From Now On:

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Mon, 20 May 2013 08:38:34 -0400

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Mon, 20 May 2013 08:36:42 -0400

connorcoverism: Undercover S/S 11 “Underman”

Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:32 -0400

connorcoverism:

Undercover S/S 11 “Underman”

me

Sun, 19 May 2013 02:22:57 -0400

Dirty elevator selfie from last night HEY

Sat, 18 May 2013 12:42:52 -0400

Dirty elevator selfie from last night HEY

boldchoice: Warzone demo

Sat, 18 May 2013 08:30:51 -0400

boldchoice:

Warzone demo

foolsoftheworld: I tried

Sat, 18 May 2013 08:25:41 -0400

foolsoftheworld:

I tried

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Fri, 17 May 2013 01:04:55 -0400

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Fri, 17 May 2013 00:47:10 -0400

nevver: Still falls the rain

Thu, 16 May 2013 00:43:11 -0400

nevver:

Still falls the rain

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Wed, 15 May 2013 01:49:41 -0400

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Tue, 14 May 2013 23:46:31 -0400

boldchoice: ANTIDOTE - OG LINEUP/LOUIE ON THE MIC.

Tue, 14 May 2013 08:26:37 -0400

boldchoice:

ANTIDOTE - OG LINEUP/LOUIE ON THE MIC.

wryer: by Jenny Holzer

Tue, 14 May 2013 01:55:15 -0400

wryer:

by Jenny Holzer

brooklynesque: Soloist keychain

Tue, 14 May 2013 01:54:58 -0400

brooklynesque:

Soloist keychain

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Tue, 14 May 2013 01:43:05 -0400

dortuno: Sonic Youth in Downtown Houston circa 1986 Taken by...

Tue, 14 May 2013 01:41:01 -0400

dortuno:

Sonic Youth in Downtown Houston circa 1986

Taken by Phil Kreg

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Tue, 14 May 2013 01:14:35 -0400

organization: Dream Shop with neon-lit fitting room, MoMU-...

Tue, 14 May 2013 01:13:01 -0400

organization:

Dream Shop with neon-lit fitting room, MoMU- Fashion Museum Province of Antwerp
Photograph by Ronald Stoops
Antwerp, Belgium 2006

“This something is an even greater transgression of museum principles than the light, because the public is given the opportunity to touch around twenty silhouettes displayed on racks. This contravenes the ultimate taboo of conservation, which states that an object that has crossed the threshold of a museum may be looked at but never touched. In the subconscious, this adds yet further to the value of the object under consideration and perfects its “sacred” status, its character as a work of art. The opportunity given here to come closer to the “work” overturns its sacred quality and returns the object to its true status: that of an item of clothing, a normal, everyday object.

With this taboo lifted, a third level of transgression is attained when the visitor is offered the opportunity of trying the clothes on. Cubicles are included in the staging for this purpose, a first for any fashion exhibition in more ways than one! Because as well as relieving the clothes of their sacred status, the invitation to experiment with the clothes by trying them on, seeing the effect they have, and actually being in the creations of Yohji Yamamoto rather than just seeing them, also has the effect of bringing the human body into the exhibition.

The absence of the body is the main difficulty in exhibiting garments, as to do so is to display objects that were designed to be worn, and the wearer, who confers on them their final form and substance, as well as validating their purpose, is always absent. This experiment does not of course pretend to put forward a definitive truth, nor to be a development towards potential new museum practices, but it nonetheless has the merit of endeavor. It is an attempt to push back the inherent limits of the exhibition, by involving in it the element without which its subject would not exist, but which a whole range of imperatives usually keep at a distance.

If Yohji Yamamoto’s “magic” and talent are to have been able, throughout his career, to create things that did not previously exist by overstepping boundaries and flouting rules, the merit of his Dream Shop is that by its novelty and by overturning certain conventions, it has given birth to a type of exhibition that did not previously exist and perhaps will not exist again.”
- Frédéric Bonnet, An Exhibition Triptych: Yohji Yamamoto, 2006

famicomdooooom8: gurafiku: Japanese Poster: Record Jacket...

Sun, 12 May 2013 15:03:59 -0400

famicomdooooom8:

gurafiku:

Japanese Poster: Record Jacket Exhibition. Shigeo Fukuda. 1973