The greatest things happen when L.A and Paris meet.....

Appart from moi-même, another great by-product of the meeting of  L.A and Paris, is the Beck and Charlotte Gainsbourg collaboration. One of my favorite angeleno ever, the most ecclectic-weirdo-boogie-dancing-genius Beck went to Paris to produce Charlotte's album, IRM, which will be out in late december on Electra.

They made a song as a duo, Heaven Can Wait, and I dont know who directed the video, but its totally trippy and surprising in a way that I love.
I always liked Charlotte a lot,but as an actor more than a musician, because I found her tone a little whinny and whispery, and maybe also because of the adoration and love I have for her father Serge Gainsbourg's work ...im saying that with all the respect and admiration i have for her, she is absolutely the coolest French woman alive, and by far the most stylish as well. Love her, right... but her music until now, I have to say, was a little YAWN for my taste.
Until He, the masked avenger from California came along, gave her a little 70s funk flair, all the while keeping her melacholy, but with just enough spice and beat to keep my attention, and make me want more....
I never get tired of him; from his first to his last album, I think Beck is one of the most accomplished musicians of our generation...
I leave you with these videos to watch and love.

Green Porno is good for you.

Everything Green is better, you know that by now.
But Porno, you think? WHAT???
Well yeah.

Green Porno is the genius GENIUS project that Isabella Rossellini directs and acts in.
Remember her? she was about the most beautiful model of the 80s, the face for Lancome for years.
Now he has a brilliant show on sundance, called Green Porno, where she teaches us, the uneducated viewe about animal reproduction.

I LOVE IT!!!
Its so creative, pretty, original, funny, smart and unexpected, it got me going for a while, laughing my head off, and to tell you the truth, I learned so much! Watch the shows, laugh with me, and enjoy your guilt free porno.

The 7th letter, or How Graffitti still tingles my sprinkles.

Most of you who live in LA are familiar with Retna and El Mac's work. Some of you just don't know it. If you drive just slow enough, you might notice unbelievable works of Art -with a capital A- adorning the walls of our your busiest streets.
These guys are most definitely NOT vandals.
What they do, is make your and my life a little better, by putting some HI quality Art on the streets, available and free for all to see.
I am CRAZY about their stuff, CRAZY about Mac's portraits and Retna's calligraphic delirium, I love these cats.
I called them "cats" cause I do believe that's what cool people call each other, out there on the streets.

 for the love of Art, go check out their stuff.

RETNA / The Mac from RVCA on Vimeo.

VIMBY - Retna

VIMBY | MySpace Video

Art moment: Sylvia JI's master work...

You have seen Sylvia Ji's work on the cover of L.A weekly, and featured numerous times in Juxtapoz. I love her Calavera ladies, just creepy sexy beautiful.

Corey Helford Gallery is one of my go to places when Im in need of contemporary art in L.A... I miss Culver City and the galleries there, wine and cheese with the ladies.
They always have the best shows and great art. Go on their mailing list, and attend their openings!!!

Bitch music

Its wednesday, I feel just a little bitchy and edgy
This is my
dont rub me the wrong way
morning
music
getting ready to work with good crisp bitch music
sing too loud for my own lungs, shake this body, feel better.
the bitch is tamed.
you're welcome.

bat for lashes

santigold
fever ray-as remixed by bassnectar
noisettes

yeah yeah yeahs

the kills

peaches

cat power

Ann Demeulemesteer+Patti Smith= me happy

Ann Demeulemeulemeulemeule, ladies and gentlemen.
Another proof that all good things come from Antwerp.

I'll take one of each, please.

the coat? the pants? the shoes? I couldn't have dreamed better.

 

wear this jacket and run away.

 sweet lord up on the cross save me.

Ann understood everything. Everything about life, death and the universe.

Its like she has a wire tapped straight into my subconscious, and thinks the thoughts I don't even dare.

And of course, her muse is Patti Smith.

wild

  free

 deep

  LOUD

My feet are depressed.

 They need  something to put some spring in their step.

i need shoes by maniishma featuring Jeffrey Campbell shoes

Items in this set:
Felissimo.co.jp shoes, 3,900 JPY
Jeffrey Campbell boots, $168
Dr.martens boots, $135
adidas sneakers
Urbanoutfitters.com boots, $78

Goopy Elemental?

I made some little paintings for my neices who are turning 9 today.
Twins are so wonderful to be around and watch, all you do is notice the differences, like in those picture games from when we were kids.
It was fun for me painting them, I totally went in the zone after the boys went to sleep, and way into the night.
I really enjoy working with acrylic, its so goopy and elemental.
Here are the finished product. Im happy with it.

So fresh and so clean, clean.

photo chantal michel from fffound ...ON DIRAIT GERALDINE,HEIN

We have a ritual at my house which is called Cinderella Sunday . You guessed exactly what it means, and so you can figure how my week end was. I got my boys to clean the fridge, I made it sound like a team sport and got them 50c each for helping, and lo and behold, the fridge was clean in less time than it takes to say " lo and behold", just a dollar later.
I am notorious on all 5 continents for my messes, and so today I am linking to a keeping your house organized post, in hommage to Anna, and all that she ever wanted to teach me!
In other good news, I actually got some pretty bad ass work going this week end. Late night sketching, good stuff. I promise to post my sketches. One day.

