3/31/10

I want to be a navajo nymph.Ruddy, wind-whipped cheeks suggest a merging of cold and hot, blazing smoke and hard comfort against a backdrop of frontier fields. - Jalouse Beauty, Jalouse, April 2010/Zippora Seven, shot by Skye Parrott
The justifications of desires. Where do you find them? Do they exist?
"When I think of my childhood, I was always alone. When I think of the war years it was the same...And now I'm alone again. But I knew how to be alone because I've been so often alone. Maybe that's the secret of life." -Diana Vreeland, D.V.

3/26/10

Weekend rules: take good company. wake up underdressed. inhale the moment. mess with your hair. pack a bag. feign nomad life. play with Polaroids. black it out. look up close. show off. hide away.
Methods for running away (Everyday life gets too mundane) - spring/summer edition

1) Reckless abandon/into the wild - "Stoned"/Russh Australia, April 2010/Bambi Norwood-Blyth, shot by Beau Grealy


2) Mermaids' escapades/take a plunge - "Forever Kate"/Vogue Homme International/Kate Moss, shot by Mario Sorrenti


3) AWOL soldier/gear up and go - "Mission Lanzarote"/Vogue Paris, March 2010/Eniko Mihalik, shot by Cedric Buchet
4) More is more/follow the desert sun - Vogue Paris, April 2010/Natasha Poly, shot by Inez Van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin


5) Jungle fever/hide in the heat - "The Eco Warrior"/i-D, Spring 2010/Isabeli Fontana, shot by Richard Bush

3/18/10

"A man's presence is dependent upon the promise of power which he embodies...Presence for a woman is so intrinsic to her person that men tend to think of it as an almost physical emanation, a kind of heat or smell or aura...A woman must continually watch herself. She is almost continually accompanied by her own image...And so she comes to consider the surveyor and the surveyed within her as two constituent yet always distinct elements of her identity." -John Berger, Ways of Seeing