alexanderstadlercollection

2012-01-09T05:35:00.001-08:00

patched-over graffiti, philadelphia PA

2011-08-31T08:00:00.000-07:00

summer alley part two, philadelphia PA

2011-08-07T17:17:00.000-07:00

summer alley, philadelphia PA, August 2011

2011-07-21T14:40:00.000-07:00

dappled light, Philadelphia, June 2011

2011-06-26T13:50:00.000-07:00

Chanticleer Gardens, Wayne PA, June 2011

2011-06-09T06:32:00.000-07:00

Elena Sisto's studio, NYC, Spring 2011

2011-06-03T14:43:00.000-07:00

sidewalk chalk on Fitzwater Street, Philadelphia, June 2010

2011-05-30T08:05:00.000-07:00

red wall under a bridge, philadelphia PA May 2011

2011-05-30T07:58:00.000-07:00

red wall under a bridge, philadelphia PA May 2011

2011-05-30T07:51:00.001-07:00

red wall under a bridge, philadelphia PA May 2011

2011-05-30T07:43:00.000-07:00

red wall under a bridge, philadelphia PA May 2011

2011-05-18T10:16:00.000-07:00

peonies/roses, Philadelphia PA, May 2011

2011-05-13T15:56:00.000-07:00

details of wall drawing in chalk (artist unknown)

Paris April 2011

2011-04-29T04:37:00.000-07:00

plaster cast of The Dying Centaur by Antoine Bourdelle next to silk jersey dress by Alix Grès. Exhibit designed by Olivier Saillard.

Musee Bourdelle, Paris, show runs through July 24 2011

2011-04-22T06:29:00.000-07:00

paris notebook, april 2011

2011-04-13T16:39:00.001-07:00

brick lane, Philadelphia PA, spring 2011

2011-04-02T18:53:00.000-07:00

new thoughts for prom from Panzai Custom Clothes on 7th Avenue, NYC

2011-03-23T05:08:00.000-07:00

yarn at Barin Oriental Rugs, 934 Pine Street, Philadelphia PA

2011-03-11T17:11:00.001-08:00

strictly tailored coat of many colors,

Philadelphia PA, March 2011

2011-03-09T11:25:00.000-08:00

Willie tiptoes through the post-apocalyptic tulips in this ravaged court dress by Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel F/W 2011

Welcome to the Garden

2011-03-09T09:17:00.000-08:00

Chuckle Patch 20111, a new movie by Alex Stadler

2011-03-09T08:22:00.000-08:00

light on a wall, Philadelphia PA, 3/2011

2011-03-08T05:00:00.000-08:00

Willie offers the Sisters of Mercy an apple of discord in something monastic yet sexy from Rick Owens' Fall/Winter 2011 collection.

2011-03-08T04:56:00.001-08:00

scenes from Bull Street Station, model train and art supply store, Savannah GA

2011-02-25T07:51:00.000-08:00

neon signs, Bainbridge Street, Philadelphia PA

2011-02-18T05:36:00.000-08:00

Cosmo is born to both sweet delight and endless night in a Blake-inspired collection from Ann Demeulmeester.

2011-02-13T07:52:00.000-08:00

parking lot, 21st Street, Philadelphia PA

2011-02-09T18:19:00.000-08:00

fireworks, Italian market, Philadelphia PA

2011-02-08T09:07:00.000-08:00

desktop, February 2011

2011-02-06T10:29:00.000-08:00

Maybe twenty-one

face of an angel.

Irish boy's voice bathing me in Leonard Cohen.

But I'll be damned if I'll give him even one f@#%ing Euro

cause I don't cry that easily anymore.

