Spring/Summer Christian Dior Part 1

Dolce Gabbana 2011 Spring/Summer

David Guetta ft. Akon - Sexy Bitch (Abel Ramos Atlanta With Love Remix)

Had to sahre just cuz of the title,a nd besides everybody has to have a soundtrack for their lives and well it outta be mine

Amber - Sexual (Alexander & Mark Vdh Club Mix)

This is just simply fabulous--of course even more techno it been dat kind of day kids

7 feat. Mona Monet - Keep It Coming (Peter Rauhofer Remix)

Even more this one I think would be grat to work to, so crank it up and rock the house

Wynter Gordon - Dirty Talk (Mauro Mozart Remix)

Had to share this cuz you all know how I love TECHNO

Who's Who in Fashion: Peggy Guggenheim

Marguerite "Peggy" Guggenheim (August 26, 1898 – December 23, 1979) was an American art collector. Born to a wealthy New York City family, she was the daughter of Benjamin Guggenheim, who went down with the Titanic in 1912 and the niece of Solomon R. Guggenheim, who would establish the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. Peggy's father was of Swiss-German Jewish origin, and her mother Jewish, German, and Dutch.
At the age of 21, Peggy Guggenheim inherited a small fortune of 2.5 million dollars. This would be roughly 20 million in today's money. Guggenheim's father, Benjamin Guggenheim died in the sinking of the RMS Titanic and he had not amassed the fortune of his siblings, therefore her inheritance was far less than the vast wealth of her cousins.

She was a clerk in an avant-garde bookstore when she first became enamored with the members of the bohemian artistic community. In 1920 she went to live in Paris, France. Once there, she became friendly with avant-garde writers and artists, many of whom were living in poverty in the Montparnasse quarter of the city. Man Ray photographed her, and was, along with Constantin Brancusi and Marcel Duchamp, a friend whose art she promoted.

She became close friends with writer Natalie Barney and artist Romaine Brooks, and was a regular at Barney's stylish salon. She met Djuna Barnes during this time, and in time became her friend and patron. Barnes wrote her best-known novel, Nightwood, while staying at the Devonshire country manor, 'Hayford Hall', that Guggenheim had rented for two summers.

In 1938, she opened a gallery for modern art in London featuring Jean Cocteau and began to collect works of art. After the outbreak of World War II, she purchased as much abstract and Surrealist art as possible.

Peggy Guggenheim opened the gallery Guggenheim Jeune in London in January 1938 — the name being quite ingeniously chosen to associate the epitome of a gallery, the French Bernheim Jeune, with the name of her own well known family. The gallery on 30 Cork Street, next to Roland Penrose's and E. L. T. Mesens' show-case for the Surrealist movement, the London Gallery, proved to be quite successful, thanks to many friends who gave advice and who helped run the gallery. Marcel Duchamp, whom she had known since the early 1920s, when she lived in Paris with her first husband Laurence Vail, was taken on to introduce Peggy Guggenheim to the art world; it was through him that she met many artists during her frequent visits to Paris. He taught her about contemporary art and styles, and he conceived several of the exhibitions held at Guggenheim Jeune.

The gallery's opening show was dedicated to Jean Cocteau. It was followed by exhibitions on Wassily Kandinsky (his first one-man-show in England), Yves Tanguy, Wolfgang Paalen and several other well known and some lesser-known artists. Peggy Guggenheim also held group exhibitions of sculpture and collage, with the participation of the now classic moderns Antoine Pevsner, Henry Moore, Henri Laurens, Alexander Calder, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Constantin Brancusi, Jean Arp, Max Ernst, Pablo Picasso, George Braque and Kurt Schwitters. She also greatly admired the work of John Tunnard (1900–1971) and is credited with his discovery in mainstream international modernism.

