a psychological phenomenon

perfect shirt / mary kate with coke can hair / last photo by hedi slimane

two things that I'll never forget

light play: black white and grey, by Laszlo Moholy Nagy


...Moholy-Nagy's fellow Hungarian Alexander Korda commissioned him to design special effects for the science fiction film Things to Come. He was asked to make a film about the sex life of the lobster, at a time when David Attenborough was still a boy. A quizzical Moholy-Nagy spent several weeks on the Sussex coast getting to know the fishermen, grappling with their dialect, recording their families and close community. At the other end of the social spectrum, he took photographs for Bernard Fergusson's book Portrait of Eton and John Betjeman's Oxford University Chest. Where Sybil responded to 1930s England with an often explosive impatience at its snobbery, Moholy-Nagy remained unemotional, professional. The English class structure was the object of his fascinated observation.

But Moholy-Nagy was not totally cold-shouldered. He designed the publicity for Jack Pritchard's English modernist Isokon Furniture Company. One leaflet included a typically dreamlike small drawing of a figure floating in a bath, suggesting that a Breuer Long Chair gave a similar sensation. Imperial Airways commissioned him to design a mobile exhibition to tour the British empire in a railroad car, promoting the still-novel idea of air travel. He became display consultant for the menswear store Simpsons of Piccadilly, bemusing passersby with his abstract compositions of striped shirts and bowler hats. But these activities were desultory in relation to Moholy-Nagy's far-reaching design philosophy.

Is there anything this man didn't do? I really wonder how a conversation between hedi slimane and moholy nagy would play out.

painted with the images of love and death and madness

good god, what an awful lesson!

misshapen shadows

not a new world, but rather another chaos

updates at hedi slimanes diary take the form of some very primal juxtaposions...enjoy.

summer followed summer

hair

flicking

photos



are



everywhere



as are balloons....

would you think it awfully rude of me if i asked you to go away

there is a grey area which im not mad about...its the area of people in your life who aren't strangers but aren't friends.

lets just say i had a classic frenemy moment.
i cannot help thinking this person spends her spare hours slashing baby lambs.

anyway.
calm.

and beauty is a form of genius...is higher indeed than genius as it needs no explanation

hsd