Julia Chesky crept out into the night with us and documented the scene at Kim Cogan’s, Kristin Baker’s, and Paul McCarthy’s openings, plus a party at OAK.

Amazing images created using the camera obscura by Abelardo Morell.

Read more about him here on Flaunt

I had a chance to revisit Jim Houser’s solo show at Jonathan Levine yesterday, and came away with an ever greater appreciation for the artist and his work.  I especially dug how he arranged the work, have a look above

Really how could it not be with such a great assortment of names (Damien Hirst, Kenny Scharf, Marc Newson, KAWS, Shepard Fairey, and Yoshimoto Nara) customizing a sick model bike for charity. The result of each bike that went up for auction is in the slideshow, and the final tally was “$1,125,000 going directly to The Lance Armstrong Foundation to help fund outreach, awareness, research, and advocacy.”

More detail on the bikes here

It’s been six months since my last one of these.  Here is some randomness since then.

We did some analytical research to find this out.

City Noise has some great scans from NYC in late 80’s up to 2000.  This is just a taste.  See them all here

In the spirit of the World Series, the New York Public Library has put together a great selection of photographs of New York and Philadelphia’s baseball teams from the late 19th and early 20th century.  If only baseball players of today had to wear the uniforms of yore.  Ha! Collars for all.  See the entire set here

Before they had you, they were cool. Check out this tumblr, your parents were awesome, for a ton of trendsetting family photos.

I just stumbled across Raymond, pretty interesting work. See for yourself

This week’s 10 were put together by our homie at The Whoa!

Vanguard is based out of Singapore and focuses on the creation of beautiful, custom bicycles as well the restoration of classic bikes.  For more depth, have a look at their site.

The wonderful ladies over at Suicide Girls sent us a gaggle of Halloween-themed images, and now we share.

Quite a name for this Brooklyn-based Artist.  All of these deserve to be seen big, which you can do here

If your girl is still looking for some Halloween inspiration, have her check out the illustrations of Aly Fell.  Fresh.

via, Drawn

Five years ago I was 25, spending time in Italy trying to sort out what the hell I wanted to do with my life.  I came to NY.  While sorting through files this weekend, I came across a bunch of touristy images from that period of my life.  Enjoy.

Unfortunately, Clash of the Titans which was supposed to take place next week in Melbourne Australia has been postponed until a later date.  Here’s a look (in this order) at Aroe, Askew, Ces, Dems, Dmote, Ewok, Pose, Rime, Sofle, and Vans.  All would have put on quite a show/battle.