no biggie

NY Times Magazine, men's fashion issue. this is my cousin, third from the left. no biggie.

identity

http://www.forgebrands.com/2011/01/14/forge-business-cards

branding examples

http://www.dcglassworks.com/   http://www.chromebagsstore.com/  http://www.vimeo.com/  http://www.eatpes.com/  http://www.bitterfilms.com/  http://www.bullseyeglass.com/  http://www.urbanglass.org/  http://www.dogfish.com/  http://www.hsbeer.com/   http://www.tomsachs.org/     http://www.booooooom.com/  http://nachocarbonell.com/

annecy- travel section

http://travel.nytimes.com/2011/02/27/travel/27cover-alps.html?pagewanted=1

I've never really heard of anyone mentioning Annecy before, so I was kinda startled to see its name in the Times. I didn't know the place existed either, until I found myself there. I learned much more about the city by reading this article than I did by following a group of non-English speakers around the canals for a week. But, I'd take the confusing gondola rides over a newspaper any day.

pic from the Times

pic from my stay

unfair

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/03/us/03scotus.html?_r=1&hp

These people are legally able to hate me, and I am legally unable to love my partner. I'm leaving the country.

coed

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/03/01/us/AP-US-Rutgers-Gender-Neutral-Housing.html?_r=1&ref=us

Rutgers University is instituting gender neutral dorm housing in responce to Tyler Clementi's recent suicide. It's very good to see someone finally addressing these life threatening issues that have been invisable to the heteronormative majority for so long.

exit through the gift shop

http://carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/10/banksy-shenanigans-not-welcome-at-oscars/?scp=3&sq=banksy&st=cse

There's so much I have to say about Banksy. A few years ago, I was convinced he was just a popular street artist appealing to younger demographics because of his persistant law breaking and secret identity. He was like a cliche super villian. However his recent film, "Exit Through the Gift Shop" COMPLETELY changed my opinion about him. I am now convinced that he is one of the greatest (and perhaps most sinister) artists alive today.

There's a big debate over if Thierry Guetta is Banksy or not- I don't think he is. He's just an easily manipulated man who became the subject of an artistic experiment. Banksy used him to turn the lens of the camera off himself, off Mr. Guetta even, and focused it succicinctly on the world of fine art in all its fickle shallowness. Banksy in fact created Mr. Brainwash, a sort of Frankenstien resurrection of a pop art icon. And the art world totally fell for it. Now Mr. Brainwash is getting Oscar invites, recieving awards, shmoozing with the most famous artists in the world, and somewhere in the shadows, Banksy is laughing his ass off.

If you haven't seen Exit Through the Gift Shop yet, I highly recommend it. Especially if you are working in the fine art industry. It's so easy to make it big if you've got enough capital to drive you (and enough designers to do all your work for you). An ugly truth.