William Eggleston For Now

Memphis native William Eggleston has long been noted as a pioneer in photography - color photography to be exact. This is a big year for the artist with a show currently hanging at LACMA and his new book spanning four decades of work, William Eggleston For Now, by Twin Palms Press recently published. The book is 144 pages with 87 four-color plate, 12 x 14 images. Each and every image is superb.

The best thing about Eggleston's work is how it is all so unassuming and the 'awe' he is able to create from fragments of ordinary and untouched reality. There is also something else that always lies under the pigment that creates a sense of unease. Eggleston's unmanipulated images ask the question: what is next? It's the vulnerability and the unknown he always seems to capture that really resonates with me. I can easily find myself lost for hours.

Image: William Eggleston, Preface to Election Eve, 1977

Jeffrey Deitch loves calling LA home...

Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) director Jeffrey Deitch provides an exclusive tour of his new home. The former New York dealer discusses some of the works in his house as well as the layout and what it means to live in Hollywood. The Los Feliz house was the former residence of Cary Grant and now plays home to a selection of modern works by Tim Noble and Sue Webster, Aaron Young and Andy Warhol among others.

via Nowness.

Disorder...

You got the spirit? We (I) do. Thank you Joy Division. Guten Nacht.

"...lights are flashing, cars are crashing getting frequent now..."

The Weekend!!

Happy Halloween weekend everyone!! I truly can not wait for 'yabba dabba do' time and meet up with friends at Daddy's on Graham Avenue ($3 cocktails, $2 draft beers and $1 soy hot dogs with potato chips, of course) for a much needed happy hour.

Saturday is a full day at MoMA volunteering followed by a halloween party in the beautiful and quaint Brooklyn enclave known as Bushwick. I'm dressing up as a little Indian.

Happy Halloween and Friday!! Above image is from the Bowery on Monday night. It brought back some really great memories of growing up in paradise. Ooooh Hawaii, sigh...

Carolina

Rinse and Repeat...GIRLS Carolina is absolute perfection. This is true music magic. The San Francisco based band has a new six-song EP Broken Dreams Club that releases on November 22. You can pre-order it here. The new record is amazing, trust me.

Pair it with some yummy wine, bare feet, friends and you'll find yourself having a nice little evening at home. Appreciez!

Update: sign me up for the Broken Dreams Club.

Matador Records Hooks You Up

Again, MatadorRecords is hooking you up with a sale. Simply enter Halloween20 when you check out and you get 20% off your total.

Thank you Matador!

Montag Sabbath...

Monday night, Sabbath. Perfect.

Ich bin ein...

...sterngaffer, dunkles pferd und bohmisch rhapsodie. Guten Freitag freunds!!

Enjoy your weekends dearest friends, XO NoNY.

Saturday's Pumpkins

We had such a wholesome Saturday (until about 10pm) filled with corn mazes (I couldn't partake due to volunteer shift) and pumpkin carving. Again, thank you Sara for hosting us and making such a lovely dinner. Everyone carved a pumpkin and enjoyed the vintage Coca Cola machine that is now filled with PBR. What a great retrofit.

Saturday was a perfect October day.

NYC Swagger, Sartorialist Style...

I don't know what is more Manhattan chic - her great sense of style or the Mister Softee truck?

Via The Sartorialist