good rainy day movie for this coming weekend: little fauss and Big Halsy.
less for the story line. more so to gawk at the style of lauren hutton and robert redford.
love
c
Little Fauss and Big Halsy
field books
technologies such as basecamp, google docs, and outlook task lists makes knocking out “to-do’s” more streamlined and efficient, i suppose.
but, when i really want to make something happen, i get a pen out of my pocket and grab my moleskin. it is always within arm’s reach.
i recently went through my old moleskins from the past 10 years. i found about 200 bucks in cash tucked away in the pages…. and found a lot of “to-do’s” over the years that i haven’t quite gotten to.
nevertheless, there’s nothing better than just writing something down.
love,
carrie
passport to trespass
We had the pleasure of meeting Mikael Kennedy a few weeks ago in Nashville, and are continually blown away with the art that he creates. Eight of his polaroids from this Passport to Trespass series are in a group exhibition titled Scenes from the South, showing in New York until June 1st at the Howard Greenberg Gallery.
file under: cy twombly
We’ve posted about him before, I’m sure we’ll post about him again.
His work is always inspiring. It seems that each time you come back to his paintings, the meanings have changed. As if they age along with you.
street art
My whole life I’ve been attracted to street art. I always loved seeing graffiti on bridges and trains and in public spaces. Whether it says “Jesus Saves” or “I love you Cindy,” I’m somehow captivated by it.
Our new office space in Marathon Village comes with a beautiful view of a train passing by every hour or so. I find myself looking up from my desk to see what amazing artwork will pass by our window. I’m not saying that I promote unauthorized graffiti, but I do feel expression can’t be limited to canvases and fine art museums.
Over time however, I find myself getting upset when I see some wack ass tag thrown up on someone’s home or business. That exact same visual stimulation that I’ve enjoyed over a lifetime turns to anger when I see this same form of expression on the side of a mom and pop store in our neighborhood.
So I ask… what can be done about this? I never meant for this blog post to get political, but we as a society are cutting back on art and music programs in schools at an alarming rate, leaving our young artists without forms of expression. This needs to change! Where would we be if we didn’t have art? And I don’t mean canvas behind walls that some of us will never see!
wes lang
Another long-drawn-out true story from me.
In the summer of 2012, a man that we admire named Bob Melet, created a pop-up store in Montauk, New York. When I received the email from Melet Merchantile announcing the pop-up, I honed in on one thing and one thing only in the email: an image of a piece of art.
I was taken by the piece. I clicked on it, blew it up to inspect and admire every detail. And then, after I gazed at the piece of art as long as I could, I started searching the web to attempt to find any more information I could about the artist.
His name was Wes Lang.
I spent the summer looking at Wes’ pieces online. Anything that was out there, I think I found it. I loved every minute of looking at every piece on my little computer screen. I just pretended like the scavenging via online was my trip to a gallery that had all of his pieces on the walls.
Meanwhile, I shared with Matt my interest in this artist and his work. Matt, a secret college fine arts/painting major, had known about Wes’ work for several years already.
About six months later around late November, I realized that Matt was going to have to be in New York on my December 1st birthday. I was halfway kidding (but sort of not) when I told Matt that, since I was going to be alone on my birthday, I was putting in my first and only ever birthday gift request: a Wes Lang painting. He laughed in my face!
I swear… just 2 days after I put in that ridiculous request, I got a call from Alex, one of our teammates at the shop. He said, “Hey – some guy called and left a message for you and Matt. He said that he and his girlfriend are driving from New York to LA and stopping through Nashville. They wanted to meet you. He said to call him back if you can. His name was Wes Lang.”
What the hell?! I screamed to Matt in the other room and told him that Wes Lang just called the shop! “Call him now!” I said.
a matchbook collection
When I was little, we had a huge 20 gallon glass jar on our sunporch that was full of matchbooks from all over the world. As I can remember, not one match was ever lit from any of the books.
I’m not sure where that big glass jar is now. I need to ask my mom. She saves EVERYTHING.
joint project 1
We are so excited for Joint Project 1, the first in a series of Nashville pop-up happenings curated by fashion journalist Libby Callaway and art professional Susan Sherrick. The project launches tomorrow with a gallery of fashion photographs from Richard Avedon, Lee Friedlander, Horst P. Horst, Mikael Kennedy, William Klein, Saul Leiter, Vivian Maier, Sarah Moon, Irving Penn, Heidi Ross, Josef Sudek, Joshua Black Wilkins and Josh Wool.
That’s a lot of talent right there! Don’t miss it this weekend – there is no admission fee and art will be available for purchase. More information is available at thisisthejoint.com or you can email information@thisisthejoint.com.
Friday, April 5 – Sunday, April 7
Friday 11-5 / Saturday 11 -5 / Sunday 1-5
1107 Caruthers Avenue / Nashville / 37204
national geographic
National Geographics tumblr is a staff favorite around i+w these days. From images of a woman riding an ostrich to a lion riding a man; from colorful patterned parasols at the ocean front to a group of grown men decorating frilly cakes, this collection of photos brings life to history through its vivid imagery. So so beautiful. And highly addictive.
-Erin
