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I finally got the Sheriff&Cherry and Komono sunglasses I...

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:34:00 +0200

I finally got the Sheriff&Cherry and Komono sunglasses I ordered on Fab.com. Funsies.

tenmagazine: BEHIND THE CANDELABRA: THINGS WE HAVE LEARNT ABOUT FASHION

Sat, 04 May 2013 16:43:54 +0200

tenmagazine: BEHIND THE CANDELABRA: THINGS WE HAVE LEARNT ABOUT FASHION:

The pictures and concomitant captions are as divine as Liberace’s wardrobe.

Read this.

10magazine:

Apparently, there is to be a screening of Behind the Candelabra, also known as that Liberace film, and the GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD, somewhere in London next week. Where? I don’t know. But being a master procrastinator with a whole weekend of margarita drinking and face mask wearing ahead of me…

Interview: Sugarkane Studio

Sat, 04 May 2013 14:23:52 +0200

Interview: Sugarkane Studio:

Leandro Manuel Emede on making the first music video created entirely with Kinect

Future Concept Lab’s Paolo Ferrarini interviews the creator of the first music video made with Kinect.

vicemag: Photos of What Famous Musicians Eat Backstage A rider...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 20:49:40 +0200

vicemag:

Photos of What Famous Musicians Eat Backstage

A rider is a contractual proviso that outlines a series of stipulations or requests between at least two parties. While they can be attached to leases and other legal documents, they’re most famously used by musicians or bands to outline how they need their equipment to be set up and arranged, how they like their dressing room organized, and what types of food and beverages they require. Anyone who’s seen Spinal Tap knows these requests can be extremely outrageous and unreasonable. (And, in the case of Iggy Pop’s, unexpectedly hilarious.)

I was inspired to create this series after reviewing a few riders from some of the biggest acts in the world, all of which were ridiculous. But what I found most interesting about them is that they offered a glimpse into their larger-than-life personalities.

I initially thought I would try and shoot all of the items listed on the catering riders but quickly realized that this would become an exercise in wasting money. So I decided to focus on the quirkiest requests and shoot them in a Flemish Baroque still-life style because I felt that there was a direct connection between the themes in these types of paintings and the riders: the idea of time passing and the ultimate mortality of a musician’s career as the limelight inevitably fades—they only have a short time in which they are able to make these demands and have them fulfilled.

Photography and Direction: Henry Hargreaves

Prop Styling: Caitlin Levin

More photos

You must look at these photos.

mydrunkkitchen: NEW VIDEO: HELLO, HARTO! - San Francisco Let me...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 20:46:37 +0200

mydrunkkitchen:

NEW VIDEO:

HELLO, HARTO! - San Francisco

Let me know if you liked the last 5 seconds… also, reblog if you enjoyed the ep!

xoxo
#butts
Hannah

tailoring MJ's military garb

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 19:50:48 +0200

This is a pretty interesting and short article by the director of Gieves and Hawkes on how Michael Jackson requested a bespoke military jacket and the fitting was carried out in only ten minutes.

joshuaowen: Totally Tuesday Gah! Roisin please stop taunting...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 19:33:50 +0200

joshuaowen:

Totally Tuesday

Gah! Roisin please stop taunting us with guest work and give us a new album, please?

“Look Around You” // Boris Dlugosch feat. Róisín Murphy // 2013

Who's on Next?

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 22:33:24 +0200

Vogue Spain announced the three finalists of their Who’s on Next competition which searches for the year’s up and coming Spanish designer and is partially sponsored by Inditex and Mercedes Benz. The final three include Nacho Aguayo, Daniel Rabaneda, and Juan Vidal. The next step in the contest includes a personal interview with each designer wherein they are required to present their past, current and future collections, and presumably argue why they would be the best choice to win this year’s award. The prize includes 100,000 euros to further develop their collections, in addition to the unmitigated editorial support from the Spanish edition of the Condé Nast publication.

The winner will be announced on May 9.

The image on this random “slippery when wet” sign...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:58:22 +0200

The image on this random “slippery when wet” sign doesn’t quite capture the essence of its intended purpose, especially because it was posted at the entrance to a parking garage, meaning it should be aimed at and pictorially represent cars, not pedestrians. Furthermore, it really just screams “Watch out for my explosive diarrhea!”

View from the fortress just over the Portuguese border in...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:49:18 +0200

View from the fortress just over the Portuguese border in Valença do Minho.

jefferyself: What Do You Think Debbie Reynolds Is Doing Right...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 21:24:15 +0200

jefferyself:

What Do You Think Debbie Reynolds Is Doing Right Now? (by JefferySelf)

hilarious.

I cannot wait to see this.

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:55:00 +0200

I cannot wait to see this.

Secrets...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 21:01:00 +0200

So over the last two days I started and finished reading this and, while I have no personal interest in becoming a stylist, particularly not a celebrity stylist (though, if at all possible, this has become further evident and definitive after reading about the industry’s countless negative aspects), I rather enjoyed the book. It’s a straightforward read and the author, Sasha Charnin Morrison, who is also UsWeekly’s fashion editor, compiles extensive interviews with numerous professional and well-known stylists, dishes about the shitty side of all things involved in organizing a shoot or prepping a celebrity for a major event, and explains in generous detail an itemized list of tips and must-have tools which could save the ass of any stylist in the process of performing their job.

As it’s essentially a book for individuals eager to find a place in the styling industry, there are tons of informative photographs and explanations on industry lingo, most of which anyone with an interest in celebrity rags and/or fashion would or probably should be aware of. It also gives sound advice and additional reading suggestions, a glossary, a list of websites and resources, and, quite amusingly, an UsWeekly-esque chapter on fashion crimes committed by assorted celebrities, replete with opinions, photos and details on the “infringements” in question.

