From the moment Madonna appeared on the cover of Like a Virgin, clad in a white lace wedding dress, her body bedecked with rubber bangles and crucifix earrings, the youth of America (make that the world) went nuts for her ragged, good-girl-gone-bad style—a teen craze that reached fever pitch when Madge flashed her garters on stage at the first MTV Music Video Awards in 1984. The woman behind Madonna’s Like a Virgin look was Maripol, a French-born photographer, stylist, art director and designer who moved to New York at the age of 19 in 1976, subsequently landing a job as the art director of the Fiorucci store on 59th Street.
Archive for August, 2010
MARIPOL
Monday, August 30th, 2010AMERICA’S SWEETHEART
Monday, August 23rd, 2010Harris Glenn Milstead (October 19, 1945 – March 7, 1988) was an American singer and actor best known by his drag persona Divine. He starred in many of the films of director John Waters, including Mondo Trasho, Multiple Maniacs, Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble, Polyester and Hairspray, as part of Waters’ regular troupe of actors who were known as the Dreamlanders.
SOFT CELL IS A.OK
Monday, August 23rd, 2010LA SUPERIOR IS A.OK
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010AUDREY FLACK
Monday, August 16th, 2010Audrey Flack is an American photo-realist painter, print-maker, and sculptor.
Flack studied fine arts in New York from 1948 to 1953. Her early work was abstract; one such painting paid tribute to Franz Kline. But gradually, Flack became a New Realist and finally a photo-realist, in reaction to the abstract art movement. Author Graham Thompson wrote “One demonstration of the way photography became assimilated into the art world is the success of photo-realist painting in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It is also called super-realism or hyper-realism and painters like Richard Estes, Denis Peterson, Audrey Flack, and Chuck Close often worked from photographic stills to create paintings that appeared to be photographs.” She later claimed she found the photo-realist movement too restricting, and now gains much of her inspiration from baroque art.
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GOODS
Friday, August 13th, 2010OMG WE JUST PICKED UP LUNCH FROM GOODS IN WILLIAMSBURG! SO TASTY! WE RECOMMEND THE FRIED GREEN TOMATO SANDWICH!! FREE DELIVERY, BUT ALAS, THEY DON’T DELIVER TO OUR OFFICE IN GREENPOINT!
TOOTING OUR OWN HORN
Thursday, August 12th, 2010PULSAR
Tuesday, August 10th, 2010Thanks One-Half Nelson for the link. This is not clay animation but gypsum animation. This movie was made by Katushi Bowda. It was broadcast by the Japanese TV program “EBITEN”. It was contest for amateur short movie directors. And his present occupation is professional Stop Motion Animator.
THE ORIGINAL HIPSTER
Monday, August 9th, 2010
HORSE MEAT DISCO IS A.OK
Monday, August 9th, 2010Horse Meat Disco is dedicated to the industry of human happiness and it pumps it out every Sunday at THE EAGLE LONDON (formerly South Central). Its the queer party for everyone; Homos and Heteros, club kids, bears, fashionistas, naturists, guerilla drag queens and ladies who munch. Musically its a disco behemoth of classics, italo disco, oddities, punk funk in the friendliest venue south of the river. Plus weekly buffet, happy hour, decorations, and spontaneous acts of exhibitionism. Come and Kiki! Venue: THE EAGLE LONDON, 349 Kennington Lane, Vauxhall SE11 TIME: 8pm-3am
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