big thanks to YUMNA for featuring my work on her site.
Category: admiration
“what a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.”
—TOLSTOY
AMANDINE and her man CLEMENT, half of the directing duo WE ARE FROM LA, on the set of their music video for PHARRELL’s track “happy.”
COCOA RIGAL was behind the scenes just waiting for her time to shine.
between scenes we killed time in chinatown.
unwound at the beach with the lovely french ladies SARAH, AMANDINE + LULU with the perfect happy track stuck in our heads.
so proud of ALEX for putting together another collection of impressive works with his “no mercy for the weak” show at NEW IMAGE ART GALLERY.
nobody does ambiance like nasty NECKFACE.
still from “the rape of europe,” a spectacular art history film, documenting the plundering of master artworks during WWII. there is a brief profile on french resistance hero ROSE VALLAND, as well as the MONUMENT MEN tasked with redistributing the works back to their rightful owners. some works are still “lost” to this day. the most famous of which is RAPHAEL’s “portrait of a young man.”
“art belongs to humanity, without it we are animals. we just fight, we live, we eat. art is, it’s what makes us human.”
— MIKHAIL PIOTROVSKY, director of the hermitage museum
“the young are unconstrained by habits of fear.”
— PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA, taken from remarks commemorating the 50th anniversary of the 1963 march on washington, the stage for DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.’s i have a dream speech
“for small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”
— CARL SAGAN
“being locked up is one thing. but to have no concept of confinement, to be ignorant of its terms + never understand the struggle is useless — that’s what hell must be like.”
-DAVID SEDARIS
“these are just the hazards of being free.
—now you will say how free are we if you dangle fatal fruit before us and we cannot help ourselves from temptation. and we say “human” to you. we say that one cannot be human without freedom.
— but what of the freedom-to ? not just the free-from? not all compulsion comes from without.”
-DAVID FOSTER WALLACE, infinite jest
segments of ESPO’s “love letter to BROOKLYN,” finished in 2001.
NYC has that charm.