Nuudii System Tee System Bra in Black (Image Source)
Let’s face it: traditional bras can feel like a necessary evil. Whether it’s underwires that dig or straps that slip, most of us are always looking for that unicorn bra — supportive, comfortable, and versatile. Well, I recently discovered something that comes impressively close: the Nuudii System Tee System bra, and I’m excited to share my thoughts.
Continue reading Product Review: Nuudii System Tee System Bra – A New Kind of Freedom
Photo By Gail
David Salle’s paintings juxtapose images from a variety of sources to startling and often provocative effect. In Sextant in Dogtown (1987) Salle arranges disparate elements within a grid and in a manner evoking film montage, while combing a pastiche of painterly styles and subjects. Here, the act of seeing — or not seeing– becomes a subject in itself. A half-dressed woman, lifted from the artist’s own photography, is shown from different vantage points, her face always obscured. Above her, a cartographer uses an old-fashioned measuring device known as a “sextant.” Confronted with these disjunctive images and with no evident narrative, we are ultimately left to forge connections on our own.
Continue reading Modern Art Monday Presents: Sextant in Dogtown by David Salle
Untitled, 2011 By Elmgreen & Dragset (All Photos By Gail)
The Flag Art Foundation is currently hosting Changing Subjects, a solo exhibition by internationally acclaimed Scandinavian artists Elmgreen & Dragset. Changing Subjects, designed by the artists, presents new and existing works from the duo’s twenty-year-long collaboration that address existential issues linked to identity, sexuality, and mortality, as well as an examination of social value systems and the expectations that surround them. Continue reading Changing Subjects By Elmgreen & Dragset at Flag Art Foundation
All Photos By Gail
This spotted-dog is the brand mascot of PINK, the Victoria’s Secret line of clothing and lingerie that is marketed to college age (and younger) ladies. He’s pretty cute.
In dimmer light, you can see that this little guy really lights up!
Photographed in the window of the Victoria’s Secret store at the corner of Broadway and Prince Street in NYC.
All Photos By Gail
Recently, Anne and I went to this Beauty Event Thing, which we (wrongly) assumed was some kind of Cosmetics Product Tradeshow, but which turned out to be a convention center full of little girls standing in long lines to buy makeup. Plus, lots of Tweeting. It was basically ridiculous. Two grown women with real lives had absolutely no business being there except as a means to score free product to write about on our blogs, which was much easier said than done.