Gallery of Photos from the AIPAD Photo Show NY

Highlights from the AIPAD Photo Show NY

Massimo Vitali, Simen Johan and Julie Blackmon





Photos: From top to bottom Simen Johan, Mark Seliger

A selection of highlights of the upcoming AIPAD Photography Show New York -- the biggest international photo show.

Yes I was on the Inaugural Bruise Cruise

Along with the Black Lips, Vivian Girls, VICE editors and more...









Ian Svenonius was the cruise director and the ship's elder statesman of punk. His underlings included 400 indie rock fans along with the bands--The Black Lips on the beach, Vivian Girls, Thee Oh Sees, The Strange Boys, Ty Segall, Quintron and Miss Pussycat, Surfer Blood, Jacuzzi Boys, and Turbo Fruits--and VICE, the editors of which were there to shoot The Black Lips video. See the full pictorial at Flavorwire.

Hahn Bin: Visionaire's Mozart

A Salon in the old Boom Boom Room



Violinist Hahn Bin performed for a small gathering at the top of the Standard Hotel in New York for Visionaire's party to celebrate Fashion Week. Read more at BlackBook.

Tamaryn at MoMA PS1 Saturday Sessions

Tamaryn performs at MoMA PS1's Saturday Sessions with Mirror Mirror and special effects by Thunder Horse Video.

How to be a Witch House Poser

Brush Up on your Salem, Shams and Pendu



If you want to get in on the Witch House scene, read this piece first and enter with dark cred.
For example: Listen to Horror Scores for the Dance Floor Vol. 4, deny the legitimacy of the term "Witch House," and please, please, please have an opinion on Salem, even if only to say that their fame rides on Jack Donoghue's hair.

Ariel Pink, Mongolian Contortionists and 12 Liberty Ponies

THE ROCK & ROLL CIRCUS


Ariel Pink

The Rock & Roll Circus happened over two days in Lincoln Center's Damrosch Park. Punks be Not Proud--a photo essay with pictures of Japanther's performance that ended prematurely--can be viewed on BlackBook.com. Day 1 had performances by the So So Glos, The Pharmacy and Japanther. Day 2 had Ariel pink, Aska + Nick Zinner, Saint Motel and Amazing Baby. While you can see a photo essay up on BlackBook as well, here are more photos of the 2nd night.



"Mongolian Contortionists" (must we still objectify peoples' nationalities...)



Aska + Nick Zinner (Played the most haunting beautiful set while people were walking into the tent)


Aska + Nick Zinner



"Kenyan Boys" (must we still objectify peoples' nationalities...)



"Acid Baby" (Kept talking about getting lubricated)



Saint Motel (All I could think about were this guys red suspenders)


Saint Motel


Saint Motel



"Russian Aerialist"



Amazing Baby


Amazing Baby

Break Time


Acid Baby and friend







VIP Loungers






Big Apple Circus performers







Aska + Nick Zinner







12 Liberty Ponies (People screamed more loudly for these ponies than for anyone else)

ARIEL PINK


(He does a good parody of a musician but I kinda wished it was Geneva Jacuzzi)

Riot Grrrls

A Visual Guide to The Revolution Girl Style



Tobi Vail, Kathleen Hanna and Sara Jaffe had them. Miranda July had one. Called Snarla. Goteblud's exhibition of Riot Grrrl zines was one of the more compelling components of last weekend's NY Art Book Fair at MoMA PS1. In a visual piece for Flavorwire, I document some of the zines I found that were most interesting and significant to the Riot Grrrl movement.

Review of Madame Bovary for The Believer

I Review Lydia Davis's New Translation of Madame Bovary



Number of previous English translations of Madame Bovary: at least nineteen (according to Davis); Plot summary: Dissatisfied, a country doctor’s wife goes to a fancy-dress party, dreams of a better life, has two affairs, buys things she can’t afford and goes deeply into debt, eats arsenic; Representative sentence: “They had to lift her head a little, and at that a stream of black liquid ran out of her mouth like vomit.” Read my review here.

