crank shot

so this is sad.

i have always been rather a fan of the sartorialist, aka scott schuman. he takes good shots. does the street-style thing well. there are a lot of his images in my 'inspirations' folder. and he doesn't tend to write much on the blog, but when he does it is usually pretty worth reading.

and i have heard nigh on a million times that he's a bit of an asshat, but hey. separate the art from the artist, right? right. but. oh, scott... this interview...

so scott has gone and done this little interview with the talks. and alas! what a cranky old man he comes across as! go on. give it a read. it's short...

he reminds me of a few of my art profs in university who were all bitter and cocky and out of touch... who were talented, sure, and smart and so on... but who seemed to think that the thing they started doing in 1972 was still the be all and end all, and that no growth or change since then was valuable, and none of us with our youth and ideas were valuable, and blah blah blah... and instead of trying to inspire us to work crazy hard and be prepared for the hard-hard world of art creation, they tried to discourage and discredit us. anyways.

scott. here are the major problems.

you don't read/follow any other fashion/style blogs? really? other than garance... well that's just irresponsible. imagine if anna wintour came out and was all 'oh, yeah, i don't look at magazines. blah! ugh! they're all dumb and irrelevant.'. or if any author ever decided that, you know, reading other people's books was pointless... or any artist stopped looking at art... or, or, or... new ideas, scott! diversity! this is your community. this blog-space. and there's a lot of great stuff out there. so there's that.

and. don't you get me started on tavi. rather than go on about what's shitty about mr. schuman, i'm gonna get going on what's great about tavi. i love tavi. lots. i've been reading her blog more consistently over the last few years than any other. and. i was, not so long ago, a 26 year old. older now, even! and i do find her blog inspiring and relevant. tavi is smart and insightful. she's a better feminist than i am, despite her youth, and she's unashamed to be honest, youthful, playful, naive, and so on and so on. that makes her valuable. i read her blog, and i'm reminded of the insanely passionate thing i was when i was first learning about this thing called art, this thing called fashion... i've lost so much of the tireless dedication that she possesses, and it is wonderful to be reminded how magical everything is. i remember staying up till 6am because i was FEELING so much about this or that painting, or colour, or idea... and then getting up and stumbling in to 8am studio classes and just being so immersed in this thing and having it be my everything and giving it my everything... oh. and. remember that online magazine for young girls she just launched? rookie. that is amazing and such a great way for girls to be looking at fashion? and gives girls a voice and encourages a lack of shame in using it? remember that?

oh, and. really? talking about the more-than-quarter-less-than-half-million you're getting paid from advertising? that just comes off tacky. and defensive.

anyway.

the moral is, scott, you look like a cranky old man who has a crap attitude about the world you work in. and that's just lame. so. stopit.