THE MUSEUM OF OBSESSIONS

BURN IT

2012-01-31T17:07:00.001-05:00

I wish I knew who made this

FOR THE NEW YEAR

2012-01-29T21:59:00.000-05:00

I am going to try to remind myself of this as much as possible. You should do too.

UPSTATE

2011-12-06T22:49:00.000-05:00

Places to escape are necessary

UNTITLED

2011-11-20T21:13:00.001-05:00

I NEED TO DRAW MORE

2011-11-16T20:43:00.000-05:00

Wayne Pane

2011-11-13T00:33:00.001-05:00

FALL 2011

At first,

when I was in the USA for just a few months

the thought of seasons bothered me.

It didn't feel right that at any given time,

I couldn't wear a swimsuit and run to the beach.

Yes, that was at first.

And now seven years have past

changing everything as usual.

I love to make different plans for each season.

I look forward to Thanksgiving.

I like how the sound of those who walk

on the leaves laying on the sidewalk resonates by my window.

I have become a fan of butternut squash,

gravy, pumpkin flan and I prefer anemones versus peonies.

Dont get me wrong.

The beach will always be my first choice.

But there is something transitional to the seasons

which allows you a new life.

A chance of creating experiences and craving hot toddies.

Something I didn't have before and

now it can also be mine.

The jubilation of the fall.

(photo by Andy Goldsworthy)

Bjork For Dazed and Confused

2011-11-13T00:16:00.001-05:00

No words needed.

UNTITLED

2011-09-28T19:56:00.002-04:00

Woman in Israel via NYT

LAST WEEKEND

2011-09-07T21:30:00.001-04:00

I made Tomato Jelly and we caught clams with our feet. According to my standards, it was a pretty good weekend.

CAMOUFLAGE

2011-09-03T22:56:00.000-04:00

While many humans repress their innate animal needs under the guise of social advancement, the figures in Elina Tuhkanen’s exhibition Pilose Crux: Performative Sculptures from Finland actively resurrect their primitive selves through intimate, almost sacred, acts of camouflage. Communing, prayer-like, behind heavy screens of fur, their hidden gesturing suggests a longing for symbiosis in a culture defined by its increasing disconnect from the natural world.

THE WIND

2011-08-14T00:37:00.006-04:00

Fishing nets could be much more than just tools to capture prey.

Janet Echelman

UNTITLED

2011-08-11T22:51:00.004-04:00

THE FUTURE is good.

Her Lamentation scene was the best.
Truely on par with her story as a dancer. go see it.

UNTITLED

2011-08-06T11:19:00.000-04:00

COCKTAILS

2011-08-01T19:42:00.002-04:00

at home

UNTITLED

2011-07-26T19:44:00.000-04:00

Miranda July: The Future on Nowness.com.

Kinfolk

2011-07-18T23:22:00.000-04:00

ribboned asparagus salad from tiger in a jar on Vimeo.

On every blog. love the videos

LET THEM EAT CAKE

2011-07-01T00:07:00.004-04:00

If they can't afford Stella like me.
The cake inspire by the print by Apollinas

BEHIND THE MUSES

2011-06-21T23:48:00.003-04:00

The love affair between fashion and music has never been hotter. Photographer Max Vadukul captures 10 designers and the musicians who inspire them most.

ITALY

2011-06-20T23:25:00.004-04:00

I want to go back. photos by Brian Ferry

FROM HOME

2011-06-07T21:24:00.007-04:00

WIFREDO GARCÍA

My best friends were in town and they brought me
this amazing Catalan raised in the Dominican photographer's monograph.