SOIS MOCHE ET TAIS TOI!!! (shut up and be ugly)

My friend and  wunderkind designer Charles Anastase created the Proud Of Being Ugly Group ( club des moches) on facebook, and I have to admit that I was a bit ...hurt....when I first got the invitation, until I was explained, slowly and nicely, that the point of the group was to let go of our  beauty stigmas, especially in the silly industry we work in, and to underline the fact that we all look butt ugly at some point during our lives, and as far as I'm concerned, that happens every morning.
Yes, people. I too am proud of being ugly.
Isn't my non-beauty actually leaving just enough space for me to be charming, funny, deep?
I like to think so...
I'm not going to go all Kierkegaard on you or anything, but I have often pondered at my fascination with beautiful things, places, music, books,and my lack of interrest in beautiful people. I was always more mesmerized by the awkward, exotic, rare, hard faces, and I think I am proud to be sporting one myself...
If you are on facebook, and you too look like ass at some point  during your day, join the group.
That being said, I was reading this style blog last time, called Balibulle, in which the writer, Charlotte Moreau, shows off different wardrobes and discusses style or whatever, and there was this whole post about her beauty daily routine, and how now that she is in her 30s, she has to buy and apply stuff to her face so that it wont fall apart Yeah. Thats what happens to most of us. We all reach a point when a good nights sleep and a lot of water are not enough to have fresh taught tight skin, and when we find ourselves perusing the aisles of our pharmacies looking at all these different products that swear to us, they will keep us young.
Ladies and gentlemen, I have bad news. Youth is not a creme. It is a moment in ones life, that is exciting and

 worth while, but unfortunately, ephemeral.  And no matter how tight our skin is, no matter how high our pigtails, no matter how short the cheerleader skirt, when we hit 60, we will be 60.
The creams might promise that this day will never happen, but it will and  I really hope it does.
I am not saying to stop putting on the eye cream that you "patpatpat around the eyes, and never spread". I am not saying that wanting to keep your skin fresh in your 30s is a delusion, I  HIGHLY RECOMMEND MOISTURIZING, and I understand why women, such as myself invest their hard earned dosh on creme.

No.What I am saying, is I want to grow old, gracefully and naturally. And when Im a Granny, I dont want to look like a tweenie.

Your man, My man, THE man Jonathan Safran Foer is at it again.

J.S.F is such the sensation in contemporary American literature, and for some damn good reasons. His two novels, Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close were some of the most captivating and marvelous books I read, ever. Truly ground breaking writter, if you did not read this books, get them. You'll thank me later.
My friends and I have this cult-like obsession with him, and we found a while ago this link to a documentary he made for goveg.com about Kosher slaughter houses.
Honestly I couldn't watch through the whole thing. It was gruesome and left me forever shaken. I was so comfortable under my kosher blankie I really thought the animals I was eating were "better" killed...... NNNNoooot.
I 'm not sure anymore if this was the drop that lead me to drop meat. Maybe?
Anywho, Safran Foer wrote a non fiction book.WHAAAT?!
Its called Eating Animals. WHAT??!!
Being that Jonathan is a regular on the New Yorker and the New York Times, they both have interesting articles about it, and I for one, will read the book, as a true fan does.
Although I am quite sure I will be traumatize once again.

Also while I'm at it, I will mention that  JSF is also married to an AMAZING writer, Nicole Krauss who wrote The History Of Love, which is such a beautiful read. Together they form, in my opinion the absolute hottest New York Vegetarian Jewish Intellectuals with Good looks couple. They are young, talented, proactive, and inspiring. They make me nauseous they're so perfect, but I won't hate them for it.

Chillin with Schiele

Honestly one of the perks of living in Montreal is that they have proper French bakeries, and cafes. Before I get to the store, I pick up some kind of croissant  and a coffee.
Sensory memories galore.
Comfort zone.
If you give a french girl a croissant. Or something.
Well this morning, as I was sipping my coffee and munching on my pain aux raisins, reading my email, I get this invite to go see the FROM KLIMT TO KLEE exhibit at the Neue Gallery in New York.
As most of my friends know, I am a total sucker for German and Austrian Art, specifically in love with the work of Egon Scheile.
I really would love to hop on a plane and go to see this retrospective, and spend sometime in NYC while Im at it, but unfortunately I CAN'T, so I am here, chilling with Scheile, on a thursday morning, drinking coffee that taste like COFFEE.
This is why I like Egon so much:

He knows how to use white.

He is mad sexy

and so wickedly contemporary.

I found this editorial online from the magasine I-D , which is always a great go to for inspiration by-the by, and I think they totally rocked the Schiele aesthetics.

 

I totally adored it. What do you think?

ART+ART=ART

I'm always awed when artists find a new way to flatter their art, and this french boy Reuno, an illustrator, associated himself to the indie folk band Uniform Motion Pictures, and together, they make animated music, or musical animation , as you wish. I'm so into this, the art, the music, all of it, this is dreamy.



Rain & Soil from Uniform Motion on Vimeo.

Today's fashion inspiration. Mc Queen

Fuck me.
This guy is not normal, he comes from another planet.
Check out these prints!!!!
Check out the shoes!!!!!
SWEET LORD UP ON THE CROSS
What are you doing to me?????
I cant put everything here, but CHECK-a-CHECK-a-CHECKITOUT!.

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