Nicki’s mo’ fo edit to wish you a H A P P Y 2 0 1 2 !

Image: 1925-28 sterling silver cocktail set by Erik Magnussen for Gorham Manufacturing Company.

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Back To The Top. While looking thru inspiring photos from 2011 I came across one too personal to include in any batch not necessarily because of the photo but more because of the man in it. Lucky Number 13 goes to my Homie, Gabriele Pivotristeza. I snapped this image one day during Gabriele and I’s rendez vous at ‘Ricky’s House’ to try on the Power Outage aka RTWLR collection. It was minutes at Givenchy and then drinks at the Hotel Ritz, where our sneakers were tolerated “just this once”, to talk with friends and discuss a job then Ciao until later with Dre. I look back on 2011 with mad gratitude and love for him and Adrian and I look forward to 2012 and even further forward to a time when we reunite with our Fallen Soldiers, individuals that make the Next Level a beautiful place to be. Baby Girl, please, look after him. R.I.P. Gabriele and Thank You for making 2011 Lovely.

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I was going thru my screen saver rotation to choose my top ten favorite images that I’ve come across this past year and a couple of comrades had images which were very difficult to choose between. 20!! was indeed a very inspirational year so I decided to make it a D!RTY D0ZEN…

12. I don’t know where ‘Kamato’ found this image of our Man TYGA but I’m guessing Cappello, Maggie, or Richardson. XUse the lack of photo credit but if anyone knows, get at us. Young Money’s PYT will put you thru it this year. Next stop, the vault on 26th. Keep your eyes peeled for SB6.

11. Brother Fixx Invictus handling his business. Check out his ad on Craigslist.

10. Chris Brown by Chris Brown

9. Big Brother Ron Athey by Rosalie Knox

8. If you’ve lived to experience Steven Klein and gunplay twice in a lifetime you’re a lucky man. Arena Homme Plus

7. Baby Brother Ashland Mines by Ryan Trecartin in W…speedometer

6. Brother Jared Buckheister by Danko Steiner in Visionaire 60 by Riccardo Tisci

5. Wolfgang Tillmans from Arena Homme Plus

4. Steven Klein’s original “Head In a Box” is one of my all time favorite fashion images and I was so happy to see it reincarnated this year (this time sans Helmut)

3. Ryan McGinley from Life Adjustment Center which I apparently caught onto a few months late when I went to Dashwood to pick up a book that Martina Hoogland Ivanow left because I was regretably out of town during her launch.*

2. The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black by Bijoux Altamirano

1. Ryan McGinley from The Life Adjustment Center

*Congratulations to Martina. She will, this year, be ‘launching’ what will one day be a very evolved individual (or two) <3

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a dog cannot lie

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if a lion could speak we would not be able to understand what he said…why do i say such a thing?

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what’s going on behind my words when i say: this is a very pleasant pineapple?
take your time.

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we imagine the meaning of what we say say as something queer, mysterious, hidden from view…but nothing is hidden! everything is open to view!

you can’t know this pain, only i can!

it makes no sense to speak of knowing something in a context where we could not possibly doubt therefore to say i know i am in pain is entirely senseless

are you saying there are no philosophical problems?

there are linguistic, mathematical, ethical, logistic and religious problems but there are no genuine philosophical problems

you are trivializing philosophy

philosophy is just a byproduct of misunderstanding language. why don’t you realize that?!

from Derek Jarman, Wittgenstein (1993)

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At the start of this interview Ryan Gosling leaves his seat to look behind a door. Because he thought he saw a cat, he finds out that it is actually the foot of a PR. On his realisation he responds by saying that “As long as that cat has a body we’re all right.”

Gosling is currently perceived as one of the most exciting actors around. Catherine Shoard asks him about his character in his film Drive, while he is stoned. Both him and director Nicholas Reft both took equal love and consideration into the film. He personally made the car he drives in the film and has a home made tattoo of a monsters hand on his lower arm. On one hand Gosling appears to be a stoned fame stricken young actor trying to represent three films he is staring in at once. On the other hand, a down to earth craftsman with a sensitive but macho persona who doesn’t actually seem that interested in film at all.
Ryan has also just been crowned Time magazines coolest person of 2011!

Read more here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/sep/24/ryan-gosling-drive-crazy-stupid

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http://www.artbaselmiamibeach.com/

… as re-named by Chad Muska after 4 days of total debauchery

Kehinde Wiley
Houdon Paul-Louis
2011
Bronze with polished stone base
34 x 26 x 19 in (86,4 x 66,0 x 48,3 cm)
Ed 1/3 (2AP)
Roberts & Tilton

Senga Nengudi
R.S.V.P. Reverie-G
1977/2011
Nylon mesh, sand
68 x 24 inches
172,7 x 61 cm
Tilton Gallery

Jumana Manna
Resting Flag
2011
rusted water pipe, pigmented silicon, leather, string, pink marble
Dimensions variable

Hans Bellmer

Oscar Tuazon
Alloy (For Steve Baer)
2011
20 hax nuts, assembled and welded into a sphere, steel
diameter 7″, 13.7lb (diameter 18cm, 6,2kg)
Ed 45/XX, signed and numbered certificate
Parkett 89

Sam Durant
There’s Still A War Going On
2007
mirror and spray enamel, mounted on plywood, and digital print
200 x 130 x 2,5 cm / 78 3/4 x 51 1/8 x 1 in
unique
Sadie Coles

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