Plans for a museum:

When Peggy Guggenheim realised that her gallery, although well received, had made an actual loss of £600 in the first year, she decided to take up this idea and spend the money in a much more practical way. A museum for contemporary arts was exactly the institution she could see herself supporting. Most certainly on her mind were also the adventures of her uncle, Solomon R. Guggenheim in New York, who, with the help and encouragement of Hilla Rebay, had created the Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation two years earlier. The main aim of this foundation had been to collect and to further the production of abstract art, resulting in the opening of the Museum of Non-objective Painting (from 1952: The Solomon R Guggenheim Museum) earlier in 1939 on East 54th Street in Manhattan. Peggy Guggenheim closed Guggenheim Jeune with a farewell party on 22 June 1939, at which colour portrait photographs by Gisèle Freund were projected on the walls. She started making plans for a Museum of Modern Art in London together with the English art historian and art critic Herbert Read. She set aside $40,000 for the museum's running costs. However, these funds were soon overstretched with the organisers' ambitions.

In August 1939, Peggy Guggenheim left for Paris to negotiate loans for the first exhibition. In her luggage was a list drawn up by Herbert Read for this occasion. Shortly after her departure the Second World War broke out, and the events following 1 September 1939 made her abandon the scheme, willingly or not.

She then "decided now to buy paintings by all the painters who were on Herbert Read's list. Having plenty of time and all the museum's funds at my disposal, I put myself on a regime to buy one picture a day."[1] When finished, she had acquired ten Picassos, forty Ernsts, eight Mirós, four Magrittes, three Man Rays, three Dalís, one Klee, one Wolfgang Paalen and one Chagall among others. In the meantime, she had also made new plans and in April 1940 had rented a large space in the Place Vendôme as a new home for her museum.

A few days before the Germans reached Paris, Peggy Guggenheim had to abandon her plans for a Paris museum, and fled to the south of France, from where, after months of safeguarding her collection and artist friends, she left Europe for New York in the summer of 1941. There, in the following year, she opened a new gallery which actually was in part a museum. It was called The Art of This Century Gallery. Three of the four galleries were dedicated to Cubism, Surrealism and Kinetic art, with only the fourth, the front room, being a commercial gallery.

As a result of her interest in new artists she was instrumental in advancing the careers of many important modern artists, including the American painter Jackson Pollock and William Congdon, the Austrian surrealist Wolfgang Paalen, the sound poet Ada Verdun Howell and the German painter Max Ernst, whom she married in December 1941.Following World War II — and her 1946 divorce from Max Ernst — she closed The Art of This Century Gallery in 1947, and returned to Europe; deciding to live in Venice, Italy. In 1948, she was invited to exhibit her collection in the disused Greek Pavilion of the Venice Biennale and eventually established herself in the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni on the Grand Canal.

Her collection became one of the few European collections of modern art to promote a significant amount of works by Americans.

By the early 1960s, Peggy Guggenheim had stopped collecting art and began to concentrate on presenting what she already owned. She loaned out her collection to museums throughout Europe and America, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City, which was named after her uncle. Eventually, she decided to donate her large home and her collection to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation on her death.

The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is one of the most important museums in Italy for European and American art of the first half of the 20th century. Pieces in her collection embrace Cubism, Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism.

Peggy Guggenheim lived in Venice until her death in Padua, Italy after a stroke. She is interred in the garden  of her home, the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, next to her beloved dogs.rting in late December 1937, she and Samuel Beckett had a brief affair.

Peggy Guggenheim's first marriage was to Laurence Vail, a Dada sculptor and writer with whom she had two children, Michael Sindbad and Pegeen Vail Guggenheim. They divorced following his affair with writer Kay Boyle, whom he later married.  She married her second husband, Max Ernst, in 1941 and divorced him in 1946.

In her autobiography, she claims to have had affairs with numerous artists and in return many others, including artists, have claimed affairs with her. She is even mentioned as having had affairs with fictional characters, for example William Boyd's Nat Tate.

One affair that occurred with little knowledge was that between Guggenheim and her next door neighbour in Venice, the late manager of The Who rock band Christopher 'Kit' Lambert. Peggy had known Lambert's father Constant Lambert, the classical composer and a close friend of Cocteau. Kit Lambert later recalled he had been fascinated by Guggenheim. He purposely purchased a villa next to Guggenheim's on the Grand Canal. For a while the two became close friends and then lovers over a period of six months. Guggenheim finally ended the affair with the parting words to Lambert which he often repeated. His heroin and drug consumption horrified Peggy and she confronted Lambert one morning to tell him their affair was over. "Quite simply", said Peggy, "I just cannot afford you !".

