There are so many wonderful libraries here in Oaxaca and I like to spend afternoons at the Instituto de Arte Grafico de Oaxaca (IAGO) with all the books that you’d usually never be allowed to get your grubby paws on: expensive monographs, rare editions, oversized giants, handmade books submitted by artists themselves. It’s an incredible...
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Hey guys!!! ISSUE #2 of Got a Girl Crush Magazine is OUT and my travel journal is IN it! Check out my photo diary from the BIG BIG CITY series earlier this year. Muchas muchas gracias to Meg & Andrea for inviting me to be in this issue along with some other righteous ladies...
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Really excited to be back on the Time Travel Tuesday train with Sara from Brown Paper Bag! Head over to BPB for my post on Mexican surrealist aritst & muse, Leonora Carrington. And without further ado…Sara’s TTT post on NANCY!!! One of my favorite cartoons as a kid and whose sweet tooth I can...
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Who can possibly resist the glamour, extravagance & strange allure of  drag queens!? After seeing these images from Gilles Larrain’s 1973 book, Idols, documenting the 1970s New York transvestite scene, I am dying to get my hands on the 2011 version, which includes even more selections from his archives. Also dying to have some raging dress-up...
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Last July, I posted some images from the last archi lookbook and wrote about my experience modeling a few outfits for their fall collection while they were shooting in San Francisco. I finally got around to scanning the A/W 2011 archi magazine/lookbook, which features several stylish ladies living in and around SF, myself included! The...
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Welcome back to Time Travel Tuesday w/Sara from Brown Paper Bag! This week Sara is taking us to the wild world of printmaker, Kurt Seligmann, whose surreal prints dig deep into the subconscious mind between-the-wars. Over at BPB I wrote about Ancient Peruvian ceramics and textiles! Enjoy! This past weekend, I finally made it...
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it’s not goodbye, friends, it’s “see you later!” from the beginning, people’s gallery was a temporary space for the artists of the people’s biennial, a project by jens hoffmann and harrell fletcher. throughout its year-long run, we’ve had all kinds of events supporting local artists in a democractic, “people’s” fashion. so many of you have...
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i’m excited to share the latest BTA interview with sasha wizansky, co-founder, editor-in-chief and art director of the cult art/food magazine, meatpaper! now on its 16th issue and 5th year, the quarterly journal has gained an international following. despite its name, meatpaper isn’t just for meat lovers- it exists as a starting point for a dialogue...
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WAKE UP! that’s the message of the occupy movement, which is rapidly gaining momentum in the us and in cities, towns and villages all around the world! people are angry and want to reclaim their lives, homes, rights, and bodies, from the tight grasp of corporate greed and influence! it is a movement that...
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best holiday ever! i had a cold all weekend but still managed to stay up late as cheech & chong with nico; be a zombified fashion blogger at the zombie nightlife party at the academy of sciences; watch the first season of the walking dead; make delicious vegan popcorn balls; and find these spooky halloweeeeeeen...
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