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Stretch lace trousers that feel like sweatpants, they're so comfortable. Structured ruffle hem, wide elastic waistband with drawstring. Two side pockets, one rear.

Hayley is a US 4 and wears the Small.

A good every day tote is as fun to wear as it is useful, as Toile's Matta bag embodies in spades. Made from organic cotton canvas with knit trim around the handle, the bag is fully biodegradable, made in limited quantities. Elevating a utilitarian material with its simple, poetic design. 20" h x 13" w x 3" d; 8" handle drop.

A perfect balance between oil and moisture, easily absorbed into skin with a silky finish. Highly moisturizing sweet almond seed, avocado, and sesame seed oils protect skin, with vitamin E and fatty acid for glow.

Reminiscent of sparkling champagne with a sprinkle of fresh basil leaves. Pepper spikes, creamy amber layer mystery with fresh green notes. Citrus and amber are included to round out traditional invigoration elements.

Scent notes: Basil, Pink Pepper, Green, Gardenia, Amber.

Ingredients
Water/Aqua, Glycerin, Dimethicone, Butylene Glycol, Hydrogenated Polyisobutene, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Isononyl Isononanoate, 1,2-Hexanediol, CetearylAlcohol, Neopentyl Glycol Diheptanoate, Behenyl Alcohol, Phenyl Trimethicone, Parfum/Fragrance, Sorbitol, Cetyl Alcohol, Stearyl Alcohol, Glyceryl Stearate, CetearylGlucoside, PEG-100 Stearate, Cyclopentasiloxane, Polysilicone-11, Prunus Amygdalus Dulcis (Sweet Almond) Oil, Squalane, Persea Gratissima (Avocado) Oil,Sesamum Indicum (Sesame) Seed Oil, Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil, Ethylhexylglycerin, Xanthan Gum, Disodium EDTA, Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract,Centella Asiatica Extract, Tocopheryl Acetate, Glucose, Chamomilla Recutita (Matricaria) Extract, Avena Sativa (Oat) Kernel Extract, Cyclodextrin, Tocopherol,Panthenol, Niacinamide, Rutin, Polyglyceryl-10 Myristate, Retinol, Polysorbate 20, Polycaprolactone, Limonene, Linalool, Coumarin, Citronellol, Citral, Eugenol

We went super happy when we saw this one. It's the interplay of the two blues. A way to get some sparkle and color but keeping that grounded, elemental feelng with the understated shape and size.

Cotton ribbed over ankle sock, perfect for pairing with shoes of all kinds.

Super soft, light, and naturally insulating. Medium weight, wide rib, crew length. Finished by hand, made in Italy. Unisex.

Super soft, light, and naturally insulating. Medium weight, wide rib, crew length. Finished by hand, made in Italy. Unisex.

A good every day tote is as fun to wear as it is useful, as Toile's Matta bag embodies in spades. Made from organic cotton canvas with knit trim around the handle, the bag is fully biodegradable, made in limited quantities. Elevating a utilitarian material with its simple, poetic design. 20" h x 13" w x 3" d; 8" handle drop.

Stretch tights, elastic waist, with custom butterfly print and bows.

Cassandra is a US 2/4 and wears the Small.

Hysteric Glamour (Japan, active) denim mini skirt. Button fly, two front patch pockets. From the Gossip Shop Vintage collection.

Please note: Vintage is sold as is and is Final Sale. Any significant anomalies will be noted and documented under product descriptions. 

Measurements
Waist: 29"
Length: 12.5" 

Ribbed over ankle sock in cotton with a silky feel, perfect for pairing with shoes of all kinds.

One size. Fits sizes 5-11.

This line of fine-knit 3D sculptured bodysuits are shaped in such a way that the luxury is immediately apparent in both fit and firm smoothness. Adhering perfectly to the body, an extremely difficult feat for knits. Sustainably made with end of stock Italian yarns. Snap closures, seamless sides, and plenty of elastane.

A light turtleneck, ideal alone or layered, in their signature thin rib. Form fit. 

