Wor(l)d at its best

Concrete: Natura Morta by Studio Toogood and Martin Luther Church by Cooop Himmelblau

2011-09-07T14:47:00.003-04:00

Rachel Horn and Justin Kreizel Airstream

2011-09-07T14:38:00.000-04:00

I admire the sensibility with which Rachel Horn employed the concept of eastern nomadic lifestyles into this all American nomad's habitat.

Quoting from the NYtimes:

" Rachel Horn, an interior designer, and her husband and business partner, Justin Kreizel, renovated a 1969 Airstream to take to the Burning Man festival, which runs through Sept. 5 in Nevada's Black Rock Desert. The couple splits their time between Los Angeles, where they did the renovation, and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.

Credit: Stephanie Diani for The New York Times "

Texas Wildfires: The Sublime Beauty of Tragedy

2011-09-07T14:32:00.004-04:00

via nytimes.com

Fading Beauty: 100 Years after the Party by Makiko Nakamura and Virgin Suicides

2011-09-07T14:29:00.000-04:00

To honor the beginning of NYC Fashion Week Fall 2011: Two photos of the same vein from different time periods

2011-09-07T14:25:00.001-04:00

Tavi the Style Rookie

2011-09-06T15:10:00.000-04:00

This little girl - declared by Gaga the "future of fashion journalism" admittedly fascinates me - with her beyond average wit, brains and understanding of the forces of society, the teenage girl anthropology, the subversive layers of fashion, trends and americana.

UNITED COLORS OF BENETTON ADS

2011-09-06T14:58:00.000-04:00

Fall on our steps

2011-09-06T12:33:00.002-04:00

memories of the first Tuesday of Fall that is today

1. like Tavi's suburban run away photos

2. would consider wearing kirkwood wedges for the fall?

3. a simple elegant outfit from The Row is effortless for the autumn.

4. look forward to seeing bisons in the snow in wyoming.

5. perhaps may even catch a glimpse of fall in yellowstone before they get snow covered?

6. most def looking forward to snowy plains, rolling hills and steep chutes for the winter 2011.

7. want to watch Twin Peaks this month.

8. considering investing some $$ in hip pop art

Daily words of Appreciation

2011-08-16T11:41:00.004-04:00

Sylvain Willenz designes hard drives

2011-08-16T11:22:00.000-04:00

i like

"Brussels designer Sylvain Willenz drew on cassette tapes and floppy disks for the design of these external hard drives. " - Dezeen.com

Paul Cocksedge vinyl amplifiers

2011-08-16T11:19:00.000-04:00

i like...

"London designer Paul Cocksedge moulds discarded vinyl records into a range of amplifiers for smartphones. " - dezeen.com

"I am Beyonce, have you heard me sing?"

2011-08-16T11:14:00.001-04:00

“In an era of Rihanna and Lady Gaga and Katy Perry and Kesha, where those people are making hit after hit after hit,” Mr. Caramanica observes, “Beyonce seems to be looking at them and saying, ‘Yeah, I’m good. I don’t need to do any of that. I’m Beyoncé, have you heard me sing? I’m going to do this.”
- by Jeremy Egner for The New York Times

OMA Book Machine

2011-08-16T11:11:00.000-04:00

This is why OMA*AMO people work so many hours

http://www.dezeen.com/2010/05/05/oma-book-machine-at-the-architectural-association/

Dezeen.com reports on the incredible exhibit of OMA's 40,000 page book binding which brings togetehr 35 years of writing on architecture by OMA led by play write and architect Rem Koolhaas - arguably the most important architect of the century.

Proenza Schouler Jewelery

2011-07-27T21:22:00.004-04:00

natutical and coloful! I will get some DIY action out of these !

Georges Perec - La Vie mode D'Emploi

2011-07-25T21:25:00.000-04:00

via sock-studio.com

Stop City by Dogma

2011-07-25T21:17:00.000-04:00

via sock-studio.com

Star Wars Blueprints

2011-07-25T21:15:00.000-04:00

via sock-studio.com

the new york secret

2011-07-24T22:18:00.000-04:00

the new york secret ......ssssshhhhhhh

Love MISSONI winter 2011

2011-07-12T23:34:00.000-04:00

Firework typologies - 4th July 2011 from Chelsea

2011-07-04T22:49:00.006-04:00

Long time no see

2011-07-04T22:36:00.001-04:00

the much anticipated 2011 has been represented a little sparsely in the Wor(l)d @ its Best realm.

