Qz.Lab

Paul Smith Ping Pong Table : play + work table / 2nd hand dining table, steel, lace, acrylic paint.

“Much like ripping MP3’s from CD’s you bought, I’ve transplanted intrinsic details from my prized possessions onto flea market finds. Resulting in new consumed products. The reference to Paul Smith has to do with the pattern found on my Paul Smith sneakers.“

if you read my blog often, you know I don't display or showcase a lot of photographs or photographers. well thats because most of the sucks ass!! yes, you heard me!

but Annie Leibovitz on the other hand, is just mind blowingly brilliant.

she recently did a series of photographs using celebs for Disney fantasies...ummm.....fun!!!

this is my favourite one:

and one of my other favourites is the shoot she shot for vanity fair, Killers Kill, Dead Men Die

NotCouture #942 points out these great Fang Cufflinks, that are less than traditional (close up below)… and as i went exploring the Stephen Einhorn site i discovered their brilliant twist on Gift Packaging. (And its also making me kick myself, wondering why i didn’t think of more creative ways to explore the idea of packaging when it came to gifts before!)…

They will gift wrap” your jewelry in a plaster heart, painted whatever color you desire (silver, gold, black, red, pink, etc)… and upon receipt the recipient has to break the heart to get their gift… doesn’t it really feel more like a prize at that point? Or like the grown up version of those toy in the plastic eggs from the machines? And i love how this makes you rethink about the concept of the giftwrap as you open it as well… forcing upon you the idea that (unlike wrapping paper or those plastic eggs) this is a no return kind of move… you’ll never have that heart again? Anyhow, i love the idea of how this changes the gift receiving experience!

I was browsing as usual, and due to this habit of nature, I often find myself falling in love with brilliant designers and artists.

if I have a pocket full of cash, my apartment, well, the apartment my boyfriend and I live in, would be decorated like a mad house. Oh, in a certain 'oh I'm so jealous, I just want to kill you guys' kind of way.

the point of me saying those things is that there is an artist, she is so special, so talented, and so fucking amazing.(I still haven't been able to find her contact yet)

to show how special this lady is, words are out of the question, and only her works can explain themselves.

Kirsten Hassenfeld was born in Albany, New York. She received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1994 and an MFA from The University of Arizona, Tucson in 1998. Her work has been featured in numerous exhibitions throughout New York, including Light x Eight: The Hanukkah Project (2006), The Jewish Museum; Greater New York (2005), MoMA/P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, and Open House: Working in Brooklyn (2004), The Brooklyn Museum of Art. She has been an artist-in-residence in New York at Dieu Donné Papermill (2005), The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation (2004), and Smack Mellon Artist Studio Program (2003). In 2006, Hassenfeld was awarded a grant from The Pollock-Krasner Foundation. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.