Monkey Saves Dog; Breaks Hearts

Monkey Saves Dog; Breaks Hearts: "

A terrible pipeline explosion tore through Nanjing, China, killing 13 people and injuring 300. Horrendous news like that has become so commonplace that it’s almost hard to connect and understand their trauma, especially when the Chinese press is limited from reporting the facts.

Until a photo of a monkey saving a puppy dog from the explosion hits the internet, when all the f**ked up pieces of the world fall into place.

Twitter user sinyi88 tweeted this photo of a monkey, in some sort of leash contraption, grabbing a puppy and running away from the explosion with a look of terror on his little monkey face.

(via nowpublic)

While we don’t have video of the occurrence, we do have an animated GIF ahead that has perhaps never been more appropriate in the history of the world. It’s our favorite GIF ever.

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The Allure of Rumors

Rumors are so seductive. The idea of someone knowing something particularly compelling before it's a known fact and able to spread it around is strangely sexy. The one with the tidbit is the one everyone wants to have. What could be sexier? Does it matter if the information is true? Does it matter in the long run when things happen everyday? Is it really that important when it has to do with fashion which by its very nature is a spinning wheel of fortune? I don't really think so. But an awful lot of people do. They absolutely hang on every implied word to suss out the news. Fashion people have an unusually intense interest is being, having, doing, and knowing things FIRST.

I foolishly fell victim to the ever grinding rumor mill and blurted that Karl Lagerfeld was retiring from Chanel and Alber Elbaz was taking his place. I certainly got my rather long tail caught in the cogs of that wheel and felt like an idiot. My motives were pretty honorable....I wanted to share a big news story with you guys , but opened my mouth without proof and ended up looking like a Fashionista F#+% Up. I'm a proud cat who prides himself on being objective and informed......most of the time. We all fall off the wagon of Integrity every once in a while. To err is human and feline. I almost blurted a truly preposterous rumor after that that was so bizarre and inflammatory that I actually did all that I could to verify it and couldn't so I didn't say anything. That was agonizing because it was truly incredible in its tragedy and scope. The scary thing is that it was more premonition than rumor because one half of the story was totally false and the other half came to pass only weeks later. I didn't sleep(literally) for some nights after that and I fear it caused the end of a friendship that I valued and miss to this day. That's part of the fallout from rumors. They serve little purpose but to make the teller feel as though they have an edge and the audience wastes too much time trying to solve the mystery. What is, is. What isn't yet, is. So it's all the same in the end.

Boredom is the great catalyst for the turbo rumor. It's been a hellish summer. We've all fried in our own fat for weeks and nothing truly interesting has come down the chute for months. We're waiting for that big anticlimax, the Collections in September and let's be honest, we're all craving something yummy we can gnaw on. What better thing to claw and chew on but a story about a major changing of the guard at some influential fashion houses? I'd get excited about it if the end result would mean truly awe inspiring design and a landscape forever altered. It just doesn't work like that in real life. If one actor leaves the stage, then the replacements tend to be the sort who are unable to adopt a new character. It's sort of the "Same S*&^%$, Different Day Syndrome". This isn't to say the new names in possibly newly vacated slots aren't without talent, only that theirs is almost always specific and static. Karl Lagerfeld is the consummate chameleon and perhaps the only designer working today with that skill. It's difficult to get excited about the game of musical chairs at European design houses when the players will more than likely take their same bag of tricks from one gilded salon to the next. It's a bit like Fashion STD's. The problem starts in one house and gets passed around from one to another until the whole system is compromised.
So I won't kill the suspense of what is or isn't on the horizon by laying hints. I don't want to disappoint or stick my paws down my throat. Let's just wait and see. Someone very wise said that all thoughts, stories and that includes rumors must be tested and examined to know if they're true. The first question being,"Are you sure that this is true?" The second being, "Can you absolutely know that this thought(rumor) is true?" If the answer is no to the second question, then it isn't and will stay that way until it is. That is unless it isn't.

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Phil Kelly

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I'm very sad to learn that my friend Phil Kelly passed away last night in Mexico City, the city he loved and that loved him back. Phil, who was originally from Ireland,  painted his adopted city with wit and verve. Not many local painters train their eyes on the urban jumble that is Mexico City; not many people can see the beauty beneath the grime, but Phil did. He could look at its ugliest buildings, its most impossibly trafficked intersections, its mustiest cantinas, and bring them to life with loose but precise strokes and an amazing use of color: witty, generous, expressive, and never overwhelming. He could distill the essence of a place and fill it with light. His paintings of Mexico City, Oaxaca and other cities afford you a totally new way of looking at places that you recognize, even if you've never been there.

