Posted on Monday, 17 October
Autumn in Central Park, October 2011. (Taken with instagram)
Posted on Friday, 14 October
A place to finally finish that book. Chair with built-in lamp from Dutch design group Nieuwe Heren via Design Milk.
Posted on Tuesday, 20 September
Today’s inspiration: Duchamp via theimpossiblecool. Photo by Irving Penn.
Posted on Sunday, 11 September
Seen at the London Design Festival via Design Milk.
(via micasaessucasa)
Posted on Friday, 9 September
In honor of MBFW: My favorite fashion photographer - Sante D’Orazio.
For friends, family or colleagues who have ever wondered what it is that I do: I finally put up a client case study.
Posted on Wednesday, 7 September
Posted on Tuesday, 6 September
In honor of Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Spring 2012: Hermès, Spring 1972.
Posted on Saturday, 3 September
The evolution of a person’s musical taste says a lot about them.
I was raised on rhythm & blues, hip hop, funk, and soul. The 90’s brought an emergence of sampled music from previous decades (some I was familiar with, others I knew nothing about), which in turn forced me to read liner notes for sampled music and the roots of these sounds.
Armed with a knowledgeable base, I naturally progressed into Original sounds - afrobeat, latin funk, salsa, cumbia - all of which are mixtures and combinations of African rhythms interpreted by the people who adopted those sounds using varied percussion.
I tend to take the evolution of musical taste very seriously. You won’t know the value of new material if you can’t dissect the classics.
Enter producers Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis.
Directly responsible for the success of Janet Jackson, New Edition, Human League and Morris Day (among many others), Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis left their mark on the sound of contemporary R&B and New Jack Swing. You know Janet’s ‘Control’, ‘Nasty’? S.O.S. Band’s ‘The Finest’? Yeah. That’s J.J. & T.L.
As you listen, think about your musical taste and how it has evolved. Or devolved?
Posted on Thursday, 1 September
Soda is worthless & food policy in the U.S. needs to change. A few thoughts from New York Times’ food columnist Mark Bittman on PBS’s ‘Need To Know’.
Posted on Wednesday, 31 August
So there’s a common perception that dogs oftentimes look like their owners and vice versa. Graceful yet stout huskies are accompanied by athletic men or women; Dachshund’s often have shy, stumpy owners; and a screechy bark from a teacup poodle can make you want to strangle the owners themselves. Maybe my stereotypes are all wrong, but I couldn’t help but analyze these connections while browsing through a collection of New York City dog photos.
Simply titled ‘Dogs of New York’, Nicholas Konert has recently curated an ongoing collection of snapshots, revealing an up-close look at these furry protectors while capturing each dog as a member of New York City’s community.
Click here to view and ‘like’ the collection on Facebook.
Do you have a dog that you think belongs in the Dogs of New York series? Send it to studio@nicholaskonert.com
