Two Advance RSVPs

Get in on these early if there's a chance you might want to attend:

1) Vitamin Water free Beach Fossils, Caveman, and Chairlift (DJ) concert at Santos Party House (96 Lafayette St.). 9/22, 7-10p. PBR open bar, if you're into that. I'd bet there'll be free Vitamin Water, too. RSVP to RSVP@deathandtaxesmag.com.

Caveman- Old Friend

Caveman- Thankful

Beach Fossils- Vacation

Beach Fossils- Calyer

2) Digital DUMBO's Fashion Night Out party. This is for the release of a t-shirt? Okay. Radballs, an "addictive, beat-fueled puzzle game" is also feature at this event. Yeah...I don't know either. Language you can understand: free beer and music. 6:30-9:30p, 9/29 at DUMBO Loft (155 Water Street). Get your free ticket here.

Dear Photograph

                    Dear Photograph,

                    At the time it was not common for a man to walk behind a pram. I'm still

                    proud of my father.

                    Eva Willemier Westra 

You really should be following Dear Photograph. I know there are a lot of past/present tumblrs out there right now, but the quality of the submissions here is pretty consistent.

Fantasizing about food in fiction

Over at The Hairpin, they're drooling over food that have appeared in books and movies. Turkish delight (from The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe) is the first thing that pops into my mind, although in fairness, most of that may have to do with having watched the creepy animated movie as a child, and less from reading the book. Other mentions include the edible teacup from Willy Wonka, "the cake that Fauna makes" in Sleeping Beauty, and the medicine in Mary Poppins (the movie). And this:

Katie: “The Gray Stuff” - Beauty & the Beast 
I know Lumiere says it’s “delicious” but also, it’s gray. What is it? It looks like a pile of some kind of whipped cream on top of a cracker, but GRAY. Belle sticks a finger in it (rude) and looks upward like she’s contemplating the taste, but I can’t tell if she thinks it’s great or not. It is, however, one of just three bites she takes at that entire feast (the others being a cherry and another rude finger full of some ... brown stuff) so maybe she saw it and was like “OMFG I LOVE the gray stuff.” Who knows! (I need to.)


What else? Pretty much everything in Harry Potter. Also, maybe this is weird, but I really wanted to try watercress sandwiches after reading E.B. White's Trumpet of the Swan.

To the guy I sold my Blackberry to last night: you were what was up (m4m)

That's one of my all-time favorite Craigslist Missed Connections (in case you're that guy, it was in St. Louis...and you're probably too late).

So it pleases me to see Sophie Blackall's series of illustrated Missed Connections. All of the text is directly lifted from the ads, her imagination takes care of the visuals.

The style of text reminds me a little of Maira Kalman.

Head over to Flavorwire for more.

A bucketload of bottle caps

Look at these vintage bottle caps! LOOK AT ALL OF THEM:

[via Flavorwire]

These are all part of Gail Anderson's (a former art director at Rolling Stone) collection. I want to hold them all.

Marissa Textor

Pony Swim, Marissa Textor [via Flavorwire]

That's not a black and white photo--it's actually a graphite drawing. I'm a sucker for the subject matter and composition, too. I'd love to see it up close.

Bent Over Backwards, Marissa Textor

 

Godawful Advertising

Adam Frucci and Halle Kiefer of Splitsider just posted a conversation about the upcoming sitcom "Whitney" and its advertising, which has been plastered all over New York.

Every time I see the "Whoever invented morning sex forgot about morning breath," ad at a bus stop (paraphrased, but does it really matter in this case?), I get angry at the unfunniness. I think it's because I'm clearly their target audience, and I've heard good things about Whitney Cummings' stand up, but this is such a lazy "amirite, ladies?" joke. I can imagine old men in the NBC offices thinking that this is a great pitch. Youth culture!

Lucky for me, I've seen fewer of the (still) unfunny "bitches won't shut up" ads. As Kiefer put it:

Halle: I think it's weird that a show with a female protagonist has an ad campaign which has numerous jokes about women being awful.



and this: "That's what you get for forming a relationship with me! I will use my brain and face to make sounds that you hate!" That's an actual joke from the show?

The article is worth the read, and I laughed out loud at this exchange:

Adam: Well, she has said that the show will be edgy and boundary-pushing and that's why we should be on board with the laugh track and multicam setup. But I get the impression that just saying "morning sex" on a billboard is edgy for NBC.
Halle: Well, we know she wears a sexy nurse outfit in the pilot.
Adam: CAN YOU DO THAT ON TELEVISION??
Halle: That's what a time traveler from 1952 would scream at the wall of TVs at Best Buy
Adam: WHO LET THESE WOMEN SPEAK WITHOUT FIRST BEING SPOKEN TO?