design - complex geometries

minimal transeasonal transcending time simple complex neutral individual elegant alternative layers original

S/S 10

http://www.complexgeometries.com/

design - escape necklace by rebecca ward

Recycled computer key, sterling silver, synthetic thread chain. $110 au

http://shopmoose.com.au/

art - ben quilty

Quilty’s paintings could be mistaken for ice cream on canvas. that’s how generous and liberal his paint is lavishly applied. taking a closer look at his subjects you’ll see they’re actually about being smashed/the wildness of male youth. rising above clichés he paints his baby as a hamburger. Mr Quilty is pure freshness in the fine art market.

http://www.benquilty.com/

words - the product of nick cave

Listen to Nick Cave for 8 hrs straight.

i am a prehistoric fish
that lives for a thousand years
trapped at the bottom
of the bottom
of this silent oceanic madness
i am languid and looming
no one to see
no one to see me
darkness my only company

nd.

words - gone

Gone

pure vanilla sky
short and sweet
then gone.
slipping through my fingers
these careless thrift store hands
falling
cutting through the air
to crash into a thousand pieces
swept away and lost for eternity
my pure
vanilla sky


nd.

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

http://images.google.com.au/imgres?imgurl=http://esterknows.com/wp-content2/uploads/2008/02/hido.jpg&imgrefurl=http://esterknows.com/misc/todd-hido.php&usg=__YSBBGXG1QuRxJS-OcbyKwA1ROkc=&h=321&w=400&sz=29&hl=en&start=19&sig2=5dVDhRd2tNIzac0jFQ4kOg&itbs=1&tbnid=vtMWbbLjcwJoXM:&tbnh=100&tbnw=124&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dtodd%2Bhido%26start%3D18%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26gbv%3D2%26ndsp%3D18%26tbs%3Disch:1&ei=5C2SS_2JFI3k7AOZ2_ndCQ

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