laurie.

i remember about 4 years ago, as i was waiting in line outside st ann's warehouse, i was thinking to myself. OMG I GET TO SEE DAMIEN RICE & BLONDE REDHEAD! but that was during my senior year of high school and i didnt really find my type of 'music' yet. not to say that i dont like damien rice anymore or even blonde redhead...which is totally false because blonde redhead would always be one of my 'favorites'.

in the concert, i also saw lou reed and finally, laurie anderson. she was a bit wacko. as i'm trying to remember right now, i was actually feeling embarassed for her when she walked on stage with her midis and laptop. i don't even know why i felt that way. sometimes when someone does something that i don't think the 'others' would like i automatically get this feeling of getting embarased for them as if i was on stage making a fool out of myself. but i was wrong that day. laurie started her drum machine and whipped out the 'talking stick' that she invented during the warhol years and she was amazing!  i was so surprised and i began to love her.

in fact, she was added to my weird repertoire of what i call the 'middle-aged ladies' that i keep falling on. in case you are wondering, they consists of:

jane birkin
francoise hardy
laurie anderson
marianne faithful
kim carnes
vashti bunyan
mary hopkins
zouzou

well, here is a clip of the song entitled 'expert' that she sang during the concert.






well, most of you would think this: SHES SO 80s ELECTRONIC


actually she was and she is still awesome.


her hit:







now that i think about it, i think that concert really influenced what i listen to today.


i saw antony from antony & the johnsons that day, blonde redhead, david byrne, lou reed, & blonde redhead.


during damien rice's set, glen hansard from 'once' also made a cameo appearance.

lee lozano's 'real money' piece.

here was the piece that i found the most interesting when i saw lozano's exhibit in stockholm.

updates. morocco & sweden

hello everyone.

sorry for the lack of updates. i've been actually having fun this past semester as some of you can tell by the lack of posts. not to say that in the event of a constant barrage of posts translates to boredom, but the past few weeks has been pretty busy for me.

exposés (typical sciences po), the break, and finally stockholm last week.


the break was pretty awesome. my sidekick norwegian has a house in aix-en-provence and we ended up going down there with a bunch of friends and it was a blast.

highlights from the first few nights of cooking or as facebook would put it, 'a night of mayhem'.

o rly now?

i swear, we didn't plan the beach house cover.

da family portrait. 

next, maria, katherine and i went to casablanca & marrakech. it was such an awesome experience. it was my first time going to an islamic country and everything was beautiful. while in casablanca and marrakech, we stayed in the "old part" of both cities. the colours were beautiful in morocco and now i know why even ysl bought a house there. 

some highlights:

some of you guys asked me about my pictures that i posted a week ago on my other blog. actually, if you like them, it was not because of my 'newly found photographic' skills, it was actually all a surprise for me until i opened up aperture on my mac. 

being only 'slightly' nerdy... i went to my usual rounds of dp preview & other leica blogs and i found some accounts of photography in morocco. like most islamic countries, most women & children do not want pictures taken by tourists. since i really wanted to capture the local people during my trip, i decided to wrap my camera around my neck and literally pressed the shutter with every passing person. 

however, problems quickly arose when i reviewed my first picture because i keep forgetting, the m system on my leica is completely manual in terms of focusing. so throughout the trip, the only 'skill' that i exerted on the photos were my shaky depth perception as i guestimated if the passing person was 8 feet away from me or actually 3 feet closer.

like my trip to beijing two years ago with my family, i've quickly realized that i'm attracted to old locks. maybe its because of how antiquated it looks or the colour composition of it. i really do like the old metal clasps along with the faintly painted wooden door. 

and the next week? sweden!

stockholm was definitely another animal. i was able to dress better with my "parisian wear" and wasn't at all going back to my "bo ho chic" of marrakech.

stockholm was a bit of a test actually. since i haven't been back since last year with my family and i don't know even a bit of swedish, i expected it to be a bit tough. 

during the trip, i discovered that alec & i are pretty similar and we ended up doing very little "touristy" things and ended up vintage & record shopping. 

not to mention the amazing food with had there:

my food journey began in the airport.

for people that know me, i eat. actually, i eat a lot. and also, im a CARNIVORE. these, however, are not meatballs. in fact, this was in a vegetarian restaurant called chutney in soldermalm, stockholm. i'm not gonna lie, these vegetarian meatballs tasted like the real thing and it was a lot better than our favorite swedish warehouse, ikea.

