July 26, 2011 |
FROM THE VAULT (WINTER 2010)
NAME: Tim Blanks.
MAGAZINES/EMPLOYERS: Style.com
OCCUPATION: Writer.
OFFICIAL JOB TITLE: Contributing editor.
STAR SIGN: Virgo (triple).
PORN-STAR NAME (FIRST PET’S NAME + MOTHER’S MAIDEN NAME): Blackie Seldon.
FIRST JOB: Record shop.
WORST JOB: Burger bar.
WHAT ARE YOU WEARING (ON THE DAY YOUR PORTRAIT WAS TAKEN)? Piombo, Uniqlo, Kilgour, Adam Kimmel.
WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT? Horror, endurance.
ARE YOU PART OF THE ZEITGEIST? I’ll take the geist, I’m not wild about the zeit.
HAVE YOU EVER USED/WOULD YOU EVER USE SEX TO FURTHER YOUR CAREER? It would have been nice to be asked.
WHAT DO YOU LIKE? Almost everything.
WHAT DO YOU HATE? Almost nothing.
WHO ARE YOUR INFLUENCES? WHO DO YOU LOOK UP TO? HP Lovecraft, Hitchcock, Warhol, Bowie, Bolan, The New York Times war photographer Tyler Hicks.
IF NOT YOU, WHO/WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE? The inventor of a time machine, Hitler’s assassin (they go together).
WHAT’S YOUR POISON? David Lynch.
ARE YOU A BITCH? Why?
WHAT TURNS YOU ON? Sunshine, volcanoes.
SELL YOURSELF IN 10 WORDS: first, pick yourself.
WHAT’S UP AND COMING? Mystery, wonder, life everlasting.
by Natalie Dembinska
Photograph by Maria Ziegelboeck – www.mariaziegelboek.com
