Lima, Peru

Me with my father. I haven't seen him in over 3 years. I love him very much.

My little brother Rodrigo and me. He's the best. He is becoming my assistant whenever I'm in Peru. More on that later.....

Rodrigo with his mom Elizabeth. She's great.

Drinking Pisco Sours before the show...

The Centro Fundación Telefónica in Lima. It's actually a telephone company and they support the experimental sound community here:

It's a posh building:

The learning area:

The organization within Telefonica that curates all of the sound and video activities....

 
Set up, Rodrigo was excited....
Omar and Luis, the 2 organizers of Telefonica:

Luis, introducing me to their archival system for experimental sound art in Peru. It's a really incredible thing they have going here..

Getting set up:

Sound Check:
Luis explaining the organization to my Tio Eduardo and my tia...
I gave Rodrigo his first assignment as my assistant. Take good photos of me, and help me translate my theories of experimental sound. He did a great job:

The back of the Telefonica building. It was a great show, hopefully I'll have the video of it up within the next week:

Dinner with my family. The 2 young girls are my half sisters Paola and Carina. I've never met them before but they were very sweet. It was interesting to be a part of such a large family. After 28 years of just being a small family of 3 this was a new and welcomed experience...
Does anyone want to buy me this grammaphone?

Hot Matador Action.

The Center of Lima, has great doors...
On a roof in el Centro...
I was there for an interview the next day as part of a documentary that Luis is working on about Peruvian sound artists. Apparently Animal Collective and Black Dice were also interviewed....but they're not Peruvian...

nice.
Wearing Damir Doma leggings with a vintage shirt I bought when I was 16. I can't get rid of it. I love it so much. It kills bugs...
Interview:


The space that filmed me:

Me and my assistant. he did a great job helping me answer questions and and even helped with the lighting of the interview:

BOMBEROS
Lima, downtown.

Peruvian grafitti:
This reminded me of Rothko:

Wearing Norma Kamali. It's winter there, but nice.

Peruvian Punk. 
I like this building.
Record shopping with Luis. I found some bad ass Peruvian vinyl.

I want the man in the afro to play his pan pipe for me under a tree.

With Alan, a great sound artist and curator. We hung out at this music stand which is considered one of the best places to buy music in Lima.
An eletronics man.
A t-shirt of the first Peruvian noise group. I forgot their name, but I want a shirt.
A cassette mixer. Made me salivate when I saw it. I think thats normal.

A show poster at the music store:
TUPAC! The best dog in the world. Later that evening I DJ'd 2 parties, one at this artist residency called TUPAC. Info can be found here:

TUPAC: an artists' association/ non profit organization from Lima-Peru dedicated to produce and promote independant artists' pieces and events.

http://www.tupac-ac.org.pe/


I miss him.

Alan and Sandra, a fashion student and vintage store owner. She's bad ass...
Tomas, Manuel and Guisseppe, the director of TUPAC. He's a bad ass artist. Hopefully I will work with him on a Peruvian noise festival here in NYC....
Lukasz was there from Poland!! He's setting up my shows when I get there this October. 
Party was getting started:

One of Tomas's many toys..



Tomas performing. It was great.
My DJ set up for the night. Laptop style.
This guy played traditional Peruvian songs on this guitar. It was wonderful. I think he was trying to serenade me. 
The outside of the residency.

Warehouse party. 

This guy was having a great time.
I went with my father to a soccer game that his favorite team was in. He has a private box for the family. It was fancy.
Why do i look pregnant in this picture?

The private box. Was the size of a nice studio apartment in NYC.

We were below the "hooligan" area. It was fascinating to watch them. They danced and sang the entire game. A fight broke out. It was really interesting.
Imagine the whole group of people jumping up and down at the same time and singing.

it was incredible.

My dad is such a fanatic about this team, he even had the radio on of the game so he could listen to the commentary while he was watching the game. Precious.
Friends of the family, watching the game wearing the same team jackets. Like father like son.

