The Lost Dreams of Japanese Love Hotels

I have been so unfaithful to this blog.  How do I expect to get any sweet sweet lovin out if I put nothing in?  SO to bring us back to that hot buttered love place I'm featuring Kyoichi Tsuzuki's Satellite of Love: Vanishing Beauty of Japanese Love Hotels.  Since I know nothing about the subject I will allow Kyoichi to explain his quest to capture the fleeting FANTASTICAL visually orgasmical love hotels of Japan.  BLAST OFF

 Hotel The Rich : This "Space Shuttle" bed used to slide on rails.

 Satellite of Love, equipped with Revolving bed.

The frosted glass bathroom, created in the image of porn film director Shinya Yamamoto with his trademark sunglasses and mustache.   Perfectly equipped with film lights :)

 Set the revolving bed in motion and lights flash.  Intricate ceiling mirrors make for kaleidoscopic effects y'all!

 SPACE CAVE!

 Inter-You where everything is painted THE TRUTH

 Angelo Baiser Kita Branch, S&M stage chair!

 "Swapping" room 801 joins twin bedrooms.  The "Bungee Tarzan" harness lets you dangle from the ceiling.  Walls and floor are sponge matted, completely safe.

 Gotta love an 8 person GROTTO bath.  Equipped with juicy Frank Lloyd Wright meets Mondrian glass windows.

 We were all expecting something like this.  Nothing to be said.

 Apparently this S&M room sees many customers, hence the easy-to-clean vinyl flooring...

 Caption reads: Some costumers have changed rooms because the white fish in the windows affected their "prowess." 

Birth of Venus tub is a necessity. duh.

WINOGRAND

As promised I'm including some scanned images beginning with WINOGRAND : Figments from the Real World.  I've begun with 4 images from a series he took at El Morocco in the 50's because they're fabulous and surreal.  The rest are some that really struck me as enigmatic, nostalgic, subtly intense, casually iconic, funny, or just plain emblematic of times gone by.  Everything that goes along with Garry Winogrand as a prolific American photographer...  ENJOY

Image on Cover: New Mexico, 1958

 Reminds me of a rayonist painting, but so intense.

There will be blood?  I love the cross shape made in his hand too.

My Top 7 Vintage Statement Pieces

I consider myself to be somewhat of a pro when it comes to vintage scavenging.   I have hoarded some major pieces throughout the years.  So here are my top 7 faves in no particular order...  I wanted to do 5 or 6 but I really couldn't decide which to eliminate!  I think these pieces might reflect someone who doesn't want to hide, take anything seriously, and who isn't afraid of being outrageously girly even at the risk of not being taken seriously herself.  Refined chaos glam?   See for yourself.

I would also like to note the practicality of shopping vintage.  Recycling, preserving, and snaggin shit nobody else has (at a killer price).  None of these items cost more that 65 dollars.
1)

 

Meet mon chat Oliver.  I had to include him as he is in my title image.  One of the best examples of HIGH QUALITY costume jewelry, people think he's real all the time.  I bought his sweet ass for 60 bucks at an antiques warehouse in Stratford CT.  Probz from the 80's.  His tail clips into his mouth so he can chill on ma wrist all day.  Brand is unknown.

2)

My amazing mod leather and suede tunic.  uhGODDAMN it looks fantastic on.  It really is one of a kind. Definitely 60's-70's.  I bought it at Le Grand Strip in Brooklyn on sale for 60.  Also, no brand, that's the thing about vintage, it doesn't have to be high end designer to be good quality, higher standards sighhh

3)

This was a great find in a dusty vintage shop near Amherst MA for 45.  There really wasn't anything else I remotely liked in the store til I sniffed out this baby.  It's held up almost perfectly since the 80's.  God I have a soft spot for these 80's pastels, I'd like to think someone blew drugs while wearing this in Miami.  You might not think this is overtly sexy but with a tight mini skirt oooo girllllllllllllll By Frank Usher.

4)

BAM!  This might blow your eyeballs into the back of your head but it sure as hell completes me.  I snagged this GEM on etsy for $4.95 from a rad store called Flabbergastbanana (check it outt).  Vintage boxy silk T's have been my thing for a while, they're effortlessly awesome and comfy.  By Anthony Sicari.

5)

I feel like life's a party in this silk Versace inspired jacket.  I got it for 40 at Andy's Cheepees, a store near NYU that caters to costume depts in theaters across the city.  Andy's also an outrageous dude with sweet stories from the 70's. No brand.

6) 

 

I know it's cheesy but I feel like a Rockstar in these fucking shoes.  They are fantastically made, each triangle was sewn one by one onto the black mesh.  It's funny how this ankle boot is in fashion right now and these were made in the 80's, that's one of my favorite things about vintage, how well it can work in a contemporary closet.  I bought them at a store called Fashionista in New Haven, CT for 65.  By Gianrico Mori

7)

Last but certainly not least these fabulous huge crystal clip-ons.  These are the heaviest earrings I own, maybe you can tell from the image but the small crystals are embedded in a half sphere of good ole fashion plastic.  They're mesmerizing, and I feel like a princess wearing them.  I thought they might be from the 60s-70s due to their stylized daisy shape but because of the manufacture quality they're probably from the 80's.  I bought these for 60 again from Fashionista in New Haven, (I got the shopowner to lower the price after I noticed a small chip-ALWAYS look for blemishes tears or chips to lower that price girl).

Photography by Corey Ulrich

"Wild Parties" from High Times October '76

God isn't this amazing? By REX WEINER!  This man has to be found in the Porn archives of the 70's.  I've also upload the front and back covers of the High Times issue from whence this came... I may have to upload some more of the advertisements/articles etc because they literally blow my brains all over the walls(ie How to Prevent Cocaine Frostbite).  "the latter portion of the Seventies has not inspired or been inspired by the sort of wildness that seemed so rampant during the Sixties" seems really hard to believe!
Check the back cover(HA):

I'll be uploading a lot more from books/mags (I have 2 other High Times from the 70's heehee) to give y'all a little somethin different than stuff that can just be found on the interwebz. PLEASE STAND BY.