Looking back at some of the more colorful days from the first half of 2011,

I am noticing common themes:

color: rainbow

lights

balloons

snow, snow and more snow

urban trees

sand castles

relentless repetition

fun loving soulful new york

playful urbanity

SKI 2011

2011-04-01T12:53:00.001-04:00

I tried MANY skis this season. My favorites aaaaaaaaare::

Powder / Off-Piste/ All Mountain:
Atomic Access
Salomon Shogun
Volkl Aura
Rossignol S7
(dps Wailer - I didn't get to demo these, but I have no doubts that these pure carbon skis are killers)

Carver:
K2 Charger
Volkl Aurora with Attiva Motion

LOVE Tom Sachs

2011-04-01T12:08:00.000-04:00

Love Tom Sachs - A selection of hand made gadgets by the artist extraordinaire

Typewriters are back

2011-04-01T12:04:00.001-04:00

Photography and story via nytimes.com

Andy Warhol Polaroid Portraits

2011-03-03T18:22:00.002-05:00

A friend recently mentioned that he keeps the Andy Warhol Polaroid portrait of Yves Saint Laurent in a box.... So I searched for my favorite Andy Polaroids and found more than a handful which I would be thrilled to have on view on my walls. Below is a selection of 15 out of the many more that are brilliant portrayals of the famous and fabulous he painted.

Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University; the Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and the Weatherspoon Art Museum recently organized an exhibit called "Big Shots: Andy Warhol Polaroids".

""Big Shots: Andy Warhol Polaroids" provides insight into the artist who sought to capture the world like a camera. The exhibition includes about 250 Polaroids and 70 silver gelatin black-and-white prints taken by Warhol from 1970 to 1987, many of them on public view for the first time.

"Big Shots: Andy Warhol Polaroids" reveals an important dimension of Warhol's process in creating his famous large-scale portraits. Although his Polaroids served as aids for painting portraits, in and of themselves they are significant works and represent a relatively unknown body of Warhol's work. At the Nasher Museum, the exhibition includes his portraits of Patsy, Andrea, Joan and Nancy Nasher, accompanied by the original Polaroid studies. A selection of Warhol films from the 1960s will also be part of the exhibition, to help provide greater context for the photographic work. "

Jean Michel Basquiat

Dorothy Hamill

Arnold Schwartzenegger

John McEnro and Tatum Oneal

Jane Fonda

Dolly Parton

Robert Rauschenberg

Mick Jagger

Truman Capote

Grace Jones

Alfred Hitchcock

Sarah Fawcett

Carolina Herrera

Martha Graham

SURF'S UP or wait, is it an awesome studded glitter sock first?

2011-03-02T11:09:00.003-05:00

image via the stunning Saturday's blog

Inspiring Day of Surfing

2011-03-01T16:56:00.003-05:00

All photography are via Saturday's Blog.

Incredible Surf photography by Hengki Koentjor

2011-03-01T16:50:00.000-05:00

The images are via Saturday's blog

for more incredible photography by the artist, check out his website: http://www.koentjoro.com/

Vlada Roslyakova by David Mushegain

2011-03-01T11:54:00.001-05:00

via Fashion Gone Rouge

Galliano sacked by Dior for anti-semitic remarks, Despite French Can-Can meets British Punk was So Good, Good Design is No Excuse for a Jerk

2011-03-01T11:44:00.001-05:00

images via various sources including the Boheme Noir blog

Surf's Up

2011-03-01T11:00:00.000-05:00

Photography via the Saturday's Blog and Rebecca Genet

Suzzannah Ray - Right Coast

2011-03-01T10:30:00.002-05:00

via Saturday's Blog

Rebecca Genet Photography

2011-03-01T10:29:00.001-05:00

via http://www.rebeccagenet.com/

Color Blocking on the streets of Milan - Tommy Ton for style.com

2011-02-28T17:56:00.001-05:00

Loving the clutches, hair do's, accessories, mini skirts and COLOR BLOCKING this winter.

All photographs are via style.com

Jonathan Saunders, Milan, by the Sartorialist

2011-02-28T17:32:00.003-05:00

all images are via The Sartorialist.com

The Endangered Species Erasers by Kikkerland

2011-02-28T12:15:00.001-05:00

The Endangered Species Erasers could make a boring work day slightly more fun?

The gorilla, polar bear and hippo erasers are by Kikkerland ... you should not have to pay more than $9 for each.

