Wednesday, November 16, 2011

New Maxiga store location

Maxiga



This is the cutest store on the planet to go for smart and fun little gifts. They have all sorts of wonderful little toys, gag gifts and just creative novelties to make you smile. There is one location at 1204 Lexington Ave (between 81 and 82nd st.), but they have expanded and now have another store at 2233 Broadway (between 79th and 80th). If you have a friend or coworkers birthday and don't know what to get them, I am SURE you will find something here that they will love. Today I bought a book of dirty French words, hehe :X My suggestions is the cactus pens, so cute!! ;D xxo


Peter Woytuk's work on Broadway




I noticed new animal sculptures all over town and wondered if they were a part of a larger project. What an opportunity it must be for Peter Woytuk to have his sculptures displayed literally all down the most famous avenue of all time! Wow. Anyways, the sculptures are pretty cool focusing on natural things like animals, fruits and utility objects. As a whole it has a sort of nostalgia with the animals in bronze, recalling an older time when we actually lived alongside animals compared to only seeing them in zoos now. Its almost like a memorial to the lost species, yet there is Noah's Ark idea that the animals have been immortalized or protected by these metal casts (or imprisoned?). Woytuk uses several black birds or crows in the work as a subject perhaps conjuring the notion of death and the afterlife seen on a larger than normal scale, playing with their proportion. As with the apple symbolism, the crow pecks at the apple perhaps suggesting the death of knowledge or enlightenment. I really enjoy the sculptures compared to the flowers I have seen on Park Ave earlier this year, these have a quirkiness, a question, and curiosity about them. The sculptures will be up along the entire length of Broadway in Manhattan until April 2012. You should see them all! xxo


Sunday, November 13, 2011

Happy End of the World!!! (as we know it)

Wow, we are almost in 2012 already. I don't think the Earth will just explode as soon as the clock strikes Midnight on December 31st, but who knows? I think it would be funny if everyone decided on a Mexican theme this year as an homage to the spooky calendar predictions. What will you be wearing this New Years a tux or a sombrero?




Rebekah del Rio - Llorando

A clip from the Film "Mullholland Drive" by David Lynch ...


I love this scene for its conversation on illusions, but also its such a beautiful song..



Llorando

Yo estaba bien por un tiempo
volviendo a sonreír
Luego anoche te vi
tu mano me tocó
y el saludo de tu voz
Y hablé muy bien
y tú sin saber
que he estado
llorando por tu amor
llorando por tu amor
Luego de tu adiós
sentí todo mi dolor
Sola y llorando, llorando, llorando
No es fácil de entender
que al verte otra vez
yo esté llorando

Yo que pensé que te olvidé
pero es verdad, es la verdad
que te quiero aun más
mucho más que ayer
Dime tú que puedo hacer
¿No me quieres ya?
Y siempre estaré
llorando por tu amor
llorando por tu amor
Tu amor se llevó
todo mi corazón
Y quedo llorando, llorando, llorando, llorando
por tu amor

Crying

For a while İ was doing just fine
smiling again
Then I saw you last night
İ touched your hand
and your voice greeting
And we spoke
but you don't know
that İ was
crying for your love
crying for your love
Then, your goodbye
made me feel all the pain
Alone and crying, crying, crying
İt's not easy to understand
that if İ see you again
makes me cry

I thought I forgot you
but its true, it's the truth
that İ still love you
much more than yesterday
Tell me now what can İ do?
You don't love me anymore?
and İ will always
cry for your love
cry for your love
Your love has taken
all my heart
and left me crying, crying, crying, crying
for your love

God is a prankster.

Maurizio Cattelan in W, November issue



Cattelan explains...

Tenga 3D

For all you jerkers out there.... this is pretty cool. Tenga has a variety of products that are on the cutting edge of the pleasure market and seem to be getting better and better whenever they release something new. I love the futuristic design of their products and the thoroughly thoughtful product usage and display. Japan is just so cool !! xoxo

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Nicki Minaj by Francesco Vezzoli in W, November Issue


Okay, I totally love Nicki Minaj and I really love the whole concept of this photo shoot, but I gotta say, its not my favorite. Nicki is fun, spunky and so totally futuristic-like pushing the boundaries of fashion and music. I think this shoot goes against that and makes her look totally awkward. She is not a countess or duchess err whatever. She is a bad a** bi$#* from New York!! This goes to show there is too much attention on celebrities and injecting them into every damn advertising campaign. Let a model be a model, let a fashion designer be a fashion designer and singers should stick to freakin singing. Just because you get a star* to get in on a shoot, doesn't mean that it will work. Sowie :/ I want to see Nicki having fun and just being herself, thats what made us fall in love with her in the first place.. xoxo

Spring style already in W, November issue


Im loving these spring looks already. Prints Prints Prints. J'adore Givenchy and Balenciaga!! These models are serving it.


Debbie Harry in Nov. GQ

Debbie Harry looking fierce in GQ November issue. I love the layering layout of the spread and her makeup in the shoot. Its obvious she really knows how to work it in front of the camera and an audience STILL. Take notes kiddies, this is what makes a STAR= Longevity. xoxox

Jaguar C-X75


This Jaguar concept car is really awesome.

