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Chains and leaves have been with us a long time. We have all decided what they mean.

Jeanne-Salome Rochat — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:53:37 +0000

In groups, when first gathered, they receive direction. They ask questions about chains. The ones they like best will be mirrored by one hand rising into the air. Their bottoms will not rise into the air, no, not now. So sitting, they wait until they are asked the question they like best. They raise their hands. Some of them do not raise their hands. Some of them raise two hands. These second hands are severed with the metal edge of a yardstick. The severed hands are confiscated and placed in the drawer where unauthorized items gather. The stump is placed underneath their bottoms. Only one hand may rise. One or none.

Place your knees on our throats and we choose you. We love what is green. We love what is good. Place your knees. There is no you. We mean, not now. Now we want you to love us. There is no you. Place your knees. Dig deeper. Dig for the green. When we wake, you are us. There is no you. We are born deep beneath the earth. We are not green. We take the chains. We love what is good. There is no you.

They wait in their seats to be asked. They know that they will be asked and this is good. It is good to practice the raising and the choosing. Now they must decide what colors they like. No matter how much of their hands rattle in the air they will only be counted once. There is only one value each hand may assume. We know that this is good. We love what is good.

silence is golden, death is bananas

Jeanne-Salome Rochat — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:56:58 +0000

armoring the devil

Jeanne-Salome Rochat — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:10:54 +0000

Betony Vernon on STYLELIKEU.COM

Maxime Buchi — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 22:13:20 +0000

Our friend and editor Betony Vernon just got interviewed for STYLELIKEU.COM. SICK! Next one is me ;)

view here

Betony Vernon Closet Interview for StyleLikeU.com from StyleLikeU on Vimeo.

Coconut Oil & Potatoes

Jeanne-Salome Rochat — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 19:10:33 +0000

parade armour, amour

Jeanne-Salome Rochat — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 17:43:56 +0000

You are beautiful. All day you’ve been waiting. You are old. On your knees. All day you’ve been on your knees. I come towards you. I am old too. You fall back. I am trying to save you. All day I’ve been trying to save you. Pounding your chest. Your chest is old. Everything’s slow. Your friends are nice. Mouth to mouth. Your mouth is soft. Everything’s slow. The doorbell rings: a man with a tray full of presents. We trade you for them.

Philip IV of Spain in his parade armour. Gaspar de Crayer. 1620′s

dry lake jewelry

Maxime Buchi — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 14:29:24 +0000

a couple of friends (I mean they are my freinds and they are a couple) make these jewels (not the rings).
their name is D R Y L A K E
just beautiful.

ZANA BAYNE LEATHER f/w presentation!

Maxime Buchi — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 14:13:26 +0000

Our friend, and talented designer Zana is presenting her new collection this Thursday at the Standard Hotel, NY
If you are interested to come, please get in touch with us! info@sangbleu.com

SS11 by Fleet Ilya + bianca

Jeanne-Salome Rochat — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 15:55:28 +0000

Spring time always reminds me of a very special trip i took to California, many years ago, at this time of the year. Today in particular, while watching Fleet Ilya’s SS11 collection, I remembered a barbecue restaurant overdone in pastels, like a fast-food hospital, near the border to Mexico. My friend and I left the room door open while carrying garbage to the dumpster and when we came back a teenage girl was sitting next to our door. Her skirt was torn down the side as either an act of violence or a statement of fashion. She looked exhausted. I offered her a diet soda and she took a sip, then set it aside and walked away just like in the movies. She reminded me of someone who had once dented my locker with her foot. She had left her bag. I took it, opened it, hoping to come across a picture of someone I knew from high school but didn’t. The girl’s name was Bianca. After that I remember sitting on the porch wiht my friend for a bit. Bianca never returned.

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la forme et le fond

Maxime Buchi — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:22:50 +0000

My old friend Andrew May‘s wife Jen.

Anastasiya Komarova (FORMS)

Jeanne-Salome Rochat — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 19:31:14 +0000

FORMS produces leather clutches, neckpieces and armlets.

I NEVER ASKED YOU

I never asked you to remove your shoes.
I asked you to leave them on your feet,
as evidence that you were always so busy crossing a bridge.
I asked you to tie your shoes with leather strips.
And then tie the leather strips together into the side of a ball.
I didn’t ask you to kick the ball.
But I did say rather conclusively
that if you didn’t kick the ball when I gave the signal,
meetings to be arranged on your behalf might be cancelled,
candlelight might be drawn for the sake of your feet.
And clouds, kissed with my lips, might actually
bother to originate in the heart of a struggling world.

text by Lee Stern

that which is the inheritance

Jeanne-Salome Rochat — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 17:20:56 +0000

I never had had.

One who fingers savagely at a material knot and yet cannot undo it. To myself adding: “Have I?” A task in part the tissue of doubt.

I speak, too, of multiple larynxes.

Am I now happy to be able to tell stories and surround others with knotted space and endangered equilibrium?

Talk is conditional.

When do I ever suppose that my words sustain themselves within inner multitudes?

Reflective anonymous designs contribute to the development of one sweet sum which expresses itself as a bursting forth flame in the shanty a voice telling of them.

tracing of a genital tattoo taken from the body of Rangi-Tea-Pakura, a Maori woman of rank
(drawing by Dr. Shortland)

left: tattoos on the right arm of a French thief expelled from France.
right: tattoos on the body of a French sailor and deserter.
(ink drawing 19th century)

inside pages from ‘Chodo Zue’, a book showing a collection of monochrome decorative designs for ‘tansu’ and acessories like boxes for combs and writing sets.
(the compiler Aoki Hisakuni is otherwise unknown)

illustration showing white magnolia blossom (Magnolia altifima) and its seed pod.
(18th century)

oriental Manuscript in Burmese-Pali

New Zealand: Maori wooden club (mere).
(albumen print, 18th century)

plaster cast of the face of Tauque Te Whanoa, a Rotorua native, of the Arawa tribe showing Maori tattooing, ‘Moko’, performed with a serrated chisel and mallet with soot rubbed into the open wound to provide colouring.
plaster cast taken by Sir G. Guy (?)
(1851)

tattoo on a piece of human skin showing a female face
(late 19th century)

tattoo on a piece of human skin showing a male bust and a flower stem
(late 19th century)

Taawattaa, the Priest from Madison Island (Nuku Hiva)
(engraving c. 1813)

human head containing jostling human figures.
(crayon drawing, 1929)

Yantra mediation uses shapes and symbols engraved on to plaques to focus the mind. Mediation and yoga are recommended as part of an Ayurvedic lifestyle. Ayurveda is a Hindu medical traditional that aims to preserve and restore balance in the body through holistic treatments including diet and exercise.
(unkown maker, made bwn 1801-1900 in India)

Te Kuha: a carver and warrior
(watercolour by H.G. Robley)

AKA jewellery collection

Maxime Buchi — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 16:12:52 +0000

Our old friend Jon of AKA Berlin just launched his jewelry line. It was about time!! ;)

http://akajewellery.tumblr.com/archive
akajonjohn.blogspot.com
akaberlin.com
www.myspace.com/jonundjohn
www.unautrecorps.com

berlin 2

Maxime Buchi — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 16:32:32 +0000

12 hours in berlin. just a quicky.

captions coming later

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1-100

Ben Perdue — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 10:14:37 +0000

Beautiful limited edition leather, rubber and silver handmade jewellery designed by longtime Sang Bleu conspirators Graham Tabor and Miguel Villalobos under their 1-100 name in New York. Will have to track them down and grab some quotes soon.