paper

• http://www.katespaperie.com/

a swatch of adorable wrapping paper from kate's paperie caught my eye in a 2006 issue of Vogue & i found lots more on their website!!

oh! i bought these blank random/funny/vintage/"assorted ephemera" cards yesterday with a gift card at barnes & noble.

interior space&furnishings inspiration

• http://www.abchome.com

baby boots!!

quilts & bed linens

furniture made from organic materials

vintage & antique furniture

their ad, which i found in an issue of Vogue Living, includes words like "grounded," "infinite possibilities," and says, "good wood from responsibly managed forests or reclaimed and salvaged sources protecting old growth and endangered forest species." the slogan: "SUSTAINABLE; to keep in existence, reinvent, transform & consume consciously" & other words: organic, fair & square, beautiful, handmade, love, pure, consciously made, local economy, community made, cruelty free, indigenous, recycled. the ad also quotes ghandi's "be the change you want to see in the world" quote.

i'm intrigued. too bad there are only stores in NY, NJ, FLA and the UK.

feminist magazines

above: The Ladder, Chrysalis, Heresies



+ Quest; a Feminist Quarterly, Dyke; A Quarterly, Spiral; Women's Arts Magazine, Broadsheet; New Zealand's Feminist Magazine

Valerie Solanas

Valerie Solanas is the author of the SCUM Manifesto.
She also shot Andy Warhol, and thus, the movie I Shot Andy Warhol.

even moooore from WACK!

#1 and #12 of Betty Tompkin's Fuck series (the story behind these paintings is a must-read)

Infinity Mirror Room - Phalli's Field by Yayoi Kusama

Das erste Jahresportrait (11.9.72 - 15.10.72) by Friedl Kubelka

Chanel by Audrey Flack (her photorealist painting are incredible)

Hon by Niki de Saint Phalle (at Moderna Museet, Stockholm)

Selbst by Annegret Soltau

Fresh Dialogue 4

The Fresh Dialogue book series are literal and visual transcripts of annual graphic design conversation spearheaded by the New York chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts. The conversation is sort of a roundtable of relevant and emerging graphic artists and designers, each with similar and differing outlooks .. the event creates dialogue between the artists that intertwines many ideas and always brings the conversation to a solitary point that all can agree on in regards to graphic design. -- I found this series while browsing the graphic design books at my local public library and have read 3 of the 7 that are currently available. It would be really neat to be able to go to one of the events in person .. I wish my friend Abbey still went to school at F.I.T. for the mere fact that the events take place there, and, wouldn't it be perfect to go visit her & catch the annual event?!

Fresh Dialogue 4 featured the following three artists:
Peter Buchanan-Smith
Jason Fulford
Leanne Shapton

Buchanan-Smith has a Masters in Fine Arts and Design from SVA, and, post-grad has worked as the art director of the New York Times' op-ed page, as well as the creative director of Paper Magazine. He won I.D. Magazine's design distinction award in 2003 for his first authored book, Speck. His career path has been one in which he's worked with an impressive roster of firms, publications, individuals and musicians, such as Wilco - for whom he designed a Grammy-winning album. He is now his own company.

Fulford & Shapton have created J&L books, combining their own artistic endeavors (Fulford with photography and Shapton with illustration) and also producing books of artistic works by artists that they find, or that find them.

Says Fulford,

"We found that we're interested in art and writing that carries, in equal parts, a sense of humor and the beautiful. We're into artists who present these ideas in original ways. We approached three young photographers whose work we admired and asked if they'd like to publish books with us. The artists helped us raise the money while Leanne and I edited and designed the books."

"We see work that's inspiring and think 'This should be a book!'"

"Part of what we're doing is creating or fostering a network of unpretentious, talented, and energetic people who are all compelled to make beautiful things."



Those are the words of the kind of person I'd really like to work with. It's ridiculously inspiring to hear about people doing things that I want to do, but that are seemingly impossible now. Motivation overload! I carry the confidence to do such great things because I know there are similarly-thinking people out there who just want to DO and MAKE and SEE and LEARN and CREATE lovely things to show off and inspire others.

more from WACK!

Body Beautiful, or Beauty Knows No Pain: Hot House, or Harem by Martha Rosler, 1966–72

Woman Freedom Now by Faith Ringgold, 1971

the Cunt Coloring Book by Tee Corinne, 1975

"In 1973 I set out to do drawings of women’s genitals for use in sex education groups. I wanted the drawings to be lovely and informative, to give pleasure and affirmation. I organized the drawings into a coloring book because a major way we learn to understand the world, as children, is by coloring. As adults many of us still need to learn about our external sexual anatomy."

WACK! & Yoko Ono's "Cut Piece"

i've been reading this book,

feminist art is a realm of art that i've never been particularly interested in, nor read or learned about.. buuut this book was produced by a company who makes really attractive books and that, of course, drew me in. the book features a few pieces about yoko ono, someone who's artistic background (seperate from her work with late husband john lennon) i never knew much about either.

here's my inspiration for the day:

Ono sat motionless on the stage after inviting the audience to come up and cut away her clothing, covering her breasts at the moment of unbosoming. ‹Cut Piece› entailed a disrobing, a denouement of the reciprocity between exhibitionism and scopic desires, between victim and assailant, between sadist and masochist: and, as a heterosexual herself, Ono unveiled the gendered relationship of male and female subjects as objects for each other.