plano B: April 2009

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Fashion Digest

Gareth Pugh Mens A/W '09

Balenciaga Autumn/Hiver '09

Lanvin pour Elber Albaz, Pre Fall/Winter '09

From Warsaw with Love

Kafka Café
Warsaw, Poland.
www.kawiarnia-kafka.pl

Chinatown (1974)
The story, set in Los Angeles in the 1930s, was inspired by the historical disputes over land and water rights that had raged in southern California during the 1910s and 20s, in which William Mulholland acted on behalf of Los Angeles interests to secure water rights in the Owens Valley.

Jack Nicholson - Faye Dunaway

From Warsaw with Love

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

OLD Goodies

Diane Arbus (1927 - 1971)

STAR on the Ascendent

"The time has come for us to protect the clubbers of all of Europe.The odds seem to be against us, and the enemy is determined, but we have an array of super-tricks up our sleeves in the form of - fidget, heavy bass, bassline, bmore, piano stabs. Our mission and motto is 'To protect & entertain'!"

http://www.myspace.com/hhmdjs

Rua do Comércio

Milk IT

The REAL Deal

Grey Gardens is a 1975 documentary film ranked number 2 by the World Film Academy in its 100 Greatest Documentaries of the 20th Century and by then Cornell University students. The film depicts the everyday lives of two women who lived at Grey Gardens, a decrepit 28-room mansion at 3 West End Road in the wealthy Georgica Pond neighborhood of East Hampton, New York.
Edith "Big Edie" Ewing Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edith "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale were the aunt and first cousin of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis. The two women lived together at Grey Gardens in squalor and almost total isolation.
In the fall of 1971 and throughout 1972, their living conditions were exposed as the result of an article in the National Enquirer and a cover story in New York magazine after a series of inspections (which the Beales called "raids") by the Suffolk County Health Department.
The 28-room house was designed by Joseph Greenleaf Thorpe in 1897, and purchased in 1923 by Phelan Beale and Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale, uncle and aunt of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. The Beales lived there for over 50 years. The house was called Grey Gardens because of the color of the dunes, the cement garden walls, and the sea mist.

Valley of the Dolls

The Eastern Volkswagen

Zaporozhets
Produced from 1958 until 1994,is still warmly remembered in many ex-USSR countries. Like the Volkswagen Beetle or East Germany's Trabant, Soviet Zaporozhets was destined to become a "people's car". It was the cheapest Soviet car and so the most affordable to common people. At the same time, it was rather sturdy and well suitable to Russian roads. The very looks of this car gave birth to several nicknames that stuck with it forever: "Zapor" (short for "Zaporozhets", but also means "constipation" in Russian), "hunchback" (due to ZAZ-965 insect-like form; ZAZ factory workers never used this nickname, using "Malysh", "big-eared" (the car had air intakes on its sides to cool down the engine in the rear of the vehicle). Special versions of Zaporozhets were equipped with additional sets of controls that allowed operating the car with a limited set of limbs or completely by hands, and were given for free to the disabled people as an alternative to SZ-series microcars.