be your own totebag

according to the creators, a "totebag" is a "dreamboat. an individual with the confidence to dress in a minimalist/masuclin feminin inspired style." to get a better understanding of the word, check out what has become my favorite fashion-inspiration tumblr, byotb. i can definitely hop on the menswear bandwagon.

 

also just discovered there's a blog, so i know what i'll be doing all night

Portrait of the Young Artist as Bart Simpson

dimitri karakostas has crazy shit all over the internet. its hard to trace his whereabouts and i honestly feel sort of creepy hopping from link to link trying to figure out who he is, but i just wanted to credit someone for these ominous bart simpson drawings i've been seeing.
when you're done listening to bart "tell it like it is" on his art blog, you can view karakostas' borderline-pornographic photography on his website & blog. also, let me clarify that i am truly intrigued and impressed.

 

80 Photos by Fred Herzog

An excerpt I found interesting from C/O Berlin's press text for his November 2010 exhibit:

Life may be colorful, but black-and-white photography is more realistic—or so it was said. For many years, color photography was considered an inferior and not particularly valuable medium. Classic black-and-white photography was undisputed in the art world, but artistic color photography was supposedly banal and amateurish, a commercial medium for dilettantes.

In the early 1950s, Fred Herzog began to revolutionize established viewing habits and existing orthodoxies. As a pioneer of color photography, he developed a profound visual sensibility for the ostensibly inconsequential. His subject matter included Vancouver streets, supermarkets, gas stations, bars, urban and natural landscapes—and again and again, people in their environments, visualizing the highs and lows of the (North) American dream.

C/O Berlin presents the first German exhibition of 80 photographs by Fred Herzog.

It was really hard to narrow down my favorites, so view more here.

 

blogging again

hopefully this blog will inspire me to do more than read your blog