material concern

melanie griffin in Body Double….

i can’t believe a haven’t blogged about the Source Family book yet.

Written by Isis Aquarian, the records keeper of the Source, the book explores the growth and changes and ideas of the source family.

The Source was a big inspiration for my Spring 09 collection, and amazingly influential across the board.

here are some pics from the book below, and links to the book above.

this movie looks amazing.

i love teenaged diane lane and her in the makeup is just awesome.

i feel like MIA managed to be both

a DO:

and a DONT:

at the grammy’s last night.

agree? disagree? do tell.

thanks to luren, who sent this to me…its amazing

i love iris apfel.

i saw her at the manhattan vintage show like 3 years ago and it was one of my top celebrity sightings. ever.

but, my hair is my hair, so i might have actually had a hair cut like this but it would just be a ball of curls.

so, even though i’ve been designing tshirts for a living for like 6 years, I rarely wear them. However, with the election coming up I dared ask myself: should I wear an OBAMA tee? and if so, should I buy one or make one? and if i buy one, should i care where the profits go (to obama or to the artist) and if i make one, should i make more than one and be involved in the previous conundrum.

i think, if you are wearing the tee you are advertising your candidate: and so the money could just go to the artist. However, i think the artist should be donating a % to obama or move on or another organization to help: because the message and the symbolism they are selling doesn’t belong to them.

In any case: here are some of my favorites:

nick and jaime always do a great job over at print liberation:

i like this moveon.org tee, but i think they knocked off the above print liberation’s style (however, move on gives money to register voters):

these two from screened are pretty good too:

and i would never wear this one: but i think its pretty funny:

and, just to show that barack obama is cooler than your average politician: he had a threadless-esque feature on his site for submitted tee ideas: unfortunately they are not as good as the ones above…

L.A. street style, exhibition at LACMA from June 19 to September 17, 1973.  Relaunched this Saturday Sept 6 2008. Tickets here.

We are watching “I’m not here.”

I think bob dylan is fantastic. we all do, don’t we? Which is basically the gist of this film.

I remember horrible middle school and having to find a poem for the excuse of an english class and I found desolation row: I hadn’t even heard of bob dylan (my parents had a donovan record and some phil ochs and lots of opera and classical and thats it), and I was blown away and probably embarrassed myself by not knowing who he was when i went home and asked about this awesome poet i found.

but I digress; this movie is good if only to point more giant neon arrows at how awesome bob dylan is, and cate blanchett does a transformative job.

this is her as bob dylan.

the best part is when dylan goes electric: I ‘ve always found it so attractive and strong that he just did what he wanted to do without regard for his image or for perhaps for a brilliant understanding of the future of his image.

also, for those of you who don’t know me: i kinda look like bob dylan when i wear my sunglasses, esp if i’m having a bad hairday:)

kinda.