She has eight grandchildren: Clovis, Mark, Karole and Julia Vail, from her son, and Fabrice, David and Nicolas Hélion and Sandro Rumney from her daughter.  She also has seven great nieces and nephews: Gabrielle, Chantal, Maya, Daniel, Michael, and John.

Peggy Guggenheim is portrayed by Amy Madigan in the movie Pollock (2000), directed by Ed Harris, based on the life of Jackson Pollock.

A play by Lanie Robertson based on Peggy Guggenheim's life, Woman Before a Glass, opened at the Promenade Theatre on Broadway, New York on March 10, 2005. It is a one woman show, which focuses on Peggy Guggenheim's later life. Mercedes Ruehl plays Peggy Guggenheim. Ruehl received an Obie award for her performance.

In Bethan Roberts' first play for radio, "My Own Private Gondolier", Peggy Guggenheim's troubled daughter, Pegeen, leaves her three children behind when she travels to Venice to spend the summer with her mother. Pegeen is in retreat from a marriage that has failed. She is determined to be an artist, and she shuts herself up in the dank basement, trying to paint. Meanwhile, her mother, Peggy, is much more concerned with the English sculptor who has come to visit; she wants a piece of his work to add to her collection and will use everything at her disposal to achieve her aim. She'll even try to inveigle her daughter into the plan if she thinks it will get her what she wants. Peggy is well known as a collector of men, as well as art. As the summer progresses, and the strains between mother and daughter grow, it's only Gianni, Peggy's personal Gondolier, who can provide a welcome diversion. The play was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Oct. 19, 2010. Peggy Guggenheim was played by Fiona Shaw.

Dolce & Gabbana Women's Wear advertising

I have to say I love this seasons set of photogrpahs used for the Dolce & Gabbana Spring/Summer Season, both the men's line and women's line.  The use of the black and white photography are just stunning beyond belief.  Of course the models used in all the the photographs are just beautiful beyond belief.  I believe suitable for framing as fine art, dare I say.  Anyway hope you enjoy the newest ads.

John Galliano Menswear Fall 2011

Well kids,I just absolutely love this whole "Black Swan", "Russian Romance" that John Galliano is celebrating in this collection of EXQUISITE Men's clothing. There is not one single piece I wouldn;t personally wear, but then I said that as well about his last collection which was his salute to Charlie Chaplin.  In my opinion when it comes to men's wear NO ONE currently competes with the home run hits John has with every collection.

New Poem

This is also for my creative writing class that I am in it is part of my Honor's Program Work that I am doing.  Once again it is taking the abstract and making it concrete.  I decided to the reverse of "More The Stone."


The Passage


Through lovers lips I do impart
I am the tender caress at the seat of thy longing soul
For love doth seek a mere mortal heart
I am the tie that binds thee
To me forever more and all eternity

I am the tears of sorrow and despair
The casket has been lowered into the ground
I am the eulogy of sorts blowing in the wind
The priest doth try to repair
Hearts that bleed, torn asunder are we

Of loving mother and child
I am in the nursery still
I am of lullabies and fairytales
To hush your loud cries of fear
I am by the side of your crib on bended knee

I am intolerable rage
I am unending anger at thy neighbor
I yield the gun
In the silent night
I end a life for all eternity

I am of race and creed
All the planets nationalities
Seeing nothing but the gulf of difference
Add religion and of course
Sexuality beyond all doubt

Whether a hang man’s noose around my neck
Or the bedside of someone one hundred and five
I am what drives man
To don white sheets
To burn the cross in a yard in depths of night

I start or end world wars
Even civil disobedience
To draw unto me or push away
All who see me in the light of day
I am truth, I am belief or I am out right lies

What will you do with me today
First thing in the morning
As your journey doth begin
Or as your head hits the pillow at night
How will I achieve or destroy

