Heroin Chic? Dash Snow meets David Sorrenti

The recent death of Dash Snow on July 13th inevitably brings to mind the overdose of Davide Sorrenti, poster boy and propagator of heroin chic.

Both were promising young men, born into wealthy families. They aspired and succeeded at being downtown New York artists who fucked models and ran with the cool crowd. Both had the initials D.S. and were dead in their prime 20's.

The Boys

Dash Snow

Davide Sorrenti

The Sorrentis: Davide, Vanina, Mario

Davide, Vanina, and Mario

Davide Sorrenti was born into a fashionable family, to say the least. His mother, Francesca, his brother, Mario, his sister, Vanina, and himself were all accomplished fashion photographers who worked with the latest it girls and beautiful people. Of course, they were all painfully beautiful themselves.

Mario Sorrenti is probably the most prolific of the bunch, having shot such campaigns as Calvin Klein's Obsession and continues to be very active in the business.

As shot by Mario Sorrenti

Mario Sorrenti photographed by Kate Moss 1992

Vinina Sorrenti so as not to be outdone by her brother

Vanina, locked in a moment.

All imaes via Ambush

The solution to my madness

Now if only everything came with a chalkboard.

Via: becauseimaddicted

Legs

Sebastian Kim- Numéro Korea. With my touches
Via Refinery 29

Baby Oliphant!

Now who can tell me what an Oliphant is?

Image via zooborns

Graduation Dialogue

Middle Aged Relative: So you graduated!
Me: Um, yea
Middle Aged Relative: That's so exciting! What are you doing now?
Me: I'm looking for a wealthy octogenarian to marry, preferably one on life support
Middle Aged Relative: (awkward laugh)

I then sidle out of the conversation.

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Meet the Bowflexes... I mean the Crossbows


Midsummer Nights Dream meets Trailer Trash


This is too weird to be not not unironic. Figure out that triple double-negative going on. And then explain it to me.

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Baby Seahorse!

Actually maybe not that cute. Image via Zooborns

Helen Keller: The Musical Or, The Face that Launched One Ship that She Never Saw

I fucking love Ven diagrams. 

Poster by me

MIAMI

This weekend involved a lot of outfits. This is the first. I went to Miami then back again.

A Scientific Study into the Dating Patterns of Young Adults

You Sleep Together. Then you Meet.

Borrowed Nostalgia for the Unremembered Eighties

The only good thing about the 80's was that every accessory was a statement. It was like a big costume party. Of course, I was four at the time, and pretty much unaware of everything except naps and snacks.

Pictures by V magazine via Becauseimaddicted

Anyone up for a good bedazzling?

My next DIY project that will probably never happen 1) studded jean pocket. 2) look this hot while wearing a studded jean pocket.

Image via Jak & Jil

Bon Nappétit!"- Because who doesn't love a nap?

--"Bon nappétit!": French expression for “have a good nap!”

My dad loves naps. So much so that he has created a whole new vocabulary of nap-associated words. They are fairly ingenious. Anyway, here are some Nappetizers for you.



--Nappetizing: (adj.) appealing to one's inclination for a nap. E.g., "That couch looks really nappetizing."

--Unnappetizing: (adj.) tending to counteract one's inclination for a nap. E.g., "This constant phone ringing is very unnappetizing."

--Nappetizer: (n.) a short nap. E.g., “I enjoy a nappetizer each afternoon.”

--Nappetite: (n.) one's inclination to nap. E.g., "I have a voracious nappetite for at least an hour long nap." "These interruptions are the reason for my loss of nappetite."

--Nappliance: (n) a device designed to facilitate napping. E.g., a couch.


--Napademic: (n) a widespread outbreak of napathy.

--Napathy: (n) "needing" a nap’ Napathetic: (adj.) ready to enjoy or "needing" a nap. E.g., I am feeling napathetic."

--Napparition: (n.) appearance in a waking state of someone thought to be taking a nap; also, a dream experienced while taking a nap.

--Nappendectomy: (n.) premature awakening from a nap. E.g., "Unplug the phone. I don't want to have a nappendectomy."

--Naptitude: (n.) natural ability for napping.

--Naprodisiac: (n.) something that creates a desire for a nap. E.g., "I find red wine an irresistible naprodisiac."

--Napkin: (n.) a relation (brother, sister, etc.) who likes to nap

--Napaholic: (n.) someone who is addicted to naps.

--Napa (California): (n) famous for its naprodisiacs and a favorite vacation spot for nappers

White et al.

Via Vice

Puberty

For most people, puberty involves pubes, periods, and prostates. The combination of which is generally awkard. Somehow, Dakota Fanning skipped all that and came out of the process absolutely stunning.

Baby Giraffe!

from Zooborns

Excuse I: A Strongly Worded Letter to Whoever the Hell Runs New York

New York, I love you. But right now you are pissing me off. A well functioning and affordable mass transportation system is essential to New York.  The State Senate's failure to levy tolls on the remaining toll-free bridges around Manhattan will punish millions of New Yorkers that rely on public transportation and encourage private auto-usage, which brings congestion and poor air quality.

 Our political leaders have been patheticly short sighted and ineffective at making these key decisions, and I have no doubt that their refusal to save the MTA will have massive negative ramifications. LOBBY YOUR REPRESENTATIVES!

I pose the question, why doesn't New York City just secede from the state? In return for our tax dollars, they give us shit.  

