uh… wow. making all other lookbooks jealous.
These Things No.20
thought a these things is appropriate after such a long time away. 20 is a nice round number, too.
vanessa jackman’s behind the scenes photos of MiH Jeans s/s 2012 lookbook
endless summer – a new tote from fieldguided
this illustration inspired by stella mccartney s/s 2011 by jiiakuann via mallory
i would like a swedish torp, please. via my scandanavian retreat
made this chicken salad with spicy ginger dressing twice in the past week – it is DELICIOUS
love these minimal wallets by noah lambert – would be a perfect gift for a guy. via swiss miss
claudine dory photography via butter + brass
sunny walker by closet visit
amy merricks’s photography for frankie zmetra’s new online shop lawrence
finnish textile designer vuokko nurmesniemi’s home photographed by Kaarle Hurtig for Apartamento
kiekeboe 2011 a/w lookbook via honeykennedy
rethinking the identity of a british seaside town by proud creative via design work life
the good life by adrian richardson looks like an amazing cookbook
steven alan fall 2011 lookbook
a crowd gathering to watch the sunset in greece by becky trow
and finally, shake by calri davidson made me laugh
Alison Scarpulla
wow, i love these works by photographer alison scarpulla. read an interview with her here & buy her prints too.
Byrds Will Fly
while i was away i received a wonderful email from south african artist Paul Edmunds (also husband of Heather Moore aka Skinny Laminx). paul kindly offered to send me a music mix that he was putting together, “something a little more boy-ish in a way, which is not to say that it’s loud or shouty, more jangly guitars and boys singing harmonies, and even some country stylings. all in the lineage of my perennial faves the Byrds.” – um YES PLEASE.
so what better way to dust off the holiday hiatus than with a mid-month music mix? i listened to this a few times on sunday, and it perfectly accompanied a quiet day catching up on work and pottering around the house. pretty sure this would be an excellent mix to play on a roadtrip, too – preferably through a desert somewhere.
“Enjoy the jangly guitar, golden harmonies and even country stylings of this mix which doesn’t so much pay homage to The Byrds as make a darn good case for the contention that they invented pretty much everything I love.”
Byrds Will Fly. download it here. playlist:
- The Decemberists – Calamity Song
- Vetiver – You May be Blue
- Hush Arbors – Lisbon
- The Sadies – Postcards
- Volebeats – Asking Why
- Vetiver – I Know No Pardon
- Teenage Fanclub – Dumb Dumb Dumb
- Mojave 3 – Running with Your Eyes Closed
- Cashier No. 9 – Goldstar
- The Coral – Two Faces
- Shack – Byrds Turn to Stone
cover photo by paul
all music is for sampling purposes only – please go out and buy the artists’ records & support them at their shows!
Just a moment
still on holiday on this side of the world, but i have been keeping one eyeball on the internet – so thought i’d share some beautiful photos that have been crossing my path. normal posting to resume next week!
- by rogier houwen
- by nishe
- by lauren rosenbaum
- by beata wilczek
- by alex veledzimovich
- by tamara painé ciai
- by mervecan saral
- by maja malou
- by robert moses joyce
- by alexis mire
These Things No.19
thank you for the enthusiastic response to yesterday’s post – i will definitely be expanding on that idea in the near future (collages, fashion, art… can’t help myself really). BUT i’m going on holiday from today and will only be back to the internet world next week sometime – holiday fun depending. in the meantime, here’s a these things. have a great weekend!
floral designer & stylist amy merrick launched her new website, and it’s beautiful
tomboy style compiled the grid - a master list of Tomboy Style essentials
this is my proof by duane michals via vic
“This Photograph is my proof. There was that afternoon, when things were still good between us, and she embraced me, and we were so happy. It did happen. She did love me. Look see for yourself!”
loving these videos for marion deuchars’ new book let’s make some great art via it’s nice that
mallory has been compiling some awesome things
i’m constantly looking for scraps of paper to scribble reminders on when i’m at my computer – that’s why desk it is perfect. via swiss miss.
“waste landscape is a 600 square meters artificial undulating landscape covered by an armor of 60 000 unsold or collected CDs, which have been sorted and hand-sewn.” – via the contemporist
legato is a beautifully designed collection of three printed books with photographs taken on a road trip to san juan capistrano - a collaboration between designer jory dayne and photographer weston colton. via design work life
this photo by jonathan levitt (need a holiday)
the best photos are always taken in iceland. photograph by reinhard pantke
print combinations by wolf eyebrows
graphic design & packaging for falcon enamelware by morse studio via september industry
how to do the simple gibson tuck by sarah lynn paige
these photographs for moop by jamie of from me to you
and finally, this made me feel like i could die of happiness – a mariachi band serenading a beluga whale via door sixteen
Rosy Disposition
just an idea i’m playing around with.
image credits from top to bottom:
stockholm street style + pierre auguste renoir – roses from wargemont / lachsbroetchen + konstantin korovin – roses in blue jugs / vanillascented + henri fantin latour – roses / the sartorialist + konstantin korovin – roses
August
is it just me or is 2011 turning out to be the fastest moving year in living memory? AUGUST already!
… here’s a new music mix to calm you down.
