November, 2012

Storm on the Water

Tuesday 20 November, 2012 / Music / Comments { 27 }

this music mix is just a mish mash of new music i like – it ranges from upbeat to more downtempo, and includes a rad cover of the Twin Peaks theme song by Field Mouse that i think you’ll enjoy.

usually i pick a song title as the mix name and then put together cover artwork based on that, but this time the process was the other way round. i discovered this 1947 painting called A Storm Is On The Water Now by folk artist Grandma Moses which i really like… and that’s the story behind that.

Storm On The Water. download it here. tracklist:

  1. The Little Ones – Argonauts
  2. Gold Motel – Brand New Kind of Blue
  3. A.C. Newman – Encyclopedia of Classic Takedowns
  4. New Navy – Regular Town
  5. Guards – Silver Lining
  6. The Reflections – Summer Days
  7. Lady Lamb the Beekeeper – Rooftop
  8. Local Natives – Breakers
  9. Santah – Indigo
  10. Sheep Man – Elementary
  11. Balto – Smokestacks
  12. Tiger Waves – Countryside
  13. Peace – California Daze
  14. Widowspeak – Ballad of the Golden Hour
  15. Yo La Tengo – Before We Run
  16. alt-J feat. Mountain Man – Buffalo Man
  17. Postiljonen - How Will I Know / All That We Had Is Lost
  18. Field Mouse – Falling (Twin Peaks theme)

all music is for sampling purposes only – please buy the artists’ records & support them at their shows!

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Amathunzi

Monday 19 November, 2012 / Stuff / Comments { 24 }

we took a much needed break this weekend and were lucky enough to spend a day with family at the amazing Amathunzi Nature Reserve (less than two hours outside Cape Town – man i love this country). if you follow me on instagram you might have seen my pics of our sunset visit from some zebras – including 2 babies – a herd of eland and an adorably lonely bontebok. consequently i’ve been catching up on work today, but check in tomorrow… a new music mix is on the horizon.

ps: all of these pics were taken on my iphone, snapped using the amazing pro hdr app – perfect for low light situations, or even when the sun is too bright for a decent photo. smart phones are amazing.

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These Things No.42

Friday 16 November, 2012 / Stuff / Comments { 15 }

my eyes just did one of those cartoon character bulges out of my face when i saw that the last these things i did was 1 month ago to the day. what. is. happening. to. time?! i was under the mistaken impression that i do one every week, and i should! be prepared to see more of these (things).

the sartorialist visited joburg recently and the pics are pretty rad:

kate miss knocks it out of the park again with her winter jewellery line lookbook:

beautiful & simple forget me not vases by aurelie richard:

explore clarisse demory’s paris flat:

the dreamcats calendar is back!

speaking of dreamcats, lovely to see anabela from fieldguided and other toronto locals featured at boots & pine:

a new favourite street style blog, a love is blind:

rouge cheeks and bobby pins after michael kors:

beautiful painted ceramics by lindsay emery at leif:

hansel from basel’s new lookbook:

a beautiful plant filled house and adorable cat:

john baldessari paintings are rad. feelings.

photos of swan lake by Raúl González:

wild cockatoos by leila jeffreys:

digging anja’s range of new range of bags for her label ann-ya:

dreamy goodies from Craft:

erin jang for paperless post:

these cats! photographed by clare canepa:

object is a cool shop:

really love these daniel wellington watches:

and finally, some shoes i’m digging…

top row: loeffler randall / salvatore ferragamo / matiko / maison martin margiela
middle: all A.P.C.
bottom: k. jacques / rachel comey / loeffler randall

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Good Hair

Wednesday 14 November, 2012 / Fashion / Comments { 24 }

i haven’t been able to get the beautiful hair accessories by Brook&Lyn and Jujumade out of my mind since they launched their LA colab series recently. why don’t we dress up our hair more? i’m not one to talk, since i barely ever wear my hair out of a top knot (yes i’m one of those). but it would be nice to see our tresses a bit more jazzed up. not in a diamanté alice band way (shudder) – just in a casual ”oh this ceramic barrette? i wear it all the time” way.

also reminded me of this revelation that bobby pins were actually invented to be inserted crinkle side down. did you know that? i did not, and judging by all the ladies in my twitter feed neither did they.

jujumade + brook&lyn hair accessories:

simple bobby pins at vanessa jackman:

maison michel for opening ceremony:

after dark copper hair cuff:

which you can achieve using an oysho copper hair tie:

always love the hair tutorials from a cup of jo:

also dig the DIY do’s from refinery29:

how to do a halo braid:

simple golden flower hair pins:

grecian leaf head piece:

floral haircomb by ginny & jude:

an elk antler (!) hair comb:

fun hair ties from anthropologie:

even funner match stick bobby pins by kate spade:

rodarte deco ball hair comb:

going a bit older now, a beautiful art nouveau hair comb:

 

more antique hair combs:

even older, hair combs from the qing dynasty:

 

 

and, unrelated by kind of related…

hair portraits by elizabeth mayville:

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Gisèle

Wednesday 14 November, 2012 / Art, Living / Comments { 17 }

Gisèle d’Ailly van Waterschoot van der Gracht is her full name – and only fitting for a 100 year old artist who grew up in an Austrian castle, studied at the Paris École des Beaux d’Arts (which was interrupted by the financial crisis in Europe  in the thirties & the oncoming war), provided shelter for Jewish Germans in her canal house apartment in Amsterdam during WWII – where she still lives today, rebuilt and lived in a ruined monastery on the island of Paros in Greece with her husband… she sounds like a remarkable woman, and her beautiful eclectic art filled home (she actually owns the entire building now) is a perfect reflection of that. do yourself a favour and read the entire article at Freunde von Freunden. what a treat for a random Tuesday morning.

Photography: Jordi Huisman for Freunde von Freunden

here is a picture of Gisèle during the war – thanks to Francesca Rheannon, whose father was part of the underground artist community that congregated at Gisèle’s home in WWII.

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