Am I just in heaven or Las Vegas?

Have, Want, Need, vol. XVIII

Pair of Ladies Shoes (printed silk fabric & leather), c. 1914. Wiener Werkstätte

women, pt. II

"To begin with, some images [...] I have kept only the images which enthrall me, without my knowing why (such an ignorance is the very nature of fascination, and what I shall say about each image will never be anything but...imaginary)."
- Roland Barthes, 1975


lee radziwill.


sherilyn fenn as audrey horne (twin peaks, 1990).


lee krasner.


setsuko hara as noriko (tokyo story, 1953).


simone weil.


jolanta umecka as krystyna (knife in the water, 1962).


miuccia prada.

women, pt. I

more sophisticated in the east.

[current music: jim o'rourke: through the night softly]

have, want, need, vol. XVIII

reading natalie

she writes:
"It's so much better to desire than to have."
Thus spoke Anouk Aimée(b.1937), French luminary, actress, objet du désir.
An owned object ceases being desired the moment it is possessed. Although I agree with Ms. Aimée, I am also of the opinion that one can possess beautiful things that generate beauty, desire and intrigue. I've prepared a dreamlist of sorts, a constellation of things I love, things with soul, my sheetof "haves" and "desires". I leave it to you to discern the former from the latter.


the obvious, and only intersection.


any interior in which my reading chair finds itself.


my well-loved copy of illuminations. though there are SO many problems in this edition (down to the misspelling of the translators name), it remains dear.


my giant ammonite fossil ring. perhaps the only thing i bought myself while living in oxford.


kate bush. hounds of love. 1985.


my bloody valentine. loveless. 1991.


brian eno. another green world. 1975.



etro wraps. every day in fall, winter, spring, i adorn myself.


spectacles.



LePen. 0.3 MM porus point.


leather & paper journal from Cartoleria Pantheon (Roma).

Painlevé.

a few months ago, criterion released a collection of 23 films by Jean Painlevé. i purchased them for daniel's birthday recently & we watched them this past weekend during a rainy day in the Catskills. the films were certainly worth the wait.

Painlevé's guidelines:

1. You will not make documentaries if you do not feel the subject.
2. You will refuse to direct a film if your convictions are not expressed.
3. You will not influence the audience by unfair means.
4. You will seek reality without aestheticism or ideological apparatus.
5. You will abandon every special effect that is not justified.
6. Trickery will be of no use unless the audience is your confidant.
7. You will not use clever editing unless it illustrates your good intentions.
8. You will not show monotonous sequences without perfect justification.
9. You will not substitute words for images in any way.
10. You will not be content with “close enough” unless you want to fail spectacularly.

japan.

Ninagawa Company's Titus Andronicus.




issey miyake


samurai


this makes me think of Givenchy Haute Couture FW2009


samurai pants by ExtraSkinny


yamantaka eye

farewell, bausch.

pina bausch succumbed to cancer yesterday, less than one week after diagnosis.
definitely one of the women to be admired.

thinking of this on the sabbath.

velázquez. old woman frying eggs. 1618.

marcus ohlsson.

personal male style icons.

nick cave.


blixa bargeld.


david bowie.


don draper (jon hamm). mad men.


mick jagger.


ian curtis.


charles ryder & sebastian flyte. brideshead revisited.