as Hergé once said : “Tout de même, ce n’est pas très rassurant, tout ce noir”

“oil, fortune, dollars, contract, businessman, property, country, crazy, transvestites, city, cars, factories, cars, crisis, sport, world, cars, factories, success”

since we talked about tintin previously with dd’s latest post, i thought i could bring up this experimental comic book from matt madden : “tnt in america”. it isn’t new that some people criticize tintin comics as being violent, cruel and sometimes colonialist. madden chose an artistic way to express his vision of america. he took original editions of the comic “tintin in america”, cut the pages one by one, covered them with a thick layer of black ink, rewrote selected words and added pictograms based on the originals’ actions and speech bubbles.  at the end, you can’t really tell exactly what’s going on, but it’s got something to do with violence and america by lil

CATEGORIES: books

Huh!


1986 adidas shell tops… still good. just remember the next time hk, dd, pp, xy or someone’s teaching, why don’t you get taught? cause it’s like that and that’s 86… by dd

CATEGORIES: foot fetish

Halston 1970’s: how to take down a luxury house in style

halston and his models in black bathing suits

ultrasuede: in search of halston is the film about roy halston featuring the overly excited adolescent director, whitney sudler-smith, and his rent-a-car trans am. bit obnoxious but worth the trouble if you can get past him, and no he doesn’t look like halston, nor burt reynolds, he looks more like a whitney.

halston with betsy theodoracopoulos

halston’s dog

from hat designer of the ‘ladies at bergdorf’ to a global style icon, halston was perhaps the first luxury house to spread its legs… just a bit too wide. he was the face of studio 54, always surrounded by his models, and sometimes his boy toy, victor hugo. he brought a sense of american ease to fashion that not many europeans could appreciate at the time as much yves saint laurent himself. his muted color palette was supreme, he did well. but then he designed uniforms for avis rent-a-car, airline interiors, carpets, one of the most successful fragrance ranges and finally its own demise. all of them expertly designed. it wasn’t the first time a creative soul was tempted with money and a promise to rule the world, only to be dumped from his own company by a bunch of paper pushers. if i recall correctly steve jobs, YSL and many more secured a similar fate. lesson learned… by dd

CATEGORIES: clips, fashion, history

Museum

museum is possibly the tiniest museum in the world, housed in a former freight elevator and able to only fit three people inside at a time. it boasts an assemblage of assorted collections from around the world, made of the weirdest and random things you could think of.

some personal favorites include : the shoe thrown at george w. bush at the minister’s palace in baghdad in 2008, toothpaste tubs from around the world, fake vomit collection, children’s disney bullet proof backpacks, al goldstein’s personal ephemera, fake dolla’billa,  etc. …

i have been to museum three times since season two has opened, and every visit leaves me hanging there for at least two hours… so you know what to do this weekend! by lil

CATEGORIES: ny places