Kapital's classic oversized shirt in a light anorak cotton. Two oversized, military inspired front pockets. Unisex.

Cotton bandana or handkerchief or pocket square or neck scarf, dyed by ALR. 15" x 15".

Cotton bandana or handkerchief or pocket square or neck scarf, dyed by ALR. 15" x 15".

LL, LLC's signature coiled ring in tumbaga (gold/copper blend), a double spiral band.

NB: LL, LLC's double spiral rings fit one size small, ie. Size 7 fits like a 6. Please order accordingly.

NB: Please note this is a digital product. Once your order is processed, you will be emailed a PDF with install instructions. Should you desire hard mailing, please include the instruction with your order.

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Given the most commonly used criteria of *utility* for software, it’s not surprising that the screensaver is a debased form. It does nothing, it says nothing and it takes you nowhere. Instead it offers a quiet, even ambient portrait of a system — a simple image, a complex algorithm, and an ever-changing picture of their interaction.

Still there may be something to doing nothing. The computer, Alan Turing’s universal machine tirelessly capable of emulating the behavior of any other tool, is finally given a rest. After three minutes or so of nothing, the screensaver kicks in and the software produces a silently reconfiguring image of a system falling into and out of phase, automatically generating a fleeting picture of interference and coordination on your computer screen. Perhaps there is something left to save.

(Text courtesy O-R-G.)

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A recent opinion piece in The New York Times (“Scorched Earth” by Robert L. Park) eulogized the political death of what was derisively called “Al Gore’s Screensaver.”

Since his vice presidency, Gore has actively advocated The Trius Project — a satellite to be put into orbit around the Earth on a geosynchronous path (at position Lagrange 1) which would send back live images of both the whole Earth and the full Sun. This project was intended to feed a series of real-time displays, installed as screensavers on computers in U.S. public schools.

Al Gore woke up one morning wondering if it would be possible to beam a live continuous image of the full Earth back from space. And, would that image inspire people with the urgent need to care for our planet much as the 1972 Apollo 17 portrait of the whole Earth had crystallized the Ecology movement? According to NASA, this picture (better known as The Blue Marble) is the most widely distributed photograph in existence. The image offers a portrait of the Earth as a small, self-contained whole system floating alone in the infinite nothing of space.

(Text courtesy O-R-G.)

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Two signals of varying frequency and phase result in a perpetual infinity, drawing and redrawing over and over. The familiar shapes are called Lissajous curves after mathematician Jules Antoine Lissajous and his “beautiful machine” of 1855.

Devised to draw a picture of two superimposed systems falling into and out of phase, the machine was constructed from a pair of tuning forks placed at right angles, each with a mirror attached. A light source is focused through a lens, bouncing off the first onto the second and projecting to a large screen. As the tuning forks are struck, simple vibrations move the mirrors in a regular oscillating pattern. The projected image forms the strange and beautiful curves of a Lissajous figure.

(Text courtesy O-R-G.)

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Dutch graphic designer Karel Martens has made clocks for years. Starting somewhere around 1968, Karel attached new faces to existing clock mechanisms to produce graphic compositions, which by their nature, are constantly changing. This screensaver works the same way.

Based on a wall clock designed by Karel for his exhibition at P! (New York), the screensaver software uses three yellow and blue spinning disks to display the hours, minutes, and seconds of the current time. It does very little, other than spin contentedly. But, on the way, the passing of time produces a collection of graphic arrangements as so many discrete moments.

Recently, it was suggested that Karel's persistent interest in clocks was a symptom of working on his own for many years and that a clock might just be a symbol for “the long gestation period of independent ideas.”

(Text courtesy O-R-G.)

NB: These earrings are sold as singles.

Tumbaga (copper/gold blend) spirals that hang just below the lobes, in an illusion style. Posts and backs are sterling silver. 

LL, LLC's sterling silver, single spiral band, that can be intertwined with other silver spirals. This ring is deceptively simple, but has a ton of sculptural impact.

