August 2011
1 post
4 tags
e. gup: he(art) →
wordgup:
your hands were always my favorite part of you. like a sculptor, i had visions of you molding something out of my broken wayward heart, turning it into something more beautiful.
we were art and artists, you and i. pulling ourselves together and tearing each other apart; pulling each other together and tearing ourselves apart. we were Gaudi-esque, dancing away from...
July 2011
1 post
warsan versus melancholy.: for women who are... →
warsanshire:
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you are a horse running alone and he tries to tame you compares you to an impossible highway to a burning house says you are blinding him that he could never leave you forget you want anything but you you dizzy him, you are unbearable every woman before or after you is doused in your name you fill his mouth
January 2011
3 posts
December 2010
1 post
November 2010
1 post
“You are worthy of love and respect. Lovable.
You deserve :
eye...”
– White Hot Truth (via silentsigh)
October 2010
1 post
September 2010
10 posts
“Tavi’s father: “We were at Fashion Week. Tavi’d gotten a lot...”
– Not entirely sure how I feel about 14-year-old fashion blogger Tavi, but I do enjoy this astute remark of hers (from New Yorker article).
August 2010
11 posts
“When I drew my first ink blob “e” and my teacher said it was not...”
– Hansje van Halem in Elephant magazine
“I love that feeling. You know, the one you get when you take a deep breath and...”
“Fashions have a volition of their own. They don’t move with the times,...”
– Daisy Fellowes
March 2010
2 posts
“The human condition is lonely by nature. I’m interested in real, emotional...”
– Allain de Botton in Psycology Today, April 2010
January 2010
1 post
“In a way, everything goes back to poetry - design is a physical expression of...”
– Marcel Wanders, in I.D Magazine nov/dec 2009
December 2009
1 post
“A little girl in a pink dress caught her attention. Hadid watched her pull her...”
– Zaha Hadid. “The Abstractionist”, by John Seabrook. The New Yorker.
October 2009
2 posts
“You know who Mae West is? I’m Cinderella in a modern dress, and I wear...”
– Mae West
How art school and growing up killed my art.
I know just how you feel…
marykmclaughlin:
When I think about painting again or making anything, I get completely overwhelmed. There are so many great images out there, I feel like why bother. It was a lot easier when I didn’t watch television or go on the computer very often. It was easier when I was so naive that I thought I would be a famous artist one day (I really did think that...
September 2009
2 posts
“Her subtext has always been the fury of the kooky, odd-looking girl getting...”
– Jesse Green on Barbara Streisand in NY Magazine, sept 28, 2008.
Maybe I shouldn’t be bothered that some dude continously tells me I remind him of Barbra, haha.
“At the beginning of my visit, Julie Winship, a Chicagoan who frequently travels...”
– “Chicago Style” by Patricia Marx. New Yorker, sept 14, 2009
August 2009
5 posts
“I stopped talking, nothing feeding nothing until nothing was huge and nothing...”
– Jill McCorkle, “PS”. In The Atlantic Fiction 2009
“The kids at Woodstock were either the first generation to taste true liberty, or...”
– James Parker, “Long Time Gone”. Atlantic monthly, sept 09
April 2009
4 posts
“In Cunningham’s world, dancers are not characters but spatial objects...”
– NyMag article on Merce Cunningham by Rebecca Milzoff
“A story goes that in his early days with Martha Graham’s company, one of...”
– Article in NyMag on choreographer Merce Cunningham by Rebecca Milzoff
decidedly low-tech →
March 2009
16 posts
“When the economy fell apart I thought, oh no! What’s going to happen to...”
– Ophira Eisenherg. NY Mag.
“When you dress up, it allows you to confront elements in your personality that...”
– Natasha Kahn, of Bat for Lashes, on her alter-ego, Pearl. Nylon magazine, April 2009
“…The reproductions also include the constricting armholes and narrow...”
– Laudomia Pucci on designing vintage reproductions, in W Magazine (April 2009)