austere print.
Designed by Michl


There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion. 
Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.
There is no editing stage.
Pretending you know what you’re doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you’re doing even if you don’t and do it.
Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, abandon it.
The point of being done is not to finish but to get other things done.
Once you’re done you can throw it away.
Laugh at perfection. It’s boring and keeps you from being done.
People without dirty hands are wrong. Doing something makes you right.
Failure counts as done. So do mistakes.
Destruction is a variant of done. 
If you have an idea and publish it on the internet, that counts as a ghost of done.
Done is the engine of more.

Via bre-pettis.
  1. There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.
  2. Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.
  3. There is no editing stage.
  4. Pretending you know what you’re doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you’re doing even if you don’t and do it.
  5. Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, abandon it.
  6. The point of being done is not to finish but to get other things done.
  7. Once you’re done you can throw it away.
  8. Laugh at perfection. It’s boring and keeps you from being done.
  9. People without dirty hands are wrong. Doing something makes you right.
  10. Failure counts as done. So do mistakes.
  11. Destruction is a variant of done.
  12. If you have an idea and publish it on the internet, that counts as a ghost of done.
  13. Done is the engine of more.

Via bre-pettis.

Tuesday, February 9th 2010 9:48pm

TV feature on Patrik Ervell - an insight into his design philosophy and methods.

‘By season, I believe in progressing in incremental stages, in details, and in small refinements - menswear is all about those details’


Tuesday, February 9th 2010 9:46pm
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‘Perfect Portraits’ by Joanne Pang
I know them; my dear family and friends. Now I make a picture of them to remember and to savour. But they are so close to me, too close, sometimes I cannot see.
A simple enough conceit, artfully executed.

‘Perfect Portraits’ by Joanne Pang

I know them; my dear family and friends.
Now I make a picture of them to remember and to savour.
But they are so close to me, too close, sometimes I cannot see.

A simple enough conceit, artfully executed.

Sunday, February 7th 2010 10:57pm

‘Immaculate’ by Ruben Brulat.

‘Immaculate’ by Ruben Brulat.

Sunday, February 7th 2010 10:40pm

Blacker than crows.
Number (N)ine feature in HUGE magazine.

Blacker than crows.

Number (N)ine feature in HUGE magazine.

Wednesday, February 3rd 2010 11:51pm

Technical fabric? Check.
Peasant gentry tailoring? Check.
Early 90’s reference? Check.
I have subconsciously turned into an Ervell-o-phile.
erinnicoleandtheinternet:

“I don’t reference a look or a genre when I’m designing,” he explains. “The feeling you get from music I hope you also get from my clothes.”
The musical equivalent of Ervell’s collections is alt-rock with all of its connections to the underground, punk and college radio. “Somehow I always manage to use a Slowdive song in each show,” Ervell said after his spring outing, which included fabrics rust-stained with iron and copper oxide. “I always end up going to that early-’90s shoegazer period; it makes sense for me aesthetically, too.” (via The Nifty 50 | Patrik Ervell, Designer - T Magazine Blog - NYTimes.com)

Technical fabric? Check.

Peasant gentry tailoring? Check.

Early 90’s reference? Check.

I have subconsciously turned into an Ervell-o-phile.

erinnicoleandtheinternet:

“I don’t reference a look or a genre when I’m designing,” he explains. “The feeling you get from music I hope you also get from my clothes.”

The musical equivalent of Ervell’s collections is alt-rock with all of its connections to the underground, punk and college radio. “Somehow I always manage to use a Slowdive song in each show,” Ervell said after his spring outing, which included fabrics rust-stained with iron and copper oxide. “I always end up going to that early-’90s shoegazer period; it makes sense for me aesthetically, too.” (via The Nifty 50 | Patrik Ervell, Designer - T Magazine Blog - NYTimes.com)

Reblogged from Erin Nicole and the Internet.

Tuesday, February 2nd 2010 5:08am

So good.
Has everything.
Brainsplode.

So good.

Has everything.

Brainsplode.

Monday, February 1st 2010 2:19am

Describe your style.

“Technical peasant gentry and a dash of early 90’s New York.”

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Monday, February 1st 2010 2:18am

Hussein Chalayan S/S 10

Hussein Chalayan S/S 10

Sunday, January 31st 2010 3:22am

Duality.
Junya Watanabe S/S 09.

Duality.

Junya Watanabe S/S 09.

Sunday, January 31st 2010 3:03am

BLESS N°34 Eprfect Verything

Tags: Fashunz Bless

Thursday, January 28th 2010 4:44pm
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Tyler Johnson shot by Corinne Stoll.

Tyler Johnson shot by Corinne Stoll.

Wednesday, January 6th 2010 8:14pm

Camille O’Sullivan - A Good Man is Hard to Find (Tom Waits cover)

Tuesday, December 29th 2009 3:54am
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Courtesy of seenmy via superfuture.

Courtesy of seenmy via superfuture.

Friday, December 25th 2009 4:53am

Top 25 Tracks of 2009

Here are my favourite tunes of the year. Not necessarily material released in 2009 (or the 00’s even), but songs that I came to discover and re-discover over the course of the year. I’ve provided youtube-friendly links for songs that I could find on youtube. This year I suppose was an unearthing of dark-romanticism, analogue synths, and ambient sound waves, all of which I suppose, found their way into the modest songs I tried to write, one way or another.

Thus without further ado, in no particular order:

1. Amadou & Mariam - Sabali (produced by Damon Albarn)

2. Zomby - Spliff Dub (Rustie remix)

3. Fennesz - Caecilia

4. Manic Street Preachers - Jackie Collins Existential Question Time

5. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - I Had A Dream, Joe

6. Girls - Morning Light

7. Tom Waits - You Can Never Hold Back Spring

8. Daniel Johnston - True Love Will Find You in the End

9. Nosaj Thing - Harrison Ford

10. Vitalic - Polkamatic

11. Jim O’Rourke - Something Big (Burt Bacarach cover)

12. Dangermouse & Sparklehorse - Insane Lullaby (feat. James Mercer)

13. Wilco - Jesus, etc

14. Sonic Youth - Incinerate

15. Tim Hecker - Dungeoneering

16. Jay-Z - Empire State of Mind (feat. Alicia Keys)

17. Blur - Sweet Song

18. Yo La Tengo - If It’s True

19. David Byrne and Brian Eno - Strange Overtones

20. Guided by Voices - Game of Pricks

21. Beck - Guess I’m Doing Fine

or

21. Beck - Lost Cause

22. The Walkmen - In the New Year

23. Elvis Costello - Watching the Detectives

24. Lauryn Hill - Tell Him

25. Keagen O’Brien - Los Angeles

Enjoy - peace out.

Tags: Music Lists

Thursday, December 24th 2009 5:45am