What is it about receiving an invite into a friend's home that sparks a type of curiosity that surely would kill us if we were cats? And what is it about gesturing someone through the threshold of your doorway that feels extra generous and inclusive? I think both responses (which after some field-research have proved normal) have something to do with the fact that we recognize people as places.
Rather, the spaces that they claim as theirs will unquestionably represent them, unless they are too lazy to decorate, which still oddly represents them.
Marquez said we all live three lives: the public, the personal and the private.
Well, fashion and interiors photographer Todd Selby is letting you into the private lives of creative types. Pictured above is Keith Abrahamsson, a music label director and his wife Kate Young, a stylist with their son in
their New York City home. Todd Selby began taking portraits of authors, musicians, artists, and designers— basically any out-of-control cool and creative person you could dream of— and posting them on his web site.Selby must have realized long ago that a private life is reflected by the private spaces of a home: bedroom dream-catchers and bathroom posters of the waning stages of the moon point to a whimsical side that one might have otherwise not noticed.
Or the places that are dying for attention. Like the neighbor who dots exceedingly ghastly groups of garish garden gnomes around his garden? A different take on Full-Moon...
Well the best blog for nosy creative types is now a book! The color-rich and eclectic quarters of, deep breath I am about to do some serious name-dropping: Simon Doonan and Jonathan Adler, Faris Rotter, Andre Walker, and Olivier Zahm and he shoot in all the cool places you dream of
studying abroad: Los Angeles, Paris, Tokyo, Sydney, and London. (Of course New York is separated into Queens, Brooklyn and Manhattan and takes up a huge chuck of the blog and newly released book, because a huge chuck of the world's coolest people claim that as their place.)Each profile lets you see how the hip types chill, where they sleep and what color the walls are in their kitchen. Each profile also has one of Selby’s signature watercolor portraits of the subjects and an illustrated questionnaire. The best part is the book is online for free (for a sample) probably for a limited time. check it out.
P.S-- think your digs are cool enough to be featured, click here if you have a sense of humor and want to see if you fit the bill.