eat cunt for mental health? ahh what? THAT TERRIBLE C WORD????

well, it was actually an exhibit that we saw in the stockholm modern musset. while i didn't appreciate her drawings of 'cocks' & 'vaginas' as much, i really enjoyed lozano's social experiments.

i will post lozano's piece on the next entry.

uh-oh. does tavi censor her blog???

prada, prada, prada. it seems like prada has taken an initiative this season to "thank" their bloggers for the attention this year. over at bryanboy (i'm still studying bc im currently perplex by why its so 'great'), the blogger received his 'first' invitation from prada.

and after doing my blog runs, i went to tavi's style rookie blog and saw that she just received a beautiful dress from prada. the quite infamous 'lip' dress.

however, looking at all the comments, it seems to me tavi has gone a bit psycho keeping all the 'positive' stuff on there and well....deleting the 'negative' remarks on her blog. duh duh duh!!!

then again, if i recall, she's 13.

ME WANT TRANPARENT COAT!!!!!!!!!

so some people hate anna, some people love her, some people hate her but feels the need to love her.

for me, i've always been indifferent. sure, she's everywhere, it doesn't matter if you're in fashion week in milan (which they evidently 'dont care' since they wouldnt adjust the fashion week dates for her) or in paris, she's still quite important in the fashion world. if the usage of 'quite' was an understatement to some of you fashionnistas out there, then...well i'm sorry.

well for me, i think she definitely dictates the fashion world these days (wtf thakoon??? a sack of potatoes in ma mind)..but she does have a 'sense' when it comes to some new stuff. like him. yes him! the man that recycles and uses transparent stuff... you know what i'm talkin' about......PATRIK ERVELL!!

this guy makes things pretty simple...kinda reminds me of a french chain here in paris, a.p.c. but i really do like the simple looks here. kinda gives me a feel of a morph between jil sander (w/o intense colour blocking...gah raf gahhhh) and some a.p.c. with some other crazzy element added to it.

generic runway pic from getty.

some tommy ton action:

ma dream coat!

this shows me that the vogue fashion fund does fund some talents, not any n'importe quois like thakoon. yes, i'm 'h8tin'.

a clip from work.

hey, so we found another clip to what seems to be a russian fashion channel interview during thimister's haute couture show.

it was such a great time organizing the show at palais de tokyo!

jac. img.

elijah wood is creepy and meet the wintor of 2045.

hello. this is old news for those of you that are really 'into fashion' and may be even an 'insult' that i'm 'featuring' her right now like shes someone new, but meet tevi, the future wintour:

who's skinnier?

so usually when people know me, they'll realize that i would never put "too skinny" in my vocabulary. why? not because i appreciate bulimia or anorexia but i like the aesthetics of a thin and proportional model. however, i really think this pulls the plug on the idea of "skinny" and being "androgynous".

here's a photo from a designer that i really like, rad hourani. i really think his concept is pretty cool.

it pretty much translates to the fact that hourani thinks everyone is born unisex, so why don't we all make clothes unisex.

tights. check.

tights on guys? check.

but hey, take a look here from the runway:

obviously, we can tell who is the guy here, the MAN on the right. however, WHO HAS SKINNIER LEGS??? 

i find this a bit creepy.

but props on the color scheme hourani, i LOVE black.

more update.

so life has been good.

went to london last weekend...checked out brick lane (which to my fellow norwegian friend martin is very unauthentic and that i have no idea what i am talking about), wagamama, masala zone, beyond retro, freud's bar, selfridges, lock tavern up by camden, and many more! it was a blast to spend the weekend with my crazy wife.

aside from that, haute couture went pretty well. since classes began and my thimister internship is rolling...i sadly missed the dior show...which evidently was one of galliano's most "extravagent" & "theatrical" haute couture. however, despite the excellent cutting, draping, and execution, i think 2010 isn't exactly the age of marie antoinette. i did however make another show...lefranc ferant...which..to say the least....terrible!!!!



here are the two designers before the show started:

another big news....vicki came to visit!!!! here's a short synopsis. baguettes, pompidou, chorizo, louvre, boursin, eiffel, falaffels, notre dame, pesto chorizo pasta, catacombs, and PHO.

yes, we ate ALOT!


and like every post i have, here are some video's that i've found recently that are interesting.

for once, doillon is doing something while charlotte is still busy bragging about her underwhelming irm album much like her dad's 'epic' vie heroique.