my disbelief in mankind's perfectibility took a turn for the irreparable on tuesday june 15th 2010 when i found myself unable to put through an order for apple's latest revolution due to miraculously unforeseen traffic on at&t's servers. i should have stopped there had i known what was in store for me...

sure, i'm an early adopter, the earliest kind there is actually. but on that day, i felt lazy. why indeed should i leave the comfort of my compound for the city whose big lights might inspire me but whose noisy and nerd-crowded streets are lately doing little for my peace-seeking brain. so came wednesday and since, ever the loyal subject, i purchased the iPhone 3GS on this same date last year, i was ineligible for the deep discount myself. my wife, ever the loyal object, pitched in and bought me the phone from her account, eligible since nary a purchase had been made in the past 3 years. i had been assured by an at&t representative that the switch from one number (hers) to another (mine) would be an easy one, all done remotely, all within 24 hours at the most... happy, i gladly overpaid for a dock and a bumper and i was on my way to feverishly waiting!

as the first wave of black glass noisily started to make its way from the world's factory floor, i kept my cool seeing that my particular handset would not, due to unforeseeable high order volume, land in my hands the first week the quick would undoubtedly broadcast breathtaking unboxing videos displaying their "i'm better than you" faces whereas the dead would cower in shame, pretending none of this shit was actually important. right? right.

finally, after totally forgetting about it for a while, i received, on friday july 2nd, an electronic notice that my golden ticket had left the flowered alleyways of the foxconn factory ...
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diminutive and unassuming, tobi once waltzed into my office during his short yet vivacious tenure as the apartment design store's art director and announced that he knew exactly what to do for our easter windows. what? i asked. we're going to have a half-dozen live bunnies jump around the store! how cute i thought, until the next sentence came out of his mouth... and ...
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last friday started in new york city the yearly procession of those with little to say and ample stage time to proclaim it. that's right, the international contemporary furniture fair is back within the grasp of those looking for cheap swill and rotation moulding to spill it over. now, don't get me wrong, i find nothing dishonorable in setting up a design wares market in every corner of the world where each and every individual with ideas, regardless of color, creed or liquor sponsorship can rightly present them to an over-enthusiastic and willful audience in order to make a living. but that is rarely what happens at these things... take it from someone who has consistently thrown one of the most attended events of the week in the past, believed his own hype but been so repelled by it ...
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the french, however much i despise them, will always surprise me... first it's a well-writen and able declaration of rights, then penicillin and now a kidnapping service called ultime réalité (you can figure it out) which provides dull-lifed morons an ...
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"i have an idea!" the young german dude with a blond goatee just hired to spend those now worthless traditional advertising deutschmarks on something else said... "instead of folding back those millions into actually making better cars and living up to our name and long-forgotten value of innovation, let's hire famous artists to paint our cars, ...
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this video about ton arad's studio life has finally answered my question about the supposed master's lack of inspiration of late. firstly, i don't quite understand designers, architects, artists of any kind who surround themselves with examples of their own work!... ...
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the prada book, meant to showcase polymorphous creativity, is all kinds of nonsense. $150 for imagery that is neither original at this point or even transcendent of the brand is fucking highway robbery for a house that really needs to look at itself with a ...
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just learned of lee mcqueen's passing, from apparent suicide at his london home, and i am not quite sure why i feel so sad... is it because he was, in fashion terms, a loud voice that yelled out the learned rules and did what he thought was true? maybe. is it ...
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you know, for once, i was going to give the campana brothers and moss a pass on this one. fact is, stitching hundreds of lacoste crocodiles together into a shirt is pretty fucking cool and i wouldn't mInd gett... SAY WHAT?!!! $5000? FIVE FUCKING THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR A T-SHIRT YOU ...
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all this overproduced promotional video about their new logo tells me is how insanely peugeot has absolutely no clue what branding is supposed to do. i understand the whole, look at our past and this is our future thing they're trying to pass off as legacy but are you ...
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why is it that when brands talk about heritage, it is ever solely in regards to campaigns or brand identity but never the product of their labor? are we sick yet of luxury outfits bamboozling us into perceiving them one way or another, depending on the ...
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ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce to you, from left to right, dick, pussy and ass, the new furniture line from aril levy. cabinetry sure to enflame desires because of those clever names... otherwise, rather fucking boring. please see yesterday's post about lack of imagination.