UNTITLED

2011-05-22T23:31:00.002-04:00

THE KATE MOSS PORTFOLIO AND OTHER STORIES at DANZIGER PROJECT

FLOWERS

2011-05-18T21:59:00.003-04:00

Via a strange flower shop that animates its buquets

COLOR

2011-05-18T20:54:00.004-04:00

Igor Eskinja

UNTITLED

2011-05-17T01:27:00.003-04:00

Via ANONA

DINNER PARTIES

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

apartamento dinner party. (via nowness)

UNTITLED

2011-04-25T17:24:00.007-04:00

“Perhaps the only mentality of an outsider about the Iranian woman is a black chador, however I try to portray all the aspects of the Iranian woman. And this completely depends on my own situation.”
— Shadi Ghadirian, Like Every Day

UNTITLED

2011-04-22T11:27:00.002-04:00

first image via puremagenta , bottom image unknown

THE PRICE OF SUGAR

2011-04-15T00:38:00.008-04:00

So many things that I remember:

the food vouchers,

the helicopter coming and my grandpa not coming home for lunch,

the help needed for the sick people,

my grandpa not necessarily agreeing with how some things were done,

me playing at a gated neighborhood of 13 houses that were surrounded by bateys,

el ingenio Cristobal Colón where the sugar cane from Los Llanos was transform into refine sugar.

What I realize now, is how blind I decided to be then.

Even though I was 11—15 years old back in my mind I knew that the price of sugar is too much to pay.

Watch the movie

A BUS AS A GARDEN

2011-03-21T22:37:00.003-04:00

What if buses carried a garden on their roofs?

TECHNOLOGY+EDUCATION

2011-03-21T22:21:00.003-04:00

The Global school:

The Khan Academy

GROWING TOGETHER AND APART

2011-03-17T23:48:00.002-04:00

living live

like Just Kids.

I liked the book. A little bit of love, history and fantasy

UNTITLED

2011-03-11T11:49:00.000-05:00

HOME MADE

2011-03-10T00:54:00.004-05:00

Peter made mozzarella, and it is delicious

SCAN

2011-03-07T20:08:00.002-05:00

JEAN GENTIL

2011-03-02T13:16:00.001-05:00

This is exciting. I good looking film from Dominican Republic.

Wish was coming to NYC

FOUND FISHERMAN POLAROIDS

2011-02-28T17:59:00.001-05:00

via i heart photography

JILL MAGID

2011-02-27T19:37:00.003-05:00

Magid means story teller in Hebrew

FOR PROTECTION

2011-02-24T22:56:00.003-05:00

In Turkey and Iran, a bee creates this beautiful cocoon to protect their eggs.

The bees bite off one petal at a time and flies each individual petal back to the nest. When the mother bee has amassed enough petals, she layers the petals into a delicate shell, holding the pod together with nectar and a thin layer of mud.—Garden Design

FIGS

2011-02-17T22:49:00.005-05:00

FIG JAM
18oz Dried figs

3 1/4 cup Water

1/3 cup Orange juice

1 tbsp Lemon juice

1 pack Pectin

3 1/2 cup Granulated sugar

1/3 cup Orange-flavored liqueur

I made fig jam

2011 TRENDS

2011-02-14T22:55:00.006-05:00

The Row and Preen so far are the shows that have caught my attention.

Also,

first Tunisia,

Then Egypt,

now Iran.

The New Yorker comment Democratic Movements a month and half ago predicted the future.

It seems wrong to talk about politics and fashion on the same post,

but who said that they were not related.

PLANTS

2011-02-12T12:34:00.002-05:00

— Heidi Norton

W

2011-02-11T22:18:00.004-05:00

“I don’t think corporate minds have the capability of creating autonomous desire for a product that has no connection to practicality.”
— Phillip-Lorca Di Corcia

This was fashion photography. go see this show

Bread

2011-02-02T23:46:00.002-05:00

The simplest things are usually hard to refine

Mezcal

2011-01-30T22:57:00.003-05:00

Lets go to Oaxaca

to drink mezcal

via Nowness

JUST AWESOME

2011-01-26T22:02:00.004-05:00

NO WORDS NEEDED

— Jurgen Teller for Celine

via Laia

SAKOKU

2011-01-26T00:44:00.003-05:00

It will be

lost if the floating

shadows catch up

with reality

— Hussein Chalayan, 2011 S/S

SINTRA/PORTUGAL

2011-01-24T01:23:00.003-05:00

Going through old photos

INFLUENCERS

2011-01-18T23:41:00.005-05:00

she was amazed by the creative vigor and emotional intensity his paintings embodied, as well as what she sensed was his latent genius. “How could there be a painter like that that I didn't know about?” she wondered.