So we won the game. After the last goal the "hooligan" crowd rushed to the bottom of the stairs and grabbed this tarp:
And pulled it out:
Those are hands under there...


It was beautiful to watch.
One second it was up and the next second it was gone... 

I'm having some life changing moments over here. I feel like I've grown about 100 years.

Tomorrow I go shopping for the store and finally eat ceviche. I can't wait.

xo 

SABINE LIEWALD

My good friend Anthony used some of our Houndstooth showroom pieces for recent photo shoot with Sabine Liewald. The result is beautiful Thanks so much guys. I'm so impressed.





He is wearing a Gaultier FEMME piece from Houndstooth. ($325)




The guy on the right is wearing a vintage Bolero jacket from a full suit that dates to the 1920's. It's an incredible piece. (SUIT $750, JACKET $400)




And of course, my indigenous side. Vintage indian woven blanket (1920's, $350) and "Davy Crocket" jacket from the BBC London Wardrobe Department sale. ($160)


Perfect casting and styling. Perfect, perfect, perfect.
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Svetlana

She is incredible. here is her myspace:

myspace.com/svetlanaspajic


I performed with her at the PhonoFemme festival this past April. It was probably one of the best performances I have ever seen in my life. I couldn't stop crying afterwards. It was so beautiful.

NOGOODFORME.COM

A few weeks ago I was asked by the girls of NOGOODFORME.COM to answer a few questions. i happily obliged since they are so sweet and awesome.

Here's the link to the whole thing:

http://nogoodforme.filmstills.org/blog/archives/2009/05/10/love_yr_blog_ma.html

Here's what they asked me:

1. Tell us one thing you're really into at the moment that you want the whole world to know about.

Arthur Russell would be an obvious answer. Springfield is my favorite album right now. With the DFA remix. But if you want me to get a little less mainstream, then I would have to say Robert Wyatt is my other obsession. It's going on two years now. Rock Bottom is my album of choice. It's from 1973, but sounds like something that people are trying to make today but can't. The poor bastards.

2.Who is your all-time number-one music crush?

That's a tough one...there's so many- T-Rex, Ian Curtis.... again, super obvious...but o.k....you want me to be honest...OMG, don't make fun of me. I love Maxwell. I want to take him behind a middle school and get him pregnant.

3. What three albums do you want accompanying you on a hypothetical lifelong desert island exile?

Ah, yes. The desert island question. O.K., here goes:

Camp-Lo, UUptown Saturday Night- Just in case I happen upon an island field of happy tobacci.

Music from the Chiapas region of Mexico- for when I'm starting my bonfires.

Buena Vista Social Club: to keep my spirits up.

4.What's one item in your closet that you couldn't live without?

Michael Kors espadrilles (nude suede, peep toe)- I don't even like Michael Kors, but if his design team keeps making these shoes, I will be a customer for life. So easy to wear!!! I took a pic and put them on my blog. That's how much I love them.

5. What's your spirit animal?

I want to say the elephant. But I have a terrible memory. I do know that my Chinese year is the Monkey. So let's go with that.


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On a crappier note, my photos fromt he past 2 weeks are gone into the other dimension. Don't ask me how. It exhausts me.

more soon...
xo
m

Sometimes i think you're just to good for me....

On a serious Sade binge lately.

Going to go from recent to old in this post. So much has happened so lets start with the Vera Wang sample sale:




My friend Monica works for Ms. Wang and invited me to bring a friend and shop. I brought my Houndstooth Tailor Shelby to experience a sample sale for the first time. We found her an amazing cobalt blue sheer silk jacket. Orginally priced at $1,050 to $65.......damn....




The showroom:

Working in my studio. May be going to Peru in July and want to get my jewelry samples for my father to take a look at.

This piece is called 'Pesce'. It will be really really long and your supposed to layer it.
I love this piece.

