some stuff right wing people like

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Ayn rand/vampire books/dandyism-suits with a faggy twist-sure sign of conservatives-who wears suits any more ./coco chanel/L’oreal/end of the world nihilism/unwanted children birthed but later heroically slaughtered in war.

The gay marriage agenda-it splits america in two and they will be pulling it out every chance they get,it also bites a piece of the black vote off for them,because a lot of  black folks even though there ancestors had to beg massa for they right to marry and vote too ,really believe gays shouldnt be given that much and  a lot of Latino’s, who over-all are even more conservative certainly arent going to condone sinners.

Hip Hop-because its all about male domination,bravado and the buck.

Gays because really most gays here are so self centered that really they are just fighting for the right to be just like there oppressors.

MadMen-why wouldnt they love a show that glamorizes a time when liberalism was considered anti-american.where are the shows about the late 60′s ,or the broke ass 70′s no that would remind the masses too much of the rights that are being stolen from under them and how long this mess has been going on.

Angelina Joli and Brad Pitt,Hollywood,Disney.

THEbUZZ/ ORIN ink’S “IT” *List “The Best of Everything”*2011

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*Bess NYC*Liber*Oswald Boeteng*Stephen Burrows*Joe-Casely Hayford*Azzedine Alaiia*Victor Glemaud*Ian Velardi Menswear*St .Wobil Menswear*artist Jayson Keeling*club queen and pop artist Neysa Malone*The Imagist .com*artist and aesthete Edward Mohamed*Hair and Make-up expert Melanie Harris of MH=HM.com*Shigeru Bahn who will be at SVA on oct.1st @1pm*Designer Tunji Dada*3rd Streaming gallery*photographer Josh Olins*Stefan Diez*Marc Jacob’s @Dior?hmmm*Stylist Melissa Molinar*Jaime Hayon*Robert Ryman*Chinese People Have No Style .com*the term “Ruxorious”*Joe Dabney’s wonderfull books on food*The Cushney Et Ochs team*Tablet jewish culture zine*Hell’s Kitchen art galleries*Keeping half the bread in our communities*Menswear Designer Devon Scott*Designer Martin Grant*Carine Roitfeld’s book “Irreverent”*Humanist Rights*Olivier Zham’s Purple Diary*GHambia,Mali,Ghana-its time for Africa*Designer Maxim Simoen*Lola Faturoti*Venice Beach*Raab West*Sune Wood’s photo’s*ManRay and his student Guy Bourdin*Conscious consumption*Classic menswear Designer Jeffrey Banks*Olivier Rousteing*Sir Andre Walker*Poszi Teknicolor*Alison Clancey*Honeychild Coleman*Inwood -the Cloisters*Furniture expert Brian Kish* Stylist Jahleel Weever*Start-up’s BLEU magazine*BarrCode blog*Cleaner environment -dump the SUV*Rodney Hughes ‘s philosophy  his excellent Bed stuy cafe Liquid Oz and his brilliant artisinal fragrance line Therapeutate*The Artist Baron*Jonte*Marquis Phifer*BlackFashion- the blog*Coco &Creme-the blog*Laquan Smith*hair artistand photographer Ara Gallant*Edward Enninfull’s W *Heroic Africans @the MET*The Bearden Project @ Studio Museum in Harlem*Carston Holler @New Museum in Oct.*Ohne Titel*Doo-Ri*DEreK Lam*Lynn Devon*The Row*The return Of Ronoldus Shamask*Reem Accra*El Anatsui*Dashwood Books*The Rodartes coffee table collab with Catherine Opie-a collectors item*Junot Diaz who will be @the directors guild sept30th @9:30PM*Rameen Gasery.wordpress.com*The Imagist .com*Erik William’s photographer*Alta the restaurant*Lowcountry-The restaurant*Hilton Als *Peniel E Joseph*I know i am invisible but your transparent-The blog*Duro Olawu*Lawrence Steele*Zulema

“The feel of the chinchilla”*the moment*der Zietgiest

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It is my aim not to dumb it down  or dazzle you with great social click accepted ideas of  the ready for prime time…please do not pardon our appearance but accept it for what it is.culture until this century  was European dominated in art and  the media .Today its a free for all and it is my intent to represent the many voices that co-exist(at least the ones i can personally stand and comprehend ).I have nothing against Europe anyone who knows me knows i have worshipped at its alter as well as rolled round a bit in its bedrooms.However to speak of only Europe is only a quarter of the truth of our majestic earth .A folly i will leave to those seeking immediate wealth and favored positions in the airless salons of the past .For us the future of a multi-hued ,multi-visioned populace seeking not so much power as we know it but power as it truly is-  inherent of and defined by the individual.ENJOY