Colors of the day -- correction--- colors of my every day

2011-02-25T11:35:00.003-05:00

Concrete in Architecture

2011-02-23T18:07:00.011-05:00

Juranda House by Apiacas Arquitetos (every designer's dream)

2011-02-23T17:59:00.001-05:00

all photogrphs via archdaily.com

Keep up with your Lightintg

2011-02-17T16:36:00.001-05:00

all images via dezeen.com

Audi Carbon Skies - igh so stiff and boring

2011-02-10T21:10:00.002-05:00

Audi Carbon Skies - igh so stiff and boring... skiing is fun and uplifting and energetic. Why suffocate it with this architecty boring stiff Audi design. Leave skiing alone techy nerdiness, you have enough to play with your serious matters ... It is a German Ski Association collaboration : of course it is

Ouroussoff, Frank Gehry, BIG -New residential buildings of New york city

2011-02-10T12:01:00.004-05:00

Nicolai Ouroussoff not only calls Gehry's new tower the finest in NYC since Eero Saarinen's CBS, but also names the new age we are in as the "Digital Age"... "the turning point from the modern to the digital age"...

Frank Gehry's new downtown Manhattan residential building 8 Spruce Street, previoulsy called the Beekman Tower, and BIG's conceptual design for a geometrically striking courtyard residential block on West 57th street are the first residential buildings in New York City to catch my attention. They are both feats of digital means of form making in contemporary architecture. Despite this common feature, the ways in which the computer generated geometries have been conceptually employed are quite different. Gehry's facade ripples, in contrast to BIG's formal gymnastics are a decorative effect. BIG's optically engaging form is of a different upbringing, one that is three-dimenssional.

What I admire most in both buildings is what they were able to acheive with New York City and its buroctrats, real estate developers and community groups. Convincing a real estate developer to invest in a creative form in a city where creativity has been hindered for many years is not every architect's cup of tea. Fighting conservative community groups is another acheivement. Urbanistically what gains them an additional level of noteriety is their respective locations - the former in the devasted lower Manhattan and the later in the grit of mid town west.

What New Yorkers have to hope for now is that their feats spur future creativity in a city which has not managed to architecturally keep up with the energy of its residents and other participants.

I adore the new Rodarte for Opening Ceremony editorial

2011-02-09T14:45:00.003-05:00

Ephemeral and Effervescent by artists Keegan Gibbs, Fiona Bailey, Katy Grannan, Gabriel Dawe, Pascale Girardin, Kim Youngin. Yvette Inuflo, Ryan Mcginley, and Sara Naim

2011-02-07T14:40:00.003-05:00

Latest Ephemeral and Effervescent Space Making

2011-02-07T14:22:00.003-05:00

Show me your house and I will tell you who you are....

2011-01-17T14:30:00.001-05:00

dESIGN w lINES & sHAPES

2011-01-17T12:13:00.003-05:00

from lines to shapes

Big Mountain Skiing

2011-01-12T11:50:00.003-05:00

If you don't know by now, you must learn about my lifelong obsession with skiing. And now my newly found intrigue for "Big Mountain" skiing. Big mountain skiing may be the thrill of my life which has not yet made into my life. It comes with many a terrorful dangers the biggest of which is avalanches. Cliffs and major falls probably top up the list, though the later risks minimize as the ski/snowboard skills maximize.

Big mountain skiing is extreme skiing performed on long steep slopes (45-60 degrees) in the dangerous terrain of the backcountry, or in European lingo off-piste. Extreme skiing requires extreme focus and skill, and one wrong turn or mistake easily ends in death.

I have pulled out these images from a variety of online sites, including yet not limited to Teton Gravity Research, Jeremy Jones, Cody Townsend, Doug Coombs, Chris Noble. I apologize to those who I fail to credit, please don't sew me, and let me know if I can update my credits.

The Wild Ones I met in Jackson Hole, WY

2011-01-11T00:21:00.005-05:00

Last Minute Gifts

2010-12-20T17:42:00.000-05:00

I have received many emails today, friends asking where I recomend they should go for some last mintue gifts. So I caved in and gathered a list of 10$-1,000$ gifts for she and he and the little ones. For details, feel free to contact me. Good luck and enjoy and let me know if you end up giving any of these gifts.

swarowski + phillips usb

clothes rack (with clothes on it!)

