Diane Arbus

Current obsession. Always loved her work.

tattoo fever:

i has it.
i plan on getting one when i turn 18 in July, and i've just recently started searching for the ~perfect tattoo.
here are some favourites so far:

this one's one of my favourites, it's the constellation Orion.

i'll most likely get the tiny white rabbit to begin with, then maybe get other alice tattoos to follow:

topshop topshop topshoppppp <3

So I FINALLY got a chance to go. I wanted to go last week, but alas, there was a line wrapping around the street corner. But that doesn't matter anymore. I actually got to go. I actually got to swim in a sea of amazing Britishness.

I spent at least an hour and a half there (an hour actually shopping and a half an hour waiting on line to get a dressing room). There was so much pretty clothes, I couldn't bear it. I ended up grabbing 4 dresses and a skirt. I wish I had pictures to post of them online, but I have them on my phone and to put them on the internets would take too much effort for me.

Anyways, I ended up buying a dress. ^^

They give you a tote as your shopping bag too. I love it when stores do that (though the ones they had earlier are much cuter, in my opinion...)

oh my fucking shit

Yes, those are bunnies. In sweaters.

words, words, words II

León Ferrari

Mira Schendel

I don't know if you've noticed, but recently, I've had this sort of obsession with text in art. Words, though just typically thought of as just... well... words, are just as powerful and effective on their own visually. I know I'm probably the worst language learner in the world, but I always love looking at words and characters and alphabets. Lame, I know.

But anyways, I took these images from a new show from the Moma (which is, btw, the best museum on this planet. The Met can shove it) which features both Mira Schendel and León Ferrari. It looks pretty killer if you ask me.

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/299?tmam_newex1_text

recent songs I've been listening to on repeat

"To the East" - Electrelane
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlSfPmqiplY





"1901" - Phoenix
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs5U_t6U0Ic





"Dull Life" - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfO1dzkD-E8




And, of course, always:
"Go Away" - Eisley (ACOUSTIC VERSION IS THE BEST.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB_-Eh0LIuM&feature=related

the duty we have to pay on mortal sense of beauty

i wear black and heels and the owl a little too much.

wiwt:

sweater: thrifted

leggings: old

shoes: american eagle

yes that is my shower

My "safe" outfit, aka what I wear when I feel like shit and I don't know what else to pull out of my closet.

• necessary objects skirt and cardigan
  
• h&m tank
  
• target tights
  
• pearl necklace from art fair
  
• fish bone necklace from Asian friend

These are Celine shoes. They were originally $400, but I got them for $80 at DSW. They were having the most amazing shoe sale. I wish this picture wasn't so shitty, but they're really pretty.

west

have you ever been like "nahh yo the West Coast is mad dirt, tots grime, breh."
if you have, you're wrong.
and this is why.

See's candy is straight up delicious.

I got it in a parcel from a friend in California, and it's still soft and perfect as hell.

these are delicious, and I suggest you all get a nice friend on the west coast to send you some.

forget modern nature

sondre lerche is doable.
and has adorable ruvvy-dovey music.

Words, Words, Words

Yes, that is a projection. And yes, it is freaking awesome.

This is the work of Jenny Holzer who happens to have a show up at the Whitney now. I kinda really want to see her show, but alas, stupid school gets in the way. Hopefully, I'll get to see her over Spring Break, but we'll have to see about that.

Her work primarily focuses on politically charged words and phrases she chooses and she does a lot of public projections of them on huge buildings (I love installations, and I wish I had the resources to do one). I think I also remember reading that her favorite medium is the poster, which I find incredibly awesome. It's sort of the melding of the commercial with the artistic, and I dig that (which is a little strange since I'm not the biggest fan of commercial art).

GO TO HER SHOW AT THE WHITNEY. I'm sure it's killer.

springes to catch woodcocks

so i said i would post pictures of outfits.
here's some.

/style

dress: my grandma's

tights: target

shoes: American Eagle via Payless

Croncho the owl: Wild Pair

philip-lorca dicorcia

Look him up.

cy twombly

Aren't these amazing? His lines and nonobjective/abstract blobs are so great. I'm so jealous of how he can produce such great pieces with these supposedly childish elements.

i'm the top chef. (not really)

i made crepes today.

delicious.

they were filled with peanut butter, chocolate sauce, and nanners.

ignore the fact that i am pathetic, and eat in front of my computer.

I really really really want some of these damn cookies.
Just lettin' you know.