Style-List :Ozwald Boeteng’s Bespoke

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Ozwald Boeteng  along with Helmut Lang and Hedi Slimane  brought back into fashion the streamlined menswear silhouette which as a result has further contributed to the health and fitness craze amongst men.These shepards of sharp have made the gym more necessary than ever .A  bespoke Boeteng design is the  male equivalent of  an Azzedine Alaiia it demands that our bodies are in shape while emphasising our natural attributes it is less armour and more second luxury skin. I have about twelve of them in my imaginary closet.Hey i can dream right?

 

Style-list Buzz -Tiwimuta 2-Sir Andre Walker’s New book-Dashwood bookstore

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Mr Andre Walker is one of the most talented artist you will ever meet ..he  has always had the style of a very cerebral philosopher type .while you are talking to the man you can see the mechanism of his fertile mind turning away .My guess is that he is carefully searching for the flaws that make you or whatever his X-ray vision happens to fall on …the type of  object or person that can  exist in his universe.He was way ahead of Gaultier with the pantskirt  and way ahead of what i call the Banal chic look that can be found at Forever 21 and Urban Outfitter”s He has worked as a stylist as well as The Designer for the illustrious Willi Wear line in the mid to late 80′s and his own line in the states as well as in  Paris.In industry he is revered and much respected so much by his peers that he is often hired as a consultant as he has been doing for some time for Marc Jacobs.I can only describe his style as aesthetically and philosophically American ..the best of everything American and very consciously on his part the worst also  .I think a talent like Andre Walker is needed at Tommy Hilfigger to give the line a sort of authentic style ,depth ,a saavy, feel as opposed to the cut rate  RL/Polo feel its collections give off now .Here is Mr Walker at a signing of his last volume of his  magazine  Tiwimuta #2 at Dashwood books in Noho ..the latest copy i noticed in the window at Paul Smith so volume three must be out .Much continued success to you mr Walker.

Music:Tyler the Creator-more evidence of post-blackness?

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What an interesting turn hip hop has made …our young black male rappers  of yesterday bragged about there bedroom and mike skills and maybe toasted there heroes today we have Tyler the creator and Weezy .who seems more impressed by Eminem , Justin Timberlake , Bad Brains and jason the seriel killer? than by lets say Jay Zee or Kanye.I am befuddled by the ambiguity of this moment in music .Totally Yah!

ARt:JIMi HeNDriks-American Freak Flag

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Jimi Hendryx found god in electric strings

He clutched strong and Sanctified looking like our mamas

eyes closed /rocking/ his right hand clasped a pic like a rosary

No this aint about no attitude

we dont know what the fuck is a status qoua

far as i know no one living  or running my life

life on the beat bitch’s/doin our own drumming

an liking the sound.

 not waiting fuh yo ass  to tell me its good or its right —orin

Food:A pear tart

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I noticed that there are great pears at the farmer’s market which means it’s the season for pears alongside great tomatoes ,pumpkin  so here is some inspiration to use the bounty.Remember cooking is about improvisation  and personalizing .have fun.

Foodie:Smoked Duck recipe

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Eating well is not about the best revenge it is about preventive medicine .Good food is the best preventive medecine we can have ..i know junk food is easier and seems cheaper but i know the mcmuffin is going to cost me more in the long run than that organic pesticide free broccoli .

Also at the greenmarket at union square at QUATRRO’S GAME FARM stand is fresh smoked duck which could be great in a salad perhaps

Rubric:Colson Whitehead-The Intuitionist-Post Blackness?

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Went to hear Colson Whitehead read  at Mcnally Jackson from his latest novel Zone One:a novel .Mr Whitehead is ambitious …his stage charm was at full beam and the entire audience including myself seemed impressed with his comfort in the spotlight.Whitehead summed up his career with that bit of irreverent humor  we have come to know as a sign of  a college education. He feigned the pose of  a total shopping mall existentialist .Just what we expect of our authors, not too intellectual ,yet hyper self-conscious at the same time.The bit the author read of Zone One;a novel seemed a bit worked and seemed territory that has been chartered by tv and big screen.