–Lee Krasner

UNTITLED

2011-01-11T01:02:00.004-05:00

Sally Scott

A NEW YEAR

2011-01-03T18:10:00.004-05:00

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!

FOR NOW,

ED PASCHKE

UNTITLED

2010-12-18T21:59:00.002-05:00

Simple ideas always seem to work.

Dr. J's Lectures

untitled

2010-12-14T23:15:00.002-05:00

ESTE BLOG SE VISTE DE AMARILLO, APOYANDO EL 4% PARA LA EDUCACION EN LA REPUBLICA DOMINICANA

UNTITLED

2010-12-09T00:32:00.001-05:00

MONTAGE

2010-11-14T00:09:00.003-05:00

Bruce Conner

GÅRTEN

2010-11-09T21:35:00.005-05:00

Peter Fischli & David Weiss

UNTITLED

2010-11-06T12:44:00.001-04:00

from DOWNTOWNFROMBEHIND

2010-11-02T23:55:00.001-04:00

JERMAYNE MACARGY

2010-11-02T23:17:00.013-04:00

"Yes, She manage to ignore design systems—or tried to work outside systems of taste for these shows. Early on, here in Houston, when she did a Rothko show, she went out of her way to have beautiful flowers in the entryway—living flowers, planting beds. It was just a general reminder that you don't start trying to ask why flowers are some color—you relax and enjoy their beauty. It was a very interesting reminder that viewers should not be upset with the Rothko's if there's no image there, no subject. What is the image of a flower? It's just a color, It's a flower."

—Christophe Cherix

A Brief History of Curating, Hans Ulrich Obrist

NEW THINGS

2010-10-23T23:20:00.005-04:00

Flowers

PHILOSOPHY

2010-09-02T10:34:00.002-04:00

I AM BACK

2010-08-18T23:11:00.003-04:00

first photo by Jun Shim. last two by Daniel Engström

I have been away.
First in Urbino and Florence hanging out with an awesome group of people.
Second moving to a NYC and putting all my stuff in storage
Third starting a new job.

After all this settles I will be back in full force. In the meantime, I will be here now and then.

WIRE

2010-07-01T11:24:00.002-04:00

Via the golden smith

STATE OF MIND

2010-07-01T10:12:00.002-04:00

Brain/Cloud (With Seascape and Palm Tree) (2009)
John Baldessari

MINNESOTA

2010-06-29T16:55:00.005-04:00

We are getting ready to go to Minnesota. Any tips, of where to go?

MARK GONZALES & ARI MARCOPOULOS

2010-06-25T11:14:00.002-04:00

At Franklin Parrasch Gallery

THE BLENDING

2010-06-24T14:40:00.002-04:00

Of ART and FASHION
Jenny Holzer for Keds

THINGS

2010-06-23T17:42:00.005-04:00

Anish Kapoor chair (via lolitas)

Tauba Auerbach print (via butdoesitfloat)

Are happening.
And they are good!

ISIA URBINO

2010-06-18T10:35:00.002-04:00

This is looking like a big possibility for the summer.
Urbino, Italy

HIDING WITH BEAUTY

2010-06-10T10:11:00.001-04:00

“Large-scale color photographs from 2005 to 2006 reflect the ritual adornment and spirituality of masquerade in Nigeria, Benin and Burkina Faso in West Africa. These portraits of masqueraders build on Galembo's work of the past twenty years photographing the rituals and religious culture in Nigeria, Brazil, Cuba, Jamaica and Haiti, as well as the homegrown custom of Halloween in the United States. "

via but does it float

FLOWER

2010-06-09T08:10:00.004-04:00

Can someone help me with the name for this flower.

I bought it a few weeks ago and
I just want to have them around all the time

BP=BS

2010-06-04T16:04:00.005-04:00

I miss the ocean so much.
And I love it so much.

That this just makes me puke.
Seriously, their is no way of stopping this?
BP=BS

VIVIANE SASSEN

2010-06-02T23:18:00.008-04:00

"For those who like their books. We asked photographer Viviane Sassen to completed a specially made and well-built series of imagery with androgyny and beauty as the key principle"
“SOL & LUNA”— Our Legacy 1980-81

Perhaps in another live,
I will love to own a book store

that will be full with curiosities
and treasures.