Chatelet Stop, Number 1 Line, Paris December 2010

2011-02-06T10:21:00.000-08:00

stickers, South Street, Philadelphia PA

2011-02-04T06:20:00.000-08:00

Homage to H & the Speedway Diner

BY BERNADETTE MAYER

It’s alot like a cave full of pictures

& black & white checked flags

you may overdose on caffeine

it’s the closest restaurant to our house

maybe five miles, it’s very cheap

you can go there when you have almost no money

they let you use the telephone

i can get steak tartare there for $2.25

but i’ve never called it that

just raw hamburger with an egg yolk,

pickle relish & garlic powder plus

the celtic salt I bring along

the owner, h (after whom the h-burger is named)

is loquacious, surprising, has a santa claus belly & wears suspenders

there’s ashtrays everywhere & a great old pinball machine

it’s like east nassau but it’s in west lebanon I think

you can always talk about the weather & hunting

the clientele is open-minded as are the waitress & waiter

who kneels when he takes your order

during hunting season it opens at 4:30 a.m.

it’s for sale but that’s not quite serious

h’s wife thinks he spends too much time there (which he does)

so she started calling him by their dog’s name, peaches

h is a big fan of northern exposure, oh & i

forgot to mention the biscuits & sausage gravy

which are genuine, greyish & great. recently

h got a smoker & this year we’ll go to the new year’s

eve party & eat stuffed shrimp and/or lobster

2011-02-04T05:28:00.000-08:00

eau de nil cellophane, Pine Street, Philadelphia PA

2011-02-02T05:59:00.000-08:00

pulsating disco frog, NY NY

2011-01-30T06:08:00.000-08:00

Cosmo will be cozy yet complicated in Yohji Yamamoto's Fall/Winter 2011 collection

2011-01-27T06:28:00.000-08:00

pink sandbags, Philadelphia, Winter 2011

2011-01-27T06:15:00.000-08:00

snow drawings made by weather, people and cars.

2011-01-26T07:52:00.000-08:00

Cosmo is checking out the collections...

2010-10-30T02:49:00.000-07:00

The Celia series is complete. For best viewing, please start at the first posting and scroll your way down.

alexanderstadlercollection will return in the new year.

stadler-kahn scarves and BabysittingKevin productions are both coming soon.

Have a great holiday.

-Alex

2010-10-27T07:07:00.000-07:00

babysittingkevin 2010

2010-10-27T07:04:00.000-07:00

2010-10-27T06:53:00.000-07:00

2010-10-27T06:50:00.000-07:00

Both of those questions were answered several months ago.

2010-10-25T05:26:00.001-07:00

otters, philadelphia zoo, October 2010

2010-10-20T09:48:00.001-07:00

squash at George Baker Flowers, philadelphia PA

2010-10-20T09:44:00.000-07:00

good use of patent leather accent,

philadelphia PA, October 2010

2010-10-19T07:43:00.000-07:00

Their dancing was interrupted by his editing.

2010-10-16T09:38:00.000-07:00

moss, Fitzwater Street, Philadelphia

2010-10-16T09:29:00.000-07:00

"Perhaps the most spectacular single piece and story belong to Mary Ann Schildnecht. While serving a two-year jail sentence in Milan on a hashish-smuggling charge, Mary Ann was taught to embroider by the nuns. One day she decided to embroider a whole shirt so she tore her bed sheets into pieces of the right size and started at the sun. She then worked to the left side-the sky, the trees, the forest scene, the Road to the Sun. 'That's fine and dandy,' she thought, 'but I need a house. It might as well be a castle for parties and...the hole in the other sleeve is for a transfusion if I ever need one, the peacock on the back is because we need animals, and the psychedelic sleeve is because I didn't want to think.'"

-from Native Funk and Flash, by Alexandra Jacopetti with Photographs by Jerry Wainright

published in 1974

2010-10-07T06:41:00.001-07:00

telephone pole, Providence, Rhode Island

2010-10-07T06:38:00.001-07:00

telephone pole, Providence, Rhode Island

2010-10-03T06:33:00.000-07:00

She was the one who brought the lawyers into it.

2010-10-03T06:28:00.000-07:00

In Ashfield, Massachusetts

you can have the best corned beef hash

(really, I mean it, it's like a duck confit masquerading as a corned beef hash)

Elmer's Store

396 Main St
Ashfield, MA 01330

(413) 628-4003

www.elmersstore.com

2010-09-28T06:47:00.000-07:00

dryer lint for Mary Kelly

2010-09-27T06:31:00.000-07:00

In Tucson, the best Tex-Mex in town can be found at Paco's Mexican Food on Grant Rd.

