The Fairway in Brooklyn is housed in this gorgeous building… We took the kids there after Mother’s Day festivities and I snapped a photo from the parking lot. Then I googled.

The building is actually known as The Red Hook Stores and dates back to the Civil War. Towards the end of the war, NYC was receiving so many goods that the Brooklyn waterfront was a great alternative to over jammed city docks. This building was a warehouse, now it’s a Fairway.

Such a fantastic looking facade.

If you haven’t already seen this, I think its pretty interesting and funny… Apparently the subversive street artist known for tagging extremely high end fashion houses, Kidult, tagged the Marc Jacob store earlier this week… as the Marc Jacobs team cleaned up the graffiti, they snapped a photo and tweeted it, calling it “Art by Art Jacobs”.  Kidult was apparently watching them scrub the store clean and was also tweeting photos of it and I guess trying to make his presence known and claim ownership… I guess he didn’t really dig the spin that the Marc Jacobs team was putting on his supposedly subversive graffiti.

He then accused Marc Jacobs of being a capitalist “thieve” and copying him.  Then Marc Jacobs’ group released this T-shirt, which they are apparently selling at their boutique:

For $689 dollars.”$680 if its signed by the artist.” And it’s actually for sale.

I think this whole thing is hilarious and I love the T-shirt. Not $689 dollars worth of love. But still, I’ll laugh if I see anyone wearing it. It’s super badass and so clever. Lesson learned: Don’t F with Marc Jacobs.

Then this showed up on Tumblr:

Hahah… Love it.

In exchange for bringing children into the world, I’d like to make a motion, that every mother on earth deserves a gigantic bouquet of peonies delivered weekly to her front door. Even when they are out of season.

Have a great day everyone!

My friend, the über talented (and cute!) photographer Patrick Cline- one half of the duo that founded Lonny- saw this Sketch graffiti scribbled on a door while traveling, took a photo and sent it to me. I totally LOVE IT! I should print it and hang it somewhere in my apartment.

Patrick literally can’t take a bad picture… Not even of a door with scribble on it. And speaking of, this month’s Lonny is out and its packed with Moroccan gloriousness and now Morocco is officially at the top of my travel to do list. It’s  now tied with the Amangiri for first place. Maybe I’ll go this summer? That would be amazing.

Check out the rest of the new Lonny HERE. Have a great weekend!

 

Last night I went to the art opening of “Project Face” - a year long journey by artist Rina Dweck. Every day for a year, Rina- a painter and trained makeup artist- self transformed and photographed herself using only her iPhone and uploaded it to her Facebook page where she would change her profile daily. Her adventure in self portraiture is so freakin fantastic… It started as a way to challenge herself creatively- the idea occurred to her one day while parking her car, and she went home and started working on photo number one!

I love the fact that the art piece is the body of work ON FACEBOOK. It’s such a fun little bit of social satire. There was something amazing about seeing the body of work-in chronological order- presented in one room. Some weeks are themed- she has a Madonna week, Gaga week, and even a Cindy Sherman tribute.  She says some photos are planned out meticulously while others are created spur of the moment or are the result of just playing in the mirror with some makeup.

I really admire how personal the work is, it takes a lot to put your face out there as your art… I mean you guys see that I crop my head out of half my photos because I’m so shy that way! So the idea of self-transforming and becoming so physically comfortable with being behind a camera, becoming a character and using physical attributes and flaws in an art project seems so overwhelmingly hard to me.

I was so enamored with the work that I bought a print! See if you can guess which one;) They start at $250, FYI.

Click through to see the rest of the photos from the evening as well as some of my favorite shots!

PROJECT FACE – POP UP GALLERY
311 West Broadway, NY NY
May 10- May 22, 2012
Hours:1-8 PM

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