I start trends.

apparently.

i make art

I like art. I'm probably gonna end up going to school for art, just like every other asian in this world (I'm serious, it's either art school or engineering school). I started drawing freshman year, you know, taking classes and actually taking an interest in art, and I haven't stopped since (though I did have a dark period... I stopped arting for about half a year, but thank god for the Cooper Union...).

Anyways, I normally do your standard portraits and realistic scenes. You know, like every other high schooler in the world. But, recently, I've started regressing and going back to simplicity. You know, just doing line drawings with ink and focusing on the basics and on materials. It's about ideas, not really about making it look like something. Pretty art isn't necessary.

Here's some of the stuff I've made:



I'll be posting more art that I've done throughout the course of this blog. I'll also be commenting on galleries and showings and museums I visit (I'm going to the Met this Thursday so you better look foward to that!)

And don't worry, it's not all I'll be talking about. I'll post some fun whimsical things as well.

I make food

Over the summer, I became obsessed with the Food Network. Ina Garten and Giada DeLaurentis are my homegirls (but not Sandra Lee because her cocktails always look disgusting). Now all I ever do is cook/bake things. My friends have become accustomed to sitting on the little foot stool in my tiny kitchen and talking to me while I bake something or other. Tonight I'm making Pappa Al Pomodoro, which is this really cool Italian tomato soup that's thickened with cubes of Ciabatta bread. The recipe is from Ina's cookbook and it looks pretty sweet. 

Anyway, the picture attached to this post is of the blueberry crumb cake I made a little while ago. Hope it looks tasty. I'll post a picture of the soup when it's all done. 

i knit things

i taught myself how to knit in elementary school with pencils, and now i know how to do it a little better.
i make tiny stuffed animals, and hats, and scarves sometimes.

i really enjoy it and now that springs almost here, i think i'm going to have to stop making hats and start making stuffed animals.
so, if anyone really wants one, they look like this.

right now i am sold out of anything but moose.
but i can make anything.
so if you want an animal or something else home- knitted, i can do that.

these moose look really sad, and to be honest its probably because they dont have a home.

I make songs.

Most of the time they're really bad, but I'm working on fixing that.

You can listen to a bunch of old ones and some new ones here. You can download two of the most recent albums I've made here and here. One is music with a little bit of noise, one is noise with a little bit of music. If you scroll down on those pages you'll see a link right above the tracklist that says "Download the full album." Click that if you want to download them.

I started making CDs in middle school when I noticed that there was a microphone attached to my computer and recorded 14 really bad songs of me yelling made up songs to keyboard beats over the course of two weeks, then made a few copies and gave them to my friends. They thought it was funny so I kept doing it, and kind of by accident I started making songs that sounded kinda decent, so for now I've decided to drop the goofy stuff and see if I can make a whole album of songs that are decent by themselves without needing to be goofy. Hopefully it'll be finished sometime this year. I know what I'm going to call it but I feel like it would be bad luck to give that away so soon. The name I'll be putting it out as though is SQUANTO. That's my new name, now that FMJB is dead and everything. He died in a plane crash on the last track of his last album.

One of the new songs I've made for it is on the first link that I posted, it's the first one and it's labeled "new song," although that's obviously not what it will actually be called. If you want any of my CDs let me know, I'm happy to give out mp3s of all of them although they're really not good and I don't know why anyone would want most of them.

food pornography

This is my newest obsession:

http://thisiswhyyourefat.com/

It's all so disgusting, but I can't help but want it all. It actually makes my mouthwater, with all that gushing bacon and fat and cheese and shit.

This looks especially delicious:


Deep Fried Cupcake With Chocolate Syrup And Sprinkles....
Yum... Chocolate + sprinkles + cupcake + fried stuff ftw

poop.

my name's ben, I guess when I remember to stop by here I'll be supplying the music and poop jokes.

hay guise

we're just some young long island chicks
trying to run from the townies and hicks
it's an excellent start
to discuss music and art
and make use of some shitty ass limericks.

Cody's the brains of the operation, i'm just here to make us look cool.
and probably mostly talk about fashion.
yay.

introductions

This is a blog for us, as well as for you.

We're just your average teens, waiting for college and yearning to break away from the constraints of Long Island suburbia. And that is why we've decided to create this silly little thing. It's something for us to pass the time and to just to talk and write about the stuff that we like: food, art, literature, music, clothes, whatever.

Hey, and maybe at the same time, we'll get to make some friends and get to have some fun conversations...

-- Cody