Alaia gloves

Capellini stool

Alessi set of 3 glasses

b&b italia vases

alessi toaster

alessi vase

bacsac vase

capellini stool

cesare paciotti sunnies

costme national homme gloves

danish store jar

danish store candelholders

danish store pots

due soli iphone case

emporio armani purse

areaware wall decor

hollistic silk eyemask

timex indiglo watch

lomography cameras

jil sander purse

lexon ruler clock

maison martin margiela wallet

memphis milano vase

normann copenhagan mugs etc

areaware candlestick

lexon tube radio

timex indiglo watch

versace hi tech accessories

derek lam sunnies

tods purse

swarowski _ phillips usb pendant

superego vase

lavender essential oil

proenza schouler brooch

brownies

roberto cavalli skinny tie

rochas hat

prada iphone holder

seleti candelabra

seletti object

poof

seletti badminton

white choclate

marzepans

Rodarte Fever

2010-12-17T11:32:00.001-05:00

What you want to see about Rodarte...

Do you like it? Do you like it on models or on celebrities? why is Natalie Portman obsessed with Rodarte?

Wish list of spaces, places and things I want for the winter home

2010-12-10T12:30:00.000-05:00

Inspired by Giovanna Battaglia, Alexa Chung and Wintery Interiors

2010-12-08T17:35:00.001-05:00

The Bosphorus

2010-12-07T13:41:00.003-05:00

On the Road

2010-12-07T12:04:00.000-05:00

Buildings in Moda, Istanbul

2010-10-18T17:24:00.000-04:00

The Istanbul & Bodrum Expedition - 2010 (by Noah Riley)

2010-09-28T06:52:00.001-04:00

the daily commute across the Bosphorus

Emerging from Ceren's first metro ride

The Istanbuler in action

The office

Pera Palace Hotel

View from 360

and night

the long trip home

a boat basin

and a boat

lunch on the Bosphorus at Istanbul Modern

Tavla at Ortakoy (Ceren taking the lead)

Taskisla

Evening over the city

Dolmabahce Palace

"Stop!"

Leaving for Bodrum

Arriving in Bodrum

SantralIstanbul

Kucukbuk - Ceren's Home

To the sea

Evening in Bodrum

The day after the rain

A good old photograph from once upon a time

2010-09-19T07:51:00.000-04:00

Pre Rain Gloom in Bloom (NoLiTa)

2010-09-07T11:31:00.002-04:00

art, fashion and ny - just the way I like it

2010-09-07T11:23:00.001-04:00

finally ........

2010-08-18T12:15:00.002-04:00

Black & White

2010-08-18T12:13:00.000-04:00

I can see the rest of what is left of the summer taking various forms...

2010-08-13T11:52:00.004-04:00

New office for the day

2010-08-13T11:11:00.000-04:00

I have been MIA for so long... much posting is overdue.. but soon i will have plenty of time to fill you in on the great things in life. In the meantime, one great thing was emailed to me by Noah... check out his new office for the day. Now dont you want to shake up and reevaluate your office?

water by Elger Esser

2010-06-29T13:57:00.000-04:00

so ready to dip

2010-06-29T13:52:00.000-04:00

right headed

2010-06-29T13:48:00.001-04:00

my fendi love for the summer

2010-06-28T16:11:00.002-04:00

this is a great collection ... colors, textures drapery and unfinished trims...

Pepe Heykoop's Sputnik lamp

2010-06-17T17:57:00.002-04:00

Called Sputnik, the collection is hand-made and each piece is unique. Sputnik is a papermacheed bubble trapped in a metal frame. The freehand production process determines the shape. The outcome is that they are all a bit different and so become family.

just read this quote somewhere

2010-06-09T11:01:00.006-04:00

...... the more scarves we own, the less we like each one of them .............

Palm Springs Estate

2010-06-08T22:27:00.006-04:00

The estate belonged to a strange wealthy man with a Napoleon fetish .....
Brought my old 35mm back to life for a few snaps on the West Coast back when then recently ....

girly time

2010-06-08T14:02:00.002-04:00

Ceren Bingol interview/article w/on Chris Mendoza, Mike Ming, Rostarr (Romon Yang) and {sic} (Seth Indigo Carnes) --- Repositioning NYC Wall Painting (27 years after the Style Wars)

2010-06-07T15:59:00.007-04:00

Hip Hop Word Count by Linguistic Researcher Tahir Hemphill

2010-06-07T15:52:00.003-04:00

Tahir's Hip Hop Word Count project is featured on psfk.com , go ahead and read this genius interview with this researcher artist creative director strategic planner Tahir Hemphill ...

http://www.psfk.com/2010/06/hip-hop-word-count-linguistic-researcher-tahir-hemphill-talks-data-and-lossless-communication.html