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Hello 

Recently I came across an artist called Alexei Shulgin who did a project a few years back called 'Desktop is'. Blurb:

DESKTOP.IS 1997 In 1997, Alexei Shulgin sent a call for contributions to various mailing lists inviting people to take a snapshot of their desktops, save it as a JPEG and send it back to him, or store it on their own servers. The result is one of the wittiest collaborative works made for the web as well as an excellent psycho-technical ‘snapshot’ of the net art community at this time... Where many projects from this date emphasise the relativity of virtual communities, Desktop IS explores the homogeneity of their shared software architecture. But far from presenting a melancholic view of global cultural homogeneity, it reveals its impossibility.[http://www.easylife.org/desktop]

I don't agree with the reviewer but it is a good description of the idea. I want to do an updated mini-version because I find it fascinating that desktops are simultaneously generic and wildly personal. Also because I am nosy.

If willing please could you email me a screenshot of your full desktop? In whatever state it is/whatever state you're happy for the world to see it, but not at work. Contemporary example attached.

Macs: command + shift + 3

PCs: Print Scr

x Tessa

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UNISEX CRUCIFIX

(Hot neck that looks like a crucifix)

RCA WIP

 I love going to student art shows to see the energy and humour which is usually be battered out of art once it reaches an established gallery, commercial or otherwise. 

You are guaranteed to find:

- phonebooth prostitute cards

- piles of rubble

- mannequins

Works in Progress at the RCA this weekend was no exception, the sculptural piece below inexplicably combined Beethoven and Meridian Dan (regrettably I can't remember the artist's name). Super great. 

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WHAT WE WORE

I'm excited about the upcoming What we wore book and you probably should be too. This picture reminds me of visiting a cousin's bedroom and asking, sincerely, why he had a poster of a naked girl on the ceiling above his bed.

(Special mention to that Danny Dyer bedroom scene in Human Traffic)

WINTER PARTIES

For the last month, with very few exceptions, Elizabeth has gone to bed not merely sozzled or tipsy but stoned. And I mean stoned: unfocused, unable to walk straight, talking in a slow, meaningless baby voice like a demented child. The boredom, unless I'm drunk, too, of being in the presence of somebody to whom you have to repeat everything twice is like a physical pain in the stomach. 

SALTY

LINDSEY AND MATTHEW

Lindsey Wixson styled by Jack Borkett, make up by Isamaya Ffrench for i-D.

Matthew is a deliverability engineer at MailChimp. He manages our delivery team, visits anti-abuse vendors, and spends a lot of time thinking about Gmail.

1407 YELLOW

Toiletpaper magazine, fertility statues and summer dressing.

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GREEN

ORANGE

Tube upholstery, Ghanaian kente and Californian agriculture.

GONE FOR A (GREY) WALK

The same ideas again and again.

A Line Made by Walking, England 1967. Richard Long
Walk Through a Line of Neon Lights, 2004-2009. Michel François

MALE NUN (GREY)

Nun nuns here.

DETAIL

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.

1106 VINYL TENTACLES

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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