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2009
- January
  - sweden
    01/09/09
2008
- August
  - future
    08/09/08
    since you are from the future, make your images like letters home. They will reach it for you.
- July
  - Clavicle
    07/26/08
    Hippocrates, 4th century BC:
    
    * When, then, a [clavicle] fracture has recently taken place, the patients attach much importance to it, as supposing the mischief greater than it really is, and the physicians bestow great pains in order that it may be properly bandaged; but in a little t
  - Freedom is Free
    07/14/08
    This could be a long story. It shall not. In brief.
    
    Mac and OS X. Using the free-loving BSD roots for their software. Macs Suck. Except the BSD parts. Which is software.
    And intel chips. Which macs used to hate till they got raped with the remains of the free market. That mac people
  - riding on
    07/05/08
    4 years ago, hit by a truck.
    Got home.
    
    Stayed in bed some. Shakes.
    Every time came to a road, body would stop. Couldn't jaywalk.
    Pavlov's conditioned reflexes in action.
    
    Got a bike today. Used, of course. Why buy new.
    And enough listening to fear
  - completion
    07/01/08
    one must always appease the ghosts before a new endeavor, and mine have been set free.
    The book is complete.
    
    whether it will see day or not,
    between skin there is only light.
    
    manuscripts don't burn, and the Skogsrå ate Galatea.
- June
  - outside
    06/28/08
    all the answers
    to all the
    questions
    are outside
    now is the time
    to get out
  - Blink
    06/22/08
    Blink
    
    I am doing a new project to break away from the routine that has crusted up in the last years.
    
    This summer, a photographic adventure. Some simple mirror rules, a reflection of what i've been stuck with
    Blink
    
    *No photographer interaction with model or
  - the challenge of summer
    06/21/08
    Photographic adventure of limits.
    
    Drop models, sets, artificiality, hunt perfect moment here and now.
    
    Wilderness: inflatable kayak, jungle hammock with mosquito netting, water filter, updated old mil-spec tropics kit.
    
    Wave in the face.
  - Everything
    06/09/08
  - bbg 2
    06/01/08
- May
  - Wisdom?
    05/25/08
  - chris @ rednyc.com
    05/12/08
  - birds and the bees
    05/08/08
    
    I'm actually getting good at this.
    One must pay the price for greatness, but one can't even get mediocrity for free, it seems.
  - BBG falcon
    05/08/08
  - bbg 2
    05/07/08
  - green
    05/05/08
- April
  - mugshots
    04/12/08
    These mugshots from newsday.com are fascinating
- March
  - Nikita
    03/29/08
    
    Nikita of rednyc.com shot for City magazine.
    Amazing Russian boy,
    does judo and
    drives trucks (the ones with lots of wheels) in construction.
    The real deal.
  - >
    03/29/08
  - nostalgia
    03/28/08
  - One Door
    03/27/08
    One Door Closes, Another Opens
  - Venice of Bones
    03/25/08
    White nights
    
    Celebrate
    Day of Sailor
    Whole city in Uniform
    
    washed out blondes
    
    walk down Nevsky
    Flood never left
    
    Vodka Sailors
    
    North Star
    
    Venice of Bones
    
    The sphynx is
    male
    
    in StPetersburg
  - Another showroom visit
    03/25/08
    It's a lot of fun shooting 2008 fall at the showrooms- I feel like a cross of James Bond and erm... someone else maybe. Writing sucks.
    
    Here's a picture. And even more! Let's stick to pictures.
  - Old poisoner
    03/23/08
    …my contention is that evil is quite literally a virus parasite occupying a certain brain area which we may term the RIGHT centre. The mark of a basic shit is that he has to be right.
    
    And the basic shits are the basis of the pyramid.
    
    Some very interesting commentary by Antonio
  - In the context of the biggest lie
    03/22/08
    Of course, the history of human culture is largely the history of denying the unknown.
    
    Art along with politics and religion caters to the fragile human soul, ever so dependent on assurances of it's own existence (doubtful).
    A quote:
    
    Her paintings are intimate portraya
  - Brooklyn Royalty
    03/21/08
    
    Bob Bland of Brooklyn Royalty had an amazing show yesterday.
    
    I want those jeans, damn it! check out the lookbook
    
    I blame 42 degrees below vodka for lack of a hangover and a great mood (and photoshoot) today for coutorture.com .
    
    Had an amazing concept of sungl
  - Live like common people
    03/21/08
    
    Good enough for you,
    Good enough for me
    It's good enough
    for me
    
    Here we are
    Hanging on to strings of green and blues
    Break the chain and we break down
    Oh it's not real if you don't feel it
    Unspoken expectations
  - The joy of living
    03/19/08
    Best childhood friend had an ideal marriage. Two kids, white picket fence around house with a dog behind it.
    
    Just fell apart.
    
    Wife keeping kids and dog.
    
    He might get the fence.
    
