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LongLocks Joins Pinterest!

01.21.2012 | Author SMS

First things first… thank you to everyone who participated in the SOPA protest! I have updated the original post with the good news and a link to the truly outstanding stats!

Nextie, I have updated the text link to subscribe to Style & Angst via RSS or email, which you will find at the top of the right sidebar. Apparently there were some issues with the old one, so if you tried to subscribe and couldn’t you shouldn’t have any issues if you try again. If you do have any problems, please just leave a message in the comments!

And lastly, LongLocks, or rather Style & Angst, has joined Pinterest! If you’d like to follow Style & Angst, you can do so using the button that also appears at the top of the right sidebar. I’ll be posting LongLocks hair jewelry designs and other beautiful and eclectic art I come across in my travels on the web. If you are not yet a member and you’d like an invite, please feel free to request one using our Contact Us form.

Have a great weekend everyone!

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Save the Internet, Stop SOPA/PIPA NOW!

01.18.2012 | Author SMS

I am thrilled to tell you that the internet-wide protest was a great success and both the SOPA and PIPA bills were dropped by Congress yesterday (the 20th). The protest was seen by huge numbers, check them out at SOPA Strike. Thank you to all who participated and changed what was thought to be a sure thing!

The LongLocks HairSticks Boutique and Style & Angst blog are participating in an internet-wide protest against two bills currently being considered in the US House and Senate. Called SOPA and PIPA, these bills threaten to destroy the internet as we know it.

If either one passes, your favorite sites could disappear forever.

CLICK HERE TO ACT NOW

CALL YOUR SENATOR AND ASK THEM TO VOTE “NO” FOR PIPA

JOIN US

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Sotheby’s: Louis Comfort Tiffany Auction

12.08.2011 | Author barbaraanne

In 1902, Louis Comfort Tiffany’s glass studio in Corona, Queens, became known as Tiffany Studios. One of the greatest Art Nouveau designers in the world, Tiffany loved the impurities in cheap jelly jars. He saw color possibilities in the chemistry, which were absent from finer glass.

When he could not convince fine-glass makers to recognize the value of these impurities, he hired English glassblower and chemist Arthur Nash, who invented favrile glass. What Nash managed to do was pour color into molten glass as the impurities were interacting, thereby embedding the color in the glass. Then Tiffany painted with it like Monet. Nash never shared the formula with anyone, and no one has ever been able to reproduce it since.

On December 15, 2011, Sotheby’s is having an auction of the best Tiffany Studios pieces currently on the market. A window has an estimated price of $600,000, a chandelier perhaps $700,000. The final hammer price will be much more. I hope a museum gets at least one of them. Here are some items and their details.

Three-panel magnolia window, exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 12 – September 9, 1990. Estimated price: $400,000 to $600,000.

Trumpet Creeper Chandelier bought by a private owner from the Macklowe Gallery. Estimated price: $500,000 to $700,000.

Poppy lamp with a rare blown glass “Pineapple” base from a Florida collection. Estimated Price: $90,000 to $120,000.

Dragonfly lamp with a rare, early blown glass base from Brooklyn :-). Estimated Price: $70,000 to $90,000.

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Elsa Schiaparelli at the Metropolitan Museum

10.13.2011 | Author barbaraanne

By BarbaraAnne:

On May 10, 2012, the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art will reopen with an exhibition juxtaposing the work of Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada.

I have always been familiar with Prada, but discovering Schiaparelli’s designs in the 1930′s was a revelation. She was Coco Chanel’s biggest rival. Chanel called her “that Italian artist who makes clothes.” Influenced by Surrealists like Salvador Dalí, her designs channeled original ideas into exquisite taste. Her personality was flamboyant, as well. She invented the color, “shocking pink,” and unlike Chanel, fled the Nazis to work in New York, raising money for French charities because she refused to design during the war. Her granddaughter is the actress Marisa Berenson.

Here are a few stunning examples of Schiaparelli at the height of her career: Mrs. Reginald (Daisy) Fellowes in 1933, Marlene Dietrich in 1932, the designer herself, golden hair on a jacket sleeve, Dalí painted a lobster on this dress in 1937, dress with roses and two faces, Schiaparelli in her famous shoe hat.

For more scholarly research, please examine

Shocking Life, 1st Edition, by Elsa Schiaparelli

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Hope

10.10.2011 | Author barbaraanne

She has the wisdom of angels
Well loved, fed, cared for, and adored.

Her mother speaks fluent English and works.
Her father stays home
to care for her and three sisters.
The prodigious strength in her face
demands our faith.

So I will pray:
May you find a soul mate.
May you find the love of reading, numbers, art, and music,
Travel to beautiful places,
Realize the potential of your intelligence,
Have it recognized,
Do not miss a possibility –

Dance.

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Sotheby’s, CEOs, and Union Workers

09.24.2011 | Author barbaraanne

By BarbaraAnne:

While we worship the art that is sold at auctions, fantasize wearing diamonds in our mind’s vacation, luxury establishments hide another reality: how they treat their workers. Without people to move priceless art from place to place, there would be no glittering world. Pieces are heavy, or have to be moved with such care, the skill involved takes years to learn.

So we find Sotheby’s Auction House in a dispute with its art handlers, who belong to a union. As recession looms over the world, riots ensue in London, Greece is on the verge of collapse, Germany is furious it has to bail everyone out, and America… well.

The company made $680 million last year. The CEO gave himself a 125% raise, while asking for over 100 concessions from IBT 814, the Art Handlers Union. Now, Sotheby’s has locked union workers out and hired the desperately unemployed, who will work for less. It is just another nail in the coffin of the middle class. Craving escape, we are vulnerable — we, who want beauty to shut out the wasteland of predators. How easy is it to give up empathy for a glance at Monet?

We can’t do it. We must touch the people, who touch the art.

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Isabel Allende: Of Love and Shadows

09.04.2011 | Author barbaraanne

By BarbaraAnne: Sometimes, you just need to curl up with a good book. I recommend “Of Love and Shadows,” by Chilean writer Isabel Allende.

She is the niece of Salvatore Allende, who was overthrown in a violent coup by Pinochet in 1973. As a journalist, she listened to many stories about “the disappeared,” believing if you can carry memory in your heart, no one really dies. That is why she weaves Pinochet’s crimes against humanity into her fiction.

In this novel, a reporter and photographer find love in the shadow of death, as they discover a mass grave, where police have dumped the bodies of their tortured victims

She says, “This is the story of a man and a woman who save the memories of a vulgar existence. I carry real memories with care, so time won’t wear them out. Alone, in the silent nights of this place, I can finally recount them. I wrote this for the families who confided their lives to me and told me, “Capture, write, so our stories won’t be erased by the wind.”

This paragraph is breathtaking in its original Spanish. “Esta es la historia de una mujer y un hombre que se amaron en plenitud, salvándose así de una existencia vulgar. La he llevado en la memoria cuidándola para que el tiempo no la desgaste y es sólo ahora, en las noches calladas de este lugar, cuando puredo finalmente contarla. Lo haré por ellos y por otros que me confiaron sus vidas diciendo: toma, escribe, para que no lo borre el viento.”

Allende has been translated into many languages.

For more of her art, please examine:

Isabel Allende’s books

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