Mineral washed for softness, hand-dyed with all-natural ingredients foraged from Ms. Reynold's home, travels, and who knows where else? Each hue is composed of, and extracted in an earth kiln, heated to specific temperature and applied at its most vibrant. The technique results in a dimensionality of color, lived in, but not overworked.

NB: Please note each ALR piece is one-of-a-kind; differences should not be taken as errors.

Sold as a single. Approximately 1/4" diameter.

Handmade in Greece using traditional techniques, and one-of-a-kind. To hold your special items, or simply to look at in all its specialness.

Handmade in Greece using traditional techniques, and one-of-a-kind. To hold your special items, or simply to look at in all its specialness.

Veneer (or, alternately, Ve) is cultural critique via gesture, phenomena, documentation, and detritus. It's also the arithmetic of print and its possibilities, with an emphasis on technical minutia stretched to the edge of absurdity as its epistemological approach. Every issue holds secrets and gifts to the reader; cards, photos, posters, confessions. It will make you ask "why should I care?" And then you keep reading, because if you didn't care, you wouldn't care. This is tight stuff—freewheeling discipline that made an object worth keeping, and further evidence that intellectual curiosity will always always take you places you never thought relevant or possible. Quarterly.

Edition of 1000.

Arts for Living offers an alternative, multifaceted history of an iconic cultural institution, The Abrons Arts Center. Located in New York City’s Lower East Side, the center was designed by Prentice and Chan, Ohlhausen, and built during the crisis-ridden 1970s as a community art center with educational facilities for a local low-income population. A rare interview with architect Lo-Yi Chan that elucidates the design process as well as essays by Alan Moore on the East Village art scene that arose out of the 1970s fiscal crisis and Kim Förster on pedagogical programs in architecture for youth in New York are accompanied by a color-photo essay by Jason Fulford depicting the current social life of the arts center. Designed by Geoff Han, and including original archival documentation, Arts for Living is an important architectural case study of a public space designed to foster community life in a multiethnic, changing neighborhood.

(Text via RAM Publications)

Primary Information is reprinting the seminal book, Fantastic Architecture, making the book widely available for the first time since it was originally published: first in 1969 by Droste Verlag in German (with the title Pop Architektur) and later in 1970 by Something Else Press as Fantastic Architecture. Edited by Dick Higgins and Wolf Vostell, this artist’s book/anthology explores the boundaries between pop art and architecture through writings and projects by key artists and thinkers of the 1960s and earlier—from John Cage and Buckminster Fuller to Kurt Schwitters and Joseph Beuys.  It will retain the book’s unique design, specifically its Mylar inserts, which add unique depth and elaborate the publication’s content. Edition of 3000.

Contributors to this publication are Ay-O, Joseph Beuys, Erich Buchholz, Pol Bury, John Cage, Philip Corner, Jan Dibbets, Robert Filliou, Buckminster Fuller, Geoffrey Hendricks, Richard Hamilton, Raoul Hausmann, Michael Heizer, Jan Jacob Herman, Bici Hendricks, Dick Higgins, K.H. Hoedicke, Hans Hollein, Douglas Huebler, Milan Knizak, Alison Knowles, Addi Koepcke, Franz Mon, Claes Oldenburg, Dennis Oppenheim, Gerhard Rühm, Diter Rot, Carolee Schneemann, Kurt Schwitters, Daniel Spoerri, Frances Starr, Jean Tinguely, Ben Vautier, Wolf Vostell, Lawrence Weiner, Stefan Wewerka. 

Text courtesy Primary Information.

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Essays on the work of Los Angeles-based artist John Knight. With Anne Rorimer, Dan Graham, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Kim Gordon, Jay Sanders, Marie-Ange Brayer, Birgit Pelzer, Isabelle Graw, Alexander Alberro, Andre Rottmann. For specific, in-depth discussion on the artist and his oeuvre, go here.

By the director Richard Maxwell of New York City Players (NY)*. A practical, and poetically written guide to theater—direction, actors and acting, process, stimulus, and philosophy in making works for stage. Compactly made and very fun to read, the physical manifestation of the book is kind of a concise representation of the prose style, and, in some ways, Maxwell's approach to stagecraft. A book for those skeptical about live performance, or for those that are interested in a deeper understanding of the "why" behind it all.**

*Maxwell and actor Bob Feldman performed a reading of the book at Stand Up Comedy, June 2015.
**There's a great review on Amazon about this book, it goes ":-)))").

