MAKE LOVE WAR, little by little
To feel and know the mantle of GOLD, with it’s winking ability to transform is the mark of the magician. The warrior and the maiden must acquire this for bravery and attraction. To transform War with Love is the fire that moves us and One Man tickles us to REALLY DO IT.
We are honored to work with little marvin, MAKE LOVE WAR and GOLD. We styled this shoot above for little marvin. The gentlemen at the bottom are Apollo Heights, with whom little marvin collaborated for the MAKE LOVE WAR soundtrack in the key of F, for its vibrational accordance with the rhythm of the heart.
little marvin makes BIG GOLD TENT and invites its transformation into thousands of golden hearts. Cut Hearts and End War with the Passion of a Terrorist. See MAKE LOVE WAR for the whole story, all the beautiful people who came through Anonymous Gallery beaming their love. Our agency co-produced the show and hosted the Final Parties on March 3 and 7, 2009. We thank our sponsors, John Favreau, Gen Art, Surface magazine,Belvedere vodka and POM Wonderful.
The kids had the most fun I think.
Thank you to our media friends who covered the show at Time Out NY, High Snobette, and my friend, Robert Ayers who covered the show on his new blog, A Sky Filled with Shooting Stars and the Village Voice for making the exhibit a Voice Choice!
Little by little the night turns around
Counting the leaves which tremble at dawn
Lotuses lean on each other in yearning
Under the eaves the swallow is resting
Set the controls for the heart of the sun
Over the mountain watching the watcher
Breaking the darkness
Waking the grapevine
knowledge of love is knowledge of shadow
Love is the shadow that ripens the wine
Set the controls for the heart of the sun
Witness the man who raves at the wall
Making the shape of his question to Heaven
Whether the sun will fall in the evening
Will he remember the lesson of giving
Set the controls for the heart of the sun
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WOMEN + CARS + TOOLS 1
3:43 AM Another Gala and yet another night he steals away with the perky breasted waitress or this time the blond Russian czarina. Nothing a little “adjustment” to his favorite ’78 Porsche won’t fix. Afterwards, the nightcap toast to Dreamland on the Frette and tomorrow there is always The Handsome Hans, the tennis pro…and his sweet smell of sweat…
PHOTOGRAPHER: OLIVER KRITSCH
Oliver sets a scene with the precision of a film director playing with light and sinister mood. We art directed and styled this shoot along with little marvin at a service shop and garage in Bridgehampton during a freezing cold and rainy day in November. Behind the scenes, you will see how the freezing of everyone contributed to the story line of a powerful woman, a Car to Contend with and perhaps a bit of man trouble mixed in.
Oh, hi honey you’re home…
Who has the last laugh in the end?
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written by Jade Dressler
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FLOWERS 1
“If one offers Me with love and devotion a leaf, a flower, fruit or water, I will accept it.”
Bhagavad-gita (9.26), Krishna
The Shock and Beauty of Flowers begs the question: Which is the offering and Who is the recipient of Such A Moment of Adulation and Beauty? I have never been able to separate myself from the imagery of flowers, it has permeated my way of seeing and working in the world from a young age. When I was 15, I followed the heady smell of insence on South Street in Philadelphia to an elaborate, be-decked archway of a bookstore called The Garland of Letters. Over the archway was the above quote from Krishna, which has become a mantra for me.
Inside this oasis in the city, the shop was filled with floor-to-ceiling esoteric books, crystals and ritual objects. I bought my first “Krishna Consciousness” magazine there, fascinated by the illustrations and cursive Sanskrit as much as I was inspired by the simplicity and wisdom of the quote over the door. The idea of doorways and entrances that transport is another idea central to my creativity.
Who was this dancing Krishna God of Pleasure, with his naked girlfriend, flowers, gardens,music and dancing? I wanted in. To be immersed, inspired and work with flowers, explore the intersection of humans and flowers. The Pleasure, Imperfection and Perfection of flowers has always been a force. Just as a child will pick a small piece of grass or leaf and offer it to an adult with complete wonder and innocence…this is the fresh place of Adulation and Creativity that I love to create from. 
Amore recent example, about 200 plus years later, Talitha Getty lived a flowered and plush life, ending it all in the full flower of opiates. Women, like flowers, can embody such warrior power or such seducing temporality. Thus the fascination, right?Another fascinating shop of curiosities that inspired me was on the banks of the Delaware River in the town of Lambertville, New Jersey. Called Passiflora, it was the labor of love of two painters from Baltimore, Bette Bains Saum and Ted Saum. Bet Saums is a colorful, gentle and super creative soul whose flowers are loved by everyone with an eye for the fantastic and transcendental in Princeton and the area. Ted filled the shop with antiques, curio and hot DJ mixes and music from all over the world.
Bette and I created flowers for the homes and celebrations of Princeton residents. We styled these advertising shots for Passiflora for ads and an advertising insert which ran in The New York Times.
The images rival anything gorgeous from an acid trip. You can find Ernst Haekel downloads of imagery online. 