My favorite work of the McArthur fellowship winning author is his The Intuitionist a piece of speculative fiction about elevator repairers in a city of the past where blacks are called “colored’s” still.The novel explores ideas of vertical thought verses the  intuitive mind and it displays perfectly Whitehead’s ability to do that thing that Borges ,Sartre and Wright did with great skill, communicate the banal and the cerebral simultaneously.

 All the while i was listening to the author go on …i kept thinking of the phrase post -blackness.i thought to myself yes it is great that we are finally nearing color-blindness…yes lets get rid of black ,but lets throw out white too.no one is really black and none of us are really white .these are constructs from the 20th century .shoot maybe it’ll even get me that job i have wanted with The New Yorker or The New York Times..yes i did i thought it .I mean New yorkers have never really adhered to the racial constructs of black and white as passionateley as the south anyway .For the longest time we were the great northern example of  true democracy ,that is till  the Sex in the City real estate fantasy of the glamorious new york life spread to the midwest . Corcoran and the economy may render us racial segregations new advocate, by way of class,if we are not mindful.

I am keeping ourstory.my knowledge of our self-willed advancement as a people.the knowledge of our African american contribution to making this nation.The truth of our evolution from chattel to overly indulgent member of the inner circle and i am keeping my “I’ll believe it when i see it ” “attitude”,cause i know my place at the table is still not cemented.I am aware that i am 12.something percent and who is 74.percent and that like the working class unemployed girlfriend of a wealthy bachelor,i could be gone according to homeboys schizophrenic mood.”What the lord giveth …the lord can taketh away” as any good reality show will teach you in 30minutes.

My Latino brothers and sisters already have more footing than i and they are relatively newer (with the exception of mexicans and south americans)to the building of the US of A than us “colored” people

I know that as a black male in Busch era America i was deliberately shut out while black sisters were carefully selected by cultural and corporate America to surpass us.I am not surprised if given the chance to rule i too would control the male  of a conquered species whose brawn i need but fear and know i must both harness and control.I am not mad at the depressed brothers who allowed the powers that be to mold them into hiphop spewing pimp wannabee’s or Clarence Thomas Zombies or homeless village idiots on the  street  and in turn for our  weak-minded sisters for giving up on us taking to their Essence and Ebony articles about the possibility of “dating outside the race”to heart and shooting us poisonous glances for just saying Hi or for looking at or dating outside the race because we couldn’t stand the heat of the hate from losing the battle fought knife against gun on the shores of some west african country.Actually i love my people more for being able to deal with white peoples racial shit and still get up in the morning and make enough money to buy 7.4 billion dollars worth of hair care poducts yearly.  In my opinion no race is truer to America “The Dream “than Black america our women sacrifice us willingly to the dream .when we should be carefully apportioning out our 836billion dollars worth of love the working and middle class spend there whole load at republican ass Target and Aristocratic  euro LVMH.While our small business and artists starve our spoiled poor spend there money at chinese restaurants where often not even decent seating is provided,some korean markets where the mark up on merchandise is sometimes as high as four times and some  hispanic owned supermarkets where the meat looks suspect and they talk down to us and lets not forget the arab stores where the choice of products is everything that could work against our health as a people,where i have noticed  our unsupervised children are subject to being prey in exchange for candy and the dates on products are not being watched because we ourselves are not watching it.Now inject some white blood into the story and watch how fast all those questionable business deeds are corrected for the coming of the white saviour “Sir Gentrification”.

Rather than pool our money as these ghetto “success” stories the Arab ,the Jew ,the Chinese and the Korean have to so they can underserve the underserved (that would be us ,in case you are wondering )we back-stab and compete cut our eyes at an undermine each others dreams and ultimately our own success as a people.All in the name of the Dream the way Massa want it ,not the way he play it mind you .We as a people do, like well trained  dogs, exactly what we are told .Hell we are almost more loyal than dogs are.It seems to me we have been post black for a longer time than just recent.It takes longer than ten years for  a people to  fall so far.we gave up our blackness when we allowed our definition of success to be the same as the status qoiua.!12.percent can never allow itself to think exactly the same as 74 percent.just as if women thought exactly like men the human species may not have survived America may never have been the great nation it is today if black people always thought the same as white folk,If jews thought the same and if  all latino’s thought exactly the same our country is in grave danger if we get into the idea of post-blackness if it means reducing our blackness to just consumerism,christ  and class. certainly there is room for revisiting and renewing our African American agenda so it embraces the true complexity of our people,but negating it ,throwing it off like its last seasons Gucci .I dont thinks so ..Homie dont play dat.

