Sleep to Dream

On days like today, when the Euro is on the brink of collapse, employment in the U.S. looks bleak, and it feels like we are on the tipping point of a global financial meltdown, I have a certain amount of Rip Van Winkle envy. I know my mama said that there would be days like these, but can't I just go to sleep and wake up in 100 years, perfectly preserved with the world returned to order.

Sleeping is such a wonderful feeling it's a wonder that we are ever awake. Our bodies fall into such a state of blissful unconsciousness that is unparalleled in its enjoyment. Sometimes, when the worries and requirements of the woken world creep in, I suddenly wake with a start wondering 'where did I leave my keys?'.  Only after my fingers have grasped them am I able to slip back into my dream state.

So I have some empathy for the subject of this photoshoot; a girl who distances herself from the boring rituals of modern life with a suspension of consciousness. The costuming is so extreme and surreal that it places the viewer within the subconcious of the girl, we see her slumber and we see her dream.

Sudden Sleep

Armin Morbach for Tush Magazine

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War Paint

Color war anyone?

Enrique Badulescu for Gravure

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Now you Can have your Cake and Wear it Too

It is a rare and wonderful thing when an image is innovative, smart, beautiful, and funny all at once. That's why T Magazine's ode to digestion, Salad Days, is such a triumphant piece. As they did in their previous collaboration, Diamond in the Roughage, Richard Burbridge and Robbie Spencer disguise svelte models behind mounds of colorful excess.

Of course, they were not the first to see anthropomorphic shapes in food. Back, way back, in the 16th century Giuseppe Arcimboldo started turning bowls of fruit into people's heads. This guy must have had a sense of humor because while everyone else was painting the Pieta  or the Resurrection, he was painting a man made of fish; specifically one with a sea lion above his right ear. 

So here's a toast to food; to eating, playing, and wearing it.

All photographs by Richard Burbridge and Robbie Spencer

All paintings by Arcimboldo (Check out these photos and see his paintings come to life)

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Girls who Fall and Can't Get Back Up

I find I have absolute empathy with the girls featured in this editorial by Alessi Bolzoni for Grey #6. As a 25 year old young woman (girl?), I feel as if I am constantly on the verge of an accident. The small travails of daily life, as insignificant as slipping on the stairwell or spilling the contents of my purse, at times seem insurmontable. The larger questions of life, career, and love just make me want to collapse and be dragged through it all by someone who knows the way. 

Alessi Bolzoni for Grey #6

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Neo-Grunge

Does this mean the 90s are back?

Emma Tempest for Metal Magazine

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Lindsay being Lindsay

Once I went to a showing of I Know Who Killed Me and I was literally the only person in the audience. True story. It was just me and a decapitated Linsday with a nonsensical plot. This story is both embarrassing and creepy. Anyway, I kind of love the bitch.

Steven Gomillion & Dennis Leupold for Blank Magazine

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Lady Gaga Art Pt. 2

Apparently it is a very hip thing nowadays to host contests for Lady Gaga art. As you might remember, I did a post on Dazed and Confused's Drawn This Way and now New York Magazine is getting in on the action. Unlike Dazed, this is an unauthorized contest, resulting in more offensive and therefore more interesting interpretations.

Bourgeois Lady Gaga

"The mother of American feminist identity, Louise Bourgeois, considered the spider the ultimate mother figure. In turn, Lady Gaga is considered the ultimate mother to her "little monsters" William Ivey Long, Costume Designer (Hairspray)

Baby Gaga

"The dress is composed of live, squirming infants... they're always in motion - and the neediness of the consuming public. They're clingy!"

Ariel Schrag, Author

Little Monster Sound Suit

Nick Cave, Musician

Cynthia Rowley, Designer

Gaga in Bloom

Janie Bryant, Costume Designer (Mad Men)

Infinity Gaga

"More than just a new look for Gaga, I think we just want to see more of Gaga.

How can we get more Gaga?"

Vanessa Davis, Illustrator

Lady Cleft Lip

"Lady Gaga obtains a cleft lip from a cosmetic surgeon to spread her message of universal tolerance. What if you could change the life of a Diva?"

Tim Hensley, Author and Graphic Artist

Gaga of the Ephesians

"... Spurning mobility for a portale mountaintop, a thousand headed Gaga creates and destroys herself...."

Molly Crabapple, Artist

All images via New York Magazine