Reader: March 25, 2013

– Beautiful photos from travels in Sassi, Italy.– Must. Buy. This. Flask. Immediately.

– Lovely photos from Amy’s birthday. Thanks for the invite. 😛

– Swiss Miss’ readers have accumulated an impressive list of women entrepreneurs.

– Interview with artist Duke Riley.

– Oooohhhh I wanna play Ridiculous Fishing!

– Openframe is “a simple, flexible way to hang posters, prints, and photos of various sizes and configurations.” They have pretty much hacked and undone the framing industry. This is gold, y’all. Support their Kickstarter and pre-order yours.

– Oh Jesus PLEASE pay me to live closer to the office.

– Miley Cyrus twerkin’ in a unicorn suit? Why not. Also, her haircut makes her instantaneously badass.

– I’m looking forward to reading Middle Men by Jim Gavin.

– Men with hair too beautiful is not really a good thing.

– My new favorite band? Chvrches.

– Wedding Do’s and Dont’s. Repeat: DON’T be a bridezilla.

– Why cooking is wonderful.

– Massive photographic archive salvaged from Beijing’s trash.

– A 61 year old porn editor lady on the history of porn mags.

– How to make bacon jam.

– Inhalable whiskey tornado. Like that episode in Parks & Recreations.

– Sexy vegetables.

Reader: March 24, 2013

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Fypi6dAJB8E- How printing ink is made.

– Interview with T Magazine’s creative director Patrick Li.

– Crowd Supply, the new crowdfunding platform for product designers.

– Tilda Swinton as a performance artist sleeping inside a box at MoMA? I’ll take it.

– Harmony Korine AMA on reddit.

– The best photogenic dog award goes to: Maddie.

– Jash and the new Hollywood.

– Disney princesses get the Spring Breakers treatment.

– “Koreans have the reputation for being nose-to-the-grindstone, study-smarties. But looking around Seoul today, one can only conclude they’re ready to enjoy themselves.” Hell, yeah.

– A German artist based in Korea paints houses with a keen and minimal eye towards architecture.

– Solange interviews artist Mickalene Thomas.

– Ryan Gosling, in GIF form. And then, more GIFs.

– In other news, South Korea may make mini skirts illegal, again.

– Tough guys and thumbs up.

– And behold, the pony mixer.

– Admit it, you’re TOTALLY kegeling right now.

– OH MY GOD I LOVE KALE.

– Where does Velveeta come from?

– Swirly porn paintings.

– The alternative to running away to Vegas to get married? The Pop-Up Wedding.

– Am I in love with Opening Ceremony for launching their own line of Spring Breakers wear? Yes.

– Loveflutter is a new dating site that uses Google’s Knowledge Graph and Foursquare to match your interests and recommend place for dates.

Sorry I’m Late from Tomas Mankovsky on Vimeo.

– I wonder how long it took to make this stop motion video.

– 23 more days to fund the Arrested Development documentary. Also, 2 more months til Arrested Development.

– “So monogamy appears to be a cultural phenomenon that has its origins in economics of all places.”

Reader: March 23, 2013

– Beautiful birds-of-paradise courtship rituals.- “Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.”

– On the beauty and power of women friendships.

– Millennials, “a generation hailed for their entrepreneurial acumen and financial pragmatism,” hacking and ditching higher education inspired by millionaire role models under 30 years old.

– “The best interface is no interface.”

– The farmer’s market will begin ampin’ up on fresh fruits and veggies and there’s no other way I’d like to get back into the kitchen than with Sara Jenkin’s Italian cooking app.

– Things that hipsters like, by Jenni Sparks.

 

Reader: March 19, 2013

– Minimalist Legos. Never put the two and two together but here it is.- A bushwick artist becomes a cab driver, records people’s conversations and replays it in the cab as an art installation. Smart.

– For anyone interested in Food Advocacy, here’s a syllabus and a book review about the importance of soup kitchens.

– Are you a font nerd? This app is like font trivia where you guess what the font is and if you like it, get it.

– The Internet’s 10 best tributes to Steve Buscemi.

– Social media drains your brain, your batteries, your wallet.

– “People who take time to be grateful are more productive and physically healthier than the general populace.”

– Designer Neil Kellerhouse’s ability to conceptualize and depict the core idea of a film and bring it to life in its posters.

– I can’t believe we’re already 10 episodes into Girls, I feel like it just started and I’m still waiting for something to happen. But alas, it’s over.

– Also, Lena Dunham on dogs.

Art Fair Find: Kyotaro Hakamata

Kyotaro Hakamata’s figurative sculptures are created by simply layering colored acrylic boards, its shape and color forming anonymous nobodies, none life size and all facing and mounted on the wall. A subtle and disturbing message of strangeness and the complicated self come to mind although their elements of color and shape are powerful enough to draw me into their environment.

Flower Power, Jerseys, Rainboots and Candy in the East Village

Angel and I took a lazy Sunday stroll around East Village and discovered a few quirky shops providing herbal tinctures, watch repair, ’80s basketball jerseys, and a shop selling rain gear and candy to brighten your stormy mood.