Style:Making that philosophical quantum leap into 21st century Style-leaving the “fashion planet”

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It has become evident to all in and outside of the fashion world that our direction has to be changed in order to continue our existence as a planet.Here are some of my suggestions they are not very original but absolutely necessary for the future generation’s.

*CHANGE our appetite for fashion from a ready to wear ,easily disposable seasonal way of thinking to INVESTMENTdressing Couture.

Phase out the production of man made fibres allowing them only in vintage apparel …buy bamboo ,buy raw cotton these are the new luxury fabrics… buy less.

Designers will have to recycle standard fabrics such as the oxford cotton shirts that keep ending up in vintage take trhem back and produce “new “items with them.

Smaller collections ..designers should have to compete to create .Meaning instead of sitting through 200 collections of the same button down collar shirt or Mccall patterns mid seventies mary tyler moore frock designers should have to submit there (get This )”original design “to a council panel that decides whether the concept truly is original and should be produced for mass market .The panel should be done like American Idol voted for by panel as well as audience.There are too many collections .Every hustler wants a piece of the clothing pie but not everyone is an original designer and thats what design should be about evolving.

Art:The Beautiful Season-3d Streaming’s artist Jayson Keeling-Peter Doig-Carine Roitfeld-Paul Mccarthy

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there is so much that’s  great going on this season .From a Romare Bearden that opens tonight at the Studio Museum in Harlem to Peter Doig at the Lincoln Center Opera House gallery to Lady Pinks show at Jack Woodman from nov 5th -dec30th,Terry Richardson at Half Gallery ,The Harper’s Bazaar’s ten year’s in the hands of British born  Glenda Bailey exhibition at ICP,Rashaad  Newsom’s “Herald” at Marleborough-Chelsea.Nan Golden at Mathew Mark’s,Maurizzio Cattalan at the Googy,Carston Hollar at the New Museum and this fairly young yet  important artist who is creating a buzz in the art world Jayson Keeling  at Third Streaming enjoy it all .

Photo:courtesy of Jayson Keeling -Third Streaming Gallery

Style-List: MensWear 2012 Dior Homme’s Safety Dance

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Why do i put so much emphasis on  french designers ?Well because they have an almost eastern approach to the western tradition of the sartorial…the french open the window in the suffocating room of mens attire and allow for a little bit of colour, air  and  decoration to inspire us  .I believe this is instrumental in the advancement of humanity …half the population stern and puritanical while the other half frivolous and spendthrift is gross inequality .we should all strive to not just govern ourselves but also express ourselves. This is the individual ideal and is so very American ,it always amazes me that we do not live by it when it comes to style here,   i hope the french  will never lose this to the bottom line dollar making aesthetic we prefer here in the states  so much.This mentality of all about the benjamins cheapen’s and dull the senses.I have watched Dior for a while and they seem to be heading into the direction of carefull collections that keep pulling in the cash.Lets shake it up a bit, the collection can never be faulted for not having the right silhouette (this season baring a startling resemblance to so many of Yohji Yamamoto’s best).However the palette was a bit too formulaec…way too safe

Style-List:Spring2012 Maison Margiela

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Please note the cinematic approach to not only the camerawork but also the lighting…they both peruse the collection in an almost microscopic ,hyper aware way. the sales pitch  softly takes over the  viewer.Sweet seduction.a bit more in your face than the norm for the house of Margiela but hey times are a bit hard for retail.Margiela is one of the few lines i consider truly worthwhile .he is to me the Pierre Cardin of modern time embracing not only our times philosophy but also creating a taste level that is beyond the antiquated ideas of consumer identity.

ARt:Allison Schulnik:Mound-October 22-December 17th,2011-Zieher Smith-516 west 20th st.