My weekend vision for the store:

A dress that Donna has been commissioned to make: It looks very different now....
A memorial day backyard party that James Mulry has every year. It was packed:

A perfect dusk:
Jennifer Walshe at Listen Space with Fransesco. I caught the very end of it...
I GOT A BIKE! An early birthday present:

I love her....


J. Morrison after his performance for the Homebase Residency in the LES:


The piece entitled AIDS IS NOT OVER, was a glow in the dark performance where J. Morrison
wrapped his studio in rope and hooks on the wall. We were all handed paper towels that he screened with the words "Aids is not Over" which he used for the Visualaids.org benefit for their gift bags. As the room became dense with rope it became harder and harder for him to reach hooks from across the room. Reminiscent of relationships that go through AIDS in their families etc....it was heavy....




I like this ladder....


Looking for a bike, didn't find one here:


New shoes for mah birthday. Slow and Steady Wins the Race with Damir Doma leggings....they're for men, but I love them and wear mens clothing alllll the time...
Hung out with Patrick Woods of the Phenominal Hand Clap Band. Nice guy.

I guess Colt 45 is trying to market itself to hipsters, so at the Sunday afternoon party at Studio B they were offering buckets of the stuff for cheap. I did not try one.
But it is Billy Dee Williams approved....




The Dune at Studio B for the Sunday afternoon party. DJ Harvey was on, it was bad ass...





Performing for the Homebase Residency with J. Morrison. I used an amp alone, no turntable. It was good. Also part of the piece "AIDS is Not Over". I mostly sat in white noise silence...




Making those coils b-b-b-bounce:





After the show:BEFORE:


Thomas Bullock or the Rub n Tug. Again doing a stellar set....
Frank Stellas old studio for a show a few days before:

NYC in the dew....
Real Tortise Shell glasses from Vietnam:
Rene Mele looking Fierce:

At a roof top lunch the helicopters were flying aroundand reminded me of the Frank Lloyd Wright drawing of the future:





Right??


Good glasses at the Guggenheim:



Standing in the center of the first floor....



Michael in Damir Doma:

The DJ's:

A drawing of F.L.W's vision of Bahgdad....the land is actually quiet beautiful. Looking at his city plans, I wonder if violence would have been created if they city had been built acoording to his vision. It was lush and thoughtful:


Me in Prada, again....


I actually have never been to the Guggenheim until this opening. It was oddly appropriate considering that the man that built the museum was Frank so it was interesting to see so much of his work, from private homes to public buildings. We started from the bottom to the top, you're actually supposed to see it the other way. But I liked it this way because it led to the building of the Guggenheim. Well done.

xo
m

Spring is in the Air and at Houndstooth there are many a groom needing a suit to tie knots.
So we were sooo excited to hear that our good friends Rory and Erin decided to get married.....last week....and want to get married....this PAST MONDAY!!!!!! No she is not pregnant. :)

So the day before the big day Michael and I took Rory and Erin under our dressing wings and went vintage suit and dress shopping....

Rory's ceremnoy suit, found at Houndstooth, Versace, went so well with his skin tone.



Erin's ceremony dress, found at my friend Malin's vintage store in Williamsburg (N.6th between Bedford n Driggs). We found her ceremony dress, 3 pairs of shoes and reception dress all for under $500 bucks. And she looked fierce.

Here she is getting ready with her cute mom, she's wearing Miu Miu slip on from 2 seasons ago, found at Fil Du Joie, on Grand between Bedford n Driggs. My other favorite vintage store.

Pinning a lilac:

She spoke with the family (who were all very excited about it, even though it all happened so fast), while we hid Rory in the other room so he couldn't see her dress:


The ceremony. I cried...

Erin and Rory in their reception suits and dress. Rory's suit was vintage Armani found at Houndstooth and Erin wore a cute 80's dress with red gloves and Maud Frizoni pumps from Malin's vintage store. Here they are with Rory's bro and wife:

WhiteBox benefit the next day:

Not so whitebox-ish in this photo. Tatum O'Neal was there!

