weird pretty things i wish i owned

Massimo Giorgetti (founder of MSGM) collaborated with the creative minds behind Toilet Paper magazine, artists Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Fferrari, to produce some eye catching stuff.

KESH

isn't that cool? sorry if it's distracting. anyway, you know how on facebook there are those people that you don't know, but have mutual friends with... so you occasionally facebook stalk them because they're cool or something? that's like what KESH and I's friendship (or lack there of) is like. but it's kinda weird that i follow her on almost every social network, probably borderline stalkerish but whatever. Kesh is pretty cool, she DJs, was once a back up dancer for M.I.A (one of her close friends) and in addition to that... she models, designs and is an artist. On top of all that she's undoubtedly the queen of self portraiture, i mean honestly. i've always worried that the whole concept of self portrait photography may come off as conceited or narcissistic even, but she makes it look so easy and her photos are so much more than just pictures of her in and of themselves. Kesh really takes shit to the next level with her edits, what's cool is that a lot of her art is basically manipulated photographs, but she's so good at the model/photographer/artist thing that it makes for good art... and even better selfies. check out some of her work here http://www.keshcontinues.com/

MIA: Money Intellect Art

so you know how when you go into an urban outfitters the people who lay out the store have this way of just bombarding you with cool shit? (if you don't know what I'm talking about then take a trip to your local urban outfitters please) you'll just walk in thinking yeah lemme get this shirt or this new hat or something, then you end up being there for so much longer than you'd expected just looking at all this stuff? i mean this happens to me pretty much all the time cause i'm like a fucking squirrel and get distracted easily, but i'm pretty sure it also happens to normal people . not only are there all these cool clothes to look at, but all these accessories as well: nail polish, headphones, jewelry, furniture. . . and then they have these books. but not just normal books-- really cool ones, like the ones you see when you walk by, but can't help but to turn back and skim through. so last week i went into the urban on 72nd and i walked by this book with a bright ass cover that said MIA. i opened it and ended up looking through the entire thing. it's basically this really cool compilation of album artwork from her three albums, "Arular", "Kala" and "Maya". i was really impressed, her work has a reoccurring theme of patterns, bright colors, random shapes and sketches, but there's also lots of film photography and some song lyrics. i know MIA's an artist in the musical sense but i didn't know she fucked with Photoshop and printmaking too. one of the reasons i really like her is because you can see so clearly how her creativity shines through in her work . yeah she probably has a stylist and a manager or publicist that make her look good, but she still retains her own self image . this book is just very raw and makes her more than just another new age rapper but really portrays her as a super creative individual, which i personally think musicians tend to have trouble with these days. and watch the video belowwwww, it's awesome.