The Tastemakers Society

The Visionaire website is pretty amazing right now, for it’s issue 54 in collaboration with Lacoste they put together a series of limited shirts. The shirts are photo-centric images applied onto Lacoste polos, this there 54th issue, is supposed to be dubbed as a wearable publication. The artwork on the Lacoste polos are from artist, photographers, designers, musicians and a filmmaker, the likes of which are Nick Knight, Peter Lindbergh, Phil Poynter, Thomas Ruff, Karl Lagerfeld, Pedro Almodovar, David Byrne and Michael Stipe to name a few. The shirts are broken down into 4 different sets and within the pages of each of them you’ll find 3 shirts. And people say print will be dead soon, not if they putting out work like this. Also loving the song on the website, I wish I knew who sings it.  

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Alison Jackson has photographed countless celebrities, Madonna, President Bush, the Queen of England and many more, and there all fakes, yep. Alison photographs look-a-likes of famous people, very good look-a-likes but look-a-likes they are, and she puts them in positions or situations that we either know the person does but we would never see or something just funny if that person was caught doing it. Like Mick Jagger doing gymnastics and the most famous of them all (in my opinion) Queen Elizabeth sitting on the toilet. With the money you’re saving on gas now the prices are finally going down a little you can go ahead and order Alison Jackson Confidential for $40, but if you like you can take a look at more preview images of the book at Kanye’s blog.

Remember as a child how much you loved pop-up books, how you could spends hours just closing and opening the book on your favorite pages. And then your parents did the unthinkable they told that you were too old for pop-up books; from that point on it just seems like all your hopes and dreams in the world just shattered to pieces. You were doomed to a 2 dimensional world with things you could only look at but not touch. But ha, how all our parents were so wrong we aren’t too old for pop-up books we just needed age appropriate pop-up books and thanks to Anton Radevsky and David Sokol for making “The Modern Architecture Pop-Up Book”, we have that book now. The book has 20 notable architectural structured pop-ups including works by famed architects such as Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, and Frank Lloyd Wright. You can buy the book at Rizzoli or pre-order for much cheaper at Amazon.

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Hi Fructose has been a little low key mag I’ve been reading for about a year now, the publication cycle isn’t that frequent, I think it’s something like 4 times a year. So I make it a point to look out for every new issue that drops. And with there art covers its easy for me to find them on those crazed crowded shelves at Borders. The magazine is on the same plateau as Juxtapoz but can you really have enough art magazines? Nope. The art in the magazine can be describe and put into many labels but I’m not big on labels, thankfully the good people at Hi Frcutose have come up with the best way to describe the magazine and especially the art, “Under the Counter Culture”.

WRG? mag has launched its Black history month project a croosword puzzle with the answer’s being 20 of the black pioneering pro skaters. I love this type of participation by WRG? bringing that print feel by allowing its readers to join in on some fun by playing a game just like if you had it sitting on your lap. They also put together a series of Skateboards dedicated to the same 20 individuals who make up the answers to the puzzle. Celebrating Black history month just got a little bit more fun.

I Read this article from the New York Times about OCD. It’s an interesting read on OCD and how restaurants can cause it to trigger in those who have it. I just can’t ever seem to make decisions at restaurants, I don’t have OCD per say but I for sure have OCD like habits that’s why this article was so interesting to me. I mean having to walk through the restaurant door 3 times, chew 3 times and drink 3 times, or checking your waiter/waitress’ hands before they serve you, and burning forks over flames to disinfect, that’s making an event out of dining out.  

Living with your sister has its certain attributes, you know having not to cook a lot on my own. Getting the occasional decent piece of female advice but you also get things like America’s Next Top Model, Dancing with the stars and One Tree Hill also comes with that package. Which brings plus and minus to having her around but the best things of all, is her Victoria Secret catalogs. Now I’ve been looking through VS catalogs for years and been watching their yearly televised fashion show but it just hit me the other day, that VS probably reaches more males than any men’s mag. Except maybe Playboy. Ok, ok, granted its for women and is only just a catalog but everyone knows that men look through those catalogs just as much as women do. And VS models are by far more largely known than any model from a men’s magazine. Let’s not forget how they have a frequent circulation which is always a plus. So again with the title, I’ve come to this realization which is the best men’s magazine is actually a catalog.

Conde Nast’s new biz publication Portfolio is def to my liking. And I appreciate them publishing more times a year then they originally planned for. This month their cover was this huge burger with the caption “how FAT won” with a feature on the topic. But what stood out to be was how they straight up called out some food places and put their unhealthy burgers on blast. I would not like to be Hardee’s or Carl’s Jr right now. Go For Bloat, baby.

 

Time magazine has put together a super time killing arrangement for you to cruise through while you’re at your desk pretending to work. They put together the top 10 list of things for 2007, there’s 50 categories covering all aspects of life ranging from top news stories, top movies, top fiction books, top natural disasters, top toys, top t-shirt worthy slogans (# 1 slogan pictured above) and top magazine covers are just a few of the 50 categories the list is made up of. Have fun sorting through all these because if you’re going to be wasting your jobs money by surfing the internet instead of working you mine as well have fun doing it. Two things we can look back at and learn from this year is, no matter what the situation is never try chastising John Kerry and never I mean never use these words when talking to a cop, “Don’t tase me bro” because that’s a sure fire way to get that ass tased.

Let’s face it Playboy isn’t what it used to be, back in the hey days when the number 1 pimp of all time Mr. Hefner started playboy it was classic. Now you can get those golden years and beyond, playboy has put out a new 720 page book with every centerfold in its illustrious history. The book begins with the one who started it all Maryln Monroe and all the playmate centerfolds therefore after. Did I mention that the book weighs 3o pounds and comes with its own brief case, now that’s how you treat your centerfolds.

In a world filled with market saturation, world issues and economic problems there isn’t as much being done as it should be, or as it needs to be. But there are some who try no matter if its a whole new ball game to them, they’re the ones who can recognize what issues are out there just lying in the wind, and they’re the ones who aren’t afraid to be proactive instead of just reactive. A certain individual who fits this profile is David Gensler who is notably more recognized by his work in the fashion/marketing/branding worlds, even lending a push for the street wear culture to open the door to. But now he’s stretched his reach out further, he’s amped up his consulting, put together one of the largest creative collectives in the world, the KDU (Keystone Design Union), and has a new focus on tackling economic and world issues, one step at  time. In a world full of people running around thinking of just ‘me, me’ all the time, there are those who are thinking of ‘others’.

Magazine’s are a dime a dozen these days, new one’s popping up monthly while others are folding daily, how many of the same repeated magazines do we really need? I think we can strongly say that people aren’t creating magazine’s to fill a void (which is the purpose of a magazine) they’re just trying to re-tweak a vision. Do we really need anymore, music magazines, film magazines, sports magazines, fashion magazines, and don’t I even want to begin to discuss the home/decor, wedding and celebrity magazines, how many chooses does one need to find a good lamp, nice wedding dress and read about Lindsay Lohan’s rehab addiction. If you don’t have a genuine new idea and focus you’re just wasting shelf space, but if you can tackle something in a deserted playing field than you might be able to create something worthwhile, and that something could be called THEME. A magazine that brings the asian culture from another angle than seen before, giving readers a more real look inside of the culture and what’s going on with it. I would love to take credit for this idea, but I’m sure that wouldn’t sit to well with Jiae and John.