You would probably want to order the soft taco with carnitas and guacamole or the carne asada burrito, both fresh and delicious, and served on flour tortillas which are tender and tasty enough to be eaten on their own.

The flan is rich and dense, more the consistency of a pot de creme, and is sufficient for two.

5563 E Grant Rd, Tucson, AZ 85712-2209(520) 733-5935

2010-09-25T06:02:00.001-07:00

shadows, Philadelphia

2010-09-24T17:00:00.000-07:00

Double Bubble bubble gum

2010-09-23T12:28:00.000-07:00

His talent lay dormant throughout the war.

2010-09-20T09:39:00.000-07:00

I had never seen so many insects at one time.

2010-09-19T05:20:00.000-07:00

portrait of a lady, circa 1985 (photographer unknown to me)

2010-09-15T11:14:00.000-07:00

Her emotional IQ is so low that one is forced to be rude.

2010-09-13T19:07:00.000-07:00

smushed can, philadelphia PA, september 2010

2010-09-13T19:05:00.001-07:00

taqueria, Tucson AZ, September 2010

2010-09-10T14:29:00.000-07:00

"It is the hour of the dressing room, when actors are not quite off the street but hardly yet onstage."

André Aciman, on 4:30 in the afternoon

from his essay Counterintuition

2010-09-09T16:11:00.000-07:00

leaf pictures after Charles Burchfield (do NOT miss the Burchfield show at the Whitney Museum, it closes on October 17)

2010-09-07T05:59:00.000-07:00

His heart was broken by a doctor without borders.

2010-09-06T06:07:00.000-07:00

of course I can't eat rabbit, I used to be a rabbit.

2010-09-03T13:36:00.000-07:00

decorative door-panels, 18th street, Philadelphia PA

2010-09-02T14:30:00.000-07:00

Perhaps there is another way?

2010-09-02T14:27:00.000-07:00

gorilla, The Philadelphia Zoo, 2010

2010-08-31T17:26:00.000-07:00

good leaf brooch, Philadelphia PA

2010-08-31T17:18:00.000-07:00

Maybe they are twins, but that still doesn't make it right.

2010-08-31T17:03:00.000-07:00

"Of all the male dress designers visible in the world of American fashion, some 95 percent, if not more, are homosexual.

They have a variety of ways of being gay. John Prince was individual in his solid British gentry style, noticeably masculine and tempered with good midwestern roots. Others were austere functional-gay, given to wearing dark glasses at all times and dressed in a careful, unvarying uniform of a dark turtleneck and dark trousers, as if they had come out of the future by first-class spaceship. They lived in steel, plastic, and glass apartments, so spare and fined down that people felt tense just looking at their living rooms in which no trace of comfort was permitted. Then there is the sweet flock of Gatsby-gays, young beauties who dress in perfectly cut navy blazers and white pants, innocent, Ivy League open-necked pale blue shirts and shetland crew sweaters, impeccably ready for a yacht to sail in and anchor at their feet. There is also a block of elder statesmen-gays who have been secure for long enough to affect jeans and beards and amulets and strange-looking jackets without buttons. All of these designers are in enormous demand as guests and escorts by many of the most powerful-but single-women in the country. Without her priceless list of gay reliables, few society hostesses could put together a party."

from Scruples, by Judith Krantz, published in 1978

2010-08-29T09:53:00.000-07:00

It's an empty promise. They say they will, but they never actually move out.

2010-08-27T16:22:00.000-07:00

"With Cheri out of the house, Léa became herself again, very much alive, cheerful, and on the spot. Within an hour, she had been given her bath, followed by a spirit-rub scented with sandal-wood, and was ready dressed, hatted, and shod. While the curling-tongs were heating, she found time to run through the butler's book and send for Emile, the footman, and call his attention to the blue haze on one of the looking-glasses. She ran an experienced eye-rarely taken in-over everything in the room, and lunched in solitary bliss, with a smile for the dry Vouvray and for the June strawberries, served, with their stalks, on a plate of Rubelles enamel as green as a tree-frog after rain."