    A worn sock in the soul, above the head a black bat.
    
    The camera
  - On the subject of Professionalism
    03/16/08
    Professionalism is knowing that all of the below apply to your work, at the same time:
    
    a)I'm terrible and I should quit
    b)I'm not so bad and should stay at it
    c)I'm the best and I am on top
    
    2)Professionalism is quitting last
    3)Professionalism is
  - upcoming art
    03/16/08
    Some interesting shows
    
    Sonamu (Pine Trees)
    
    March 20, 2008 - April 14, 2008
    Bien-U Bae
    Gana Art
    564 W 25th St
    
    The Rockfalls of Normandy
    
    March 20, 2008 - May 10, 2008
    Reception: March 20, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
    Jem Southam
    Robe
  - Absolutely
    03/15/08
  - I am Cuba
    03/14/08
    I am Cuba [Yo Soy Cuba] is one of the most astounding feats of cinema I've ever seen.
    
    True art gives great inspiration,
    Mikhail Kalatozov's film got me thinking about expanding the panoramic aspects of my work, experimenting with visual propaganda that produce a very co
  - And then they burned witches
    03/14/08
    Had a dream being locked up with some models in a church, as black clad monks brought wooden furniture to burn us down.
    Fighting and screaming commenced.
    A typical work-related dream after a day photoshop.
    
    Director inside took notes on the wardrobe and prop styling. The period
  - James Coviello Studio Visit
    03/06/08
    James Coviello is an astoundingly talented designer that creates a look that I am absolutely in love with!
    See our shoot with him here:
    
    http://www.coutorture.com/1088936
  - Girl Porn
    03/05/08
    
    more...
  - Super Super Contra
    03/01/08
    Nothing will ever come close
    Nothing at all.
- February
  - Wayne Liu
    02/27/08
    
    It gives me great joy that the photography of Wayne Liu is better than anything I shoot myself- after all, you are a great leader if you have superior people work for you.
    My job as director of photography is done- for this week at least.
  - Mah Hat
    02/27/08
    It seriously feels like this around here
  - The Only Oscar We Care About
    02/25/08
    The only Oscar we care about
    is Oscar De La Renta.
    Coutorture exclusive- Oscar De La Renta Fall 2008. First editorial with the latest designs by Oscar De La Renta to be published this year.
  - Hyrry upez
    02/24/08
    A good example why I don't live in france anymore
  - Members Only
    02/24/08
    Our little members only shoot got me in such a nostalgic mood that I ordered a gray members only jacket.
  - Pay the price
    02/23/08
    
    A quarter of an hour later, Riukhin sat in complete solitude, hunched over his bream, drinking glass after glass, understanding and recognizing that it was no longer possible to set anything right in his life, that it was only possible to forget.
    
    The poet had wasted h
  - All the everything in the world...
    02/23/08
    To paraphrase this song, all the cigarettes in the universe can't fill the hole in your heart.
  - erm.... this is... new?
    02/20/08
    This is ... new
    
    coutorture.com
  - Like a space monkey shot into snow
    02/19/08
    I much appreciate bad reaction, especially when the critic feels inadequately left out of the flow of life with models, stylists, and budgets, or whatever else it is the admirers of "the beautiful lifestyle " imagine this business to be.
    "Yes, he has no talent, but why does he ke
  - Dear Intertron
    02/17/08
    Dear Intertron, I love you.
    I have no home but you.
    Thank you, the mighty intertubes, and may you never run dim.
    Let the mighty torrents of teh webzz engulf the mindspace of the meat.
    You are the only Home to click on.
  - Brace
    02/15/08
    
    more at coutorture
  - Spin me round
    02/14/08
    
    click for more
  - Plushie!
    02/13/08
    We are shooting Plushie Schwartz as we speak.
    
    He's a gentleman in all the beastly regard!
  - Wow
    02/13/08
    Just wow. Wow.
  - Bubsy the Bobcat strikes back
    02/13/08
    We shot subversive jewelry on our favorite model Bubsy yesterday
    
    click for more
  - Catch of the day...
    02/10/08
    Amazing report on the life of a cocaine fishing town
  - A day of mourning
    02/10/08
    Swing it up, but she shall say yes no more.
    
    RIP, polaroid.
  - over
    02/09/08
    Well, fashion week is over.
    There were some items I liked in many shows, but hey, my style is very consistent.
    This whole trend of pregnant romantic dresses has to stop.
    Abort the violence of ugly femininity!
    
    Here's a sneak preview of my personal edit, we'll see h
  - Fashion weak
    02/07/08
    This is the longest week known to man.
    I feel like it's been a month.
    I can't wait to going to a remote spa in flushing and then hitting the russian baths this sunday.
    
    Bless the kind folks at Imperia vodka and their bar at the tents.
    we would not function without
  - Oh, wombat!
    02/06/08
    
    Sexual intercourse for wombats, the Australian marsupials, aappeared to be a physically demanding process, complete with chasing, biting, grunting and loads of heavy breathing.
  - ...
    02/06/08
    The madonna always pays for the suffering of the world she bore
  - Backstage Varvatos
    02/05/08
    Amazing show amazing guys !
    
