Jolie/Laide is a series that seeks the beautiful and the ugly in unexpected places.Continue to present yourself as a woman of loveliness and dignity, a woman who feels good and knows she’s looking her best. —Angela Lansbury, The Gentlewoman, Autumn/W…

The art of sploshing. (Contains mildly NSFW photography.)The Friday night before last, on an otherwise abandoned block in Gowanus, I spied a young man and woman; she was carefully carrying a plastic bag that contained a boxy package. “Are you here …