-from Cheri, by Colette

2010-08-24T10:45:00.001-07:00

Kill the lights and get her out of here.

2010-08-22T06:29:00.000-07:00

rolls of material, W.46th Street, NYNY, August 2010

2010-08-17T06:52:00.000-07:00

street studies, Philadelphia PA, August 2010

2010-08-17T06:49:00.000-07:00

"Perhaps there had been some excuse for him. He, too, had been dressing for the party, and all had gone well with him until he came to his tie. It is an astounding thing to have to tell, but this man, though he knew about stocks and shares, had no real mastery of his tie. Sometimes the thing yielded to him without a contest, but there were occasions when it would have been better for the house if he had swallowed his pride and used a made-up tie.

This was such an occasion. He came rushing into the nursery with the crumpled little brute of a tie in his hand. 'Why, what is the matter, father dear?'

'Matter!' he yelled; he really yelled. 'This tie, it will not tie.' He became dangerously sarcastic. 'Not round my neck! Round the bed-post! Oh yes, twenty times have I made it up round the bed-post, but round my neck, no! Oh dear no! Begs to be excused!'

He thought Mrs Darling was not sufficiently impressed, and he went on sternly, 'I warn you of this, mother, that unless this tie is round my neck we don't go out to dinner to-night, and if I don't go to dinner to-night, I never go to the office again, you and I starve, and our children will be flung into the streets!' "

J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

2010-08-16T07:44:00.000-07:00

gray studies, Philadelphia PA

2010-08-13T05:36:00.000-07:00

Office Supplies, NY NY, July 2010

2010-08-12T05:41:00.000-07:00

She was a formidable woman, even at a lunch meeting.

2010-08-10T14:25:00.000-07:00

Provincetown MA, August 2010

2010-08-04T05:29:00.000-07:00

menu, Chelsea NYC, July 2010

2010-08-04T05:27:00.000-07:00

popcorn box (circa 1980) Philadelphia PA, July 2010

2010-08-01T04:03:00.000-07:00

Coffee please, very hot...

2010-07-30T08:37:00.000-07:00

He was always a bit of a disappointment.

2010-07-30T08:29:00.000-07:00

All I left behind

should come as no surprise

to me since I fell

through the black hole of your eyes.

Only little things

inconsequential I could say

of all I left behind with you along the lost highway.

Silver earrings in Wichita,

beaded moccasins in Tonopah

but I had you so

I just let them go.

The flannel shirt I wore

to keep me from the cold

when we drove from Boston all the way to Buffalo.

The leather boots I bought

so many miles ago

I took them off to follow you

into the Ohio.

from All I left Behind

by Kate and Anna McGarrigle

2010-07-28T04:53:00.001-07:00

I only wanted to try a small bite.

2010-07-24T14:13:00.000-07:00

very good butterfly pin, probably 1960's-70's

2010-07-23T06:09:00.000-07:00

"Performance is all I cared about as a child and it's all I care about now. I don't go to see a play to see a great play. I go to see a great interpretation.

Everything is interpretation."

-Diana Vreeland

2010-07-21T06:18:00.000-07:00

Saguaro National Park, Tucson AZ, July 2010

2010-07-21T06:15:00.000-07:00

pins, Philadelphia PA, July 2010

2010-07-20T08:11:00.000-07:00

They no longer shared a belief system.

2010-07-20T07:48:00.000-07:00

look at the work of Andrea Modica if you want to see what Bruce Webber might have done if he was intelligent and/or brave.

http://www.andreamodica.com/minor-league/index.html

2010-07-19T18:31:00.000-07:00

cement dots, Philadelphia PA. July 2010

2010-07-19T18:21:00.000-07:00

ice trays, Brunswick, Maine. July 2010

2010-07-17T09:10:00.000-07:00

The moon wouldn't come out and the air was very still.

2010-07-13T12:54:00.001-07:00

interior, fruit ice stand, Tucson, Arizona. July 2010

2010-07-13T12:52:00.000-07:00

fruit ice stand, Tucson, Arizona. July 2010