To cause war or bring about peace
The leaders of the world
Use me to inspire, to delight
To cause fear and concern
To bring about world peace

The power is on thy lips
I am waiting for thee
I am longing for the time
For you to use me
Once more through lips to pass

What poem or sonnet
Wilt I speak
From pen to paper I doth flow
Books on shelves filled
Beyond belief, wonder

The brains journey doth take flight
Do I inspire thee still
Do I destroy others in thy path
They do cross
I have yet to begin to speak

Menswear Fall 2011 Gaultier

New poem

More than stone

In the warmth of the glowing stone
Three faces of divinity do I see
A sense of wonder and glory
A new beginning the one true birth
Child’s blood on the door overhead and sides
Our intercessory to the holy of holies

I walk the nature stone steps
The sunrise of blue and white
I can feel your immense sorrow
The clinking of beads together
But do they really need me you wonder

Twice a week in the box
Speak ten of these and five more of those
Some twice a year visit
My time of course does not exist
For everything is possible you see

On there last moments of breathe
Some come to unto me
A life fully lived with no thought of me
Still yet they come unto me
Is it remorse, guilt or repentance
That on their behalf I should be

On the flight of angles wings
My faith complete and sound
I am the past, the present and the future
Blessed be me
Two thousand years time more
Will they still come
Beads in their hands

What if I said no
Ended his ultimate plan for me
What would be different if it were not so
Just a humble hammer and lowly nails
No more, no less
Merely as everyone else

My lovers trance never broke
When I told my story true
This my lover did not deny
The wonder of will and plan
My lover stood at such a lowly place
To fulfill, to deliver, to save us all

Thy child did not deny us
That much is true
Why doth thou wait to come to me
Keeping me in stone’s cold embrace
I am mystery
The bride that awaits my scene

You know the story true
You seek me in the mysteries
I await thee daily to meet
But wait no more I must
I spoke once before

May 1917
Cova da Iria
Children three were there
Lucia, Jacinata and Francisco
Six times came I
The thirteenth day each one

They heard me speak
Of compassion and humanity
Of the need for hope in Calcutta

If I came to thee
These nearly hundred years later
Wouldst thou listen once more
Or hide behind they clinking beads
Blessed am I
Amongst all women

This was for a Creative writing class that was to be in metaphor. Hope you enjoy it! 

Teenager Death; Friends Say Bullying May be to Blame

MILTONA, Minn. - The news of a high school student's death and rumored suicide began circling social networking sites Monday morning, after the news began spreading that 18-year-old Jefferson High School student Lance Lundsten had died over the weekend.

Around 10 p.m. Saturday the Douglas County Sheriff's Office responded to an emergency call at the Lundsten's residence in Miltona.

When officers arrived, they discovered 18-year-old Lance Lundsten needing emergency medical care. Lundsten was transported to the Douglas County Hospital where he later died.

The Sheriff's Office said Tuesday that the cause of Lundsten's death was yet to be determined. Authorities had been working with the Douglas County Medical Examiner's Office to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death.

In an interview Wednesday morning, Douglas County Medical Examiner Dr. Mark Spanbauer said the preliminary autopsy report showed the teen did not die from an enlarged heart.

The teen's heart was slightly enlarged, but that finding was a secondary finding to an undetermined cause, according to Spanbauer.

Spanbauer said what actually caused Lundsten's heart to slightly swell was not yet known, as the final autopsy report was still in progress.

"He was a small young man. His heart showed slight swelling," Spanbauer said. "It was slightly enlarged. This was a secondary finding."

Spanbauer was waiting for the results of Lundsten's toxicology report before stating an official cause of death.

According to his Facebook page, Lundsten was openly gay. On a Facebook memorial page in Lundsten's honor, friends said that Lundsten had been bullied at school for his sexual orientation. Some students who knew Lundsten believed the bullying may have led to his death.

