Why did they have to give all this attention to Michael Bay. I woulda called it Carpocalypse Now...

Alexander - TRUTH music video directed by Tao Ruspoli http://youtu.be/s9yibUR5KNI

all you need is laugh...laugh is beautiful...laugh is good...laugh is the answer...laugh conquers all...

 I'm pretty sure that old carly simon song is about me.

My first billboard! Paz de la Huerta for Joe's Jeans on Sunset and La Brea: http://yfrog.com/kja1tovj

The Internet: a refuge for exhibitionists, dilettantes and people with ADD (in other words, my kind of place)

For stylistic & idealogical reasons, I wish I were bisexual & vegetarian; unfortunately I'm not attracted to men & I like meat...[sigh]

Fellini inspired Joe's Jeans campaign I shot with Paz de la Huerta: http://fashionetc.com/news/fashion/2371-paz-de-la-huerta-joes-jeans-fall-2011-ads-campaign

Spoleto Festival dei 2Mondi

a'ight freaky tweeple; here is what you look like in a full body mass self portrait: http://fashionetc.com/news/fashion/2371-paz-de-la-huerta-joes-jeans-fall-2011-ads-campaign

After completing a work, in a kind of ecstatic state...“I usually have to go to bed for a couple of days.” RIP Cy Twombly

Wow, we've made some wonderfully surreal images together; thank you: http://taoruspoli.smugmug.com/services/graph/gallery/17896358_CCNpff/1369444129_LxWdDmX

No video game can compare to attempting to drive across Rome.

Here's to independence.

Speaking of punctuation, I think one reason it's so hard to stop smoking is that cigarettes are the commas of life.

Hey! Check out this article on the overuse of exclamation points! ("the literary equivalent of canned applause"): http://nyti.ms/kWVKU8

why stability, not strict monogamy, should be the goal of a successful marriage:  http://nyti.ms/mbb4wd

New photo shoot with my beautiful sister Melusine; Castello Ruspoli, Vignanello http://www.taoruspoli.com/services/graph/gallery/8563345_AWVSh/1366526587_hhwMvjg

Dinner with Graydon Carter in Italy

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Christian Louboutin, Bella Freud, Tao, James Fox & Jimmy Lux Fox

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Shot of the Day: James Fox & Bella Freud at their home in London

New Photos: Corsica & Sardegna Sail

New Shoot: Vail Bloom

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Alexander Cockburn dumps on Nuke loving greens and Man Made Global Warming

Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros in magical live acoustic show in Mexico

A rapturous day of Rapture

On May 21st, 2011, the world was supposed to end. A group of wonderful people appeared at my "man cave" in Venice. We thought the world had in fact ended and we all ended up in heaven together.
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New Photos: Kentucky Derby 2011

Shot of the Day

New Shoot: Paz de la Huerta for Joe's Jeans

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The Love Project Episode 4: "Simplest Love" Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros Live Acoustic

Just Say Know Redux: Dado Ruspoli on Heroin and Opium addiction

The Love Project Episode 3: Nana from Ghana

The Love Project Episode 2: A Musical Interlude

New Photos: Magic Mongoose Moments with JW

The Love Project Episode 1

New shoot: Kassidi

Clip of the Day--Tokyo

Shot of the Day

Los Angeles to San Francisco in 2 minutes 48 seconds

Bulerias inspired by Erik Satie

Gallery: The History of LAFCO

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Austin Peralta performs Schubert for Being in the World

Tao Ruspoli unscripted reel

Austin Peralta plays Chopin Ballade no. 4

On Staying Human in a Technological Age

Tao Ruspoli tocando Bulerias del Gastor con Reyes de 1964

Tao Ruspoli Bulerias Del Gastor (Los Angeles, May 10, 2010)

Caffeinated Bulerias

Joe's Jeans Shorts by Tao Ruspoli

The Morakestra; Tell You Something directed by Tao Ruspoli