naked notes

It’s fun. It’s powdery. It makes you feel amazing. It puts you in the mood to stay up all night and have endless conversations with friends. Sometimes it even makes you want to get up, dim the lights and sway your body to Bryan Ferry’s Slave to Love, or Billy Idol’s Eyes Without Face. Yeah, [...]

It’s possible you missed it. It’s possible you don’t care. It’s possible that Jacob has come back to life as Sayid! You know what else is possible? Getting kicked out of a bar that has reached maximum capacity due to the premiere of a TELEVISION SHOW!
What?! (Bars are for drinking silly bitches!)
Well it happens and [...]

Last week two friends managed to lure me out of my apartment and back into the city. The thought of stepping outside my door and hemorrhaging money was enough to make me want to burrow deeper into the sofa and continue my marathon viewing of The Wire on DVD. This is New York after all. [...]

“This is a robbery you mutherf*cker!”
That’s what popped into my head as I imagined my friends robbin’ and stealin’. I imagined Becky (names have been changed for this story) holding a gun to the bathroom attendant while Nancy (names have been changed for this story) rummaged through the bathroom looking for the loot, cursing up [...]

My god, I admit it—with shame—I was one of those idiots who stood outside the Marc Jacobs Stuff store. I’m not sure why I went. I was curious. I was in the neighborhood. I saw a friend on the street while on my way, but I didn’t call his name. If I did, I’d have [...]

Rather than settling for a traditional North Pole scene this year, Barneys NY dedicated their entire holiday window display to Saturday Night Live’s 35th Anniversary. While the move may seem semi-sacrilege, it seems to be luring in tons of holiday shoppers (the store was packed to the brim all weekend). If only Chris Farley was [...]

For the last few years, Jocelyn Meintser, former style editor of Flaunt magazine, has been hand making papier-maché animals for the holiday windows at luxury retailer, Bergdorf Goodman. She literally sculpts them, first by creating a wire skeleton and then giving the bodies heft with paper and starch. In the past, she’s made monkeys—monkeys in [...]

Here’s the thing. This week the rent check bounced, in a few weeks the ivy league is going to want its money, two days from now I have to pay the credit card bill and tomorrow I lose money again when I pay for my unlimited metro pass because getting from Brooklyn to Manhattan is [...]

I still remember the first Walker Evans show I went to. It was nine years ago at the Museum of Modern Art, and it was endless galleries of beautiful black and white prints—stark, solemn, and striking. Evans was providing a visual history lesson, and I was listening. The duality of photography as both expression and [...]