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Wow, this film looks so fabulous! Sort-of like an Exit Through The Gift Shop meets Project Runway on the way to lunch in the Hamptons with "Big"and "Little Edie . " -- Love! Click here for his "on the street" slide shows from NYT ABOUT THE FILM “We all get dressed for Bill,” says  Vogue  editrix Anna Wintour. The “Bill” in question is 80+  New York Times  photographer Bill Cunningham. For decades, this Schwinn-riding cultural anthropologist has been obsessively and inventively chronicling fashion trends and high society charity soirées for the  Times  Style section in his columns “On the Street” and “Evening Hours.” Documenting uptown fixtures (Wintour, Tom Wolfe, Brooke Astor, David Rockefeller—who all appear in the film out of their love for Bill), downtown eccentrics and everyone in between, Cunningham’s enormous body of work is more reliable than any catwalk as an expression of time, place and individual flair. In turn,  Bill Cunningh

Just spotted this biblical themed commercial.  

Does it get cuter than Rupert? Well, I'll tell you what might be cuter, baby elephants playing in pool, that's what!

Last week I posted a link related to a group of Russian artists (Voina) who create street art, or performance art . I have mixed opinions regarding their work, but I do think they are interesting, or rather, I find them entertaining, which is primarily why I wrote about them. However:  The way Voina described their own pretentious and obscure artistic goals really kind of bugged me. Why?  Well, because it's not the first time I've heard artists (including writers, photographers, choral directors, etc.) complain their work isn't understood. And, the truth is: I love art.  I want all of us who create from our hearts with our unique abilities to thrive.  I really do.  But, this is 2011.  And right now all of the arts are a tough sell. Here's some advice regarding this issue: Look, it's bad enough when people don't "understand" your art, but when that lack of understanding means you also can't pay the bills, eat, and/or thrive then it'

An inspired use of a "wasted material" turned into art. Yes, this is a commercial, but it's still pretty astonishing.   The point of view of this video (sadly, turns out to be just an advertisement) is that while there still remains a need to destroy certain trees for the overall success of a forest, (That particular process of  "cleaning up" trees is called Shelter Wood Cutting ) that one can still certainly create something useful or inspiring with that "wasted" wood, as well. Or, as is the case of those who paid for this art project, a limited edition cell phone. Who cares if it was paid for by a cell phone company?  It's still an amazing sculpture and so worth seeing, I mean, hearing.