    Click for more!
  - Oscar De La Renta
    02/04/08
    
    click:
  - Fashion week day 2
    02/03/08
    Head over to coutorture for more great images from fashion week day 2
    Head over to coutorture for more great images from fashion week day 2
  - Steam
    02/02/08
    This is hot and steamy--
    by yours truly
  - Fashion Week NY 2008
    02/01/08
    Thanks to Coutorture.com I have great access and freedom for amazing work.
    Stay posted on both sites.
    Today was amazing.
- January
  - Gay for Pay or Pay for Gay
    01/31/08
    Radar has an interesting take on Madison avenue being hot and heavy for the pink dollar.
    That has a cute sound to it.
    We thought Madison was pink already?
  - Why the 80s were more fun
    01/31/08
    
    We guess it was the coke all along.
  - Russia's New Military Uniform
    01/29/08
    This is so campy we even like it.
  - Geeks Attack
    01/28/08
    Another Sneak Preview for coutorture
  - The Countess
    01/28/08
    I miss you darling.
    I hope Berlin is all it's trumped up to be.
  - Myspace Photos Leacked
    01/28/08
    Boy, am I glad I never posted the herring masturbation incident.
    
    In a blow to innocent myspacers everywhere, the mighty Intertron once again teaches a priceless lesson- the concept of privacy is not valid in today's world.
  - Greatest Arrest Photo Ever
    01/27/08
    
    Apparenty there is a human Vinnie the Pooh, and he just got snabbed on a double homicide suspense.
  - Love of the 19th century
    01/27/08
    Picked up a book "Fashions of the 19th century" at the ICP charity book sale.
    Found the following gem:
    
    And what novelist could have imagined a more romantic deed than that associated with the name of Charlotte Stieglitz, who strangled herself in Berlin during the Christmas
  - Nylonkong
    01/25/08
    Time magazine, Admiral of Yesterday's news, decides once more to be endearingly hip and weaves us a tale of the three cities of Nylonkong.
    But what a name. Nylonkong.
    Like ed hardy killed the cool of tattoos, the label of Nyloncong completely wipes off any chance. At all. For anythin
  - Coelho The Pirate
    01/25/08
    Paulo Coelho, the best-selling author of “The Alchemist”, is using BitTorrent and other filesharing networks as a way to promote his books. His publishers weren’t too keen on giving away free copies of his books, so he’s taken matters into his own hands.
    
    Coelho’s view is that letting peop
  - When blurbs attack
    01/25/08
    More and more people are looking at this site from their phones, so the faithful Apache logs tell me.
    
    It has thus been decided to make the fonts bigger and the navigation finger-friendly.
    I want you to finger this site, dear, and finger it good and through.
  - Supercreep
    01/24/08
    This is beautiful
  - ...
    01/24/08
    
    What are we here for?
    We are here to go.
    
    Brion Gysin.
  - Gawked Dammit
    01/24/08
    Mom, i'm famous.
    
    http://gawker.com/artists/alex-norden.php
  - Love Brigade
    01/23/08
    take a sneak of Love Brigade's making of lookbook, shot by Alex Norden for coutorture:
    
    And the pictures:
    
    It was great fun shooting the making of another amazing lookbook, so nice to be behind the scenes. Love Brigade manage to do everything with ease, a t
  - Real Bad Shit
    01/23/08
    Im introducing the new category of Real Bad Shit
    For some reason I have a rare talent of finding the most weirdest freakiest shit on the internet.
    But the internet is my girlfriend anyway.
    I love her.
    Yes, I said it, I love you Intertron.
    WEll, here goes, and you haven'
  - Ausencia
    01/22/08
    Keep posting these file under personal entries.
    Yes, the stock market crashed, and yes, that actor is dead.
    But what does that have to do with my personal universe? Is your world that small? Have galaxies of betrayal being consumed by the black hole of fuck you all.
    
    Never make d
  - The joy of wasted time
    01/22/08
    Some things just keep coming back, bell to wake from the dream of life, the universal charity of deja vu, here to remind us of who exactly is sleeping this plane of nothingness.
    
    Some toys are better than others, it should have really been when I was twelve when the kind angel that we can
  - jurgen teller, creative god
    01/19/08
    Looks like jurgen teller has once again struck at the world with his fountain of creatively creative erm, creativity.
    
    Slava Mogutin writes in his blog that jurgen knocked off that famous Gucci bag image. Hilarious.
    
    Spot the difference ?
  - Nothing Left
    01/18/08
    
    Standing Amidst
    Falling Snow
    Nothing Left
    
    Remember reading this poem online 10 years ago.
    
    The moment has finally arrived.
    Nothing left.
    
