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Things Which I am not Huge on

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 14:21:13 +0000

Biker jackets or any other kind of leather jacket..does not quite say ‘cool’, but too attached to the past; unless you’re making some sort of ironic statement;
Making a huge fuss about how futuristic & useless some commercial design is. I like my simple and down-to-earth stuff on most occasions or where appropriate. Time and place for everything etc. etc.
Sash windows. One word: heavyyyyy.
Vintage clothing (as no. 1 - unless you’re making an ironic statement)
Monochrome obsessions; pink room, pink books, pink sheets, pink curtains so on and so forth.
Obsessions with ornate decorations in today’s times: Rococo - as mentioned in no. 2: time & place for everything.
People who always take themselves seriously. Oscar Wilde would have had a thing or two to say.
Jewellery; liking the occasional change in style but layers and layers and no apparent coherence or evidence of style baffles me. If you’re going to spend a lot of money, you might want to spend it with a purpose.
Tattoos of symbols with adopted personal meanings: tribal symbols, chinese letters, yin & yangs, ankhs, dragons, oms and other wonderful remote signs no one grew up with or understands fully.
Women posing with drinks in their hands. Or hanging from someone’s neck when drunk. Or shouting to each other across the street. They make me a sad panda.
Bingo wings
Cleavage & skin on display
Chest hair on display and anyone who thinks Russell Brand is a style icon and inspiration

Hofstede Design

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 13:26:18 +0000

Hofstede Design

Chipotle

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 13:23:56 +0000

Chipotle

http://www.brodogkorn.no/

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 13:21:05 +0000

http://www.brodogkorn.no/

via www.lornefade.com

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:45:44 +0000

via www.lornefade.com

charlesfrith: (via vacantheart)

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:39:41 +0000

charlesfrith:

(via vacantheart)

charlesfrith: emeline: this british veteran tattooed the names...

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:10:10 +0000

charlesfrith:

emeline:

this british veteran tattooed the names of 232 fallen fellows

And here come the Grossmith packages

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:05:56 +0000

And here come the Grossmith packages

Chris Lee, founder of Asylum

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:03:52 +0000

Chris Lee, founder of Asylum

Bedouin Medina

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:42:49 +0000

Bedouin Medina

graphic design

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:30:55 +0000

graphic design

41% Ouch. 59% Yeah.

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:28:42 +0000

41% Ouch. 59% Yeah.

polka dots

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:11:40 +0000

polka dots

"The list is the origin of culture. It’s part of the history of art and literature. What does..."

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:55:50 +0000

“The list is the origin of culture. It’s part of the history of art and literature. What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible. It also wants to create order — not always, but often. And how, as a human being, does one face infinity? How does one attempt to grasp the incomprehensible? Through lists, through catalogs, through collections in museums and through encyclopedias and dictionaries. There is an allure to enumerating how many women Don Giovanni slept with: It was 2,063, at least according to Mozart’s librettist, Lorenzo da Ponte. We also have completely practical lists — the shopping list, the will, the menu — that are also cultural achievements in their own right.”

- Umberto Eco: ‘We Like Lists Because We Don’t Want to Die’ - SPIEGEL ONLINE

Yhprum's Law

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:00:22 +0000

Yhprum's Law:

“Sometimes systems that should not work, work nevertheless.”

orange ?

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:50:58 +0000

orange ?

50: Badges - LA Times Magazine

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:47:59 +0000

50: Badges - LA Times Magazine

(via ithinkshesdying)

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:33:00 +0000

(via ithinkshesdying)

"Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful"

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:29:40 +0000

“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful”

- William Morris (via swissmiss)

"In some ways, America is a victim of its own success. The economic prosperity provided by its..."

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:19:58 +0000

“In some ways, America is a victim of its own success. The economic prosperity provided by its implementation of a market system has provided the upper middle class with leisure time to concoct or adopt half-baked theories. In many ways, the self-described intelligentsia bite the hands that feed them; even as the middle class is the engine of the economy that gives them the cushy jobs decoupled from manual labor, they loathe and attack the middle class mercilessly. Why is this? The main reason leftist yuppie elites hate the middle class is because those who hold down real jobs have a much different view of freedom than the upper-middle class or the lower class. While the middle class simply want freedom of opportunity and the right to self-determination, the upper middle class argue for the universalization of the type of economic freedom they experience; to have pointless, disposable jobs and to buy whatever they want whenever they want. Just like Marxists have no real sense of resource scarcity, neither do urban elites who live luxurious lifestyles.”

- Point/Counterpoint: A Brief Psychosocial Analysis of the Leftist Mentality