For Udo.
From the Michael Michel collection of hats, just shot in Paris.
Laughing Like a Seagull
Jul 09
» The Great American Bubble Machine - Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stone
“The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it’s everywhere. The world’s most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.”
Jul 08
Kasper Sonne, Untitled sign No. 2 (via fletter)
Pete. I love your eye.
Always have, since the Pie movie and beyond.
You’re genius.
Maybe one day I’ll finish my movie and you will direct it and we’ll all win Oscars.
(via lazlokovaks)
Jul 07
Shannon and the vamp. Charlottenburg Castle garden pond, Berlin, July 4th 2009.
Apparently the lady of the manor would only traverse Berlin from this pond, in a boat taking her out through the river Spree which runs through the city. No horse and carriage for her.
We were camera-toting tourists on Independence Day and I clearly can’t stop using the blue filter on my point and shoot which I discovered at the Blue Lagoon in Iceland in October. Maybe it’s cheesy but I like it.
When “sports” and “fashion” collide.
Wow, iPhones can make art! (In the right hands of course).
(via lazlokovaks)
If love is a drug, then what is sex? Not the regular kind, but the type that makes you forget your name, where you came from, where you’re going. The call out of work, burn the house down kind. Mental illness perhaps?
And then we had the song ‘Venus de Milo’, the whole subject of it is Love is a drug.
— Tom Verlaine
Jul 06
I know Bill Maher keeps saying that he is the president, not our boyfriend, but I kind of wish he was.
President Obama’s first 167 days
“President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama wear 3-D glasses while watching a TV commercial during Super Bowl 43, Arizona Cardinals vs. Pittsburgh Steelers, in the family theater of the White House on February 1, 2009. Guests included family, friends, Cabinet members, staff members and members of Congress.”
Jul 05
Beautiful in the photo, but surprisingly disppointing. Including creepy fully clothed smoking guy doing drunken mimes and bothering us, hour long downpour, and crowded pool. No room for me to show off my aquatic moves properly.
Badeschiff, barge pool floating in the Spree, Eastern Kreuzberg, Berlin
girls who say they aren't "fashion icons"
Aw, that’s so nice Leah, thanks!
Right back at you.
I read fashion blogs a lot. I read these websites designed by 15-yr-old girls who make clothes and who are cooler and more creative than most adult-people. I’ve been reading a lot of interviews lately with celebrities who we would call “fashion icons”. Lots of these girls (and it’s usually girls- I haven’t noticed any boys doing this) say that they don’t think about what they wear, aren’t “fashion icons”, and that they just throw on anything everyday and have no idea that anyone would be inspired by their clothes or their creativity. Here is a list of girls who I have said this in interviews I’ve read: Nicole Richie, Chloe Sevigny, Rachel Bilson, Zooey Deschanel, The Olsen Twinz, Alexa Chung (although I hate to criticize her in any way), Bat For Lashes girl, The Kills girl, Lissy Trullie, Kate Bosworth, etc. Are they bonkers? Whats going on? These girls LIVE to be called “fashion icons”. They look incredible and can afford a lot of the trends, and have an understanding of that. These girls sound so dumb the instant they say this. It’s annoying because I see all this amazing stuff on blogs with people who don’t have any money, who are insanely creative, and who would never say any of that. (It’s also annoying that so much of it has to do with money in general.)
Here is my list of people who (I think) LITERALLY do just “throw something on” and who aren’t bajillionaires, and who just make things up and look amazing all the time:Chris Garneau
Ariel East
Shilpa Ray
Raina Hammner
Sharon Van Etten
Nina Stotler
Charlotte Gainsbourg (she may be a bajillionaire, tho)
Camille from Childhood Flames
Anna Billingskog
Jeff Lewis
My second fourth of July spent in Europe—we spent the wee hours getting terrible serivce in an American 1960s themed restaurant in Hackescher Markt drinking coke floats, eating the world’s saddest appetizer platter, and cackling at the ceiling mural depicting random misspelled or non-existant U.S. landmarks
The American girls, my dates on the 4th of July, Grosse Hamburger Strasse, Berlin
Jul 04
Dress on form in three neon rings, the vampire’s den, Gormann Strasse, Berlin
The girls exploring empty rooms, the vampire’s den, Gormann Strasse, Berlin
