BLOODWORK: THE PROOF(s)

Received the first set of proofs for book 1 of the two volume BloodWork: Bodies project.  Spent the day visually scouring the 400+ loose pages for any errors that may have previously escaped notice.

Couple words that come to mind: massive, visceral.
Phrases: OMG what have I got myself into... again.
 
Seeing these reaffirms the need to put this into print.  We've spent months staring into computers while designing this beast but handling the hard copies is a completely different feeling.  One might say it's "analog".

Muscle Hunk

Feature ~ Nylon Japan June

I'm featured in Nylon Japan's June issue!! (on page 68)

What I love about this feature is that it's a bit different then other features I had so far!
They created 4 new looks inspired by my "girly romantic" style, featuring my original outfits plus the re-created look on a Model! 


(click the link to see the full feature)

 

It's so fun to see how the looks are re-created!
And it actually makes me want to do the same with some of the looks I love so much from other bloggers ;) 

You can see the original posts + photos of the looks here, here, here and here

Don't forget to join my Threadsence giveaway for a chance to win a shopping spree!

and maybe become my fluttery top twin ;)

xoxo

STREET FAM

from: Gunnar
to: tiangotlost@gmail.com
date: Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 11:16 AM
subject: Funny tattoo "Ride Hard Die Free"

Hi,

I stumbled across this tattoo online, and I haven't seen on your blog before. It is supposed to say "Ride Hard Die Free" but as you can see Google Translate made a creative interpretation of the phrase. I hope you enjoy it!

http://beckmansbruk.blogg.se/2010/january/7-e-januari-1.html

Thank you for a great blog!

Regards,
Gunnar



Grammatically speaking, this tattooed phrase is Chinese, however its translation back to English is far from "Ride Hard Die Free".

Granted, 免費 does mean "free of charge", 乘坐 does mean "riding, or being passenger", 硬 does mean "hard", but 模 or 硬模 is not verb for "die, or dying". Rather it is the noun "die" as in "die-casting" or "die-molding".

I guess this young man is quite proud and wants everyone to know he enjoys "freely shoving die-casted figurines up his ass"?

Kinky!

American Eagle

STE'LO

Tattooed Muscle Hunk

At cafe Wien

Wearing my new Threadsence Sheer Fluttery Top 
(Just arrived in the mail today!)

Today is crazy!! 

I woke up early to do my bookkeeping (the deadline is uhm in 2 days) and I have no idea what I'm doing! 

Then I almost missed the package (with this top) and literally ran outside following the mail guy! I just barely caught him on time!

Back inside I had to print out my bookkeeping mess only to discover that the print cartridges were empty :S

So while getting ready to step out my laptop all of the sudden dies on me! I re-start it, dies again.. error messages.. by this time I'm almost dying.. I give the Mac a disk-repair after which it keeps failing!! So I ran to the Mac store just thinking about buying a new one with my credit-card and sit on the financial blisters for a month.. went back home to fetch the macbook so I could transfer via firewire my files when buying the new one... 

and guess what? The Mac is working now!! I'm not sure for how long so I seriously think I have set a time record on editing and uploading a blog post! I'm so paranoid right now thinking the Mac will fail again any minute! Crazy...


Oh and wait.. of course I didn't got any bookkeeping done and I'm still without cartridges, haha :)

Don't forget to join my Threadsence giveaway for a chance to win a shopping spree!

and maybe become my fluttery top twin ;)

xoxo

CULTURA

Fuel Up

ITS A WRAP

Threadsence Giveaway

Win A $50 giftcard to Threadsence!


To Enter:
 
1. Follow Threadsence on Twitter
2. Tweet about your favorite Threadsence product. Include a link to the item and use the hashtag #LoveThreadsence
 

Open to international readers.
Tweet has to contain both a link to your favorite product and the hashtag #LoveThreadsence to be a valid contest entry. The Giveaway ends July 4th 2011.

Email Threadsence@gmail.com with any contest-related questions.

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Good Luck!
xoxo

Nick Youngquest

SOUL SUNDAY

Speedos

TRAILER OF THE WEEK

Run

MondayMarch Shoot

Here is a little sneak peek of last Wednesday's photoshoot for clothing Label Monday March in Amsterdam!
I was modeling together with bloggers Anna from Overdose.am and Cindy from Come over to the dark side we have candy for their SS 2012 lookbook.

lots and lots of make up!

No need to say that I fell in Love with this blazer instantly!

Cindy's amazing shoes!

I really wish I knew where to get these brogues!

I had such an awesome day meeting these lovely gals, the team and the designer behind the Label! Seriously I can't wait to see the lookbook and for the clothes to come in stores already!

THE ART OF LETTERING

Embrace

THROWBACK THURSDAY

Dmitry Tanner

BACK TO BACK

BLOODWORK: 360

In addition to the massive two volume book coming out in Oktober, BloodWork: Bodies will also have an interactive component.  We're calling it the 360.

The 360˚ concept developed in response to a common issue when viewing a photographed tattoo.  That is "It looks amazing but wish I could see it in person", is a phrase said by tattooers.

In response to this desire to visually move around a large tattoo we sought to manifest the 360˚ rotation.  A way to fully rotate and zoom in/out of an image so that the viewer could gain a real understanding of the three dimensional aspects of a tattoo, and what the tattooer is conveying.

The origins of this concept date back... well one can go way back with this, but the most immediate inspiration came from pioneers Joseph Plateau (phenakistoscope) and Eadweard J. Muybridge (zoopraxiscope).  
 

Interesting side note, Muybridge is said to have been an influence on Thomas Edison who himself owned patents for motion picture cameras, and it goes without saying that Edison designed the original "electric pen", precursor to the tattoo machine.  The latter having been patented by Samuel O'Reilly.

Anyway, after a few trips to the hardware store we were able to build a solid circular platform that could hold the weight of a human being and also smoothly rotate the individual full circle.  

Once in action the subject was asked to stand still on the circular platform while being rotated and photographed in upwards of fifty increments.  This was then repeated around the globe until the body of work was complete.

Since then we've been working to develop and/or acquire software that will allow all of the raw material to be compiled into an interactive format.  The last few weeks has netted much progress.  Soon we'll post a link to one of the interactive images.  In the meantime, below is a low res active (although not interactive) 360˚ rotation for your pleasure.  This one is by none other than Tin-Tin.  

Imagine being able to rotate and zoom high resolution images of all the BloodWork backpieces and bodysuits in a fluid interactive format.... stay tuned.


 

Nick Youngquest

Best Kept Secrets

I'm wearing; Isabel Marant mustard yellow jumper, H&M collar dress, diy by feedyourstyle feather mohawk shoes (see the tutorial here)

Thank you to everyone for the Birthday wishes!! I had the best day ever, the presents didn't include shoes but living essentials like a coffee maker and oven, oh and actually money to spent on shoes.. or to spent on baking, seriously I asked for a freezer too but my family noticed the underling plan to stuff it with pizza's (which would end up daily in the oven of course) Talking about pizza's.. I had my taste of a cheese-banana pizza the other day which was actually really really good!!

Sorry for the bulk of indoor pics but it seems to be pouring down every day lately!!

The best thing about dresses with a collar is that you can wear it with sweaters/jumpers! Giving it a preppy go! So I'm always on the look out for collard dresses because they make styling so much fun! But the best kept secret is the combination of a nude/blush pink with mustard yellow!


xoxo

RISE ABOVE