If you have any desire to get a pretty precise and informed, inside perspective on the styling world or simply enjoy an unabashed reading of humorous tabloid copy, I recommend Secrets of Stylists. It might not change your life, but it will certainly satisfy.

Boozehound

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:54:00 +0200

This past Sunday morning we picked Ryan up from the train station in Tui, as he’d been on a wine tasting trip in Portugal the previous two weeks on business and had a day to spare, so he decided to come visit us in Galicia. Having requested a chance to glimpse the water, we took him down the coast by car, through Baiona and along the rías, passing through Oia, A Guarda and O Rosal.

A good half hour later, as we tried to get our bearings on where exactly the fuck we were, we happened upon the Terras Gauda bodegas with much excitement. We decided to see if they’d give us a free wine tasting, hoping we’d be able to use Ryan’s business card as our golden ticket for cost-free pre-lunch booze. It worked.

I’m surprised they were even open on a Sunday (apparently they’re one of the very few (perhaps only) wineries in the area that do this). The patient woman working the small tasting area gave us the rundown on their other wines, two of which I’d never encountered before.

The La Mar was unavailable for sampling because its production was extremely limited, which naturally piqued our interest and we bought several bottles of it. The Abadía is the only one that is wholly Albariño, as the others are made up of 70 and 10 percent, mixed with other regional grapes varieties. Having said that, I quite liked the Abadía de San Campio because it seemed to taste crisper and cleaner (in my view, which really doesn’t account for much, as my palate is a drunken whore at a frat party when it comes to white wine) than the others.

The last wine she let us try was a rosé that I wasn’t particularly fond of, but which A loved and, of course, also proceeded to purchase. It’s called Tres Obispos and is manufactured by a subsidiary bodega of the Terras Gauda group called Pittacum, located in León.

We fully intend on going back and doing a full tour of the premises and another tasting soon. An added plus was that we came across two (or was it three?) other bodegas on our way home, so at least we have something to look forward to on future trips: hangovers.

Hollingsworth v. Perry.

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 19:59:33 +0100

SOTOMAYOR: I don't quite understand it: if you're not dealing with this as a class question, then why do you say the government is NOT free to discriminate against them?
COOPER: Well, Your Honor, I think it's a very different question whether the government can proceed arbitrarily and irrationally with respect to any group of people, regardless of whether or not they qualify under this Court's traditional test for suspectedness. And, and, and, uh, the hypothetical I understood you to be offering -- I would submit that would create, uh, it would, it it it, unless there's something that is occurring to me immediately,an arbitrary and capricious distinction among similarly-situated individuals. That is what we think is at the root of the traditional definition of marriage.
JUSTICE KAGAN: Mr. Cooper, could I just understand your argument? Reading the briefs, it seems as though your principal argument is that same-sex and oppostie-sex couples are not "similarly-situated" because opposite-sex couples can procreate; same-sex couples cannot, and the State's principle interest in marriage is in regulating procreation. Is that basically correct?
COOPER: Uh, Your Honor, that's the essential thrust of our position, yes.
KAGAN: Is there -- so you have a reason for not including, then, same-sex couples. Is there any reason for you have for EXcluding them? In other words, you're saying "Well, if we allow same-sex couples to marry, it doesn't serve the State's interest." But do you go further and say that it HARMS any State interest?
COOPER: Your Honor, we go further in the sense that it is reasonable to be very concerned that redefining marriage to, as a genderless institution, could well lead, over time, to harm that institution, and to the interests that society has always used that institution to address But --
KAGAN: Can you explain that a little bit to me? Just because I did not pick this up in your briefs: what harm you see happening, and when and how? What harm to the institution of marriage, or to opposite-sex couples? How does this cause and effect work?
COOPER: Once again, I, uh, uh,would reiterate that that's the correct legal question that's before the Court, and that the correct question is whether or not, um, redefining marriage to include same-sex couples would advance the interests of marriage as (crosstalk) --
JUSTICE KENNEDY: Well then are you conceding the point that there is no harm or denigration to traditional, opposite-sex marriage couples? You're conceding that?
COOPER: No, Your Honor. I'm not conceding that.
KENNEDY: Well, then it seems to me you should address Justice Kagan's question.
COOPER: Thank you, Justice Kennedy.

We’re all screwed.

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 15:43:27 +0100

We’re all screwed.

I’m not entirely sure what to say about Carine...

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 23:21:14 +0100

I’m not entirely sure what to say about Carine Roitfeld’s outfit. She usually looks amazing, and not that I don’t …appreciate what’s happening here, I just can’t fully embrace the leather zip-up corset-meets-motorcycle jacket that’s been decapitated at the lower shoulder. She’s just a sweater, a scarf, a smart phone and a McQueeny pair of sunglasses away from a mid-afternoon journey with a lady of the night…. Yet somehow, she is kind of pulling this off, isn’t she?

“At least I wouldn’t skin a Collie to make my...

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 22:55:34 +0100

“At least I wouldn’t skin a Collie to make my backpack”.

—Dionne in “Clueless”.

Not that this even looks like a Collie; more of a Lhasa apso or even a Shih tzu. Despite the horrid notion of a puppy as a purse, I do like the colour complementing going on overall. However, that still doesn’t make up for the fact that this would have been a bigger hit at any rave in the mid-90s. E-tard’s delight. Or nightmare, depending on how fucked up said e-tard might be.

Image by Tommy Ton for Style.com

Driving back home from Galicia

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 18:47:59 +0100

Driving back home from Galicia

Editing...

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 13:54:11 +0100

I realize that someone of Susie Bubble’s caliber, who is certain to be in a state of constant demand, might not always have time to properly edit everything she writes in her blog. However, this little slip is the sort you probably want to avoid at all costs, despite the hilarity it might provoke.