Mr. Throwback used to be vendors at Dekalb Market before opening up shop on 9th Street. They specialize in men’s vintage 80’s/90’s clothing and accessories in addition to toys and memorabilia to hit your nostalgic nerve. They’ve been deemed the best nostalgia shop by New York Mag and it’s undoubtedly the perfect place to get your Gen Y boyfriend his next birthday present. Meanwhile the video above where Mike is interviewed is HYSTERICAL. He is such a character. While vendors gave me shit all day at the market he was genuinely the only person who kept shit funny.

Walking into Flower Power I was greeted by a new age hippie white chic with capped with dreads and a glitter sticker on her forehead. It was a bit off putting but I was thirsty for herbal self-healing that this shop was provide. They create their own lily essences and despite questioning the truth and strength of these non-pharmaceutical chemical pills I love the thought of mixing drops of infused lily to moisten my skin and reduce my anxiety. They are hosting a Spring Tonics workshop in April to cleanse our system from all the nasty winter goop.

Amé Amé is a rain gear and candy shop on 9th Street that I took a beeline for considering I have a serious bone to pick with my current shitty rainboots and am in need of a new pair. However the Aigles and Isle Jacobsens that they stock are a bit steep for my pocketbook so we stuck to buying a quarter pound of peach sour strip candy. I can appreciate that they are one of very few stores dedicated to rain gear, which surely there aren’t enough of in this city, and on top of that they make it extra special with jars upon jars of assorted candies that will surely life your crass mood.

Reader: March 15, 2013

– Cannot WAIT to watch Spring Breakers. Bring it on Korine.

– Have you streamed the new Justin Timberlake yet? I never thought I’d type that name and publish it on UDA…

– Adam Driver is growing on me…

– Henry Miller on writing: “It is this about art which is ‘therapeutic’: significance, purposelessness, infinitude…Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.”

– Korea’s very own toilet museum.

– I’ve been asking around friends lately about how they take care of their skin. I’ve been lucky to never have serious issues with the skin on my face but I’m noticing lately how dull and dry and wrinkly it’s starting to become. This post by door sixteen about her skincare routine is a helpful start into my research.

-Turn any object into a tweeting interactive smart object with Twine. I like this saying, “internet of things”..as in the proverbial internet of things…

– Mark Twain as recorded by Thomas Edison.

– A simple way for writers to create suspense.

– To basically point out that you don’t need fancy stuff or fancy surroundings to be inspired to write. Just a simple, spare and distractionless room of your own will do.

– Thank you for wasting the last half hour of my life @seinfeldtoday.

– Painting Mai Ueda.

Art Fair Find: Inyoung Seoung

Probably the only artist worth noting at the mostly awful kitschy yucky sadness that is the Fountain Art Fair is Inyoung Seoung. Her drawings are obsessive and doodley without being inconsequential. They’re lesser versions of the intricate thoughtfulness that is Daniel Zeller but that’s not to say I don’t appreciate the amount of labor that goes into drawing repetitive alien shapes in the forms of trees. I get lost whenever I stare at works like this and I love the escapist component of them.

Art Fair Find: Desirée Holman

Every year I attend the art fairs and every year I am disappointed. Every year I take shitty photos and every year I post them up on the blog. This year I’m going to highlight an artist I found from any of the art fairs, one post at a time.

First find is from The Armory Show with Desirée Holman as represented by Jessica Silverman Gallery. From the “Destined to Disappear” series, paintings depict magical galaxies and “auras” of ancient mystics. My eyes wandered aimlessly and went into a dreamy daze when discovering these paintings, slowing down my pace and easing my anxieties.

I’d love the opportunity to meet the artist and ask her if she considers herself a mystic, if she reads people’s auras the way some of the mystics that she dedicates the paintings to did back in the days. I wonder if these are no more than New Age hippie art taken out of their context to be shown within the frame of a glitzy art fair.

I found Aura Convergence, Gurdjieff & Vivekananda to be the most powerful one from the series, the landscape format and the black framing created an intense focus of bright color gradients that my eyes automatically reflected itself on. The two pink dots in the center look like eyeballs and I was staring at them, all the other colors in its periphery its blissful shadow.

Reader: March 8, 2013

– Photographer Flora Borsi illustrates how Photoshop would work in real life. The New Aesthetic.

– “To get better, to be better, to be awesome, we need to get comfortable with being uncomfortable. We need to make those moments of suckiness opportunities to improve, not opportunities to sulk, feel sorry for ourselves, or complain to our friends about how we don’t get anywhere with anything.“

– In the back of my mind as a future hobby I want to get into mixology and make cocktails like nobody’s business. Familiarizing myself with bitters I think would be a good start.

– The Obsolete Computer Museum boasts exactly what it’s named for. Content is funny.

– “Dogs are a national religion with a catechism composed by Hallmark, so heresy is necessary.”

– I want to subscribe to ALL these indie food magazines, like, now.

– “My imperfections are part of me, but they don’t define me.”

– Finally, someone who understands my being kinda good at many things, thus incapable of being an expert on any one thing. There is also a website dedicated to people like me. I think I’ve finally found my home.

– Karma is a hotspot that gives away free data for sharing your connection. Awesome.

– Lena Dunham on Nora Ephron.

– “A lack of skill and craft among artists is sucking the life and the gravitas out of the art world.” Ouch.