LIPSTiCK TrACeZ

There were beautiful paintings used in the movie by Philadelphian artist,Alex Kanevsky.

Here are some of his works i found on his gallery's site.

Read an interview with the artist here.

Here is a photo of an asian Sigmund Freud & his freudian slip in the Libertine studio.

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My favourite video podcast of the week consists of Swarovski's own video of their collaboration with Alexander McQueen for Spring 09.

Each room was built and photographed by her in her Harlem studio.

The Isreali born video/installation artist creates worlds where the women's unique characteristics are utilized to make chains of cause and effect.

Click here to see the making of these photographs.

Everyone should buy this issue and plaster their walls with them.

Paula was born in Lisbon 1935 under the Salazar dictatorship.She survived her early life escaping into the vivid folktales that were told to her by her elders and playing at the beach.

In her paintings,she brings the characters and I can interpret the rest according to my experiences.

For example in 'Pregnant Rabbit Telling Her Parents' I  envisioned my sister,Lila, when she first found out she was with child.

(Paula's main model was named Lila as well)

My Lila ended up using this picture for the invitation to her baby shower.

This book is most amazing to me because you can see the gathering,making and arrangement of the costumes and props for her paintings. Along with the live models which included her whole family.

Here is The Pillowman. He's originally from a play that portrays a sad doll stuffed with pillows whom compassionately smothers children to death-to spare them the misery of adult life.

Her subjects involve taking care of her dying mother,Jane Eyre,death by broken heart,and female binge drinking as a mark of equality.

Meet the Dog Woman.

Paula hopes to have an exhibition of the assemblages with her paintings one day.

Here are some shots I was able to take between breaths...

Johnson Hartig & Maryam Malakpour wearing new Libertine SS09

Caitin wearing more of the collection

Maryam's little baby,Sophie. She is getting ready to be in a Marie Claire shoot

And a few looks from Ben Cho's show at the Altman Building on Tuesday night

When I was a child,the summers were possibly the worst time because instead of being able to go outside and do nothing,my mother would force my sister and I to stay inside and do math homework.

That backfired since I got so angry that I purposely failed math-and piano for that matter after 8 years of lessons,I still cant play anything but the beginning of stairway to heaven. Those were the early days of rebellion.

Enough reminiscing from my twilight years...

I took ANOTHER camping trip this past weekend with some lovely friends,one being the talented writer, Lesley Arfin.

Here's a pic of her and our friend Dan.

If you've done your summer reading,you will already know her autobiographical book,Dear Diary. The first time I picked it up,I couldn't put it down until it was finished.

I felt a kinship to say the least (especially finding god in a strawberry).

Not only is her book inspiring, but it opens up the universe for all people to go express themselves and tell their story.

It will be available on paperback very soon. Let's hope they make a film version too!

Equally enticing is her new post as Editor at Large at Missbehave Magazine. 

And if you live here in NYC, jumpstart Fashion Week tonight by dancing to the sounds of the 90's at BOWERY ELECTRIC. Lesley & Gregg K spin records every Thursday-located at Bowery and 2nd Street. 11-4am

And..don't forget to check her blog for bits of Lesley's facetious wisdomisms...http://cafeconlesley.blogspot.com/

We later reunited in NYC and I was able to witness the genesis of these kaleidoscopic paintings.

With love, hate and everything spanning inbetween-they crawl into the kitty corners of my mind.

 I entertain the thought of joining the crusade movement of these bears.

Recently Rich had a show at the V1 gallery in Copenhagen-here is a shot of the gallery.

I only can dream and hope of a world where people emit brilliant prisms from their orifices.

These paintings are unbelievably beautiful even moreso in real life when you can behold all the details.

A special sneak at a piece he's working on right now...

Here's his studio manager,Pua Pisano taking pencil inventory.

He also has a great book out available-dirty version available on the website.

Richard currently resides in San Francisco.

For more news look at: www.richardcolmanart.com 

That's when I first discovered Tony Schwartz,a pioneer documentarian and the one of the first people who transformed sound recordings into an artistic means of expression.

Throughout the 90's,I used to always carry my cassette recorder while driving across America and steal the sounds of the open sky,$12 pr night motels,plates & spoons clanking in lonesome diners,native folks chatting and everything else the highway brought.

I had no idea that 53 years prior to that,Tony had began his documentary life,recording every walk of life on the street around him in New York with a wecor wire recorder.

This accumulated into 19 albums of street sound and folk music for Folkways and Columbia Records.

I haven't listened to his entire body of work- which is archived in the Library of Congress,but so far one of my favourites is The World in My Mailbox.

Agoraphobia made it that he couldn't leave New York,so he would trade his tapes of city street sounds for other people's tapes of their environment.

Also,for 31 years he had a radio show dedicated to people and sounds on WNYC.

You can listen to a show about him here.

Tony passed away this past June.