MARILYN

Visiting Logan in Chicago between Christmas and the New Year.

Freezing cold and a long walk led us to this beauty, a 26-foot tall statue of Marilyn Monroe by John Seward Johnson II (born 1930; also known as J. Seward Johnson Jr). The Blonde Bombshell is striking the infamous hot-air-up-the-skirt shot from "The Seven Year Itch" and people line up all day to take pictures of her.

A lot of art people (especially locals) hate it-- but I think it's hilariously perfect.

More detail on the story here.

LOGAN'S RUN

How You Gonna Fix It?

OWS Marches Through the Streets of Soho

The scene right now as hundreds (thousands?) of protesters march up Broadway at the corner of Houston.

Where are they heading?

What will happen next?

 If they occupy the MTA and I don't get home on the subway, I'mona be pissed.

Secret Society

"Cupido" from Toby's Secret Society Mini Series by Kidrobot.

New Music Crush: BONFIRE by Donold Glover Childish Bambino

I was sold after seeing his first live tv appearance on Jimmy Fallon a couple of weeks ago, but now I'm going gaga for DONALD CLOVER aka Childish Bambino:


Bonfire from Donald  Glover on Vimeo.

ACTION FIGURE PARTY: CARMELO ANTHONY

Logan suggested we dive into the new NBA Collection available at Kid Robot, so I a dropped into the Soho location and picked up two gems-- the first, Denver Nuggets #15 Carmelo Anthony.

The second one is way too good to reveal yet, so stay tuned :)

Ring the Alarm

Captain Crunch

I love, love the little surprises I find waiting for me at my desk. @logankeslar knows how to make me smile. Today he sent me this tiny Captain America guy:

Bernie is in the Theatre Hall of Fame

I was in the lobby of the Gershwin for the Wicked Day festivities (aka the pizza-out-of-a-box after-party), and noticed this shot of the incomparable Bernadette Peters.

Day By Day

The scene at intermission, as the audience is invited on-stage to take part in Holy Communion (wine flavored jell-o shots?) at the Circle In The Square Theater-- home of the new Broadway revival, GODSPELL.

Interesting note-- fresh from his appearance next door at Wicked Day, composer Stephen Schwartz was in the audience in a few rows back.

Dior GAMES

Totally obsessed with this progressive, albeit unexpected approach Dior is taking with their new visual identity.

My New Tattoo

I went to Rivington Tattoo yesterday-- the new home of my tattoo guy, Sweety.

The new shop is really beautiful. Simple, clean... dark wood floors and an amazing/ornante tin tile ceiling that is gorgeous to look at when you're getting needles full of ink drilled into your arm.

 

Here's what we started out with... the bare area between my wrist 

and the bottom of the clover.

And the other side.

Sweety traced the bow and Mickey Mouse on carbon-transfer.... but then free-handed the rest first starting in lime green Sharpie marker.

 

The workstation is kept very clean-- no spills. 

 

After the rough outline was done, he went back with a fine tip red Sharpie, and finally a blue ballpoint gel pen.

 

Once he was finished sketching, I checked it out in the mirror and we quickly got started. We all know I don't have the beefiest frame, or a strong stomach so it's no surprise that I get a little woozy when I subject myself to this whole tattoo thing... but Sweety is always totally cool about it and after about five minutes I totally thought I was gonna barf. 

Actually ran to the bathroom cause I-thought-I-was-gonna-puke-barf. But I didn't. I calmly went back to my chair, and he brought be a damp paper towel for my forehead and let me recline in the chair. 

When the bear of a receptionist found out that I'd almost fainted he was really amazing and rushed to the bodega to grab me a candy bar. I felt like Shleby-- a reference I wasn't sure they'd get, so I didn't verbalize it.

Here's what's left of the candy bar.

And here's the final product, obviously still very raw and swollen-- but I'll totally share updated photos once she's healed.

Someone's Got a Secret

I've received 2 notes in 2 days from a "Secret Admirer"

[Posted with iBlogger from my iPhone]

Lost & Found

Rihanna lets us have it (yet again) with her new video for "We Found Love". It's dark and dangerous, and dares to be everything Britney's "Criminal" is not.

It's shaky, hand-held vibe and fast cuts are jarring, and the art direction makes me go-- wait, is this a Levi's commercial? And then I'm all like, no way... RiRi is a ho for Armani Jeans, right?

Right now somewhere in the world Ryan Mcginley is going "huh?".

But I dig it.

Let's break it down:

Okay, so RiRi lives in the big city, but it's kinda gloomy out-- so she's not that into it.

  

But she's got a fine man in her life... and  he's totally artsy.

 

 And he doesn't like that it's so bleak either.

 So, they take a bath.

Together. (Love the product placement, btw)

 And smoke.

 Together.

Go forth. 

"Levi's... getch your Leviiiii's...."

 

I'm not even going to dignify this with a remark. 

 Look familiar? See the Too Cool For Pool invite for yourself. We were way-way ahead of this one.

 

They eat dingy fast food.....

 

Things are gettin' stormy....

 The try to let off some steam at an underground local skate park.

 But that's not enough, so they take some pills. A lot of pills. 

Their eyes go all Requiem-for-a-Dream. 

 The room goes crazy. 

 They go freak-nasty...

  Great, now there's a mosh pit.

Oh, gawd-- it's just too much to try explaining. Just go watch the hot mess for your self. 

PS - when do I get to make a full-time job of analyzing pop music videos.

PPS - who said the music video was a dead medium. 

Cover Up

I am officially obsessed with Rick Genest aka Zombie Boy, and I know how important Dermablend is to some pretty important people in my life aka the cast of La Cage aux Folles.

PICTURE PERFECT

The first official shot from my fancy new iphone camera. I'm gonna love this thing. 

 

The view of Soho from the Broadway windows of www.thisismkg.com

SHARK TANK

David Blaine. What kind of asshole is this monster? Or rather, what kind of monster is this asshole?

We'll probably never figure it out, but in the meantime-- enjoy this crazy, scary, beautiful video from Adam Kimmel called "Dressed For Dinner" where the magician (if that's what we're calling him these days) dives deep with some hungry looking sharks. 


Dressed for Dinner from adam kimmel on Vimeo.

Thanks to http://nickwooster.com/ (one of my new faves). 

Pete Cashmore Talks Connectivity & Technology For Good

"There's so much you can do when you're just MORE connected."

I just walked in the door from "another day at the office" and turned on NY1 to see semi-dreamy (?) techno-digi-social wonder boy Pete Cashmore, CEO and founder of mashable.com.

Having worked in the Experiential Marketing / Brand Consulting realm for a minute, I was truly struck by the closing line of the interview.

"If we can just get the tools of connectivity into people's hands there's amazing, magical things they can do with it, far more than figuring out how to launch a media site from rural Scotland. You know? They can change the world, build trade in their countries, they can create livings for themselves they can become self-sustaining. There's so much you can do when you're just MORE connected."

Baby Animals

A vintage, vinyl woodland creature just arrived at my desk: