words - canonball

there’s still a little bit of your taste in my mouth
there’s still a little bit of you laced with my doubt
there’s still a little bit of your ghost your weakness
there’s still a little bit of your face I haven’t kissed
there’s still a little bit of your song in my ear

there’s still a little bit of your words I long to hear


Lyrics from Canonball by Damien Rice, Photograph by Todd Hido

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style note - alice

While watching, Alice in Wonderland, I couldn’t help but think,
"Fk. I really wouldn't mind wearing Alice’s armour costume out this weekend".
Maybe minus the bottom bit. Or, minus the top bit and that net thing...

Ps. Wow Tim Burton.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4006/4193281644_a024cc2cea_o.jpg
http://www.timburtoncollective.com/uploaded_images/vorpal-thumb-585xauto-3093-741426.jpg

art - johnny hardstaff

Sketches that will make you tick.

http://www.johnnyhardstaff.com/images/drawings/johnny_hardstaff_hayling_sketch014_1024.jpg

art - melbourne photos

design - ohne titel

Look 1 from the spring summer 2010 collection. We know it's just hit fall down under but isn't this just super rad. Ohne Titel is New York based Alexa Adams and Flora Gill; Adams spent several years at Helmut Lang and this influence is evident in their work. (Helmut Lang is King). Wanting to disect this ensemble and mix parts of it with plain jane pieces. Graphic, architectural, 60's mod'ish and classic in it's tailoring and colour pallette. Can you believe the whole range is this exciting. Check autumn winter while you're there.

http://www.ohnetitel.com/

style note - anti fashion

The anti fashion of fashion is still a fashion, it's just that it's anti fashion.

Try saying that five times real quick.

http://www.kdvp.co.za/FileUpload/pics/High%20School/Arts%20and%20Culture/Anti%20Fashion%20Show/Anti%20Fashion%20Show.JPG

art - gary baseman

Gary Baseman
HotChaCha, Inc.

As an established artist in the fine art world, Baseman’s work is part of the permanent collections of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C. and the Museum of Art in Rome. He creates highly sort after toys and collectables, illustrates for major corporations and publications, won an Emmy for the television series Teacher’s Pet and created artwork for the best selling game Cranium. His work has a distinct surreal feel.

Vital Artery was greatly inspired by Baseman’s “Happy Idiot,” and wanted to share the moment with you. It’s a story about a snowman in love with a mermaid who melts so she can live in his body of water.

It was created while going through a transitional phase, “I was giving up most of my traditional art jobs… Having trouble in my marriage and found myself longing for unattainable beauty. I began to draw mermaids and fairies… I found myself drawing this snowman over and over again. From there, I found him holding a mermaid, and from there the story was created.

I started to imagine the Snowman, sacrificing himself by melting himself down to allow his love, the Mermaid, to live within his body of water.”

It's kind of like that scene from, Prozac Nation - the film, when Elizabeth explains that devouring your lover would be the only way to truly possess them.

Hugely creepy yet unbelievably beautiful. Dontcha think?

I'll be your mermaid if you'll be my snowman.

Sketch Book, Conceptual Drawings from the World’s Most Influential Designers by Timothy O’Donnell.
http://www.graphics.com/modules.php?name=Sections&op=viewarticle&artid=765

style note - old people

Ever get the urge to photograph the elderly because you're inspired by what they wear and the way they dress? Dead serious. Put it down to their nonchalance. Their unconcerned attitude with keeping up with the status quo. Even Andy Warhol would have agreed:

“When a person is the beauty of their day, and their looks are really in style, and then the times change and tastes change, and ten years go by, if they keep exactly their same look and don’t change anything and if they take care of themselves, they’ll still be a beauty”.
Excerpt from, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

So, carry your camera around in hope of capturing the grandmas and pa’s.

You'll either make their day or they’ll try hitting you with their walking stick.

words

There once was a girl.

She didn’t take life too seriously and was often amused at her own inner thoughts. Maybe it’s cause she had a lonely childhood and developed a vivid imagination. Shameful but true. Shameful but glad, actually.

So when she was quite young, her head was always buried in books and magazines aimed at a much older audience. She would read the dictionary because she loved words. She had the worst staring problem. She would pay attention to the slightest details of her surroundings. She spent her time writing poetry, drawing, playing dress ups, watching ‘rage’ and listening to the radio on ear phones so she wouldn’t disturb anyone. She remembered the one time in early primary school when she was caught by a bunch of peers, dancing and singing around a tree at playtime, by herself. Pause for laughter. The vivid imagination was ridiculed!


She came to see that everyone’s constructed in different ways and to see the world from a different angle is so much more wonderful than anything else. She pitied those constrained by a conventional way of thinking (not in a bitter way but a truly sympathetic way).


Some people just aren’t capable of expanding their mind.

Some people miss out on the true beauty of life.