Was just exposed to a world I’ve never known. Planets sane men have never traveled to.   A place too dark and too bright – too neon to experience the reality most men know. A great white ghost of nostalgia covers you like an obscene scepter.

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Coffee table in the hotel room: scenes of extreme violence and erotic misery from Las Vegas.

Some unbelievably beautiful new photography from Adarsha Benjamin

So I was walking down the street to the dry cleaners last Friday the 13th and I get attacked by a fucking dog – he takes a healthy bite into my calf; putting some nice teeth marks in my jeans. Not ten minutes after, I was waiting at a cross-walk and an older guy asks me if the tattoo behind my ear hurt. I tell him no iand we talk about tattoos as we cross the boulevard. The next thing I know he is excitedly taking off his jacket, scarf, sweater and t-shirt to show me all his tattoos (we’re in San Francisco its about 55 degrees in the middle of August). Most of his tattoos were done by Ed Hardy during Ed’s halcyon days, before Audigier destroyed his image and sold out his art to the masses in the form of cheap bedazzled t-shirts. One that caught my eye was Bambi being crushed by a giant lizard foot on a film strip. “Bambi Meets Godzilla” is a two minute long 1969 cartoon by Marv Newland. More of his amazing tattoos after the jump. (more…)

“Poustovit’s dreamy collections are designed for women with a unique sense of style.  They are nostalgic and forward-looking, combining simple fabrics and comfortable styles.” You can find Poustovit’s current collection at Blanc Boutique in the Bay Area.

“It’s harder to lose the wish to love than the wish to live.” Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Mp3: Al Stewart – Year of the Cat

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“Voyage Dans Ma Tete: La Collection de Coiffes d’Antoine de Galbert” is on display at the Maison Rouge in Paris until September 26th. The collection consist of 400 headdresses worn by cultures all over the world; it “includes brilliantly beplumed Amazonian bonnets; sumptuously beaded, cone-shaped royal crowns worn by Yoruba chieftains, adorned with birds (symbols, according to the show’s catalog, of “the mystical power of women”); a Burmese hunter’s horned headdress, designed to inspire terror, with a monkey’s skull posed atop a bit of bear fur; as well as more modest garments, like a simple cap from India, made of felted yak hair, to protect against the rain. There’s a diadem once worn by an Uzbek bride on her wedding day, and a headband covered in cowry shells that announced the birth of a first child to a woman in Indonesia.” lamaisonrouge.org