanted the attention or the fame or the money. i admire that tremendously. by dd

CATEGORIES: clips, must be considered films

discodeine & jarvis

found this in our draft section i guess it was never published. better late than never.

jarvis is back! at least on this discodeine mix, better than nothing as we say in french, right? by pp.

CATEGORIES: clips, music

green scores of top brands

find the most responsible large brands in each sector based on www.climatecounts.org

 

climate score rates the big brands as they make the largest impact. busying from smaller, local, and more responsible brands is the key and the smaller ones are not listed here. but if you buy big this helps.

airlines: south west (not jet blue), see others in this sector

electronics: HP (not apple), see others in this sector

apparel: nike (not gap), see others in this sector

consumer shipping: UPS (not fedex), see others in this sector

cosmetics: l’oreal, see others in this sector

appliances: GE (not miele), see others in this sector

by ts

CATEGORIES: earth related

goodbye genius: steve jobs dead

the original apple logo… phew, we sure dodged that bullet!

 


we need more people like this please. farewell to the man who thought different and did something about it. the son of a syrian muslim father (a professor) and an american mother (a pathologist) he was an unwanted child. set for adoption, and raised by paul and clara jobs in california, steve surely made up for his childhood set backs by becoming the most wanted man. he went on to build perhaps the one company that its products and software sold themselves with one leap innovation to the next. he created the company that made us ask “why doesn’t everything work the way this does?”

 

despite the efforts to insure us all that apple is bigger than one man, unfortunately it will never be. in 1985, after apple’s board-of-directors fired jobs from the company he had built from his garage into a 2 billion dollar business, apple lost its way, despite the presence of co founder and friend steve wozniak and the newly appointed hack of a ceo john sculley, from pepsi (sorry! steve may have forgiven you but we haven’t), and apple nearly disappeared from the face of this earth by talking about processor speeds and chips inside their grey boxes not to mention sculley’s brilliant , the apple newton, a total bomb, which i have an original model of. now without steve, there’s no saying where its future will rest. with apple stocks overvalued by 10 folds, banking not on apple but on steve jobs and his vision, they have a heavy legacy to stand up to, and  the announcement of the 4GS isn’t quite gonna do that. at the end, brands are nothing without the people behind them, despite what corporations, and businesses would like us to believe, and jobs will truly be an irreplaceable citizen of this earth. thank you steve, but also paul and clara, and dog bless. by dd

CATEGORIES: audio-electronics

boyce & brown: a universe of possibilities


with tatiana cotliar (next). nice clip by ex creative director harrison boyce & director nathaniel brown. you may recall our posts on a similar style of work about a year or so ago, now you can add this to one the mix. with film becoming such an approachable medium and available to so many different disciplines, we are excited about the experimentation and possibilities it holds. something less literal and more poetic awaits us all. by dd

CATEGORIES: clips, fashion

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

CATEGORIES: read