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Embroidery and beads on the brain, OK?

Yoruba crown and vest, embroidered Van Gogh 

PERFECT EBAY DESCRIPTION

    

   (bought them)

SHOUTY MINIBAGS

For bossy princess party girls only.

VISUALLY SIMILAR IMAGES

I want to understand the algorithms.

Google's image search feature is
endlessly fascinating - how Lindsey
Wixson's fashion anguish can
become a wholesome Californian
grin and a breaking wave becomes
a pixelated studio wall. 

AF1s

Huaraches, Free Runs, Cortez, Air Max, whatever. Nelly knows where it's really at.

EYEBROWS

HUMANITY. LOYALTY. STRENGTH.

Recently I came across the work of Tadanori Yookoo, a Japanese (duh) graphic designer best known for his posters. This one is just so fresh, the combination of Western stereotypes of Japanese culture going so far as to include Hokusai's ukiyo-e wave. Especially the facets of character stamped ACROSS in XXXXX futura bold, the font of choice of his contemporary Barbara Kruger.










Secondly, Kruger's take on Supreme ('s lawsuit) is spot on.

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LATEX

Flesh-coloured latex makes me think of Ted Bundy lampshades but the composition of these sleeves looks perfectly like an insect joint. 

eBay, Amazon and Alibaba's offerings - mostly featuring Asian girls in abbreviated bathing suits are a brilliant hybrid of sexy/bizarre/awkward e-commerce poses.  

RAP FEDORAS

This image by Charlie Engman for V Man. Defying the humorous/accurate notion that "bucket hats are essentially rap fedoras"

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MAGRITTE UPDATE

An update of René Magritte's 1928 work The Lovers. The ring really bugs me. 

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SIMPSONS LEGO

Joyfully, Lego has released an official Simpsons set. I want to know all about the creative process that led to Homer looking so high.

THE THINGS SHE'S SEEN

FAKE POLAR BEAR!

Albino black bear at Glacier National Park, Montana (date unknown) 

Too adorable.

ALL PINK ERRYTHANG

Everywhere it's getting boring. Except you panther, you're great. 

PALETTE

Chanel's incredible AW14 supermarket and a photograph of Hong Kong from Michael Wolf's Architecture of Density series.

BELATED VALENTINES

Self Portrait as a Tehuana (Diego in My Thoughts), 1943

There was no shortage of interesting men in Frida Kahlo's life - she was at school with Muralist Jose Clemente Orozco, married to Diego Rivera and for a time shared her home with Leon Trotsky.

I find the relationship between Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera endlessly fascinating. Rivera divorced Kahlo in 1939 after fourteen years of marriage and they remarried the next year despite Diego's affair with Frida's sister. Frida once said of Rivera 'There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.' Ouch.

Initially blogged for work.

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GIRLY SMUT

Josie blogged about my pillowcases, I was flattered so I made another one.

BABE IS LESS BUSY

There was something so good about this image but there was far too much going on. The fake tatt is on point.

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THE INTERNET THOUGH

I can't believe a woman actually wrote this.

ARWA ABOUON

I'm Sorry / I Forgive You by Libyan artist Arwa Abouon, 2012.

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R. SARDANAPALUS

Did the black knickers thing exist before 10 Things I Hate About You? 

FLOWERY YINKA

Yinka Shonibare channeling his inner Lana.

NIKE FETISHES

Not many brands inspire the levels of fiendish devotion that Nike does. Above an image from artist Hank Willis Thomas' 'Branded' series and a street style shot doing the rounds online.
Below there are no words.

Read an interesting article on brand loyalty from Nike's European agency Weiden + Kennedy here. 

RAQIB SHAW

I first came across the work of Raqib Shaw when I was interning at the White Cube archive and a diamond*-encrusted lobster claw of his fell on my head. Not a fan of his 2009 London show Absence of God, I have been curious to see what comes artistically after giant sculptures of lobsters fucking women. 

Here he is photographed by James Mollison for W Magazine ahead of a big show in New York, I'm interested to read the reviews and very jealous of the bonsai room.

*90% sure it was diamonte

CLOUD SPACE

Moschino 1992 and the world's fluffiest rabbit.

IF DOLCE & GABBANA DID SKELETONS...

 

Happy Hallowed Eve. St Albertus photographed in his catacomb by Paul Koudounaris (image co @saatchi_gallery)

NUNS

I have a love/hate relationship with Halloween and the idea of dressing up (doesn't everyone), but these Nun+* images have been accumulating on my desktop...

I hadn't realised quite how pervasive the fetishisation of nuns was until I started looking for them, tip of the iceberg: