let’s all be naked forever, and take our fashion from the internet.

stained glass windows keep the cold outside while the hypocrites hide inside …

‘Economic injustices, including ”the hoarding of goods on a great scale”, may create “a climate of growing hostility and even violence, and ultimately undermine the very foundations of democratic institutions”.’

(from Vatican documents, apparently in support of Occupy protests)

… not for one race, one creed, one world; but for money. effective. absurd.[Public Image, Ltd. - ‘Religion I’]

[Edvard Munch, Madonna (1895/1912-1913). National Gallery of Art: Washington D.C.]

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec lived most of his 36 years in Paris, amidst the circuses, the brothels, the dance-halls and the grubby streets of Montmartre.

Toulouse-Lautrec was a painter and draughtsman and is celebrated for its unusual, spirited and immersive representations of fin de seicle Paris, particularly its nightlife. His best-known works are large, colourful lithographic posters that feature Montmartre’s popular dancers and prostitutes. These women are depicted as proud and suggestive, but also inherently vulnerable. They exhibit and exploit themselves blatantly—as if by necessity—and demonstrate an intense concern for the unromantic, commoditised reality of female sexuality that pervaded his world…

[ image: Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Divan Japonais (1893), lithographic poster in four colours. Metropolitan Museum of Art: New York. ]

hipsters, saving the world. one dog-eared penguin classic at a time.

“I’m just dramatically, supernaturally non-sexual.”