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I was completely floored by this exhibition it has a hollow sadness and completeness that i have not seen since a Wangechi Mutu video piece i saw some half a year ago off Grand st. at a gallery whose name escapes me now ..the piece was named” chouchou” and  i will find and post it soon .the Mutu piece had this indiscribable somnambulist feel to it ..like a clip from a dream ,mrs Schulniks entire show has the same feel .As if you were walking through a  very personal dreamscape  .Allison Schulnik is from California …apparantly the new creative Ground Zero for the USA.Her work explores the sentimentality of home ..the power of creativity..the tender and hypnotic power of the everyday and seems to show its underside.The whole show is amazing but the artists ballet in claymation “Mound”is the most exciting of all the works .It took eight months for Schulnik to complete   and walks the line between a  Pina Bausch ballet  ,Munch’s The Scream and Disney’s” Fantasia”.

ARt:Charles Bird King’s “The Poor Artist” -Orin ink on poverty

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The idea of “poverty”is to steal your beauty away from you..to make you feel not enough,not good,not human inadequate unfulfilled and vulnerable.The purpose of the artist is to restore  nobility to everyman, woman and child.To hold up the souls mirror and allow its reflection to  speak the truth  that says  all our lives are worthy.. all our lives are great .The Poor are people who believe there is never enough ..those who hide and horde away what they could share and  indulge in eternally.The poor are not who we think they are ..the poor is not you and i ,but the succubus that  lives off of you and i and not give us back what we work for .The poor are those who are convinced they are worst or better than the next person..the poor are those who eat without tasting there food.live without feeling and giving thanks.The poor are those who live in defense and competition.who are at war always within themselves-who need to conquer and who need to win .The poor are those who we think are rich and want us to believe they are rich.Poverty is a construct ..destroy it in your mind and claim your legacy amongst the  truly richest of men.-orinink

Music:the Master Freak’s -Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards _Chic_Madonna _Disco Classics

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This  book is one of the best autobiography’s i have ever read it. “LeFreak “moves in that bright, energetic and cathartic way that great autobiography’s should .It is jam packed with insight into the music world in the Seventies and Eighties .I could not put it down …but then again i am a child of the seventies ..so it all seems terribly interesting to me.What is apparant by the end of it is that Nile Rogers is a national treasure and should be doing Broadway musicals and soundtracks he is to me a master of his craft.

Art:Fashion Photography_Gabriel Everett__A signature style

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 yours truly worked as a stylist from 98-02 and  received a lesson in the art of working in commercial art …I learnt that it was not for me. Do not get me wrong I love style ..but I could never say the same for  fashion .In the way that a person can love swimming but hate the sport of competing as a swimmer.I love great design ..good photography and innovative ideas but I detest a ballet class or any somewhat disciplinarian bourgeois contest  as much as a vacuum and to me this is what fashion is …a tiresome bore that takes money from suckers who honestly believe that their beauty lives outside themselves.Or as i often say “Pimps Trying to Catch a Woman thats Weak”.Thats all i did as a stylist is try to sell people the illusion that our (photographer,stylist ,make-up artist, designer ,model agency booker companies illusions )illusions are better than the  average persons illusions and should be adapted by the “common”man.While spending my days as a glorified messenger for the likes of Patti Wilson , Karen Valentine  and Rommel Wilson..i got a chance to peak into the character of some pretty noteworthy industry people and what i saw was somewhat similar to what Dorian saw when he took that final look at his own portrait .A truth few of us wish to acknowledge…Death  .DEath culture..personally i believe Fashion is about the death of humanity …nature is its birth and death .I believe fashion and such other bread and circuses is the only way that modern man can deal with the illusion of life while we are here.That is to dress up our everyday..feel creative ..feel alive, feel in control.This is an ancient rite the rite of dressing.Their is power in what we choose to wear simply because we the “individuals” choose it .Fashion however is more than just an individual right it is a science ..a broken down sure method of extracting cash from the crowd.The unseen hand is as much a part of any fashion shoot as it is in a magicians trick.In other words Fashion is manipulation of the individual rite of dress.Under the guise of  a helpful aid magazines, televisions and salespeople(stylist, editor,consultants) cast there spell …one of Pavlovian conditioning.The reward being approved of socially or getting more love ..more intimacy.This is not art to me it is competition so  i rate very few fashion photographers as artist..most are techies few are visionaries.I try to present on orinink.wordpress the visionaries.I do believe Gabriel Evrett shows signs of it ….his unfussed ease with the photographing of women lend his fashion photographs an air of modernity that is alluring his spell works.       photo:GabrielEverett studio