Like this book

1911—2010

2010-06-01T00:14:00.007-04:00

Louise Bourgeois
RIP
May 31, 2010

Always having a good sense of humor

is truly important

UNTITLED

2010-05-26T12:26:00.002-04:00

This is awesome
MIA photographed by Ryan McGinley

SHADES OF WHITE

2010-05-26T10:20:00.003-04:00

David Gilbert

1 a : free from color b : of the color of new snow or milk; specifically : of the color white c : light or pallid in color d : lustrous pale gray : silvery; also : made of silver
2 a : being a member of a group or race characterized by light pigmentation of the skin b : of, relating to, characteristic of, or consisting of white people or their culture c [from the former stereotypical association of good character with northern European descent] : marked by upright fairness
3 : free from spot or blemish: as a (1) : free from moral impurity : innocent (2) : marked by the wearing of white by the woman as a symbol of purity /a white wedding/

MAY 24 1983 (#27)

2010-05-24T23:52:00.005-04:00

It feels nice when your Birthday's celebrations are a reflection of how old you are becoming.
Tonight was simple and dark (there was a blackout on my block).

Also the gifts get better. Less of the things that you have to pretend you like and more of the things that you actually like.

Peter bought tickets for us to go see the ballet.

And my team gave me the new MMM scent,
Ohhhhhhh

GONE TO SLEEP

2010-05-12T20:33:00.005-04:00

A series of Photographs and Words.
And two days to write a song.

Project Song

Moby and Scarr did it in a day.

UNTITLED

2010-05-06T11:03:00.004-04:00

Valéry Lorenzo

It wasn't very unusual for me to lie awake at night feeling like a scrap of sociology blown into its designated corner of the world. But to know the clichés are clichés doesn't help you to escape them. You still have to go on experiencing your experience as if no one else has ever done it.

Indecision, Benjamin Kunkel

THE MET

2010-05-05T10:54:00.006-04:00

This is classic and stunningly beautiful,

And at the same time unexpected,
I love it.

I also like this

(via nymagazine and geometricsleep)

PRODUCTION

2010-05-04T09:50:00.006-04:00

Sometimes you have to give in on shows that are intimate and
settle for venues that are bigger. But then the production of these shows
take you to a place that you could've hardly imagine

Jónsi live show by 59 Productions from Jónsi on Vimeo.

Last night I saw Jonsi.
And the extra $12 convenience charge for
the Electric Factory was so worth it.

The production was amazing

DANCING STRUCTURES

2010-05-03T00:20:00.009-04:00

Embattled Garden, 1958
set designed by Isamu Noguchi for Martha Graham.

“Why am I not where you are”, 2010
set designed by Santiago Calatrava for the New York City Ballet.

BIOLUMINESCENCE

2010-04-27T10:34:00.004-04:00

Not sure if you love the ocean as much as I do.
But no matter what this is amazing.

Some 80 to 90 percent of undersea creatures make light -- and we know very little about how or why. Bioluminescence expert Edith Widder explores this glowing, sparkling, luminous world, sharing glorious images and insight into the unseen depths (and brights) of the ocean.

LOGOS

2010-04-25T20:52:00.004-04:00

How does a logo become
recognizable and aspirational?

And how easy it is
for their creators to find the right solution?

I think Adolphe Mouron Cassandre knew
how timeless his YSL logo will be.

UNTITLED

2010-04-22T11:13:00.003-04:00

Mette Hersoug, CalArt

SHIBORIS

2010-04-21T23:00:00.004-04:00

"Researches and experimentations of different types of dying,
between the origami's and the shibori's technics to create
an interaction between relief and color."

Cécile Barraud de Lagerie

HOW CAN YOU NOT LOVE THIS

2010-04-16T14:35:00.001-04:00

NYC here I come

I JUST WANT ENOUGH

2010-04-14T00:17:00.005-04:00

To afford my weird pleasures.

Like having this ACNE chairs in an
all white,
hardwood floors
22 windows
empty
apartment

MARINA ABRAMOVIC

2010-04-08T09:39:00.002-04:00

At MoMa
Lets go see this.