Artist Alix Vollum works under many guises. At the moment, her most visible might be here. This newsprint booklet mimics the alternative LA Weekly, highlighting the most visually arresting sections, its ads. Vollum reworks the signifiers, creating her own (reams and reams of) text and reflecting back the imagery into a pleasurable cloud of hedonistic mumbo jumbo. It's both a tempting reminder into the numbing glory of the marketplace, and a warning against its voodoo seductions. Looking at this is kind of like sniffing a popper. Signed edition of 500.

Made by hand, these dolls are soft and flexible, but with a certain weight to them. Their blank faces express a certain universality. Approximately 18"-18.5" tall (stand not included).

Please note: Your doll may come in one of the following colors: Light Stonewash, Medium Stonewash, or Dark Denim. Your doll may be clothed in a dress, pants, or shirt.

Veneer (or, alternately, Ve) is cultural critique via gesture, phenomena, documentation, and detritus. It's also the arithmetic of print and its possibilities, with an emphasis on technical minutia stretched to the edge of absurdity as its epistemological approach. Every issue holds secrets and gifts to the reader; cards, photos, posters, confessions. It will make you ask "why should I care?" And then you keep reading, because if you didn't care, you wouldn't care. This is tight stuff—freewheeling discipline that made an object worth keeping, and further evidence that intellectual curiosity will always always take you places you never thought relevant or possible. Quarterly.

The Gardens of Pixar, Chinua Achebe, Christopher Okigbo, Chirs Abani, Nnorom Azuonye, Michael Echeruo, Okey Ndibe, Michael Mbabuike, Chike Obi, Residents of Yellowstone County Riverbed vs. Exxonmobil Oil, A. Clifford Edwards, A. Christopher Edwards, John W. Edwards, Chevrolet Cobalt 2009 SS, Wave-adaptice modular vessels, Uluburun shipwreck stowaway house mouse, Vases, Vaccines and antibiotics in colds. Edition of 1000.

Veneer (or, alternately, Ve) is cultural critique via gesture, phenomena, documentation, and detritus. It's also the arithmetic of print and its possibilities, with an emphasis on technical minutia stretched to the edge of absurdity as its epistemological approach. Every issue holds secrets and gifts to the reader; cards, photos, posters, confessions. It will make you ask "why should I care?" And then you keep reading, because if you didn't care, you wouldn't care. This is tight stuff—freewheeling discipline that made an object worth keeping, and further evidence that intellectual curiosity will always always take you places you never thought relevant or possible. Quarterly.

About touch, and being bound. Reiki, laundry laborers, Esperanto, instructions for putting things together, an entire section in Braille that's shockingly meditative (for non-Braille readers), Manganese significance for humanity across the ages, graphs and symbols and sets - they touch, too. There's magnet in this one. Edition of 1000.

Prism of Reality, a publication about art—how its made, who makes it, how its read, why its made—in a concise, but in-depth format of two essays, two conversations, and four artist-written reviews. 

With Ian James on moving mass and space in recession times; Jon McCurley in conversation with Steve Kado on traffic in Toronto. Reviews by Greg Hayes, Nick Kramer, Lakshmi Luthra, Matt Siegle on Fiona Connor, JJ Peet, K8 Hardy, Peter Molyneux. Hand silkscreened cover by Josh Mannis. 

Film in print. From the celebrated director Owen Land (nee George Landow) (1944-2011), American filmmaker. Irreverent, intellectual, dangerous. Designed by Kaisa Lassinaro.

Commissioned by Kunstverein on the occasion of its first anniversary and the artist's exhibition. Solakov (Sofia, BG) has handwritten comments in apparently empty spaces, at weird levels that require movement and seeking on the part of the viewer. The catalogue functions as key to the physical presentation, but gives any reader a different way "in"; an imagined space, at a different time. Edition of 100. 