    And it's not even snowing.
  - Things to do when stranded on an insignificant planet
    01/18/08
    Looking to hustle some off-world trasnport and have thus agreed to shoot fashion week related events, despise me all you want, project needs some cash and I'm gonna raise it.
    
    So anyway, some fun things are going over at
    
    Brainwave- check it out.
    Tonight th
  - Couture Torture
    01/18/08
    Soon! Sneak Preview...
  - Prada gone tutu
    01/17/08
    Is there a coup in Prada we haven't heard about or are tutus simply the must have item of the season that is being suppressed?
    
    tutu revolution, anyone?
  - Art Bomb!
    01/09/08
    This Thursday the 10th is an art event night extraordinaire!
    Make sure not to miss:
    
    Anna Kustera
    520 W 21st St
    
    CUTAWAY
    
    Gandalf Gaván, Vlatka Horvat, Rachel Howard, Jasper Sebastian Stürup
    
    Steven Kasher Gallery
    
    521 W 23rd St
  - Hooray For Global Warming
    01/08/08
    Who new that global catastrophe could be so pleasant.
    Sunning on the roof.
    It's shooting outside day.
    
    It's bad poetry time!
    
    ***
    a very
    tall girl
    blonde
    
    scandinavian
    
    from up North
    somewhere
    
    Sh
  - interfacing the ineviatable
    01/05/08
    A rather interesting story about enhancing human senses at wired
    
    For some reason this reminded me of my favorite sci-fi film- a gem introduced by a Russian friend-
    Kin Dza Dza
    here it is on google video.
    IMDB
  - The Final Myth
    01/02/08
    My work is telling the final myth.
2007
- December
  - The Playground in LA- we told you they'd be huge
    12/31/07
    This blog is from the future!
    
    December 6 opening of The Playground
    in LA gets a glowing review from men.style.com:
    
    Our friends at art mag The Playground are curating Multiple I, a new exhibit at L.A.'s Architecture + Design Museum, and with works by Terence Koh, Ale
  - Happy 2008
    12/31/07
  - ju$t another rich kid
    12/28/07
  - Santa, please!
    12/26/07
    I know what I want as a gift- cluster ballooning!
    http://www.clusterballoon.org/intro/intro.html
  - jark 2
    12/26/07
  - becks
    12/25/07
  - Happy all
    12/24/07
    I want to thank the Internet for the last 8 years of my life.
    Oh mighty Intertron, you have been fundamental in steering me on my course, providing advice, extending my abilities and reach.
    
    I have learned to depend on you and love you, you have been kind and provided what I needed.
  - December 21 - News Roundup
    12/21/07
    I am starting to understand the alchemy of transformation -overstepping the limits set by self.
    No need for words, for life itself should be manifestation of magic.
    
    As for the usual roundup- a productive week for us picture pimps.
    
    The Death of the Cultural Elite [guardian.
  - Triple 5 Soul Hiroki Otsuka
    12/18/07
    
    Triple 5 Soul presented the acclaimed Japanese manga artist HIROKI OTSUKA’s art installation at their newly designed Williamsburg retail store
    you see it.
    
    We love. see more www.hirokiotsuka.com
  - IHT still at the forefront
    12/15/07
    Fashion coverage just doesn't get better than at IHT
    
    http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/12/06/
    
    "There are many photographers working today who have a lot to say, who have points of view, who have a voice that's intelligent and considered," he added. "Unfo
  - Stress Management and the Center of Being
    12/13/07
    In a separate lifetime, in a universe far far away, I was once involved in developing a stress relief and control system for emergency personnel.
    
    This is a skeleton outline reminder for myself to type the shit out.
    
    *Breathing
    10-minute breathing exercise morning and eveni
  - Model Of the Everything
    12/13/07
    Or favorite Alan Carey of Red Models is named model of the week at models.com
    
    And there was much rejoicing.
    
    Pic by Alex Norden (OMFG that's me! ^U^)
  - More amazing Fashion at The Met
    12/13/07
    The Metropolitan museum (hey, thanks for adding our art to your colleciton!) is again at the foreground of all things gorge with their latest installation
    
    blog.mode: addressing fashion
    
    December 18, 2007–April 13, 2008
    The Costume Institute, ground floor
  - Night
    12/10/07
    Goodbye, Summer
    some new pics from the last warm days
  - What is Wrong with this picture?
    12/09/07
    Saw this on samsoe samsoe's website.
    What is wrong with this picture?
    
    Looks like they should have been more honest about where they get their inspiration from.
    
    Samsoe uber alles!
  - Norsk
    12/07/07
    I'm experiencing a strong urge to embrace my Scandinavian roots (no, I'm not going to Finland to drink and hunt to a doom metal soundtrack)
    
    The last couple of months have been seeped in the realization that I'm finally an adult (yes, the mid-life crisis is over) and I might
  - Some menswear random updates
    12/04/07
    It is entirely too cold here, so we had to cancel an outside shoot.
    No biggie, we shot inside instead, white backdrops and electric heaters are our friends this winter.
    