FEELING

2010-04-07T15:22:00.003-04:00

Christopher Schreck

I AM FEELING
SWEET AS SPRING

LETTERA 32

2010-04-06T09:49:00.006-04:00

Sometimes going away means finding things.
This was my Poconos find at a yard sale on the main road to the cabin.
A lettera 32

Along with a sweet note to a daddy.

As well as spanish practices.

I read that Cormac McCarthy used the same one.

UNTITLED

2010-04-05T10:44:00.002-04:00

Charlott Markus
PlayOfficePlay

UNTITLED

2010-04-02T23:46:00.004-04:00

In fashion
Snannan Click by Matthias Vriens

In art
Ana Mendieta

FROM MY CLOSET

2010-04-01T10:48:00.006-04:00

I want to think that all the pieces of clothes, that now I own and
once before belong to someone else, carry with them some obscure heritage
of the past. I want to believe that all the personalities involve fit
this gemini that loves sunny days and rum with coke

And because its beautiful outside
<a href="http://cults.bandcamp.com/album/cults-7">Go Outside by Cults</a>

PIERRE LE TAN

2010-03-26T16:22:00.001-04:00

photos by IVAN TERESTCHENKO

THE POCONOS MARCH 2010

2010-03-25T16:06:00.005-04:00

EQUALS FUN TIME

photos by Colin Leaman

MARIA KALMAN

2010-03-23T16:57:00.002-04:00

At the ICA Philadelphia

HISTORY

2010-03-22T10:03:00.004-04:00

THEN
LBJ signing the social security and medicaid bill

NOW
The House passing Obama's Healthcare Reform

THE WOODS

2010-03-19T11:02:00.002-04:00

Joachim Koester

Going to the Poconos when the weather is beautiful can be very exciting.

SHAPES

2010-03-18T12:35:00.004-04:00

Allan McCollum, Shapes from Maine

"Extending upon these projects and his 2005 Shapes Project — a system he created to produce (and keep track of) enough unique graphic emblems for every person on the planet, without repeating — he began to think about the Northeast of the United States, where he himself lives, and especially the state of Maine, which he has visited only once. He became attracted to the pride Maine's inhabitants take in the traditions of homecraft, and decided to research artists and artisans of the state who offer custom creations to the public through maintaining their own websites, and who run small businesses out of their homes."

THE MUSEUM OF OBSESSIONS

BURN IT

FOR THE NEW YEAR

UPSTATE

UNTITLED

I NEED TO DRAW MORE

Bjork For Dazed and Confused

UNTITLED

LAST WEEKEND

CAMOUFLAGE

THE WIND

UNTITLED

UNTITLED

COCKTAILS

UNTITLED

Kinfolk

LET THEM EAT CAKE

BEHIND THE MUSES

ITALY

FROM HOME

UNTITLED

FLOWERS

COLOR

UNTITLED

DINNER PARTIES

UNTITLED

UNTITLED

THE PRICE OF SUGAR

A BUS AS A GARDEN

TECHNOLOGY+EDUCATION

GROWING TOGETHER AND APART

UNTITLED

HOME MADE

SCAN

JEAN GENTIL

FOUND FISHERMAN POLAROIDS

JILL MAGID

FOR PROTECTION

FIGS

2011 TRENDS

PLANTS

W

MORE VIDEO

Bread

Mezcal

JUST AWESOME

SAKOKU

SINTRA/PORTUGAL

INFLUENCERS

UNTITLED

A NEW YEAR

UNTITLED

untitled

UNTITLED

MONTAGE

GÅRTEN

UNTITLED

JERMAYNE MACARGY

NEW THINGS

PHILOSOPHY

I AM BACK

WIRE

STATE OF MIND

MINNESOTA

MARK GONZALES & ARI MARCOPOULOS

THE BLENDING

THINGS

ISIA URBINO

HIDING WITH BEAUTY

FLOWER

BP=BS

VIVIANE SASSEN

1911—2010

UNTITLED

SHADES OF WHITE

MAY 24 1983 (#27)

GONE TO SLEEP

UNTITLED

THE MET

PRODUCTION