I have much more to say on this subject, but I think the New York Times editorial staff can say much better.  Please read it, its really important. 

The Coolest Building Never Built: Newton's Cenotaph

Étienne- Louis Boullée designed this structure as an homage to both Newton and The Age of Reason. He writes, "I conceived the idea of surrounding thee with they discovery and thus, somehow, surrounding thee with thyself." The building was so large and his techniques so innovative that the mere idea of this structure challenges the idea of the construction of space.

It is a bohemoth of a building; a perfect sphere, to represent nothing less than the absolute truth of Newtonian science. The scale is giant- really giant (in the image below, those are fully grown trees encircling the building). Visitors enter from the bottom of the Sphere, first through a tunnel and then entering into the giant space.

But here is the kicker.....

During the day, the interior would be dark but illuminated by holes in the walls- THAT SIMULATE THE STARS- to represent the night sky. The confines of the space would disappear and the visitor would be engulfed by the vastness of the universe. 

And then I got high. And then I got high. And then I got high.

At night, the space is filled with a lamp that radiates light and simulates sunshine. Of course, Newton's sarcophogus would be the only material object in this perfect world.

Basically, the world needs more transcendental architecture. And planetariums.

Source: Schaller, Thomas Wells, The Art of Architecture Drawing: Imagination and Technique (John Wiley and Sons, 1997), 160

The Dorothy Project

I had a sudden urge to listen to the Wizard of Oz soundtrack.

What makes the elephant charge his tusk,
In the misty mist or the dusky dusk?
What makes the muscrat guard his musk?
Courage.

But then I got stoned, and was more intrigued by the plethora of Dorothy costumes. This is but a sampling.

FuNk you: The Best Free Download of Your Life

When I asked my music guru, Bill Carbone, to hook me up with some funky beats he told me to check out Daptone Records, touting them as "The Grand Puba of nu-retro-funk." Basically, this collection of bands is the best thing to happen to music since the invention of the wheel. It's the kind of tunes that make you tap your foot, bob your head, shake your ass, and just get groovy. 

You will feel like you've heard them before because they are so good, and with someone this good, how can you have not heard them before? The record label boasts such acts as The Sugarman Three, The Budos Band, The Poets of Rhythym, and the standout Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, plus more. 

Sharon Jones began her career as a prison guard and initially had trouble finding singing gigs. In an interview with Spinner Mag, she says, "Earlier, in the '70s and '80s -- and early '90s -- I was told, 'You didn't have the look,'" she said. "It had nothing to do with my vocals. I still got that same look. Now, I'm much older, still short, still pleasantly plump." Trouble no more.

Download from Amazon for FREE. click HERE.  As Bill Carbone said," If you don't get it there's clearly something totally wrong with you."

March is a cock tease

sun. sun. partly cloudy. wintry mix.

Erotically charged nostalgia

Posing with Antlers in 100 Year Old (Haunted Cabin) 2004

Hernan Bas loves pretty boys. I love pretty boys. He paints pretty boys. And I love his paintings.

If the band The Decemberists was a gay painter, the paintings would look like work of Hernan Bas. I first saw his work this weekend at the Brooklyn Museum after braving the chaos of weekend subway ride. Ken Johnson, art critic for the New York Times writes, "Hernan Bas paints and draws storytelling images of winsome young men in homoerotically charged situations...Combining loose, tradtitional draftsmanship, expressionistic brushwork and sometimes garish color, Mr. Bas creates pictures resembling illustrations for old-time boys’ adventure novels, but with a gay twist. A mood of romantic yearning prevails."

The Blue Line 2005-2006

Ocean Symphony 2007

This is a still image from a video installation of mermaids, that me and my friends found particularly hypnotizing. His work often uses images of the ocean and nautical life to harken back to a romantic past.

Wookieepedia

Wookieepedia might change your web browsing procrastination habits forever. All of your Star Wars dreams, fantasies, and realities come to life on one incredibly dorky website. Like did you ever know Hutts (think Jabba) are immune to Jedi mind tricks, can regenerate body parts, and wait for it... "were hermaphroditic, and as a result, gender was more of a case of a Hutt's deliberate decision or a viewer's deduction." Whoever said they didn't swing on Tatooine? 

This is a baby Hutt. Named Rotta. Really.

More star wars creatures to come....

If I had a billion dollars... I'd build a Phantasy Landscape Visiona II

Needless to say the designer is Scandavian. 

I had the opportunity to go inside this room at the Whitney's exhibition Summer of Love: Art in the Psychedelic Era... it was joyous

 Verner Panton designed the Phantasy Landscape in 1970 for the Visiona II exhibition.  It is a rubber foam room full of rainbow colored spaces to sit/ lay/ kneel. Basically, if you ever wanted an orgy, this would probably be the place. 

I also think this chair is pretty sweet. Same designer. Of course. 

Actually, it was built in 1973, so post Phantasy Landscape. Hm

Images from NyTimes and Arcspace

La Gloria Taqueria

A color scheme if I ever saw one

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Taqueria numero uno- Santa Barbara

Good cheap eats: Pork tacos

But no fish tacos!

Now I think I've covered all the topics I've set out to- sex, fashion, art, and tacos!

Baby Gorilla!

Image via jezebel.com

The eeriness of light

The real genius of the family is NickShepard.com (don't forget the .com) Anyhow, it is my brother who has inherited the real artistic talent. He can take photos and do graphic design like nobody's business! More images to come.