The year: 1988. The place: SoHo. The job: Independent film producer/Willem Dafoe’s manager.

(Side Note: I rode a friend’s motorcycle and he underscored the importance of wearing “a leather” when you’re on a bike. “It’s not just for show, it’s for safety.” So that’ll be my tagline when I wear this little ditty.)

To celebrate our 8th birthday… click-through for a larger size version.  We printed these as big posters and gave them away at our SS12 dinner party.  

A few more from our SS12 Dinner Party.

Some Polaroids from our SS12 Dinner Party last night! 

These poetically trippy images are featured in the forthcoming issue of Zina Cava #2, where the theme is self-help. They’re from Toward the One by Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, whose father founded Universal Sufism as a way to spread Sufism to the West, and reflect the Sufi emphasis on dhikr, the practice of remembering the divine. I certainly feel better when I am reminded that I am the cosmos. These pics are great pin-ups if you run a yoga studio or cosmic therapy institute. The name Sufi is also a kind of fashion statement: one of the origins of the word is “suf,” Arabic for “wool,” which refers to the simple cloaks worn by the religion’s early practitioners.