Susanna Majuri

For his Fall 2008 lookbook, designer Adam Kimmel enlisted the help of his downtown friends to show off the the new duds. Included in the lookbook are Ryan Mcginley (above), Ear Snot, Dan Colen, and Telly from that movie Kids. More at Men.Style.Com

In the spirit of all the politics in the air, rising art star Brandon Friend sent me over an image of his newly finished work.

Pledge of Allegiance
36″ x 54″
Acrylic / Mixed media
2008

A great video by incredible artists, Cern and Space, accompanied by a dope soundtrack. YMI crew

AMC Best Picture Showcase all-day showing of the 2008 Best Picture Oscar nominees. On Saturday, Feb. 23, the AMC Best Picture Showcase ($30) will let you waste your entire day watching all five nominees,

Michael Clayton
There Will Be Blood
Atonement
Juno
No Country for Old Men

They will shocase the films back-to-back at 81 select AMC theaters. The admission also includes a free large popcorn with unlimited refills all day.

Now I wonder what the order will be.

Move over suzie, another obsession of mine is chapstick, or maybe the need for it. Anyway this little tube for Clarks Botanicals looks cool and it works. And they have a really great logo.

And if thats not enough here’s the tear-jerker story behind the product…
“Clark’s Botanicals was born out of tragedy when company founder Francesco Clark, who then worked at Harper’s Bazaar, suffered a crippling spinal cord injury in a swimming pool diving accident on June 1, 2002.

With his central nervous system impaired, Francesco lost the ability not only to walk, but even to sweat. This led to clogged pores and chronic breakouts. When neither over-the-counter nor prescriptive remedies worked, he turned to his father, Dr. Harold Clark, a physician trained in both traditional Western medicine and homeopathy.

Together they developed botanically-based formulas that effectively rebalanced Francesco’s skin, clearing it up entirely. Through word-of-mouth, other people discovered and fell in love with these products, and in 2005, Francesco began selling Clark’s Botanicals on his website: www.clarksbotanicals.com”

Wednesday’s Muse, Model Jil Bauwens.

The four-century-old ceramics company Royal Tichelaar Makkum, collaborated with dutch industrial design designer Dick van Hoff. He has created a series of beautiful “functional” pieces. Each piece combines ceramics with oak. the Ceramic clock with oak, pen tray with oak, vace with oak, and the lamp.(with oak).The Work collection is now extended with two new colours in limited editions. Colour platinum 25 pieces and colour orange 100 pieces. The price of the complete set as shown is € 3533,00.The works is also sold separately.

One of the most amazing young female artists of our time. Swoon speaking at MoMa. Watch these with your morning coffee.

I used to have a board game similar to this called Trafficking in college. Needless to say, it was never played because it was way too difficult and we were pretty lazy.I definitely dig the write up:Leave Doobietown, USA and journey to an intriguing port of call, score caches of dope and return home anxious to sell. Sounds simple, and it is — as long as karma, skill, and the roll of the dice are on your side, and you don’t get hassled at any borders, ripped off by your partner, or busted. Yeh, busted. Lots of dealers go to jail. Yes, dealing is a high risk/high gain situation. Remember, all dealers play hard, but they don’t all play fair. When in doubt, ask yourself what McDope would do if he were there.Available at Last Gasp

I found a bunch of pictures today from when I first moved to NY. Here is one.

I caught this little blurb in Page Six yesterday “44-year-old supermodel Elle Macpherson is dating Vito Schnabel, the sexy 21-year-old art dealer son of acclaimed director Julian Schnabel.” Fuck. Seriously, good for this kid. See the opportunities you are given when you are born into some type of celebrity household.

via, page six

Apple has increased the size of the iphone(16 gig) and the ipod touch(32 gig). Now you have another reason to upgrade.

“Greatest Fast Food Invention Yet: Col-Pop Holds Your Soda and Your Chicken Nuggets”. I do not eat the fast food, but I have to say this is the best product design idea ever! Via Gizmodo

The new issue of The Journal is out on newsstands now. Issue 21 features Helmut Lang, Miranda July, Juergen Teller, Tomoo Gokita, Mark Borthwick, Beirut, Kenneth Cappello, Kon Trubkovitch, Kazumi Asamura, Julia Burlingham, Andrew Kuo, Tim Barber, Kathy Lo and others. As always it is an entertaining read.

John Varvatos, probably one of the only designers that designs “wearable” clothes right off the rack. Check out his fall line at men.style.com. These are my two new favorite jackets.

I may just make this a sticky so you are forced to watch it every single day.

Kehinde Wiley. Modern master and all around nice guy. Al Gore Tv brings him into focus.

No matter who it is, demigod, republicanator, Vote today! Speak for yourself, do not let others decide your fate.The sites:John MccainMitt RomneyHillary ClintonBarack ObamaPlay USAToday’s MatchGame to see which candidate you are aligned with.