Burberry Prosum Fall/Winter


I love this ad, its totally 007 and the models look gorgeous.. I would love her look with this watch...



Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Yoko Ono "Uncursed" @ Galerie Lelong


I simply adore Yoko Ono. A brilliant conceptual artist, she always makes me think with a underlying compassionate emotional response. This exhibition is super cool. Going into the space there are doors with little messages written discreetly on them, puddles on the floor and bugs on the wall. Like a dream from the twilight zone or perhaps a Hitchcock nightmare, it made me tingle. Holes in the walls allow the voyeur in us to view a sort of alien race, glass sculptures in a desert like environment which brings up an idea of isolation or future we have yet to see.

October 28, 2011- December 10, 2011
Galerie Lelong
528 west 26th st

Monday, November 7, 2011

The Container Store



I love the Container Store for so many reasons and here is yet another one. Help others stay warm this winter by bringing your clean* used jackets and coats to donate at the Container Store. It will make you feel good to get rid of all that crap you no longer wear and just think the karma will be kinda awesome. I love a good cause, dont you?
xoxo

FISH


I love the this restaurant FISH, located on Bleecker St in Manhattan. The staff is friendly and cute, the food is absolutely to DIE for if you like seafood and an overall great dining experience I would totally recommend. The picture above is their oyster special, basically a glass of wine is $6 but if you get a half dozen oysters its $7 for the half-dozen AND a glass of wine. WOW so yummy!! All I have to do is get two glasses of wine in me and a dozen oysters and Im feeling prrreety good after that. check it out! j'adore

FISH
280 Bleecker St # 4
New York
(212) 727-2879

Yotel




I stayed at this funky new hotel that just opened in June called YOTEL. Super futuristic and edgy, its a perfect addition to the New York Hotel/Restaurant/Bar/Event scene. They have self check in kiosk in the lobby along with a robot arm, very a la Alexander McQueen show, that takes your luggage and will store it for you. The room I stayed in was kinda small, but very efficient. There was a queen sized bed that was propped up like a couch and when you pushed a button, would lie down when you are ready to sleep. There was a bunk bed above with a ladder one must use to access it and was totally cool. I appreciated the complimentary coffee on every level along with the fact they did not have single serving shampoos and conditioners, but instead had the products attached to walls in little pumps, very eco friendly and green. The keys to the rooms were just sensor activated and did not require you to put a card in or turn anything. The concierge desk, located on the fourth floor is referred to as "Mission Control" and the food service was in the "Galley" adding to its submarine/spaceship feel over the entire hotel.
They have brunch on Sat and Sun from 11-3 for $35 it is all you can eat and drink!!! Otherwise, they have several dining options, my favorite being the traditional japanese style dining sitting on the floor at long banquet tables. All the dishes are tapas style portions and totally yummy. I recommend the beef tenderloin and the salmon with spinach to eat and the strawberry lychee mojito to drink.

Maurizio Cattelan "ALL" @ the Guggenheim


Wow, what a fantastic show. Going from Nov 4th 2011 to Jan 22, 2012 the Guggenheim will feature a retrospective of Maurizio Cattelan's work from 1989 to the present. Hanging like a mobile in the center of the gallery, the work suspends in the air in a seemingly frenzied chaos. As one moves either up or down the spiral shaped gallery, the works reveal themselves more and more in a fantastic arrangement. It was interesting to see pieces that were originally designed for a wall in a gallery space were transformed into L-shaped wall sections dangling in mid-air and other things intended for other places completely ripped from its context to create this new one, totally site specific.
If you have never seen this artists work, this is the show to see. I have been absolutely IN LOVE with Cattelan ever since I saw the piece entitled "HIM" at Sotheby's a few months ago. Surprising and smart he continues to impress and engage me. xo

The picture above is of the book that is sold at the Guggenheim bookstore for $45 about the entire body of work. I am already almost finished!

Jim Hodges @ Gladstone Gallery



A fun interactive installation, the tempura paint drips from the ceiling missing the openings on the floor creating splatters of multi-colored paints all around the floor. The guests are allowed to participate and get into the space and play, adding to the extension of the piece by leaving their own mark. I chose to use the press release as a stamp and created my own self-made souvenir from the show. The other pieces being shown at Gladstone was a giant disco ball in the center of the room hovering above a hole made in the floor of the gallery filled with water that reminded me of some astrological/lunar imagery which was very cool. There was also black mosaic tile pieces in interesting shapes that look like shoulder pads or shells that contained star-like and astrological elements.
At the other location was large boulders with colored metal sheets welded on and large photos with scratches.
Go check it out yourself and tell me what you think. I would like to see the paint room in a few days when all of the paint is turning murky brown from being blended so much. Its pretty now, but its interesting that all the colors, when combined, just turns into muck.

Jim Hodges @ Gladstone gallery
515 west 24th street/ 530 West 21st street
NYC