August. download it here. playlist:
- Air Review – Waiting Lessons
- Typhoon – Summer Home
- Gotye ft. Kimbra – Somebody that I used to Know
- Bombay Bicycle Club – Shuffle
- Model Worker – Automatic Love
- Real Estate – It’s Real
- Cee-Ro – A Day in the Life (ft. John Lennon)
- Little Dragon – Shuffle A Dream
- Amy Winehouse - Tears Dry on Their Own (Organized Noize x Dungeon Family Remix)
- Washed Out - Wicked Game (Chris Isaak Cover)
- California Waves – Tokyo
- Okkervil River – Mermaid
ps: the cover art is a mish mash of these prints
all music is for sampling purposes only – please go out and buy the artists’ records & support them at their shows!
Woolwich Dockyard Portraits
got totally sucked in by this amazing set of photos taken by George Plemper in London in the late 70′s & early 80′s
For a period of 5 years between 1978 to 1982 photography was a way to prove to myself that I was still alive. Unable to unable to make sense of the “real world” and “real people” who told me that I was too sensitive, too quiet, too thoughtful, too strange, I found that my world changed when I picked up the camera. Through the viewfinder a new and better world opened up and, best of all, it acted as a shield. I did not have to get too close when I held the camera. In 1979-82 I used to visit the Clockhouse Community Centre in Woolwich Dockyard, London SE18 and these are a few of the sights I saw.
all photographs by George Plemper
Jen: Things I like right now
YES! a new things i like right now by one of my favourite new-to-me bloggers Jen McCabe of Honey Kennedy (named for her grandmother). well not so new anymore i guess – i have been reading Jen’s blog for a while now and am consistently amazed by her discoveries with every post, especially in the fashion department. her things i like right now list is no less impressive, it has left me with several tabs open on my browser waiting to be explored. be sure to follow her on twitter as she is a fun gal to gab with (let’s bump top knots some time eh, Jen?)
Things I like right now by Jen of Honey Kennedy
1. Harold Pierce Cazneaux’s photography. His work is so incredibly striking. Hauntingly beautiful use of light—I especially love his portraits.
2. The Vaccines. I don’t tend to be very current in what I choose to listen to. I kind of lean on my shoegazery and 1960’s garage/psych/baroque pop laurels and it takes a nudge from a friend to get me to venture outside of that noise. My friend, Sasha, has a lot of the same music loves and she urged me to give these fellows a listen. I am now totally addicted to (and crushed out on) their record, What Did You Expect From The Vaccines. I also love Sasha’s new band with her husband, The Horoscopes!
3. Isson sunglasses. I’m super picky about sunglasses. I don’t mean that they have to be fancy—I have $5 sunglasses that I wear a lot—but I just don’t like most shapes on my big heart shaped head. I love both the pink and black ‘Bonnie’ style sunglasses from Isson. Isson’s Oscar and Louis styles are also very cool. Others I love are these Cutler + Gross shades for Cacharel.
4. Itty Bitty Kitty Committee. KITTENS KITTENS KITTENS. Laurie is a kitten whisperer and excellent photographer. I really love visiting her site for a happy pick me up. She really does amazing work for the Humane Society.
5. Fahrenheit 451 by François Truffaut. I guess it isn’t just this film that I’m really into right now, but all of the actor, Oskar Werner’s, films. I’ve had a mad crush on him since I was a teenager and I think his work is fantastic. I wish I could have seen him on the stage! My favorites are Fahrenheit 451 and Jules et Jim—of course, I love Jeanne Moreau and Julie Christie. I could go on for hours about movies.
6. My grandparents. John McCabe and Ellen Jacquelyn “Honey” Kennedy McCabe. I really miss them—they’ve both passed away. There is just so much I wish I could share with them and talk with them about. I miss hearing all their stories, laughing with them and hugging them. They were my pals.
7. Vintage Stanhope jewelry. I love the little peepshow aspect of the ‘optical bijou’ Stanhope novelty pieces. These binoculars from Erica Weiner’s shop is an especially cool example. I also love the nudey lady ring!
8. Lavenham. The new collection of women’s clothing from English horse blanket company, Lavenham, is making me rethink my feelings on quilted apparel. The styling for the lookbook is fantastic. I’m impressed that they were able to make these pieces so elegant—quilting can look so boxy or lumpy.
9. The Firework Studies book by Pierre Le Hors. Just so beautiful. I am so fascinated by stars and the night sky and this book seems to hit all those romantic notes for me… with fire. I love so much of Pierre Le Hors’ work.
10. Making music mixes. I really love making music mixes on 8tracks. I have an obscene amount of music and thoroughly enjoy the whole process of putting together a mixtape. You can find my mixes here.
11. Collages by Gloria Vilches. I think her work is so eye-catching and clever. A lot of people do collage, but rarely do people do it this well. My good friend, Steve Quenell, also makes collages that blow my mind. Psychedelic National Geographic! Ha.
12. Skulls. I don’t know why, but for the past year or so I’ve really admired some beautiful skull designs. Here are three of my favorites: the skull earrings by Like Atmosphere from Phucisme, Trevor Jackson’s porcelain skull with bunnies and the skull chandelier by Kelly Lamb. All out of my budget, but inspiring all the same.
13. Fille en Aiguilles (“Girls in the Pines”) perfume by Serge Lutens. Pine, vetiver, sugary sap, frankincense, candied fruit, spices, laurel and fir balsam. This perfume is heady and… well, lusty. I guess it is supposed to smell of girls laying on a forest floor—and this is exactly how I’d like to smell. I got it at my friend’s new Portland shop, Eden, but you can find it online as well.
14. ABRACADABRA pendant necklace from Aesa. Just the perfect magical necklace. It has a tiny pink sapphire embedded in it and comes on a nice long chain. Bewitching!
