Barbara Kruger’s never really talked about Supreme, the skate company who’s been ripping off her ideas and prints letter for letter, color for color, for their red-and-white logo, which you have seen, because it is everywhere.
I emailed her casually to ask her about this. And today, she got back to me, and gave a candid statement on the matter of Supreme for the first time, ever, really. By emailing me a blank email, with an attachment. Which you can see above.
This is SUCH a baller move.
dream woman with the best words
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This is fucking fantastic.
Caddis fly larvae are known to incorporate bits of whatever they can find into their cocoons, be it fish bone or bits of leaves. Hubert Duprat gave them gold, turquoise, gems and pearls.
well.. aren’t these fly larvae just fancy
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My best theory is this: When we are children, we invent these detailed imaginary worlds that the child psychologists call ‘paracosms.’ These landscapes, sometimes complete with imaginary beasts, heroes and laws, help us orient ourselves in reality. They are structured mental communities that help us understand the wider world.
We carry this need for paracosms into adulthood. It’s a paradox that the artists who have the widest global purchase are also the ones who have created the most local and distinctive story landscapes. Millions of people around the world are ferociously attached to Tupac Shakur’s version of Compton or J.K. Rowling’s version of a British boarding school or Downton Abbey’s or Brideshead Revisited’s version of an Edwardian estate.
Millions of people know the contours of these remote landscapes, their typical characters, story lines, corruptions and challenges. If you build a passionate and highly localized moral landscape, people will come.
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The Power of the Particular – David Brooks, who has previously admonished about the dangerous division of intuition and rationality, makes a case for finding your particularity and making it your purpose.
Brooks is the author of The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement.
*This reminds me of what Wes Anderson said about his style:
There were times when I thought I should change my approach, but in fact, this is what I like to do. It’s sort of like my handwriting as a movie director. And somewhere along the way, I think I’ve made the decision: I’m going to write in my own handwriting. That’s just sort of my way.”
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Jessica Harrison opens up everyday, delicate figurines of women.
that’s glass.
Brian Ulrich’s Copia—Retail, Thrift, and Dark Stores, 2001-11, a decade-long examination of the American consumer psyche, at the Cleveland Museum of Art
i love candy chang. Touching, interactive and urban.
— Hugh MacLeod, “In Praise of ‘Small Art’ (via austinkleon)
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Juliana Santacruz Herrera is filling Paris’s cracks and pothole with braided strips of fabric. Next up: New York!
