changing all the boys into girls: Archive

“Keats was stocky, whereas Ben is feline. Abbie’s a healthy Aussie, so we did attempt to make her a paler girl. It was important to balance their physical differences so they look like a little pair of matching bookends. Yet Abbie is so much a golden girl, she’s yellow, and Ben is so fair, he is almost blue. We talked a lot about pulling the skin tones together, the hair coming together. Fanny had blue eyes, but we left Abbie the brown-eyed beauty that she is and I tried to take up the space between those bigger differences with the costumes, refining shapes or bulking shapes. I didn’t make Ben’s clothes too tight or too tailored — I tried to make him a bit softer and bigger, just to bring them together in this godforsaken love match. It has to be so obvious they are meant to be together, they are like a pair of spoons.” —

Janet Patterson, costume designer for Bright Star

I lolled through most of this quote.

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An interactive feature on the Neue Galerie Design Shop. The goods are—unsurprisingly—expensive, but the Neue Galerie is one of the best museums in the city so it figures.

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Mar 30, 2010-1 notes

30 Days: Your Day

Woke up and got bummed out when I discovered it would be raining all day long. Drank coffee and felt somewhat better. Got to work, where the museum was overrun by visitors. Started forming plans for the weekend; became somewhat startled by weekend opportunities actually arising. Discovered that more of my writing had gone up on PopMatters. Ran around and lifted large volumes of art books from departmental libraries. A guard saw me carrying a huge stack of books in my pitiful arms and said, “You must really want to read.” Well, I really want other people to read, but I don’t mind it myself, yeah. Saw Ric Ocasek in the museum lobby! Listened to Denim’s Back in Denim on the commute home and realized “Here Is My Song For Europe” sounds more than a bit like Bow Wow Wow’s “Do You Want To Hold Me.” Hung out with the cat whom I’m cat sitting. Ate a sandwich and zoned out to Screenwipe. Maybe crushed on Charlie Brooker’s crankiness.

Mar 30, 2010-1 notes

#30 days

Mar 30, 201064 notes

30 Days: Whatever Tickles Your Fancy

Mar 29, 2010-1 notes

#30 days meme

“Suki X and her friend are nowhere to be seen. Her first note was a polite, flirty, welcoming introduction. I’d been thinking that the girl was an escort and the guy her pimp, but the second letter, a psychosexual rant full of references to self-harming, makes me think otherwise. This is what it must be like being in Manic Street Preachers.” —Luke Haines, Bad Vibes

#cool dudes #winning combinations

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Mar 28, 20105 notes

#30 days meme #god bless Youtube

Mar 27, 2010-1 notes

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