2004.10.28 10:57
Re: Yinka Shonibare
Dear Laura
Looks like YS is gonna be the official fashion inspiration of the 2005 Horace Trumbauer Architecture Fan Club Convention.
by appointment
From: Associated Press
Subject: Obituaries in the News
Date: 2004.06.09
Benjamin Krass
PHILADELPHIA - Benjamin Krass, who spent 54 years selling polyester suits and flashy menswear and became a Philadelphia-area celebrity for his manic late-night television commercials, died Monday. He was 85.
Krass, who had been suffering from Alzheimer's disease, died at a nursing home, his family said.
Krass was the front man for the Krass Bros. store, with a salesmanship and gift of gab that brought in celebrities. Sammy Davis Jr., Frank Sinatra, Muhammad Ali, Joey Bishop and other stars came by during the store's heyday.
In one of his commercials, Krass dressed as a thief and bellowed, "If you didn't buy your clothes at Krass Brothers, you was robbed!" In another, he popped out of a coffin and declared, "If you've got to go, go in a Krass Brothers suit."
By the early 1990s, changing tastes saw the store hit hard times. In 1999, Krass Bros. declared bankruptcy and it closed in 2002.
2004.10.28 12:47
Re: Yinka Shonibare
do the One-Eyed Blinka
There's surely a place to play for those that attained fame when not everyone had UHF (ultra high frequency) yet.
Otto and Maria are both dressing Krass for Halloween.
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2004.10.28 13:13
Re: SURVIVOR ST. HELENA
Maxentius falls into river and is ultimately voted off the island.
Apparently he's the third so far. Marie Antoinette lost her head right away.
Rumor has it that both sets of Matta-Clark and Bijani twins are on the island.
2004.10.28 13:35
Re: Yinka Shonibare
Grubbtown?
2004.10.28
Artifact of Ottopia No. 98
the only remains of Grubbtown
Grubbtown Civil War Memorial
"Grubbtown sent more soldiers to fight in the Civil War than any other town its size."
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2004.10.28 15:06
Re: Yinka Shonibare
Málaga-am-Stein
"We were lucky to get him. Ben Krass is one performance artist very much in demand."
reenact all the dots (in Chicago)
Isn't this quiz four days late?
1881.10.25
2004.10.30
Artifact of Ottopia No. 99
Sears & Roebuck Catalog Merchandise Distribution Center
World's Largest Building Implosion
1994.10.30
2004.10.30
Artifact of Ottopia No. 100
The Collection of the late James A. Williams
Mercer House, Savannah Auction Catalogue
2000.10.20
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2004.10.31 14:42
Re: Hieronymus Bosch: Garden of Earthly Delights evolutionsim or creationism?
their house is a museum
when people come to see 'em
they really are a scre'am
2004.11.01 12:06
Re: Yinka Shonibare
Went to David Batchelor: On Chromophobia last Thursday night at Arcadia University. The talk was in conjunction with Eliasson's Your Colour Memory also at Arcadia University. "Chromophobia was named twice in Artforum as a 'best of'."
Revisited two Trumbauer-designed buildings in the process.
Batchelor said he did most of his research for Chromophobia at parties. Tony (sitting next to me) thought Batchelor's lecture should have been conducted as a party.
So color is most recently seen in Western culture as primitive (or oriental, the feminine, the infantile, the vulgar, the queer, or the pathological)?
Next day went to see Yinka Shonibare at the Fabric Workshop and Museum—signature of Artforum rep in sign-in book. The exhibit was the perfect antidote to Chromophobia.
If there's anything that I'm not, it's a chromophobe.
2004.11.01
Artifact of Ottopia No. 101
Postcard of Olafur Eliasson : Your Colour Memory
2004.11.01
Artifact of Ottopia No. 102
Postcard of Yinka Shonibare
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