haruki murakami on love

like icing on a cake, decadence is sweet

neverimmer

rudi gernreich

one of these austrian phenomena - rudi gernreich, american fashion designer.

08.08.1922 - 21.04.1985

peggy moffitt

the "no-bra"bra

the monokini, what a scandal

"the futuristic look"

if you feel gold, just be gold

Riccardo Tisci’s cover for "watch the throne" ,metallic gold - to celebrate the gargantuan collaborative event that is a solitary album by the two Hip Hop gods Kanye West & Jay Z.

i'm 90ies

sonic youth

An aesthetic documentary of daily life over a span of a year. Final college project of a student at Abingdon College studying media.

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i'll meet you there

neverimmer

'the horizon is always an impossible place of destination. It is the point where the discernible becomes indiscernible, where one can disappear. It is at an unreachable distance because it is always away from where you are, yet still in the realm of the visible. It is always where you can never be, yet you can always see it. Like a photograph or film, it is only tangible with the eyes.'

[David Horvitz / 'I'll meet you here']

same old, same old.

please may someone take over?

life's hard, dreams are far

innocent youth

thanks!

in all these "more-is-more"-fashion-ads around now, i really appreciate a minimal red line...

Kurt Schwitters und die Rekonstruktion der Sprache

An Anna Blume

Oh Du, Geliebte meiner 27 Sinne, ich liebe Dir!
Du, Deiner, Dich Dir, ich Dir, Du mir, ---- wir?
Das gehört beiläufig nicht hierher!
Wer bist Du, ungezähltes Frauenzimmer, Du bist, bist Du?
Die Leute sagen, Du wärest.
Laß sie sagen, sie wissen nicht, wie der Kirchturm steht.
Du trägst den Hut auf Deinen Füßen und wanderst auf die Hände,
Auf den Händen wanderst Du.
Halloh, Deine roten Kleider, in weiße Falten zersägt,
Rot liebe ich Anna Blume, rot liebe ich Dir.
Du, Deiner, Dich Dir, ich Dir, Du mir, ----- wir?
Das gehört beiläufig in die kalte Glut!
Anna Blume, rote Anna Blume, wie sagen die Leute?
Preisfrage:
1. Anna Blume hat ein Vogel,
2. Anna Blume ist rot.
3. Welche Farbe hat der Vogel?
Blau ist die Farbe Deines gelben Haares,
Rot ist die Farbe Deines grünen Vogels.
Du schlichtes Mädchen im Alltagskleid,
Du liebes grünes Tier, ich liebe Dir!
Du Deiner Dich Dir, ich Dir, Du mir, ---- wir!
Das gehört beiläufig in die ---- Glutenkiste.
Anna Blume, Anna, A----N----N----A!
Ich träufle Deinen Namen.
Dein Name tropft wie weiches Rindertalg.
Weißt Du es Anna, weißt Du es schon,
Man kann Dich auch von hinten lesen.
Und Du, Du Herrlichste von allen,
Du bist von hinten, wie von vorne:
A------N------N------A.
Rindertalg träufelt STREICHELN über meinen Rücken.
Anna Blume,
Du tropfes Tier,
Ich-------liebe-------Dir!

the awkward feeling when you realize your point of view is not the one

jonas lindstroem

http://www.jlindstroem.com/

Skateboard stories - ARTE

vienna, volatile city

In 1928, Josephine Baker spent three weeks in Vienna as part of her European tour. Her visit there caused a tremendous commotion within this already volatile city. She recalled, in one of her autobiographies, that “The capital was flooded with leaflets denouncing me as the “black devil.” . . it was made clear that I was the embodiment of moral decadence.” Baker’s visit finally resulted in a special debate held in the Austrian parliament which addressed the impact of her visit on the status of public morality.

(text from anna novakov, art history teacher, st. mary's college, California)

memories

architecture = stage

3.1 Phillip Lim "Weavers" Men's FW11 Collection from 3.1PhillipLim on Vimeo.

get in the haze

"Where does fashion end and art begin?"

can't wait for this exhibition including daniel sannwald and pelican avenue!

great minds think alike

this is it. it was just a matter of time till they found each other - phoebe philo and juergen teller :)

Joy Division - She's Lost Control

A conceptual video for a University project on movie and architecture shot in December 2007 in The Hague, Netherlands.

i think she likes skirts

the art of skateboarding

the philosophy of the board .

