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Main Street, Rapid City, South Dakota

The unintentional social documentation of Google Street View. Thought-provoking, sobering, extremely well-written. For my next sociology research project all I'll need is to spend some quality time on GSV.

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Simon Doonan defends Ed Hardy. Really? YUP!

The dotted line to reality TV has made Monsieur Audigier and his clothing line the bête noire of the fashion cognoscenti. The hipsters who wear Current Elliott jeans and tote Alexander Wang vest-bags would rather jump in a lake of boiling cheddar than adorn themselves with cheesy Hardy-wear.

Am I wearing it? Not yet. Do I defend it? Absolutely!

Simon is the only person who could actually make this point successfully. Love himmmm.

could you fit your life into 100 square feet?

--> That's the inevitable question when you look at Michal Wolf's fascinating work "100 x 100," which I stumbled across via the very good Good.

100 x 100
photographs of residents in their flats in
Hong Kong's oldest public housing estate:
100 rooms,
each 100 square feet in size.

some are amazingly house-like.

some are otherwise.

some inspire envy (is it shallow of me to want that desk? and what a comprehensive, efficient setup he has! I love it.).


some inspire one to mix one's plaids:

almost every one has a TV.

all make me think: what is it about the "normal" way of life in the U.S. that makes living in a 10'x10' space so unfathomable? of course we could all do it, but the sheer volume of stuff we have each lovingly accumulated over time makes it seem incredibly difficult. funny that the NOT-acquiring strikes one as harder than the acquiring....

anyway, go look at all 100 photos, and see what you think.

keds for opening ceremony.

keds is collab-ing with opening ceremony on a new set of sneakies. i looovvvve keds, and for a while was trying to collect them (i made it to 3: purple vintage, gold perforated, and olive green. then i ran out of shelf space.). i also love opening ceremony, so in principle, this should be great.

but i'm kind of mehh on them. seems like another underwhelming americana-themed remake. on the other hand, i'm kind of feeling the acid-washed blue ones w/ the stripy laces...they're just so silly. and you know i love silly.

[source: hypebeast]

How To Be a Vidal Sassoon Hair Model

1. Have a random run-in with a guy who asks you if you've ever considered being a hair model

2. There's a first time for everything
3. Look at the Vidal collection for the upcoming season
4. Get very scared
5. Do it anyway.

ok, I was going to keep on with this faux instructional thing, but I think the joke is over. the point really is: receiving a new look courtesy of the genius senior stylists at Vidal Sasson was THE COOLEST THING EVER. really. I highly recommend it to everyone.


first there was a major consultation to determine how to create a look that was inspired by the mid-season '09 collection (whos inspiration, in turn, was an amalgam of post-WWII themes: Dior's New Look and uber-femininity, Bettie Page's erotic/powerful pinup innovation) but that would work on me. they decided to go with a modification of the lookbook's sharp bob & a combination of several colors of the season: lilac, sea grey, and ruby.

me staring downward while the crew analyzed my hair. they told me i was a "good chocolate." immediately got distracted thinking of whether i'd be a sea salt truffle or a snickers.

then this happened. the parts I photographed were in the salon, but much of t happened on stage to present the collection to the academy, which means I got to hear the colorist and stylist explain what they were doing to my head in very fancy haircutting language that I could barely decipher. then we had a runway ending and photoshoot. whenever the photos are done I'll get em and post em. for now here are my crapster ones.

bleach left me very skunkified

those foils HURT. so much metal weighing down one side of my head.
when i tried to move my head the other way, my neck cracked about 7 times.

I ended up with something somehow both subtle and totally futuristic.








it's the most amazing thing anyone's done with my hair, ever. the fine layers of color fall different ways depending how you part it, and create these amazing gradations of grey and purple and plum, all on my boring old dark brown head. all day today I felt like Calvin wearing his lucky rocketship underpants, with all these tones hidden in my hair that only I knew were there. such a cool experience & am super excited to work again with master stylists Kenny & Nathan. thanks, guys!

Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow

sorry, that was awful...

but yes today is Vidal Sassoon runway show & photoshoot day! one half excited (this is awesome), one quarter guilty (had to take off work), and one quarter terrified (oh god, what are they going to DO?).

TBA...

pizza party / cowabunga

saturday night at our house

concept: everyone bring a pizza

result: everyone brought a pizza

great success!