    This is a great thread on superfuture - Favorite Runway Look Ever
    
    Speaking of superfuture, some of
  - The Playground in Los Angeles
    12/03/07
    The Multiple I, an exhibition curated by Zach Gold and Julie Ragolia of Playground I
    
    Alex Norden Eternal Empire 2007
    
    at the Architecture + Design Museum, Los Angeles
    
    Opening Party: December 5th, 7:00-11:00
    
    Done with the support of GenArt and Nokia Nseries<
  - Photography Dead?
    12/01/07
    Newsweek pronounces photography dead.
    
    No wonder, to a rotting corpse all is demise.
    
    Newsweek's readership is declining like flight 77 onto Pentagon.
    
    Their editor-in-chief is rumored by media insiders to submit to tight bondage and strap-on domination by burly
  - Hello Kitty Clitty Massager
    12/01/07
    
    We are perplexed as to how this vibrating apparition, that is being used as a vibrator by those in need of shaking up their libido, can in fact be used as a vibrator.
    Do you use the cat, and do you put on a rubber hat?
    
    Sanrio is reintroducing the massager for $11, offici
  - Happy 2008
    12/01/07
- November
  - Hottest Mens Military Watches
    11/30/07
    Like meself a good military watch. Second best ticker after a wrist calculator gizmo, don't you think?
    
    Form follows function, grim determination to achieve your goal sweeps over presentation every time.
    
    This is why Swiss Army and other heavily advertised wank jobs of an al
  - Lisa has landed, or why New York Fashion sucks
    11/29/07
    Lisa Alisa just came back from Japan and brings alarming news.
    There is a thriving independent fashion scene in Tokyo.
    
    This is rather much of a pisser, since New York has been entirely too safe and fragmented for anything interesting to develop lately. Hipsters in Williamsburg place
  - Top Online Searches for T-Shirts
    11/29/07
    Buzz.yahoo.com reports that the following are top searches for t-shirts. Shirtmakers beware.
    
    1. Funny T-Shirts
    2. Polo Shirts
    3. Custom T-Shirts
    4. Vintage T-Shirts
    5. Bowling Shirts
    6. Blank T-Shirts
    7. Christian T-Shirts
    8. Band
  - Dangerous but not stylish- the I-idiot holster
    11/29/07
    The loyal herds of i-idiot mp3 player owners can now expand their marketing slavery potential even further by purchasing a leather holster for their music crud device. The manufacturer shall remain nameless, we are no Darwin awards and refuse to ridicule in public.
    
    Suicide by
  - Fall Things We like
    11/29/07
    It's really quite strange to understand that the past years have been spent in a continuous dream, called nightmare by some
    Perhaps it is time to wake up, but hopes are slim
    
    Back to our goats, or purchases, or what ya might call it call it.
    Some fashiony things we like.
  - Heroes of Spam
    11/26/07
    My gmail spam folder contains some amazingly beautiful sender names
    
    These are ethnically mixed, heroic in their brevity and lack of compromise.
    
    Bordy Brandy (Brandy that is Bordy, or Bordy that's Brandy. A dream)
    Sergei Kettinen (So the Russians did take
  - Hidden Temple
    11/22/07
    
    Amazing underground temple in Italy.
    
    We are all capable of much more than we realise and that hidden treasures can be found within every one of us once you know how to access them.
    
    Visit Damanhur's website here
  - Eternal Empire
    11/19/07
    Some new additions to the ongoing universe of Eternal Empire
    
    masks, photos, and everything else by yours truly
    
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  - silent cocksuckers
    11/17/07
    The Tokyo Clothing brand's Lad Musicianlatest collection is called Cocksuker Blues
    
    Despite the effeminate silhouettes and the general trends of the fashionable male youth of Japan towards the passive emo vortex, it's still a hilarious sign of the times.
    
    But a very goo
  - A gaping hole
    11/14/07
    This is a sheer genius of a comic by Dresden Codak
    [click to see large]
  - City Gods
    11/12/07
    Random conversations
    
    European girl, with a family of smart litigators, intellectual bullshit, and a desire to escape. Druggie ex-boyfriend, and a birth of understanding what New York allows.
    
    The spirit of NYC is a spider, collector of ends and beginnings, spinner of webs.
  - Two lives blurred together by a photo
    11/11/07
    
    A very important story about an Iraq Vet, a photojournalist, and how the portrait of the marine got national attention and changed their lives forever.
  - SPASTOR
    11/11/07
    This last fall's collection by SPASTOR is as current today as ever
  - Cavalli and the plight of the common people
    11/10/07
    
    The presentation of Cavalli for H&M in Amsterdam.
    
    Do all these women not have a life? At all? Apparently not. Good to know. There's money to be made.
    