I am very lucky to have a Phil Kelly, a generous gift from Mr. Ex-Enchilada. It's an oil painting of Paseo de la Reforma, Mexico City's version of the Champs Elysees.
In Phil's hands, the avenue is a vertiginous river of cars, an orange swath of paint, stubborn blue palm trees billowing in the exhaust wind, and what I most love about it, a sky the color of clotted cream, a classic Mexico City sky on those days where your throat itches and your eyes water. Rising in the middle of this wide panorama is the Monument to the Independence, El Ángel, almost dwarfed by all that crazy motion around it, but still shining over the fierce metropolis like a little fairy.

I saw Phil last January in Mexico City. I parked myself at the Xel-Ha and let people know I was there (something you can do at the cantinas of Mexico City, where there is always one more chair to add to any table). Not many came but I was happily surprised when Phil arrived with his indomitable wife Ruth. Sweetly, he came bearing  gifts for my birthday. A lovely little etching and a lovely little book with some of his paintings of Mexico.

El Angel

Circuito de Noche

León Condesa Jardín Principal

Circuito

I met Phil when I was in my twenties and moving out of my parents' house to go live in la Condesa (in those days it was full of old Jews and new artists, and gracefully bereft of enforced hipness). I moved into Phil's bedroom in an old apartment building in Campeche Street. Phil moved out to a bigger place where he had much more room to paint, and if I'm not mistaken, which was his home and studio until last night.
Phil had a wicked sense of humor and he was a lovely man. I'm very sad that he is gone. But we are lucky that he left behind all that color, all that incredible art.

Parnell Square, Dublin, I believe

If this isn't Paris, I don't know what is. 

Mexico City, no doubt.

Stars and the Quilts at the Bowers Museum

Star with Cut Out Chintz Applique

Collection of the Bowers Museum

Santa Ana, California

Estimated date 1820-1850

The Bowers Museum is showing the highlights of their quilt collection. Quilts: Two Centuries of American Tradition and Technique, curated by Julia D. Zgliniec, will be on exhibit from July 3rd through March 28, 2011. Click here to see more about the show: http://www.bowers.org/index.php/learn/events_details/480

The quilt above is a masterpiece star variation. We might call the pattern Star of Bethlehem. Another 19th-century name for these large stars pieced of diamonds was Rising Sun.

But this quilt is different from the usual diamond star (see my last post for the usual version). Notice the triangles bordering the star points and the quilt's edge. I'd guess the triangles are appliqued in a technique we might call dog-tooth applique.

These stars with patchwork edges are rare. The Museum of the Daughters of the American Revolution owns a similar quilt from Jefferson County, Virginia. Click on the link to see a photograph from the Quilt Index.

http://www.quiltindex.org/fulldisplay.php?kid=46-7A-108
The detail photo shows the appliqued triangles quite clearly
http://www.quiltindex.org/fulldisplay.php?kid=46-7A-14E


The Heritage Quilt Project of New Jersey found one the family dated to 1842
http://www.quiltindex.org/fulldisplay.php?kid=4A-7F-1D6
Again the detail shows the appliqued triangles
http://www.quiltindex.org/fulldisplay.php?kid=4A-7F-7F4

And this one with exaggerated triangles:
http://www.quiltindex.org/fulldisplay.php?kid=4A-7F-8C0
http://www.quiltindex.org/fulldisplay.php?kid=4A-7F-8C2

(See the New Jersey Quilts book, page 72 and Ladies Circle Patchwork Quilts magazine from summer, 1983.) New Jersey seems to be the region for these stars, if they are regional.

(Isn't the Quilt Index a great thing!)

