Elf sandals, anyone?

My new favorite shoes: bread knife meets broken-in desert boots…

Jonny Ollsin / CHILDREN video

Some­times there is noth­ing more excit­ing than 3 young men in sun­glasses and long johns, run­ning through a for­est. …(Also  check out Jonny’s web­site, a well-crafted machine of audi­tory & visual hal­lu­ci­na­tion… www.jonnollsin.com )

STRANGE

Iconic…  Strange… Out­landish…  VA VOOM.

Gee’s Bend Again

I’ve also been look­ing at the Gee’s Bend quilts again, through the book Gee’s Bend: The Archi­tec­ture of the Quilt . The visual inspi­ra­tion from these art­works is untold for me. I added some exam­ples below, of the cor­duroy & denim quilts, fea­tur­ing recy­cled mate­ri­als (how a quilt is defined in my view)…although just a few […]

What have you looked at lately.…?

I love these video effects — best video I’ve found for this track from Brian Eno & Jon Has­sell’s Fourth World, Vol. 1: Pos­si­ble Musics. Was appar­ently made in the late 80’s by this You Tube user. In the artist’s own words: “I shot the footage in Yosemite using a low cost VHS cam­era,  then […]

ANDREA CREWS Fall/Winter 2010

This just released from the cre­ative recycled-fashion/performance work­shop in Paris, run by Andrea Crews. …a pre­view of the Fall 2010 looks, from what appears to be a randy the­atre pro­duc­tion… (pho­tos from the Andrea Crews monthly newslet­ter: it’s like a peek into a par­al­lel world con­structed of famil­iar objects, dance-crazed char­ac­ters, eso­teric rit­u­als…! Worth subscribing to…) […]

Maryanne Casasanta

Beau­ti­ful work, Maryanne Casas­anta from Toronto… maryannecasasanta.com

Wild things live among us

…the other cit­i­zens of Greater Vancouver…

VISION: The Slippery Spiral Situation

Hen­rik Vib­skov, below, and selec­tions from his Menswear Autumn/Winter 2010 show, The Slip­pery Spi­ral Sit­u­a­tion. Almost a roman­tic futur­ist vision.… … it reminds me of T&T’s (Tony Romano & Tyler Brett) draw­ings of new-ecology scav­engers. T & T: view here to see more SSS: alicebenusiglio.blogspot.com www.canvasmagazine.net/fashion

Tonight: Moon Duo, Steller Om Source, Pacific City Nightlife Vision Band, Magneticring

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19TH, 2009: Tonight, Moon Duo (Wood­sist record­ing artists from San Fran­cisco fea­tur­ing Wooden Shjips front­man Rip­ley) are play­ing with Stel­lar OM Source (amaz­ing synth-based psych from the Nether­lands), the Pacific City Nightlife Vision Band (Spencer Clark of Skaters, Vodka Soap, and Monop­oly Child Star Searchers’ new full-band project, appar­ently with some­one from Eat […]