    On a side note, since we are entertaining thoughts of the underclass -
    
    Times Square, yesterda
  - Choking Man Movie
    11/10/07
    
    Saw Choking Man written and directed by Steve Barron.
    
    Amazing work, highly recommended. I was really impressed with how real the film was, astounding accomplishment by the whole crew. Brilliantly written and directed.
    
    Octavio Gomez Berrios does a startling performance a
  - Bladerunner and The Human Condition
    11/06/07
    See the mountain in the grain of sand, everything about all from the tiniest thing.
    
    Let us talk about apocalyptic fashion.
    
    It's simply amazing that the corporate whores at Diesel had the guts to try to rip off Ridley Scott's Bladerunner in their latest campaign.
  - Welcome to our bazzzs
    11/03/07
    it is time for the winter visit of the baths
    
    and shed the old peeling skin, like a snake
    
    cool breeze--
    he yawns in the hot
    healing bath
  - BAPE and the new aspiring bourjoisie
    11/02/07
    It is very interesting to read comments to an article on the Japanese Hip-Hop Street Label BAPE (a bathing ape)
    
    What's touching is how obsessed with money the commenters are.
    Hip-hop culture allowed the disenfranchised to empower themselves, but what started as a communal celebr
- October
  - And now the moment we've all been waiting for
    10/30/07
    Kinda chilly here. Got some serious whipeout yesterday.
    
    In other news:
    
    Enterprise Mission is holding a press conference today at 9 am at the National Press Club in DC
    that is supposed to reveal proof of extra-terrestial activity on the Moon.
    I cannot vouc
  - Wipeout
    10/26/07
    To the keys surfing over the weekend instead.
    
    ***
    Almost November
    Queens Garden
    Flowers Bloom
    
    ***
    From different conversations over the years
    
    There are two types of dreams- dreams that keep us alive and dreams that make living bearable.
    Th
  - FEMA holds press conference, meets the FEMA press
    10/26/07
    
    What if you held a FEMA press conference, and nobody came?
    Why, you would have FEMA employees pretend they are reporters, of course!
    
    This, tovarishtchi, means we were in fact the Soviet Union all along and the realization is just 50 years late.
  - Take the bus
    10/25/07
    Greyhound has some pretty attractive fares up
    
    Im thinking of bussing to the end of the American Dream
    as of todays state of affairs, could be anywhere.
    
    Suggestions?
    Maybe some Louisiana Swamps or upstate NY canyons.
  - Fall Menswear Trends
    10/24/07
    Its all about the end of the world this fall boys!
    Must be the farewell bombing of Iran our friendly occupational government is planning before the bye-bye.
    
    So get out your best Mad Max, John Connor's Daddy, and Bladerunner look.
    M65 jacket, biker jacket, fingerless leather
  - Take A Holiday, You know I'd like you Better
    10/15/07
    This is the inadvertently best music video ever
    And yes, it's time for me to take a holiday so I would like me better
  - something something -tra-la-la
    10/13/07
    Had a nice little 110 look lookbook today.
    
    I'm going to be helpless without Lisa-Marie, does proper makeup with concealing and everything plus minimal hair in 15 minutes flat. Top that, biatches.
  - worship
    10/11/07
    on the island of ruyan
    on an empty field
    the moon shines
    Stand ground
    smell fear
    jump over the linden stump
    and have the bullets miss you
    a wolf runs clear
    of the skin torn
    and the sleep lost
  - Eternal Empire
    10/10/07
    Stage 2 of the project is taking fruit
    200 litres of epoxy resin are on their way
  - fair use / personal image
    10/09/07
    http://businessshrink.biz/psychologyofbhttp://businessshrink.biz/psychologyofb
  - Round and round
    10/08/07
    bladerunner's back. and looking good. going to go see it.
    
    get absolutely destroyed wasted. empty theater on a weekday.
    
    where is my superfuture?
    where is the hower car?
    where is offworld?
    where are the replicants?
    
    anything, anywhere, anywhen,
  - Ju$t Another Rich Kid 2008
    10/01/07
    
    Ju$st Another Rich Kid 2008
    
    Shot by Alex Norden [click for more]
  - [ Takashi Miike Imprint ] from the Movies You've Never Seen Department
    10/01/07
    Takashi Miike's Imprint was produced for showtime channel, and then banned in the US.
    
    Since incest, torture, dead pregnant women and fetuses feature prominently, we can certainly understand their cowardly corporate hearts.
    
    But not forgive.
    
    This is memoirs
- September
  - Pictures of The Day
    09/30/07
    Many media outlets have a "picture of the day" feature.
    
    We really like what Yahoo does. Interesting takes, not always mass appeal, always visualy stunning. Images don't make sense immediately and pique the viewer's interest.
    
    http://news.yahoo.com/photos/edit
  - Weekly Roundup
    09/27/07
    Our somewhat weekly roundup of interesting things
    
    Fall Trends
    
    As we predicted, all things military and bleak are spearheading the fall fashion for men, with trenches, boots, grays,parkas, hats and gloves popping up all over the place.
    Should we be expecting a buffalo revi
  - A night with the gang
    09/26/07
    Went out to Chinatown to celebrate Wayne's departure to Beijing.
    Strange adventure, surrounded by 10 other photographers on a break.
    