The International Quilt Study Collection and Museum (another great thing) has an example with a red dog-tooth border from the James Collection. It was made by Anna Chambers Deacon, possibly in Springfield, New Jersey. Click here to see a photo:
http://www.quiltstudy.org/includes/photos/quilt_database/large/1997_007_0701.jpg?PHPSESSID=bf577b00549c9bc75d5e8453048f8943

Below is a similar quilt from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art with a star edged with triangles, but in this case the triangles look to have been pieced in strips

Star with Pieced Edge

From the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Made in Perth Amboy, New Jersey between 1845 and 1848

Click here to read about it:

http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/collection_database/american_decorative_arts/quilt_star_of_bethlehem_first_baptist_church_perth_amboy/objectview.aspx?page=1&sort=0&sortdir=asc&keyword=star&fp=1&dd1=1&dd2=0&vw=1&collID=1&OID=10014436&vT=1&hi=0&ov=0

And this tiny photo from the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum at Colonial Williamsburg shows one with what looks to be a pieced strip or maybe a plain strip edging the star.

Click here to see an even more unusual version in the IQSC's James collection:

http://www.quiltstudy.org/includes/photos/quilt_database/large/2006_043_0209.jpg?PHPSESSID=bf577b00549c9bc75d5e8453048f8943

So we have three categories of Star of Bethlehem  variations, numbered 4005 in my Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns. I'm writing in some new numbers on that page in my copy.
4005.1 is the star with a plain strip pieced around the star's edge
4005.2 is the star with the appliqued dog tooth edge
4005.3 is the star with the pieced sawtooth edge
4005.5 is the star with miscellaneous triangles on the edge

Those of you who love categorization will be pleased. Those of you who love romantic names may be disappointed. We seem to have no name for the variations. Quilt pattern names tend to come from the 1890-1960 period and these designs don't seem to have been recorded. I'm not going to give them any names. It just seems too presumptuous. They are sort of like feathered stars....

Here's a wacky example with the unpieced strip added to the edge (like 4005.1)

It's from quilt dealer Laura Fisher.

But, I digress. Go see the show at the Bowers.

Poor Tourists!

New Yorkers, we love to dump on tourists. They don't know how to walk, dress or eat. Couldn't tell a tourist trap if it bit them in the ass, etc, etc.
But what happens when tourists come to see you and you have to shpatzir them around town? You become sort of a tourist yourself. Let me tell you a little story:
On Thursday I met my friend Esther and her lovely 13 year old son, Benjamin, who were visiting from Mexico. They wanted to see the Meatpacking district. We went up to the High Line, had shaved ice and a popsicle from People's Pops (note to shaved ice hipster guy: you need to get some lessons from the Mexican or Latin masters of the craft -- not enough precious Bartlett pear syrup).
As we made our way back to Soho, we are walking, yes, three deep on a narrow sidewalk in Washington St.. A middle aged lady wearing a wide brimmed hat with a bow, starring in her own private Easter Parade, is coming towards us. In situations where tourists take up the entire sidewalk, usually I command "excuse me" and barrel through. I have an invisible semi-automatic rifle pointed at them. That's all. This person could have done the same, particularly as she was not behind us, but had plenty of time to approach us from the front. Instead, she mumbled at us to get out of her way, we don't even speak English and suggested we go back to where we came from. She was actually surprised when I reared my ugly head and screamed at her to shut the fuck up and chill the fuck out, and what the fuck is wrong with her, I fucking live here, you stupid fuck, etc, (remnants of the Middle Eastern fighting spirit, perhaps). She was slightly taken aback at being addressed in such a classic New York fashion by someone she deemed to be a clueless tourist. In truth, I wanted to run after her and knock that stupid hat off her head, plus a couple of teeth. But that would have been a bit de trop. Was she originally from Arizona? I found her xenophobic sentiments quite out of character for a citizen of this town.

One of the quintessential humbling experiences of locals hosting tourists, is eating out.
How is a tourist supposed to know that going to a restaurant in New York requires planning and execution of military precision? Not only arriving at the restaurant on time (to Mexican tourists, the concept of the entire party must be there to be seated is like astrophysics: unfathomable), but also ordering within three seconds of getting the menu, and being expected to know what's a ramp, what's sous vide and what's heirloom whatevs. One feels like a benign shepherd, steering the poor innocent creatures towards more adventurous choices, discreetly rolling our eyes and begging mercy from the waiter. A couple more minutes, no, they don't have fried rice here...
This in no way reflects my experience with Esther and Benjamin, who are urbane, sophisticated and as cool as cucumbers, as are most of the tourists that come to see me, mind you.
Once in a while it helps to see New York City with the eyes of a tourist. It also helps to have the manners of a New Yorker.