Jonathan Ames for BlackBook

Jonathan Ames Takes Me to the Russian Baths



Before the premiere of the second season of "Bored to Death," Jonathan Ames hosted me on a tour of the Russian baths in the East Village. Following the baths, I attended the premiere, with the cast of BTD.

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“Yes,” says Jonathan Ames. “Cover yourself up good. Like this.” I look back as he’s putting a towel over his shins. He puts several more over his body, and says, “You can even put one over your head.” He pulls up a brown towel smoothly over his face and drops it. “But then you can’t see the view.”

Tao Lin for BlackBook

On Stealing, Drugs and his Dad



“Where do your parents live?” I say.
“Taiwan.”
“I thought you were from Florida.”
“I am. They moved because their house was confiscated by the government.”

Rick Moody for BlackBook

And Dear Dying Alone



"Twitter itself is not terribly compelling."
I interviewed Rick Moody for BlackBook Magazine.
I also really like his new website: hatredofnaturalism.com. In particular the section called "Rick Moody, Life Coach." He gives great advice. My favorite so far is his response "Dear Dying Alone."

MoMA PS1 Warm Up

Seva Granik



I have a piece up at BlackBook on Seva Granik, who booked MoMA PS1 Warm Up, NY's premiere summer concert series. Granik talks MoMA PS1, Klaus Biesenbach and socializing.

Julian Louie for Gravure

On Marie Antoinette, Wet-Suits and the Skins of Berlin



I interviewed rising fashion designer Julian Louie for Gravure Magazine. How does an architecture student from Cooper Union--with no training in fashion--get handpicked for a job at Calvin straight out of school?

New This Week

Webby Awards and Blue-Point Oysters with Emily Gould



I have new piece up at BlackBook on a talk I had recently with Emily Gould at Five Leaves in Greenpoint where we discussed her new memoir, women and agency, and Tumblr, among other things. She also gives a cheat-sheet of her favorite spots in Greenpoint.

I also attended the Webby Awards on Monday night, of which I wrote a short party report. In his introduction, BJ Novak thanked sponsors by placing their logos in composite photographs with those from Selleck Waterfall Sandwich (see image above), which won a Webby for "Weird" new site.

Week in Review

No End in Sight



This week, the FSG Reading Series returned Tuesday night, with Lydia Davis and David Means. Thursday night, Wells Tower won the Young Lion award at the ceremony at the New York Public Library. Also, this week was Internet Week. Over at the Metropolitan Pavilion the Makerbot was printing plastics and the smallest URL in existence (e.co) was sold at auction.

Continuing this week, and for the foreseeable future, Tao Lin (still!) answers questions posted in the comments section of an interview I did with him that was re-posted last week.

Next week, Webby Awards?

Dear Tao, Are You Happy?

For One Day Tao Lin Answered Everyone's Questions

In September 2009, I did an interview with Tao Lin that was published on The Rumpus. It was a long interview and Tao answered the questions with great detail and thought. The interview was reposted a couple of days ago on The Rumpus and Tao offered readers a small window of time in which to ask him anything they wanted and he would respond. And he did. Here are some of the questions people asked that I liked in particular, either because they were curious or made assumptions unwittingly. All of Tao's answers are honest. See the site for the answers (except the last one where I show Tao's answer)...

“What was the closest that you’ve ever come to committing suicide? i.e – standing on the edge of a ledge, holding shotty in your mouth with toe on the trigger”

“Do you ever feel like you have noticed a ‘tipping point’ in friendships with other people where their accomplishments originally overshadow yours, and then after time your accomplishments begin to be ‘on par’ with them, and then surpass them?”

“What sexual technique has received the best response from partners?”

“How much do you like radiohead?”

“what is your favorite plant? (those that are generally not used for eating purposes)”

“Are you CARLES?????????”

Tao: carles is carles