MARY POPPINS
and the famous floral carpet-bagger “pop-in” carried by the East Wind, (this image is from the original book as well)… 
…these images were the inspiration for this illustration I did for the cover of a catalogue for Blue Fish Clothing, a free form organic cotton collection avidly collected by its fans for the loose shapes and inspired hand-block prints. 
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LIVING DESIGN 1
May in New York City is International Contemporary Furniture Fair Month. Trust that every year the crowd, the design is intoxicating and the people are the most supremely chic. (Somehow refreshingly less affected than fashion people too)
TREND: TENDANCE The Brits are Very Into Faerie Influences.
The nature designs and inspiration in art, advertising and interior design have taken to turning us into denizens of nature, tiny folks and faeries. Not at all child-like illustrative, now these influences are more wizard-ish and anti-techno in feel.
Miranda Meilleur is an artist in residence at Manchester City College and creates objects that would work for a Medieval knight as well as the faeries around his head after he’s drunk too much mead. She works magic in acid-etched steel.
Fiona Gall gets the Prize. Ornate chandeliers that look like they were created in a Faerie workshop with miniature wands and wing-hands.
FOR SALE: A “Faerie, Put Your Little Head on a Pillow” Ring.
For fun, a faeirie pillow ring to rest your head on your hand when you get tired. So many chic fabrications to match decor and mood. Buy from Downstairs Studio, from Japan.
PLANT:IDEAS Old and New World Luxury Textures Are Melding.
Lindsey Adelman of Lindsey Adelman Studio, is an obsessive Brooklyn artist working with hair, Avery dots, clear stickers and endless doodles. She has her own Plant of white dressed women working their hair into fine art. (see the pic below) And her chandeliers are a practical bubbling of her insect-ual hiving and working.
ONLINE HIGH: Online Communities and New Countries Innovating.
Design Democracy is an online design community (like www.threadless.com was for T-shirts) The concept is to create a well-designed products utilizng new technology with small production runs competitive with mass manufactured products.
Here is the credo from their site:
1. manufacture on demand
2. mass customize
3. manufacture sustainably
4. allow design to drive manufacturing
Manufacturing on demand means we don’t make it until there is a need for it.
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written by Jade Dressler
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LOVE NOTES 1
This Spring we have an outright obsession with words, letters, the printed word, handwritten fortunes, art and hand wraught Love Notes. Meaning and power become altered inside of us and take on new forms when simple messages appear in places you would least expect.
Like Etsy proves, the handmade is hot. A new book, Script & Scribble: The Rise and Fall of Handwriting is further evidence that after tech everything… handwriting…precious and archaic, has an appeal. When street artist, Banksy’s, writing on the wall goes for £96,000 the market for the Mark of the Hand is definitely back.
Inspired…
on April 19th, 2008, we sowed the Word.
In the riot of color and energy that is Saturday in Union Square Park in New York City, we placed and scattered and passed along golden tubes with little messages inside, transforming and interjecting surprise into the day.
Tiny golden tubular Love Notes tied with red string or rubber bands, appeared at people’s feet, under trees and all about the Park ending at the feet of the Ghandi statue.
The art continued as the magnificent mix of Union Square’s curious people picked up the Love Notes, read them, kept them, passed them on, put them in their pocket or shared with a friend.
The public art orgy culminated and got super hot, especially when the bunnies, white-tailed deer and red-breasted swallows were released at the orgasmic musical finale. Stay tuned for more!
The photos of this surprise urban intervention were taken by by Alvaro Montagna of Small Earth.
Kicking it back old-school, printed notes can be found in ancient settings following traditions. Finding by chance a Buddhist temple in Chinatown the other day at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge, the Mahayana Buddist Temple, we saw big red lacquer bowls of the golden fortunes just like the Love Notes. Traditional temple-goers seek Chinese wooden fortune sticks for insight to their future. Big in Japan as well, fortunes grow on trees and in temples.
As you can see we collect Love Notes notes and post them like prayers on the wall. We are charmed by found art, it has become a whole culture which can be dived into at Found magazine.
The Writing was on the Wall at the recent ICFF (International Contemporary Furniture Fair) show with Tracy Kendall’s wallpaper.
The ultimate word-artist has met Twitter, see: Jenny Holzer on Twitter .See also PSFK’s piece on Jenny Holzer and Twitter. Jenny is one of the original wordsmiths…our favorite is MYTH CAN MAKE REALITY MORE TANGIBLE.
Another “online nerd, word high” is The Big Word Project where you can own your own words.
MAKING MARKS AND VIBRATIONS INTO SPACE
The human desire to communicate with the heavens and/or each other seems destined to dance forever between the tangible and the surreal. The writing may be on the wall, in cosmic billboards known as crop circles or in a fortune found on a palm or in a sugar cookie. Writing and Words to tell a story is forever compelled by the marching on of human and maybe animal and spirit dreams. It’s just as fascinating to watch China pop from the tangible and centuries of ritual into the wide space of the 21st century in mere years as it is to see the brilliance and perfection of a crop circle, realize it could be graffiti from other places and have it give you the chills.
THE END.
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