I just now realized that our twitter feed had gone down a few days ago. Apparently the TwitMe plugin had been deactivated, so my apologies if you’ve been using Twitter as your reader for this site. The problem has now been resolved. And if you didn’t even know we had a twitter feed, well we do: add us at twitter.com/touchpuppet.

03 Feb 09  /  Touchpuppet  /  1 Comment  /  Zachary Hayes

Two of Touchpuppet’s favorite models in a campaign together for Longchamp’s Spring/Summer 09 collection. Yes, please!
Second image after the jump!

02 Feb 09  /  Campaigns, Fashion  /  No Comments  /  Zachary Hayes

My father, being an artist, always told me growing up that during any sort of economic downturn, the first thing to suffer is the art market. The Daily Beast takes an interesting look at the current art crunch and argues that the downturn does have an upside.
The only parallel to this frantic escalation of prices was the tulip-bulb scandal that destroyed the Dutch economy in the 17th century. Today’s art market is global and is therefore susceptible to adjustment on an international scale. Consequently there is an immediate crisis in the art market as in other markets and sometimes they [...]

02 Feb 09  /  Art  /  2 Comments  /  Zachary Hayes