tis the season!

greetings and salutations to all! tis the season for santa, channukah and great movies. i actually saw no country for old men last night and it was incredible. a real potboiler, taught with suspense and the only soundtrack was the sound of the characters intensity throughout every scene in the film. the coen brothers are brilliant as we all know, fargo and the big lebowski are perfect examples of their proficiency as film makers, but javier bardem is electrifyingly creepy and brilliant as a psychopathic hitman named Chigurh (yes it sounds like sugar.) and josh brolin blows you away with his mostly silent performance as the stories protagonist. anyone who has seen "the fugitive" or "batman forever" knows tommy lee jones can act and this film is certainly another great definitive moment in his ever evolving career as an actor. did you know he was roommates with al gore at harvard? in short see this movie, it's fantastic, which is why it's been nominated for a golden globe for best drama.



while we're on the subject of great achievements in art my latest obsession is the Goyard St. Louis Tote. if you look under women's articles you can catch a glimpse of this super chic and multi use bag that i saw everywhere during art basel and at the pulse art fair. Goyard is a leather goods maker that's been around since 1853 and are finally making their mark on the mainstream. their luggage and bags used to only be available to royalty and the biggest celebrities, but the the tote can be yours for only $845...ye i know that's beyond ridiculous for something made of canvas, but sure is beautiful and comes in 10 different colors. the bags are exclusively sold at Barneys and two other locations in NY and LA aside from Goyard's flagship store in Paris, and no they cannot be ordered online.

on a completely different note, google is launching a publishing format called Knol that is supposed to rival wikipedia. learn more here.

have a happy holiday and wait with bated breath for my next post and what santa brings you!












i also just found a green version of the bag:



The Go-Green Goyard St. Louis Shopper Tote
Goyard special green edition canvas purse is designed from 100% recycled natural material without plastic or petroleum. You can find it at your local Barneys, where it retails for $1,095. Also, since Barney’s no longer sells Goyard designer handbags online, visit Goyard.com to get a list of department stores that sell them in your area.

Remember with the monogramming you have to tack on an additional $310. Personally I could resist the recycle symbol, it makes the bag look like a cheap $5 grocery sack, and just go with my initials.

its been a while...

to whoever reads this i apologize for my absence. i'm pretty sure you could have read the bible in the duration of it. personally i prefer the Tanakh or as i endearingly refer to it as The Jewble. anyhoo i'm sorry for taking october and basically most of november off.
so i just saw this headline online and now the today show has a story about this girl whose body was just found. it's just a really sad/disturbing yet relevant story for the digital communities we live in. http://www6.comcast.net/news/articles/general/2007/11/28/Missing.Porn.Star/?cvqh=itn_student


on a much lighter note here's a great times article on one of the art fair's happening next week in town:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/30/arts/design/30herz.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
and here's the link to where i'm working:
http://www.pulse-art.com/miami/

furniture and design

i just read a great interview with Alasdhair Willis, the head of Established and Sons check it out.

fall fashion and the lack there of in mia

it's almost winter and that means it's time to break out coats, hats, gloves...oh wait fall or winter doesn't exist in miami, which means neither does fall fashion because it's simply way too hot. sadly none of us will be able to wear clothing as exquisitely executed as the outfits below, but we can always dream.

Proenza Schouler Proenza Schouler

Burberry Prorsum

i got banged

with my 23rd birthday soon upon me i figured i'd take the leap and change a few things starting with my hair. i'll make sure to add an incredibly fierce photo later, but for now i'll simply include the silliness that came about while futzing about on a G4.

it certainly isn't as intense as a few oh the photos below but it shall be soon enough.



so blogging about my hair may seem a bit superficial and kind of vain but i came across these pictures of britney spears and wondered why she didn't just walk around with whatever the F is actually on her hair rather than that crack head hair do she's sporting now. amy winehouse's beehive (that occasionally looks rat-infested) looks better than whatever the F britney is trying to pull off and everyone knows amy winehouse is on drugs (allegedly.)

why do "intelligent" people do the stupidest things?

