State of the Pit

The holiday season for most people is a fun time of the year filled with parties, celebrations, and social gatherings with family and friends. For many people, it is a time filled with sadness, self-reflection, loneliness, and anxiety. Sadness is a truly personal feeling. What makes one person feel sad may not affect another person.…

Tartarus x Leica x Bello

Cast BELLO Written and directed by Monica Menez Production by Ironic View Films Cast Nina De LianinCarla Crombie / Uno Models Madrid Sasha Zaitsev DOP Paul Robert Klinar, BVK First AC Makito Kumazawa Gaffer Jan Wittkopp Visual Postproduction by RECOMFILM Editing Raquel Caro Nunez Colorgrading Andreas Justus Burz Retouching Andreas Hummel Sounddesign and Mix by…

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Jet Creations $100 pool float Visit: CT beaches Food for thought: Happiest Hour NYC Badminton MaryJane Claverol Dominique Turban Serena & Lily beach umbrella 1960’s hostess dress Krug champaigne Host a dinner party

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Denis Kartavenko doesn’t say that photography chose him and that he’s a slave to the art form no matter how true it may or may not be.  Sure, photography is a way of life for him but the career path was chosen for pragmatic reasons namely the endless ability to travel and the opportunity to…

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The background of traditional contemporary Western dress codes as fixed in 20th century relied on several steps of replacement of preexisting formal wear, while in turn increasing the formality levels of the previously less formal alternatives. Thus was the case with the ceasing of the justacorps, extensively worn from the 1660s until the 1790s, followed…

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In the immortal words of Fergie “A little party never killed nobody, right here, right now’s all we got.” And boy is that true! As human beings we are born into social groups, we dream, learn, grow, and work as part of society. The society that we’re born into and the societies that we navigate…

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Born from personal pain and the need for emotional healing, London-based artist Kat Toronto channels BDSM and fetish to create stunningly poetic visual art through her performance as alter ego, Miss Meatface. A multidisciplinary artist hailing from the San Francisco Bay Area, Toronto uses unsettling and surreal images, inspired by everything from latex to kitsch,…

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The Art of Flower Arranging Rizzoli Picnic Time basket Samantha Sung Florence dress How to Steal a Million (1966) Seletti Love in Bloom vase Repetto Narde ballerinas Food for thought: Pavlova Garden Conservancy Eliurpi Campana straw hat

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Metis Atash never aimed to be an artist. On the contrary. With background is political economy and finance. She has worked several years in private equity and investor relations, facilitating Initial Public Offerings in her hometown of Munich in Germany. But over the course of years she started to get bored and realized that what…

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It started when they came for the statues. Statues they claimed were racist and derogatory. Then they came for art. When I got this assignment I got it with a side story, turns out to be that recently Tartarus attempted to post a tasteful nude photo on their social media channels and were met with…

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As I write this story Kim Kardashian West is apologizing. She’s apologizing for naming her shapewear company Kimono which is the cutest play on her name Kim. The Internet is in uproar because apparently this too is an appropriation. And Kim is apologizing! She’s apologizing and renaming her brand! For me this immediately brings back…

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Femme fatale literally means “fatal woman” in French. According to the movie Mildred Pierce, it can be defined as “the kind of woman men want…but shouldn’t have!” We are here to tell you exactly how to become a femme fatale. 1. Be mysterious. Don’t let everybody know what you are feeling or what’s going on. The very…

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Swans of Fifth Avenue by M. Benjamin Celine cat eye reading glasses Olivia Von Halle Gia set Susan Alexandra bag VR Oculus Natori Bonita floral pajama set Food for thought: chocolate covered strawberries Dolce and Gabbana coat of arms slippers Matouk Essex shetts

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M.I.A. was right – bad girls do it right. By “it” I mean everything. They also say that good girls seldom make history. That is also true. Betty Goody-Two-Shoes is not remembered by the masses long after she’s dead but Madame Du Barry is. You see there is absolutely nothing memorable about the girl who…

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“Create a vision and never let the environment, other people’s beliefs, or the limits of what has been done in the past shape your decisions.” This quote by Tony Robbins is Beau Dunn’s favorite. Dunn considers herself a contemporary conceptual mixed-media artist. Before she begins creating a piece, she thinks about what she wants to…

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“Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself”. – Virginia Wolf – that’s Diogo Duarte’s favorite quote. “Anything that is hidden inspires and excites me. The absurdity and contradictions of human behavior fascinate me. That is fundamentally the one thing that inspires me because every time I experience it, every time I catch a…

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La MaMa, in association with Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre and NODA・MAP, presents the U.S. Premiere of One Green Bottle from February 29 through March 8, 2020 at The Ellen Stewart Theatre, La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, 66 E. 4th Street, NYC. An absurdist gender-bending farce, One Green Bottle artfully illustrates our current selfie society’s relationship with consumerism and modern…

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MUSA Cancun Food for thought: Sapphire UES FIT Ballerina: Fashion’s Modern Muse Neutrogena SPF 100+ Visit: Tulum/Cancun MX Prada raffia slide Derek Lam Modele dress Håkon Anton Fagerås pillow sculpture The Row leisure suit