Living Nostalgia (NYC)

All photos: OJ

One of my best friends in New York, someone who I (lovingly) blame for leading me into the flames, finally has a blog. If you don't already know him, it's useless to explain who he is. He might be the most genuine person I've ever met and engages freely in, fuck it, life. We love him for it. But I'd rather let him and his photos do the talking.

T2

Found an old Yashica T2 at Mauerpark a few weeks ago, 1 Euro! Test roll. Mostly from Brussels (except Eisenman's memorial). Just finished traveling through Belgium, the Netherlands, and briefly Denmark (mobile).

b(f)w

Few more film shots...

Berlin fashion week is this week, I guess... doubt I'll be making it to many (if any) of the events I've seen, but the projectGalerie showrooms look like a must. Starting tomorrow (July 7th) at HOF96 is an exhibition & sale of both international and local designers.

schwarzweiße

film landscapes of berlin and buenos aires (2010 and 2007 respectively)

on topic

Screenshot from T.A.T.U reversed. Tarkovsky quote from Julian Rosefeldt at the Berlinische Galerie.

Anwyn Crawford in Loops:
Her hands are clenched into fists near her chin, and her shoulders are raised. Occasionally she gives a convulsive shiver. Her face is wrinkled into an expression of ecstasy verging on pain, her eyes closed, her mouth open and wet. Perhaps she is crying as well as screaming. In this state she is helplessly transported, but the transport is threatening. When will the fit be over? Who will shut her up? It is not that she has words – she is beyond and before those. Wordless, intensely emotional and undeniably sexual – this is the state in which teenage girls are understood to connect with music, and with those performing it. It is all in their bodies: they do not intellectualise; their opinions are instinctive rather than considered. Without rational judgement or the ability to articulate it, a teenage girl will always be a fan, never a critic.
(criticism via a grammar)

Comment pool on Marxist Feminism.

Melancology: ...it is not ecology, it is anorganic; it is not political economy, it is anti-instrumental; it is not love of nature, environmentalism, Gaia, geophilosophy ... But it implies an ethos and a style that delineates the third aspect of the concept, its embodiment in a conceptual personae: the black metal kvltist whose ethos runs across the spectrum of melancholy from bile and rage to sorrow, depression and the delectation of evil all the better to affirm the desolation s/he contemplates in the sonorous audibility of black metal’s sovereign dissonance.

julius

Julius S/S 2011 (2nd shot via sonny photos)

Tatsuro Horikawa consistently articulates his vision.. utilitarian pieces for an urban wasteland. Cargo pants seem reasonable in such a landscape.

exhale

Been wandering all over the city, stumbling upon gem after gem, basking in solitude. Some highlights of the last few weeks: Gleis 17 memorial in the Grunewald, locks on bridges, Hall of Mirrors, seeing an old friend perform at Berghain, Artemis, the East Side Gallery, the CSD parade, and all the weekend fleamarkets. So far I've been to Boxhagener Platz, Fehrbelliner Platz, Arkonaplatz, Mauerpark, and Strasse des 17 Juni...

...so much inspiration, everywhere

morgens

Stomping..

The sunday fleamarket at Mauerpark, some rucksack inspiration via the German History museum, the perfect black shoes at Superstore, welcoming summer with BBS shorts from Darklands, the beautiful weather in Kreuzberg.

What I would do for a bucket of ice here.

Songs I'm "feeling on the S-Bahn"
Polygon Window (AFX), If It Really Is Me
Basic Channel, Presence (Edit)
In Flagranti, Through the Rabbit Hole (Clap Rules remix)