material concern

So, i’ve been going back and forth on this Hillary/barak issue…and i decided to vote for a woman over a man…in comedy that is!

I voted with hard cash money (can you believe movies are cheaper in LA…its funny, like they have no shipping costs) at the box office for Baby Mama, because I hate that women are either secondary or worse in comedies. To be honest, before I took my seat I got a little embarrassed to buy the tickets because…its about babies and was maybe gonna be dumb, and that’s not usually the kind of movie i go see.

but, the theater was packed, and isaac, me and everyone in it pretty much laughed the whole time (other that the cheesy sum up period that all comedies have to have it seems). It was great. I loved it. Fay/Poehler in 2008.

Studio1636 is pleased to announce an exciting one of a kind group show. 40+ Artists were supplied with a 3′x3′ paper “canvas” to create a single edition which will be available for purchase through silent auction: only on Saturday.
Silent Auction begins at 7pm and closes at 9:30pm, Saturday May 3rd.
(Cash & Check Only)
RSVP to Studio1636@gmail.com with “I Love Paper” in the subject line.

check out her possibly fake twitter account here:

http://twitter.com/jennyholzer

she’s following guy debord

http://twitter.com/guydebord

who’s twitter is obviously fake, as he is dead.

because i love him and who doesn’t other than johnny? really. liberal and that tall? c’mon.

Last saturday, I met Marcus, the designer of SDN (we did a sidewalk sale/trunk show together).  Marcus makes awesome tap shorts out of vintage textiles and great denim jumpsuits that look like perfect drawings.  I have to admit, I actually own too many jumpsuits to purchase another, but if I did, I’d go straight to SDN:).

So, Vogue has recently been on my total shit list, for a couple reasons: the pro-ana interview of Thandie Newton and the prescribed diet given to the talented ladies of Rodarte.

However, this month’s issue has a great (albeit short) article about Virginia Lee Burton. I loved her books when I was little: Katy the snowplow and Mary, steam shovel to Mike Mulligan (all the books had strong female characters: usually anthropormorphized as large machinery).

What I didn’t know is that she founded a print collective called the Folly Cove Collective in Massachussets during the depression. The work is quirky and strong. You can see more images from Folly Cove here (and all images other than the book covers are from the same site). In honor of the aspects of Vogue I sometimes have a problem with, I have included her print Reducing, which features women working out.

A new documentary, Virginia Lee Burton: A Sense of Place, directed by Dawn Fulton, plays the Nation Museum of Women in the Arts in DC this month.

Gen art featured popomomo positively in the most recent Pulse newsletter! Check it out here:

http://www.genartpulse.com/archives/2008/04/popomomo_spring_2008.php

This Saturday the 19th at Sodafine (119 grand st in williamsburg)

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Big Sidewalk Sale

Popomomo, SDN, and Dear Birthday

We’ll have the whole popomomo spring line at sodafine, including some sodafine exclusives.

Also, popomomo fall will be ridiculously discounted! Lucky you….and the other designers are awesome and offering big sales and new spring stuff as well!

hope to see you and come say hi:

We went to the mall this weekend (new battery for the laptop), and stopped in the Lego store.

I loved Legos as a kid, and the store was pretty well designed, so it was a good nostalgic experience until I saw….

#)$(*()%#(%*& pink gendered Lego kits?

Right there on the shelf were a couple sets of, for lack of a better word, pink kits. I could almost say it was okay if the only division between these kits and other lego kits were the color (pink lego pieces could be cool). But, what made me upset was the fact that there appeared to be very little building involved in these kits: like, “make a pink fence for the pink horse and purple house we provide,” as opposed to “assemble this huge pink fairy tale castle out of 100045pink legos,” which at least would give the kids playing with pink legos equal access to all the skills one gains from playing with plastic blocks in the first place. The castle in question here appeared to not even have build-able parts!

I remember my brother and I getting to share the lego castle for Hannukah one year, it was the best present. I can’t imagine if i had received a pink kit with about 20 minutes of assembly and he got the castle. the gendered kits and insulting and lame.

these new shoes by LD Tuttle are awesome (you can get them at creatures of comfort). As a clothing designer, I find shopping for shoes to be awesome and horrible: I know what i don’t like about most shoes (and am super picky) but I can’t fix them and in most cases, don’t know exactly what i would change about them.

when i find a line of shoes i like, i love.