Love the Spring Aldo ads.. Jessica Stam and a giant candy heart shot by Terry Richardson. Way!
I’m thrilled to announce the addition of A Peace Treaty to the Valentine’s day Pop-up.. And I thought I’d go ahead and brag about the lovely scarf I just got for myself -after coveting it from afar for almost a year! Its perfect in every way… Black and NEON Rainbow!! YUM!!!

Get one for yourself or a special someone during the Valentine’s day Pop-up [at yours truly's showroom in SOHO] …. or online at A Peace Treaty.com
I read somewhere about cupcakes made with beer. Um, Yah. That sounds heavenly…and what a great way to spend this Sunday watching the Superbowl and Baking!

Cake
Preheat oven to 350; butter a muffin tin.
Combine the Guinness and the butter, chopped into 1-inch chunks, in a large sauce pan, and heat to melt the butter. Remove from heat, and whisk in the cocoa and sugar. In a bowl, whisk the sour cream with the eggs and vanilla, then add to the beer mixture. Sift together the flour and baking soda, and fold into the batter. Pour into muffin molds and bake for 25 minutes, or until inserted cake tester comes out clean. Let stand 10 minutes, remove from muffin tin, and cool completely on a rack.
Any icing will be amazing.. but I think I’ll go cream cheese!!
Let the Games and Baking begin!!


When you really love someone, you can find a way to tell so them with a good ol’ fashioned gang sign. Like this one Raul gave me- BOO. [mwah, love you RaRa!]

A phrase like ‘Mad respect’ hardly depicts the literal level of high esteem this fierce and amazing woman is held in by so so so many people, myself included. Patti Smith’s multi-media pieces in this show [Objects of Life- Robert Miller Gallery] are perfectly balanced with all manner of process oriented/ collaborative works [Mapplethorpe & Sebring as Muse and Collaborator].

I loved these two photos by Sebring, side by side in the gallery. They seem to sum up that contrast of ephemeral sweetness and raw intensity, two forces at work in a person like Patti Smith.




The light box, above, and one other work with Patti’s visage repeated, blindfolded in red white & blue were favorites from one room’s installation. I also really loved all of the drawings and photos delicately expounded upon with Patti’s handwritten prose. And lastly, this objet/ sculpture piece was another personal favorite- so totemic, strange and wonderful.
For more info see Robert Miller Gallery
1. Glorious sunsets 2. Mineral hot springs at 6,000 feet 3. Imaginative gift shop signage 4. Quintessential red rock buttes and mesas 5. Pasqual’s in Santa Fe- quite possibly one of the best restaurants on earth
New Mexico- They have it all! Perhaps I should heretofore refer to my New Mexico posts as ‘My Cult’.
I heard somewhere that if all the shipping containers in existence were lined up end to end, they would encircle the earth more than once.. that’s a lot of boxes. Most are unused after reaching their destination, making for a lot of unused boxes.

Many an architecture student and visionary has probably imagined how to turn these ready-made Legos into larger than life habitats. See below an incredible idea for Emergency housing for victims of catastrophes like the Earthquake in Haiti..

I found this project on coolhunting, and its called Seed. The site says that- Seed is an emergent housing investment that appreciates locally over time. I couldn’t agree more.
The containers are easy to adapt into living space and even can support enough weight on top to be used for gardening… Genius.

How amazing is this?!?! I just opened one Gigantic box and inside, walla, my DL & Co. new years gift. If you can believe it, this genius work of art is in fact a life-sized bust of a woman in the form of a candle that, once lit, glows and then weeps molten wax from her cameo-like eyes. Yes, indeed. Utterly Haunting & Totally Genius.

All you wonderful people who were just to Punk rock to stay on this Planet… To name a few Jason Ellis, Beau Velasco, and Dash Snow…

These are my three favorite moments from my last trip to London… Anish Kapoor outdoor sculpture above. And Andy Warhol’s Marylin Monroe in Rainbow [!!] in the Pop are show at Tate Modern..

And last but not least this humble though kind of neat lil pic I took from my Black taxi cruising by the London Eye…

Cass Bird for Sophmore Nyc- word! Lots of awesomeness in this trailer [soon to be something even awesome-er?!]
Chrissie’s collection is hot- as always.. Cass, you have got that special something!.. and Athena, you’re a shining star!