With Sabeth Buchmann, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Kim West. Published after several major exhibitions by the artist, it includes over 50 plates, and essays that highlight differing aspects and interpretations of her practice. The installation artist is known for a firm reading of both object and location, which can help in turn contextualize space. In English, French, German. Edition of 1200. 

Karl Nawrot lives in France (we think). Trained in graphic design with an abiding interest in typography and type experiments, but displays the habits of an illustrator. He grapples with the conventional tools and uses of his trade, in both the physical and conceptual sense. By building 3D models, maquettes, paper monuments, anything really, he builds new models for language. Imagination as communicator and storyteller.

Mr. Nawrot often builds his own tools and models; in this case, stencil discs that act as a mechanism for design abstraction, and a cheap option for record sleeve designs. This book shows the beginning and the end. It's hard to say what's a scan, what's a photo, and what's printed. Edition of 500. 

Made by Scanlan for his 2009 exhibition at castillo/corrales, the artist has re-conceived formative economic texts by Thorstein Veblen, Joseph Schumpeter, Milton Friedman, and Edward Said as a kind of epic poem. The original essays range from anti-capitalist analyses to colonialism to the advent of American big business, newly contextualized by Scanlan to address instead the concerns of artists and the state of creative production now. By making these small, significant alterations, Scanlan shifts points—what would it mean to discuss contemporary culture in purely economic terms, think of "markets" as neighbors, or the artist as entrepreneur? A fresh, lyrical approach to subject matter that's often stubbornly pushed to wayside. Edition of 500. 

(Text below from New Documents)

Some years ago, Will Holder and Alex Waterman proposed to Robert Ashley that musicians and non-musicians might produce new versions of his operas, by way of typographical scores. The bulk of this book is a result of that proposal: scores for Dust (1998) and Celestial Excursions (2003). These operas' characters have, until now, been solely produced by and are the stories exchanged between Ashley and his "band" (singers Sam Ashley, Joan La Barbara, Thomas Buckner, and Jacqueline Humbert); in landscapes (technological, imaginary, acoustic, organisational, sonic, ocular) produced by "Blue" Gene Tyranny, Tom Hamilton, David Moodey, Cas Boumans, and Mimi Johnson—the result of a 30-year relationship. As such, any "scores" were written for this intimate readership. It hadn't been considered that any one outside this "band" might produce this work.

The scores for Dust and Celestial Excursions are preceded by a selection of Ashley's work, from 1963 to 2008, drawing attention to the varying relations between instruction and score, and the tones of instructional address. Working with these scores gave us a better sense of how each one produces a specific mode of decision-making, telling us what to put on the pages of the scores, for any reader who follows.

Yes, But Is It Edible? is the fourth in a series of publications produced with or by Will Holder and Alex Waterman that address a musicological perspective on scoring speech and the role of printed matter in collective forms of reading and writing: Agape (Miguel Abreu Gallery, 2007); Between Thought and Sound (The Kitchen, 2008); and The Tiger's Mind (with Beatrice Gibson; Sternberg Press, 2012).

Co-presented with the Western Front, Vancouver. Edition of 2000.

It's one of those books that holds much more than you might think, as the compactness of it fools you. Great re-prints of images even on the newsprint pages. It makes you think a little of Ways of Seeing (John Berger). Made in conjunction with the exhibition New Gravity (Overduin & Co., September-October 2014), organized by Eli Diner and Olivian Cha. Essays by Heinrich von Kliest, Diner, Angie Keefer, Cha. Artists in the show: Frank Benson, Judith Hopf, Angie Keefer, Kitty Kraus, Mahony, Oliver Payne, Chadwick Rantanen.

Sold as a single. Approximately 1/4" diameter.

Multidisciplinary artist Chris Evans lives and works in London, UK. With Penelope Curtis, Marina Vishmidt, Tirdad Zolghadr. Ostensibly a survey of the artist's work, with expository essays and further detail around the circumstantial thinking behind specific pieces. 

Cast in bronze or silver. A strong piece. Unisex.