Sets for the Artist Marina Abramovic’s Dramatic Life 
Ms. Abramovic’s apartment is a 2,500-square-foot loft she purchased in 2001 for $1.5 million. (link)
…While people of many other countries fear all manner of creepy crawlies, the Japanese love and respect them: they’re sold live in vending machines and department stores; they’re the subject of the No. 1 videogame MushiKing; and a single beetle recently sold for $90,000. Insects have been an integral part of the centuries-old traditions of the country, once described as the “Isle of the Dragonflies.”
The film’s gorgeous imagery links people with the strength of beetles, the music of crickets, the magic of fireflies and the endless colors of butterflies. Using bugs like an anthropologist’s toolkit, the film uncovers Japanese philosophies that will shift Westerners’ perspectives on nature, beauty, life, and even the seemingly mundane realities of their day-to-day routines.
Eddie Van Halen backstage, tuning up the original Frankenstrat.
This was the alley that was right by the youth hostel I stayed at a few years ago.
I’d taken the Pacific Coast Starlight train up from L.A. and the plan was to make it to Seattle. When I got off the train the first night, I was in San Francisco and it was midnight…all the hotels were booked so I stayed at a youth hostel. That night I met these foreign exchange students from Korea that invited me to go booze it up with them in Napa Valley. It was fucking awesome. The next morning, I had my bag packed, ready to go. I popped into the communal kitchen to fix up some breakfast and while I was reading the paper, two girls came over to my table and we struck up a conversation. One thing led to another, and before I knew it, I was in the backseat of a rental car on the way to Vegas. All sorts of Vegas shit went down, all of them ceaselessly winning, but I’ll spare you the gory details.
But I think the big takeaway from all this is that
a.) girls from out of town/state/country/hemisphere are down to fuck mostly because there’s explicit acknowledgement that they won’t ever see you again and
b.) traveling alone is awesome
c.) you can live out of a messenger bag
(via allblack)