    Everyone taking pictures of everyone else, the food, and the surroundings.
    The way to the train, a pile of vendor garbage, broken silk fans,
  - And on
    09/15/07
    It is with grim amusement that one realizes how much the daily activity of clicking the shutter changes perception.
    
    Got a new prime lens, and it is such a fun little toy.
    That wide open feeling, what can we say, she is a beauty at 1.2
    
    How often can you buy an item that dir
  - Brokeback Mountain Trailer Tributes- Brokeback Everything
    09/14/07
    Naturally, what does one do when in inebriated company of artistic friends? Review tributes to every creative's favorite movie, Brokeback Mountian.
    
    Here are our top contenders:
    
    Brokeback To The Future
    
    Star Wars: The Empire Broke Back
    
    Broke
  - Upstate bliss
    09/13/07
    On vacation upstate till next week.
    No camera for these territories.
    
    What an amazing thing the human body is, we wear it out and it keeps forgiving, rebuilding and repairing until it suddenly gives up, or a single cell, all those individuals making up "the body" finally unb
  - Fotofest Beijing
    09/13/07
    some redundant, but some very good.
    
    http://fotofestbeijing.visualserver.com
  - Olympus E500 vs Canon 20d and 30d vs Rebel XT
    09/10/07
    Some personal thoughts on the eternal question of one system vs the other.
    
    Got a back-up Olympus e500 for the price of a mid-range canon zoom lens.
    
    1)Magnification Factor
    
    The biggest disadvantage for me is that Olympus four thirds systems have a magnification factor
  - LaPerm and Bexx - for all you fecalfaced!
    09/05/07
    Dear fecalface(d) visitors!
    http://myspace.com/dont_leave_any_marks
    
    If the robot gods are willing, this is the page you get redirected to when clicking on alexnorden.com from fecalface.com
    
    Thanks for stopping by in our visual ghetto.
    
    I would like to bring up a v
  - Another brush with fame
    09/04/07
    Again, after 3 brief seconds of fame, one can say: it has indeed been brief.
    
    Sic Transit Gloria Jacta Ect at all.
    
    Colette- September:
    
    To celebrate Fashion Week PLAYGROUND makes its official debut in stores, starting first with Project No. 8 in NYC
  - Cultural Shift
    09/02/07
    Been playing this at the studio on a loop for 2 days.
    
    This is one of those amazing cultural Alice-Through-The-Looking-Glass parallel universe cultural mirror manifestations.
    Ladies and gentlemen, a feel of PulpFiction and SurfRider from Turkey.
    
    Rockin' mandolins.
  - The truth, she is want to tell you!
    09/01/07
    conversation with landlady, owns the building I've lived in for the last 5 years.
    
    She-S
    me-A
    
    S- How are you! did you see my son?
    A-yes.
    S- his girlfriend, she ugly!
    A- maybe...
    S- she is , she is!
    A-but he's done drinking with her. She ma
- August
  - THENONPLACE
    08/20/07
    
    http://www.thenonplace.com/
  - Ju$t Another Rich Kid Sneak peek
    08/17/07
    
    Every single person at the shoot today had Attention Deficit Disorder.
    Measures were taken.
    Red Bull was passed around.
    
    Cigarettes were rolled. Models forgot keys, t-shirts, and phones. Twice. Then they all went to the same casting after the shoot. And texted for directio
  - 36-24-36 by Off The Scale Productions
    08/12/07
    36-24-36
    
    A wonderful play!
    
    Hilarious and heartbreaking true stories from the mouths of those whose bodies will never be perfect and for whom a meal will never just be a meal...
    
    http://36-24-36nyc.com/
  - Sneak Preview: After The Storm
    08/06/07
    On a polluted beach, in the middle of nowhere...
  - The UberAless Principle of Humility
    08/03/07
    met an assistant today, looks exactly like a friend of mine.
    nature abhors waste, there are so very few faces on this planet.
    All those twins, walking around, interchangeable uniqueness on parade.
    
    ***
    It's only just stress that makes us grow, isn't it?
- July
  - And one finds in Williamsburg ...
    07/22/07
    Headed out to enemy territory for a shoot with Ann M, which you'll get a sneak preview of in due time.Bedford is more of the same.
    
    Too many t-shirts that mean something, converse all-star, women in cowboy-boots, and acts of art label advertising. Ragged emo punks in fashionably dirt
  - APAK @ Summer Sanctuary @ Gallery Hanahou, NY - July 19th 2007
    07/19/07
    We stopped by Gallery Hanahou today and absolutely loved APAK's pieces.
    
