2008

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“They have the awesome ability to simultaneously...”
— Richard Lawson, on the...

Me: Stuffy in the suburbs and consumed by awkwardness: it's like that scene in The Great Gatsby right before all the shit goes down.
Kelly: Everything you say, even the smallest online conversation stab is like a quote from a movie that has never been made, but I know I would love it.

When did it become daring for white men to...

Hipster Runoff sums how I've always felt...

I rlllly hate Portland and any other ‘second tier’ cities that claim to be culturally...

“I like how you have no shame. It makes you an interesting...”
— Mir, while photographing her...

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“Suspended animation blue.”
— Jay, at whileyouwereout.

Gawker's field guide to Bansky.

GOD, we’ve heard so much about Banksy this week. Yes, you know he’s the supersecret...

Who is he? He’s just a dude from England who makes...

Why is he important? Ha. “Important” is a...

Who cares about his identity? If you’re a Wu-Tang fan,...

And? Dig it.

Hot summer trend: fellatio. I fucking love this company.

Royalties (2004), by Douglas Coupland. His mediocre...

Pulse: an emotion visualisation...

Created by Berlin-based artist Markus Kison, Pulse is a live visualisation of the recent emotional...

Stills from La Frontiere de L’aube, the latest film...

Store as sculpture: The Marfa Prada.

Continuing a weekend of fashion+art amalgamations, I give you Prada Marfa: It doesn’t open. ...

Marc Jacobs's Paris apARTment.

Fashion guru Marc Jacobs has opened up his Paris apartment to the cameras of W Magazine. Designed...

In the living room, Ed Ruscha’s Peach (1964), John Currin’s...

Among the Elizabeth Peyton paintings in the sitting room is...

Ed Ruscha’s Heaven (1986) hangs in Marc’s library,...

Frog chairs, also by Claude Lalanne.

Above the bed in the downstairs guest room, Richard Prince’s...

SHOWstudio -- Fashion Djs.

Custom tattoos by Marian Bantjes.

World-renouned typographer (she’s a fucking artist, okay?) Marian Bantjes designed...

This is the most concentrated example of what I (ideally)...

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Color-outs are the new blackouts.

Matt Irwin does Björk in the back.

Priceless.

21 Economic Models explained with Cows

SOCIALISMYou have 2 cows.You give one to your neighbour.COMMUNISMYou have 2 cows.The State takes...

Celebrating America’s birth with small arms fire.

There have always been sparks between us.

Celebrating the City That Induces Sleep.

A brunette on each arm is actually a slow night for...

Darwinism in reverse.

Brooke and Graham misbehave.

Her one, true love (besides me, of course).

Michelle is my hair-ro.

Björk rocks the asymmetrical haircut circa 2005.

“My family is a little less Southern Redneck and more...”
— Alisha, when I compared her...

(via poppie)

(via bullshit)

“In Israeli artist Sigalit Landau’s sumptuous...

alexbalk: Additional pimpage: This recent post has done...

“How can I […] have all the bourgeois things I want...”
— David Bernardi, on the...

Once again, Christopher Baily blows me away with his...

“I assume it’s 400 pages of the word me in different...”
— Anonymous publishing peon, on...

“A son, John Charles Reindl Jr., weight eight pounds,...

I love that you can totally see the adult JC in him.

JC and I are friends because, in addition to Ivy League cred...

And to think, at this point, he didn’t even know who...

They look like assholes.  I’d make that face, too.

I RAN A 7:50 MILE TODAY!

I feel so lame and pathetic and OLD admitting it, but that...

mirnanda: Lose at checkers to German foreign exchange...

mirnanda: Thrift store shopping.

mirnanda: Dress up fancy for a sparkling grape juice and...

EDIT: IN 2008, that outfit would be perfectly acceptable if...

The epitome: JC is going to splurge on these Jeremy Scott...

Labor of love: If you’re not listening to Hercules and...

This is exactly what Gawker is supposed...

The first Gawker post in a while I’ve devoured like a Denny’s sampler. alexbalk: Nice...

“I would never rep Versace, I can’t stand her, I think...”
— Kelly Cutrone, the scariest...

myboys: Young Robert Downey Jr, circa 1981

The homosexual agenda.

By Jezebel commenter BlowJoy: 6:00 am Gym 8:00 am Breakfast (oatmeal, egg whites and mimosas) 9:00...

California Select: Real vintage clothing,...

“Throwing dishes is white trailer-trash behavior. Unless...”
— Tom, on my mother’s...

This is what I did this weekend.

Domestika: Michelle and Cliff cocooning.

“Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of...”
— Lionel Stander, a quote on a...

Fake American Apparel ads almost better than...

Miranda: There comes a time in every personal relationship...

Speaking of which: Jesse Marco (via COACD).

“Never fuck anyone you wouldn’t want to be.”
— “Octopusarms,” a...

Stuart Sandford’s work Untilted (Venice) explores ideas...

The Graduation of Amanda Finelli: Free from The...

Michelle & Allison recline on an interactive sculpture...

Jan Vormann fills cracks in walls with Legos in Italy.  (via...

Really want to know what’s making Toledo (and...

Today in unfairness: I cannot believe that out of all the...

“Is elegance not totally forgetting what one is wearing?”
— Yves Saint Laurent.

The beautiful fall: Yves Saint Laurent, 1936 - 2008.

JC and I celebrating night #2 of my birthday.  Count the...

“I’m sorry, we don’t dance to… A.I.D.S....”
— Brooke, when the DJ played a...

Sux and the City

Despite being choc full of astronomically expensive outfits, sky-high Manolos and four glamazonian,...

Tah-Dah!:  Moments into my twenty-third year.

Graham-urgency:  Brooke ducks down for a phone call.

Thursday, Midnight:  They karaoke’d TLC’s...

“If you begin to feel old, just find a nice 16-year-old...”
— Mandy Finelli’s birthday...

The most amazing front page photo of the...

This gem graced the front page of today’s New York Daily News under the headline “EAST...

Mandy: I want to wait until after my birthday to visit you. That way you can really show me the town.
Carlos: Okay, but don't get your hopes up. Toledo is the kind of place you can't swing a keffiyeh without knocking over five losers.

walk to class in front of ya /spilled kefir on your keffiyeh...

“It’s kind of like sickle cell anemia, only it’s...”
— Me, on JC’s blood...

(via foundatkinkos)

(via foundatkinkos)

(via foundatkinkos)

This basically sums up my feelings about Indiana Jones...

Oh, marc: An early birthday gift to myself, via Marc...

Why does the New York Times Magazine think...

“My cereal box just inspired a ManHunt screen name for you: ...”
— JC, via text.

Tangible metaphors:  Controlled Destruction by Arcangelo...

“Oh, I’m so jealous! The fashion must be fantastic!”
— John Waters, after being...

“Q: What are you doing tonight? A: Sex and the City London...”
— Michelle, on her fabulous...

Ashley: What am I going to wear to an AIDS benefit?
Carlos: A lesion?

Dana G., let's be friends.

New York, through the eyes of Dana Goldstein, is less of an orgy of kids who are cooler, more...

Dana G. (2008).

Dana G. (2008).

Dana G. (2008).

Dana G. (2008)

“I’m with Carlos, at a bar that’s suddenly become...”
— Gary, on the phone, while...

Madonna’s daughter, Lourdes:  MisShapes meets Frida...

I cannot wait to call this place my home. (via Gawker)

I’d be so jealous if I didn’t love them so...

Mnemonia:  Motivating Evan to be positive about Exam Week.

Hedi Slimane's photo diary.

Hedi Slimane Diary/2008.