Poke here to visit Prairie Haunts.

So I picked up my order of Rainbow Roses from Mellano and Co. in downtownLA. (They are a special order and you will have to call them - the roses are not on their website.) They weren’t cheap - about $6 a stem retail. Here’s photos from the unpacking. I was told the dye was injected into the stem but that doesn’t appear correct. The stems were split into four pieces which, I’m guessing, were each placed in seperate dyes. When trimmed you can see how the dye was absorbed.

See also: Beyond Rainbow Roses - Rainbow Everything

Last night I was at the Hollywood Forever cemetery for the launch party of a ridiculously violent Xbox game, Gears of War. So I’m in the mausoleum sipping my “Green Emulsion,” a cocktail named after a substance found in the game, and people are lining the corridors on sheet-covered furniture frantically killing each other - “press the B button to use your chainsaw!” - and the whole time I’m thinking about the other dead people, the ones resting inches away from these gamers.

Louise Leith Wittier (1853-1917) has a great view of the action. She never lived to see a black and white TV, could she have comprehended her final resting place would host a party for a video game about killing heavily armed monsters named for a biblical plague? I take a picture, then notice it’s none other than Kevin Federline cozied up next to her. The DJ plays “Staying Alive” and the bass throbs and I’m thinking her dusty remains have got to be shifting around in there – almost like they were dancing I could say, or would “turning over in her graveâ€? be more accurate?

They have the shoes here. Alife and New Era made the hat - try eBay. I don’t make or sell shoes.

From NiceKicks.

These are from Art Force One, a French group. Contact them if you want a pair. See my tag:Sneakers. Kicks, and Trainers for more. I DO NOT MAKE OR SELL SHOES. (I get lots of comments from people who want these but don’t bother to read the sentence above.)

Again, these are from Art Force One, Contact them if you want a pair. I don’t yet make or sell shoes.

See it here.

The 1976 Norman Bridwell classic revisited.

The artist, Catherine Bay, outfits performers in latex recreations of the famous Disney ensemble, and then they go about their business reciting a script that includes the lines:

My place in society does not allow me
to play Russian roulette,
to open a casino,
to carry on a sexual relationship with Bill Clinton,
to dress myself out of a fashion magazine,
to wear sneakers Made in China.

Whatever. I just adore the crude English translation of the French explanation: “The multiplied image of White Snow evokes the fall of marvellous in the industry of Disney, its effigy hung up again with our banality…”
There’s video here.

What happens when the young alcoholic actor, Scott Plank, befriends an old crazy actor and it’s all on film? You get the haunting and unsettling documentary, The Last Days of Jonathan Perlo. Watch it, and other great films, online at WholphinDVD.com.

I found it on this blog. ART FORUM BERLIN tells me the artist is Fred Eerdekens, and he’s represented by Spencer Brownstone Gallery, NY.

They’re $32, from Dean & Deluca

See Hussein Chalayan’s latest runway collection where garments change color, shape, and length - while being worn. The show concludes with an entire dress being consumed by the model’s hat. I’m shocked, stunned, and jolted.

Here’s a link to a high quality video of the entire show.