mutant birds

Tuesday 29 June 2010 at 05:15 am

Anna Piaggi

Wednesday 19 May 2010 at 4:50 pm

in her office

with Karl Lagerfeld

with her Blitz friends

Photos from numerous fashion blogs, as well as the world's greatest website The Blitz Kids - which was finally updated yesterday, right after I stole some pictures. Yey!

tarot cards

Sunday 11 April 2010 at 11:16 pm

Edit: Haha, I just noticed a really stupid mistake on The Magician.

old and new

Friday 28 August 2009 at 01:32 am
Inspired by the children in the movie Village of the Damned (the original, not the remake).




During drawing classes, several body parts from different classmates overlapping.



This was an exercise I did in Illustration class, the original drawing isn't mine, it's Stéphane Blanquet's, from his book "La Vénéneuse aux deux eperons". The illustrations are sillouetes, like shadow puppet theatre. There is a good article on the book here, and to better understand what the comic looks like go here. Basically the point of this exercise was to draw what's invisible, in the dark. This was my interpretation of it and nothing more. I was really pleased with it.

My childhood drawings

Thursday 27 August 2009 at 10:30 pm I was going through some stuff I needed to scan, and I thought I should take the opportunity to finally share some of my childhood drawings that I found when I was cleaning up my room. Some of them make me laugh hysterically, a lot of them I was way too embarrassed to post. But anyway, here they are!

You know, I look at the stuff from when I was 10 and it's ridiculous, I mean, kids these days are so much more grown up than we were back then. Even stuff from when I was 12 or 13, I was much more of a child than regular 13 year olds these days, who are more like full-grown teenagers. I'm not sure if it's good or bad.

Anyway, when I look at these I get confronted with a side of me with a kind of freedom I wish I still had. I was always drawing, and I didn't care at all about the end result, I just did it because it was the one thing I loved to do. And it was amazing. I wish I still had it, that spontaneity. It was much more creative.

Avó Regina (Grandmother Regina)

go here for more!

I wish people would share their childhood drawings more, I love to look at them. Do you have any? Please share!

Photo of the day

Thursday 27 August 2009 at 05:26 am

Thumbnail alert, click for full size!

Barbara i Gongini

Thursday 20 August 2009 at 06:21 am

I've been wanting to post this for a while. It is just so nice. See the rest of the collection here. I'm very much into the deconstructed drapey trends, always take me back to Comme des Garçons, and I just love it so much.

I wish the summer would end already! I miss being wrapped in layers and layers and more layers, I feel so uncomfortable when I don't layer. But mostly I feel extremely uncomfortable with this horrid hot weather. I can't even sleep! You can tell, right?

Mugen Edamame

Wednesday 19 August 2009 at 03:22 am

If you haven't heard of edamame, they are boiled baby soybeans. In Japan, they usually are served salted and are a perfect snack while drinking beer. Now you have the popping edamame keychain, each with three beans which you can pop time and time again wherever and whenever you want.

And guess what, the middle bean comes in twelve different expressions:

I really need one of these, just in case I desperately need to pop some edamame. In fact, I wish I could do it right now! Just look at the commercial for the awesomeness that is this keychain. Look how happy they look popping their edamame!


♪ mametsumame, mametsumame, mametsumame, edamametsumame ♪
I totally can't get this tune out of my head. Need it on my ipod, need the keychain, so I can be happy on the bus.

Via ThinkGeek

Laura Kikauka

Friday 14 August 2009 at 11:24 pm I've recently discovered Laura Kikauka, an artist known mainly for her love for collecting and chaotic installations. Looking at her work is somehow recovering a childhood fantasy of mine.



You may read (and see) more on her artist portrait at culturebase.net, from which I quote:

Laura Kikauka from Canada has been called a collectoholic and a techno-nymph. Her passion for collecting is limitless. She lives in her installations, her collages of kitsch, imitations, nick-nacks, throw-offs, flawed copies and toys. The world of accessories comes to life in her hands and proves to be laden with longing, grief and anxiety.

And it seems she does live in her installations, photos of her home I found via this livejournal post show exactly that, and leave me both extremely jealous and also quite confused - how does one clean this? Is it even possible?

Opposite to her home, her website seems to be full of absolutely nothing, however google is great. I'll make it easy for you though, here are her pages at DNA and Spacex. Also here is a video of her exhibition at Spacex Exeter this year.



And that's not all, she looks fabulous:

Sergei Parajanov

Wednesday 01 April 2009 at 7:52 pm

Sergei Parajanov was a Soviet Georgian film director and artist, widely regarded as one of the 20th century's greatest masters of cinema. He invented his own unparalleled cinematic style. His oeuvre is extremely poetic, artistic and visionary and is acclaimed worldwide. - from Wikipedia.

A few days ago I randomly stumbled on a video using images of Sergei Parajanov's films. I was immediately in love. I've been searching the internet like crazy on more information, and trying to collect all his films. Today I watched Sayat Nova (The colour of Pomegranate). Every scene is like a moving painting, and it's impossible to take your eyes off of the screen.

To better understand the work of Sergei Parajanov, you should watch the following documentary that someone was kind enough to upload on youtube:



After his death, his home in Yerevan, Armenia became the Parajanov Museum. Here are some pictures taken from Armenian Pages, click for full size!

And now I leave you with some stills of Sayat Nova. You wouldn't imagine how difficult it was choosing when to screencap.

Now I really, really, really want to go to Armenia. And it isn't just because I want to visit the Parajanov Museum. Who wants to come with me?