    Simply stunning colors, and very moving mood.
    APAK are Ayumi and Aaron Piland.
    
    Here's our favorite piece from the show:
    
    Enchanted Observers by APAK
    
    For mo
  - My First Nigerian!
    07/18/07
    I got a scam letter that seems to be targeting photographers.
    
    -------------
    Whoohoo! Thank you mighty Intertron! I just got my first Nigerian Scam 419 Email targeted at photographers!
    
    This one is for the records kids! Read this bullshit! I'm going to email this guy b
  - The Playground @ Anna Kustera
    07/11/07
    Thanks to everyone that came to The Playground @ Anna Kustera, and thank you Julie, Zach, Anna!
    
    Alex Norden Eternal Empire 2007
    
    The Playground website
    
    More details here:
    
    Check out the men.style.com writeup >>
  - Destiny
    07/02/07
    Inspiration comes
    at 2 past midnight
    A quiet large panther
    
    ***
    
    Really impressed with this animated film Little Foot by Adam Phillips(click on "watch movie")
    http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/276841
- June
  - "Against Adolescence"
    06/30/07
    "Against Adolescence" at Leo Koening
    
    Loved the show. Important to understand where idealization of youth gets you.
    
    In our society today, we have this enormous focus on the teenage rebellion thing. This exhibition attempts to counter this focus on adolescence.
    cu
  - Nobody writes to the Colonel
    06/28/07
    --What are we going to eat this whole time? --
    She grabbed him by the shirt collar and gave a forcefull shake.
    
    -- Tell me, what are we going to eat?--
    
    The colonel had needed to live seventy-five years-- exactly seventy-five years, to the minute- to live to this moment.
  - Alchemy
    06/27/07
    The last 2 years have seen me produce 500'000 + images.
    Most are ultimate rubbish- only 20 or so I like.
    
    This is a measly return, but photography is a medium of volume.
    You persist by sheer tenacity.
  - Hamlet's Bird
    06/26/07
    The Brooklyn Botanic Garden is having an amazing exhibition.
    Now I always say that the flowers and trees overpower art shown at BBG, no human art can compete with Nature.
    
    But the artists on show right now at least have a great appreciation of it.[more]
    The Exhibit, titled
  - Space Cadets by Souther Salazar
    06/23/07
    We were extremely impressed by Souther Salazar's show Space Cadets
    at Jonathan Levine's.
    The perfect transformational magic of true art.
    Beauty shall set you free.
    [more]
    click to see large image
  - Ben @ Red MGMT
    06/21/07
    Another fine young man at Red Model Management we shot recently.
    And lo and behold,he's fronting a Tomorrow Mars The Knife t-shirt.
  - Kellie @ New York Models
    06/21/07
    Just did a test with Kellie at New York Models. What a girl! No makeup!
    
    [more]
  - Summer Solstice
    06/21/07
    Celebrated Summer Solstice by going to an undisclosed secret beach in Coney Island and holding a night of debauchery, fire jumping, and swimming.
    What a way to spend the longest day of the year.
  - Tomorrow Mars t-shirts
    06/20/07
    Me and Lisa Alisa finally broke down and decided to make some t-shirts, since If you want Anything Done Right, You have to Do it Yourself
    Each is
    * hand-stenciled with no silk-screen ( terrible for the environment, those silk screens)
    *edition of 5
    *Hand Cut
    *The t-shirts
  - Sub-Culture
    06/17/07
    For some reason I've been playing this song on a loop for the last week during shoots...
    Aaah, New Order, the perfect hymn for all that came too late or not at all.
  - Johnny @ RED mgmt
    06/16/07
    Just finished a test with Johnny at RED mgmt. Love the look, great attitude on the kid.
  - Spam Poetry
    06/15/07
    Gotta love robot generated spam. So much better than postmodernist literature. Maybe because it's more honest.
    We were looking for comme de garcons store, and on the first page of google results you see the following gem:
    
    How do stud guicci work? This should be used as tre
  - Fecalface!
    06/14/07
    Some of my Night /click / series of [ LaPerm and Thalia DeVine] just got featured on fecalface
  - Perfect Tree
    06/12/07
    Often asked why I love shooting trees as much, if not more, than people.
    
    This tree is a perfect answer.
    
    Is this not a person, an individual?
- December
  - The Playground in LA- we told you they'd be huge
    12/06/07
    December 6 opening of The Playground
    in LA gets a glowing review from men.style.com:
    
    Our friends at art mag The Playground are curating Multiple I, a new exhibit at L.A.'s Architecture + Design Museum, and with works by Terence Koh, Alex Norden (left), Floria Sigismondi, and o
2006
- October
  - How far would you go for a good crotch shot?
    10/23/06
    How far would you go for a good crotch shot?
    a headline from a certain alt-pron site.
    
    Pointed out by my assistant who is into all things "alt", par example, wears custom-distressed leather converse and goes to ipod dj-parties, of course considering himself all the rebel for

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