i just came across an article about a student majoring in computer science at M.I.T who strapped a fake bomb to her chest and walked into Logan International Airport. I just don't understand how anyone could find that amusing, entertaining or even logical in the era we live in. the creators of aqua teen pulled a prank this summer by leaving briefcases with flashing lights and an image of one of the characters on it this summer around cities and that cause quite a stir, but come on didn't this chick see "meet the parents" you can't even say bomb on an airplane anymore. there are 2 different links below about what happened.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201808203

http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/usworld/news-article.aspx?storyid=91827

on another note Halo 3 has been leaked. not like i care but i had to share.

http://www.informationweek.com/software/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201808156

a beautiful bro-mance

music videos of songs stephen loves bc i forced him to listen to them a trillion times

ugh i think this post is pretty self-explanatory

"d.a.n.c.e" justice


"must be the moon" !!! (it's pronounced chk chk chk)



"what goes around" justin timberlake (i don't care that scarlett johansson is in the video, this version just sounds better)


"supermassive black hole" muse (this vid is scary as s**t, but the song is just so f-ing good)


"brainstorm" arctic monkeys


"my moon my man" feist


"read my mind" the killers

robot rant #1

for those of you who don't know me in the fall of 2004, i started referring to and introducing myself as a robot. this was definitely not too surprising for most people, since no one actually objected to my blatantly absurd declaration, and because throughout my freshman year i introduced myself as JENNY FROM THE BLOCK, since i did grow up in miami i would quickly add "technically it's jenny from down the block." so sharing with people that i was now a robot because i was too "cool/weird/ aerodynamic" to be human wasn't too much of a stretch for people to accept. the real reason for my robotic assimilation was my obsession with the 80's dance move "the robot" ( of holding one arm akimbo and swinging it back and forth very slowly) and that i feel so incredibly awkward most of the time that "becoming a robot" was an escape from the onslaught of constantly overwhelming of human emotion. not that i was an empath or anything but being part of the walking (emotionally) wounded can kinda suck.
we're all robots in our own right at times though, we all go through the motions of what's acceptable or cool or doing whatever we need to to fit in and become automatons. but my roboticism was an attempt to be totally original, purely individual and undeniably silly. both titles still stick and will always hold endearing memories somewhere in my brain, but for now i'll just stick to jennifer. don't worry i haven't grown up, i'm nowehere near that but have to pretend to be semi-professional in search for a job, which is why i have entitled my blog RANTS OF A FORMER ROBOT. i still have a great affinity and appreciation for those able to do it full time like the brilliant minds behind the musical madness that is DAFT PUNK.

Fader Magazine had a great interview with them last month which you can check out by downloading the entire magazine, that happens to have LIL WAYNE on one of the covers, or you can check out Busy P's daft punk tour blog: http://www.thefader.com/blog/articles/category/daft-punk-alive

anyway i guess this post really has just turned into a robot rant about robots, so i'll stop but for your enjoyment here are a few incredible videos from the "robots" i respect the most. if you have the chance to see them live YOU MUST, IT'S WILL BE ONE OF THE GREATEST SHOWS YOU WILL EVER SEE IN YOUR LIFE!

"around the world" probably they're most famous song (until kanye west jacked the beat to "harder, better,faster, stronger") this vid is directed by another brilliant man from france michel gondry (the guy who directed "eternal sunshine of the spotless mind," "science of sleep" and the white stripes' "fell in love with a girl" & "hardest button to button")


"one more time"


"robot rock"

omg i can't believe i made a blog

a few weeks ago over dinner i shared with stephen my latest discoveries from the several blogs i visit throughout my day. not that any of that subject matter is of any importance now, but he suggested that i should have my own and that he'd set it up for me. i contemplated the thought for a second and said "why not. it'll at least be a productive distraction and keep me off facebook!" so this is the blog. i'm not too sure what the content will be , mostly whatever fascinates, enthralls, irks me and i'm compelled to write about.

i hope whoever ends up reading this:
1. recognizes i did this on a whim (hence the blogname and url)
2. postings are opinion not gospel (unless i mention otherwise)
3. doesn't take anything i say about them personally (this is MY forum to say whatever i please, so if you don't like it make your own blog!)
4. enjoys themself while reading since i intend to and that's why i created this
5. realizes i didn't think anyone was actually going to read this thing because i didn't plan on telling anyone about it so if they stumbled upon it by accident they should stop reading, turn off their computer, step away from it and go do something productive like read a book, help the elderly or write a letter to your congress person about issues that bother you (after you figure out who your congress person is: http://www.congress.org/congressorg/directory/congdir.tt)