last saturday i passed by a nice shop and an even nicer shopassistant, who was also talkative. when i got out, i knew all about sneakers and, more important, about the life with a board. he also told me about an exhibition of the art of skateboarders. i was there, i didn't dare to talk to any supercool skater, but i tasted some of the spirit of this culture, which kept inspiring me.

grundfragen der ästhetik

Edwin

edwin the teddybear is not a teddybear. what i thought was this stuffed animal's name, is actually a label from japan.

the bear was a souvenir from japan, where edwin is a big thing.

this video best shows who edwin really is:

if you got curious (because of the cute teddy or the cool brad), check out one of these ( or why not both) shops in vienna:

www.arnolds.at

www.e35shop.com

Jakob (Arnold's) and Sby (e35) will show you edwin (the jeans not the teddy).

watch arte

this week arte will keep you busy watching tv:

http://www.arte.tv/de/Kultur-entdecken/Fashion-Week/3608026.html

throughout the week, you can get insights into the works of proenza schouler, fendi, sonia rykiel, ... plus documentaries about the art of textiles.

have a nice week! (:

go went gone

For what is time? Who can easily and briefly explain it? Who even in thought can comprehend it, even to the pronouncing of a word concerning it? But what in speaking do we refer to more familiarly and knowingly than time? And certainly we understand when we speak of it; we understand also when we hear it spoken of by another. What, then, is time? If no one ask of me, I know; if I wish to explain to him who asks, I know not. Yet I say with confidence, that I know that if nothing passed away, there would not be past time; and if nothing were coming, there would not be future time; and if nothing were, there would not be present time. Those two times, therefore, past and future, how are they, when even the past now is not; and the future is not as yet? But should the present be always present, and should it not pass into time past, time truly it could not be, but eternity. If, then, time present — if it be time — only comes into existence because it passes into time past, how do we say that even this is, whose cause of being is that it shall not be — namely, so that we cannot truly say that time is, unless because it tends not to be?
–Augustine of Hippo, Confessiones lib xi, cap xiv, sec 17 (ca. 400 CE)

african lace

when it came to africa, my omniscient history teacher said, "well, africa, i have to admit, i cannot tell you much about it, i don't really know whats going on there"

actually, africa cannot be too strange to austria, as they have a long business-relationship in the textile-industry. the traditional african clothes are made of austrian lace. the lace goes with the "Völkerkundemuseum"(Vienna) also quite well!

neverimmer

5 more reasons to love Phoebe Philo:

"5 perfect trousers"

capsule collection

hedi slimane diary

http://www.hedislimane.com/diary/

the manifest

marc jacobs gift

happy new year!

installing a character

ari marcopoulos

haute wheels

by

ari marcopoulos

a storyteller, this juergen teller

I’m spontaneous, my camera is not. But why take photos of a photographer? I found he looks like a different version of ewan mcgregor. Last week, there was a talk with juergen teller at the university of applied arts in Vienna. In a small gallery an exhibition of him just opened. Anyway, it was quite interesting what he said. Or what he did not say.

It seems he likes his new role as photo-columnist for Zeit (german newspaper), which he uses for mind-exhibition and diary. Some like it, some don’t. if you are interested in how bad juergen teller is, wait for his next project called “literature about juergen teller”, which consists of all these reader’s opinions of Zeit. Yes, that’s his humor. No wonder he left Germany, germans are serious.

Juergen tells us about his first nude shoot– it was Vivienne Westwood. Her skin and her. Now that I think back, it seems to me, that nudity must be a big thing.

Charlotte rampling, old friend of juergen and beloved motive for him, never undressed in front of his camera till he got nothing less than the louvre for setting. Impress to undress I would say. Naked in the Louvre. Charlotte rampling - I have to google her, juergen mentioned her just too often.

So, you are a photographer, your job is to dig into big personalities and squeeze it on a small photo. Quite exhausting. Juergen relaxes by rebuilding his own big personality in self portraits. Preferably naked, to see the impact of skin and a womb, like a lanscape.

How I got to know juergen; through his ads for marc jacobs ( sorry, I didn’t know that clothes annoy you actually, juergen), trashy flash, cold white and unnatural settings, weird people. when I think of his photos, I think of grunge. When asked which soundtrack would fit his photography, he suggested nirvana, sung by his son.

Among all these funny stories, juergen can be serious in a way. Some photos are daring, as they are quite personal. Although he adds, that he imagines and changes reality in his photos - so who knows