Last week I was in Seoul. This is my wrap-up of their fashion week for Style.com.
Easter Sunday two days ago, walking home from dinner at my favorite fish restaurant in the world, Kaikaya by the Sea, Tokyo.
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Chungmuro station, last week in Seoul.
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‘Black Sun’ by Sue De Beer (2005)
De Beer’s videos have moved beyond her earlier work’s explicit invocation of adolescence, while retaining many of her characteristic visual modes and psychological types. Black Sun, her investigation of multivalent identity and of ephemeral moments of direct, unmigitated sensation, centres on aspects of feminine desire and display via the ‘spatial metaphors’ of Julia Kristiva evoked by the title. Wanting, one might argue, is ultimately determined by the idea of memory; the focus on the peak and the final moments crowd out memories of duration. The video traces the life or the memory of a single girl at three significant ages, marked by simple, numerical intertitles.
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Genis Carreras’ philosophy posters are genius.
This is my favorite, caption below:
“Relativisim.
Points of view have no absolute truth or validity, having only relative, subjective value according to differences in perception and consideration. Principles and ethics are regarded as applicable in only limited context.”
Via io9.com
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A puffer fish restaurant in Sinsadong, Seoul.
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Interesting take on a longstanding and often devastating truth.
There’s a Jane Austen-ish quality to online social life. The written word gains unmatched power and inarguable primacy. Personal relationships now, to a much greater degree than, say, 30 years ago, hinge on our ability to write — if not necessarily well, in a formal, Strunk and White manner, then at least effectively. This change makes us not disconnected so much as it makes us archaic. Austen’s characters easily expressed extreme emotion in long letters and then in person sat twitchily near one another, paralyzed with manners.
Though our letters are not delivered by servants or horse-drawn carriages, our relationships once again live and die in the texts with which we barter with each other. The internet age unavoidably resembles the 19th century novel’s depiction of human intimacy, as so many of us pour passionate confessions into emails, messages, and chat boxes. Our physical reactions when together are often disguises for what we could so candidly admit in writing.
- Helena Fitzgerald, “Kissing Is Not the Answer,” The New Inquiry Magazine, No. 3: Arguing the Web
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A photo hasn’t made me smile this much in a long time.
by Mark Hunter (The cobrasnake is still doing ad campaigns?)
Starring Charlotte Free for the new Wildfox Couture Summer 2012 “Sirene” collection.
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Interview magazine Russia, April 2012.
Photographer: Steven Pan
Models: Alana Zimmer and Hanne Gaby Odiele
Stylist: Karen Kaiser
Via Fashionising.
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