Horns & Concrete

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DSCF0106.JPG, originally uploaded by borr1982.

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Frankrijk-1998-0640, originally uploaded by rick ligthelm.

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Versailles : The Oracle and the Sky, originally uploaded by gilderic.

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"Jacques Guerlain - begetter of the scents Jicky, Shalimar and Mitsouko - observed that his perfumes should recall "the underside" of his mistress... "

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"The mid-century perfumer Germaine Cellier was inspired to create Piguet's Bandit by tearing the drawers off models as they returned from the catwalk and burying her nose deep inside them."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2008/dec/06/perfume-ingredients

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ED RUSCHA: On the Road: An Artist Book of the Classic Novel by Jack Kerouac at the Gagosian

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Jürgen Teller

http://forums.thefashionspot.com/f71/j-rgen-teller-photographer-25240.html

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“Most fashion photography is done by gay people finding women sexy,” Teller says, “which is sort of not sexy at all, at least to a heterosexual man. She’s so retouched, so airbrushed, without any human response at all, and, well, you don’t really want to fuck a doll.”

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The Marian Goodman Gallery is very pleased to announce the presentation of Makunaíma, a piece by Lothar Baumgarten drawn from a rarely exhibited body of work completed between 1978 and 1980, during an eighteen month period the artist spent living among the Yanõmami people of Kashorawë-theri and Nyapetawë-theri in the upper Orinoco region. The exhibition opens Friday, June 21st and will be on view through Friday, August 30th.

A sequence of fifteen black & white photographs describes a brief and dangerous river crossing undertaken by a band of Yanõmami returning from a two-month wayumi; an excursion dedicated to gathering and hunting. On the open river, in their canoes they are vulnerable to attack by their enemies from Konoboeböri-theri. Balancing all their possessions on their backs, their babies on their hips, the women disembark from the canoes, hurried and exhausted as they climb the muddy riverbank to the safety of the forest camouflage. After a short walk, they reach the large circle of the shabono, their communal house, which gives shelter to ninety people. With the embers they have carried from the day of their departure, they re-kindle cold fireplaces and in the rising smoke, they take their ease.

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LOTHAR BAUMGARTEN "MAKUNAÍMA"

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"A SELECTION OF FORTY ARTISTS FROM THIRTY YEARS AT MARIAN GOODMAN GALLERY"

OCTOBER 23 - NOVEMBER 24, 2007

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^ INSTALLATION VIEW NORTH GALLERY (FROM LEFT TO RIGHT): RUDOLF DE CRIGNIS PAINTING # 03-11, 2003 BRIDGET RILEY STATIC 4, 1966 JOHN GERRARD DUST STORM (DALHART, TEXAS. U.S.A.), 2007

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^ BRUCE NAUMAN WALKING IN AN EXAGGERATED

MANNER AROUND THE PERIMETER OF A SQUARE,

1968 STEVE MCQUEEN PORTRAIT AS AN ESCAPOLOGIST, 2006

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Patrick Winfield

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"décalage horaire", installation, Berlin, 11-13 juli 2008

By Charlotte Bonjour, http://charlottebonjour.blogspot.com/

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Le Brocquy- Ancestral Heads

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"Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before."

- Edith Wharton

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Neu-Ulm, originally uploaded by Marlon Kowalski.

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interim camp 20, originally uploaded by FIELD.IO.

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C, originally uploaded by superfamous.

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'Is it not the struggle of Jacob and the angel ? - the absolute commitment of the painter to his material, in which he can be almost destroyed by his material, defeated ... Sometimes the painter breaks away from the struggle and comes away with nothing. Those are the moments when the work, which is a record of the struggle, is destroyed by the artist, rejected.'

- Le Brocquy

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Le Brocquy- Presences (c.1956-66)

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Alexander McQueen SS 2010.

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Ryan McGinley

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Shalom Harlow

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Hedi Slimane, Chadwick Tyler, Wikipedia

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Horns & Concrete: Another self-depreciating post about a pretentious blog.

This will be a collection of images, articles and thoughts.

I make no promises as to the appropriateness of the content or the frequency of updates.

Agreed, there are too many such "inspiration" or "mood board" blogs going around, but really, I would like to have one of my own to show off.

I will probably regret the decision to name it "Horns & Concrete", but it does work for my current state of mind and taste. Inspiration for that term came from Rick Owen's furniture line, which you can see some of here http://yjwu.tumblr.com Yes, I have yet to decide if I want to stick with Tumblr or migrate over here. Maybe I will split between both. Who knows?

Thank you for checking this out. I will make a real post some time soon.

(Probably won't, so don't get your hopes up.)