Another Jefferson High School student started a Facebook group in direct response to Lundsten's death called the Jefferson Anti-Bully Coalition.  Its founder, Morgan Hauer posted on the Jefferson Anti-Bully Coalition page Sunday night:

"So everyone, i may have started this group, but it really means nothing unless we take action. words, speeches and petitions can get us far, but the only real way to stand up to bullying is to stop bullying other people, stand up for those being bullied and let authoritative figures know whats going on. without you, this whole idea is pointless and a very beloved schoolmate will have died in vain.  Don't let that happen, we owe at least that much to Lance and everyone else who is, was, or will ever be bullied.  Thank you, Group Founder, Morgan Hauer."
 
Since this story's initial report, a gay recent graduate of Jefferson High School student told KSAX-TV about his experiences, and how he was bullied at the school and no one listened.


"Bullying is a huge issue, particularly with the youth in our country now," Facilitator of the Diversity Resource Action Alliance Shari Maloney said. "I think because we're in central Minnesota, and we aren't as diverse as some of the larger Metropolitan areas are, someone who is different maybe draws more attention and it's not always positive."

Maloney said she works everyday to make Alexandria a more accepting place for community members and visitors. She said she has seen improvement, but there is still a long way to go.

"I think we are a welcoming community, but I think we are also a very traditional community as well," Maloney said. "As the world changes, I'm not sure if we're changing."

In a letter to staff and media, District 206 Superintendent Terry Quist responded to the teen's death, and the  accusations of alleged bullying at the school. Senator Al Franken discusses legislation to protect students from being bullied in the classroom because of their sexual orientation.

Zeb Atlas Feat. Pearly Gates - Love Hangover

Ok kids a very fierce track and Zeb Atlas is one great piece of incredible man eye candy around!

THE BALLAD OF SARAH PALIN by LADY BUNNY

The ever fabulous talents of "Lady Bunny" even though this is way political which I stay away from I had to post Its to damn funny.

Alexander Mc Queen Fall Menswear 2011

"For all anyone knew, the guys might have been from Kentucky or Kazakhstan, but dressed in McQueen, they were rough trade for Oscar Wilde, or stiff-upper-lippers in a Powell and Pressburger celluloid classic from the second World War, or military cadets from the Napoleonic Wars. The genetic blessing of bone structure and Guido Palau's spic-and-span public schoolboy hair had something to do with the effect, but ultimately, it was Sarah Burton's clothes that enabled the models to communicate a sweep of English man style

Dirk Bikkembergs Fall 2011 Collection

Martin Luther King "I have a dream"

Pink - F*ckin' Perfect (Full Song)

OK kids, the f bomb is used and then is not for everybodybut I do have to say that personally I LOVE THIS song, hell it may become my new personal anthem cuz g-d knows I ain't f-ckin' perfect. If you want listen along and rock this out.

Ashes Of Slain Journalist Carlos Castro Poured Down Times Square Subway Grate

They gave his remains to Broadway.

Saying they were fulfilling his wishes, yesterday family and friends of slain Portuguese journalist Carlos Castro poured his ashes into a subway grate in Times Square, just steps away from Broadway's famed theaters.
Family and friends of slain Portuguese journalist Carlos Castro honored the dead man's wishes yesterday by pouring his ashes down a subway grate in Times Square.
A funeral was held in Newark yesterday for Castro, 65, who was allegedly castrated with a corkscrew by his 20-year-old lover, male model Renato Seabra, on Jan. 7 in a room at the InterContinental Hotel in Times Square.
After the service, his sisters and a friend took a limo to Broadway and 43rd Street and quickly dumped his ashes without saying a word, said photographer Leandro Badalotti.

Slain Carlos Castro's sisters Fernanda (left) and Maria and a pal put his ashes down a Times Square subway grate

It wasn't immediately clear if the family had authorization to dispose of his remains in public.

 Many subway grates are directly above passenger platforms and it's possible that Castro's ashes landed on riders. Today the mayor's office says Castro's family did not have permission.
New York code states that scattering cremated remains on public property "may be allowed only by written permit."
A source said that the sisters got approval from a City Hall official to pour the ashes at Broadway and 43rd Street Saturday.  Mayor Bloomberg's spokesman, Stu Loeser, said, "We did not give them permission."