After Party:


it was in a great loft on Howard street:
me in mine and Donna's new jumpsuit creation, more on that later...



The next day met up with James to discuss our performance this weekend at his artist residency HOMEBASE on E.Broadway (Chinatown/LES).


We're playing in some changing rooms:


His installation in an exam room for HOMEBASE is emotional and heavy. I suggest you go and see it. I cried....

Later yesterday evening we went to a lecture that CREATIVE TIME was having for A.A. Bronson and Nils Norman.

Here' mark, A.A.'s partner. We sat with him, James is good friends with them and works with Printed Matter regularly. You gott read A.A.'s interview in Purple Magazine!! It's so great, with Olivier and Dash Snow. Really insightful. Its the one with Diane Von Furstenburg rockin that Margiela hair dress.

Here's Mark, moving his head around:


So curator Mark Beasley hosted the evening and did a great job. Creative Time will be doing a HUGE installation show at Govener's Island this June 27th. I'm already there. Both A.A. and Nils have works there:

James, my hunny bunny:

Nils, A.A. and Mark:

A.A. with Nils work in the background:

Nils with one of his works in the back ground:


Another great piece by Nils. I'm a fan now:




Afterwards I spoke with both Nils and A.A. A.A. and Mark, his partner, had awesome outfits on. Such hot men!!!

Here is a bag that J. Morrison screen printed for VISUALAIDS.ORG it was thier gift bag and so bad ass. Gets me choked up whenever I see it. So powerful....


Off to the Guggenheim to see Matthew DJ for the Frank Lloyd Wright opening. Then to a Printing Press party for my friend Katie. More on that soon.
xo
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Paola Bianchi. BEST.DANCER.EVER.

Mia Zabelka with Zarah Mani. Working with found video footage. It was beautiful.

Lydia Lunch performed her piece "the Gun is Still Loaded".

started with a burlesque dancer....

Then this spoken German performance piece.....

I liked her outfit.....

Vienna kindergarten..

A day at the Leopold Museum....

It was hot....

A great art deco show....

My dream man.....

Looking out on the Museum Quarter....

Looking down....

LOVE THIS CHAIR!!!!!!!!

This whole show was so well curated....

cello sans Maria....

more of Vienna from the very first day...

There was a camera crew there for the main news station in Vienna.

Alex has the rest of my photos from the rest of my trip. hopefully we'll meet and I can get them.
xo
m

Berlin part 2

Had to come back to Berlin after Vienna because it was so great.

I rented a bike and rode around for the first time in 10 years. It was excellent.

I like this building.
An italian place in Kruezberg, my friends and I got pizza and beer....
Then went to this bridge across the street to eat it all and people watch:

I foud an awesome mirror. It looks like liquid from far away.
Back at the bridge, sitting with a Brazilian group playing guitar:
My pizza:
Then went to Madam Claude's to see a noise show. Pretty good.
I got ice cream.
Madame Claude's:
tape on a wall.
The crew.
My best shoes ever.
Marcel and Ignaz:
Ran into Blevin Blectum there, that was random and great.

Here's proof that i rode a bike. No one believes me.

4am
Turkish Market:


Leather strings. O.M.G.
Packed with people:
Shrimps!
A good haul from the market:

My friend Tobias caught a trout. Baught ingredients to cook it for a dinner party later:

People were hanging out everywhere:

Barbie Party/ Chorus Line:
He-men:
My Berlin outfit:

Park for sunset:
Bliss:
Dinner Party:

Trout:








It was delish.

Afterwards we all went for drinks at Mini-Bar and a few other places.

Got back to NYC on Thursday and immediatley had to get to work on a video piece with Donna then finish a grant for Franklin Furnace.

It's good to be back...


xo

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