Triptych Tuesday: Photos in the wind

Eric Wimberly on behance.net

and today miss chung wore… sunglasses!

vogue is here to answer even the most apparently superficial questions of modern living. if you’re curious as to what the little miss tom-boy-pony-girl formerly of east london is up to in terms of her wardrobe choices for the month of Feb, you should have a squiz at this.

agreed, a million times kabillion blogs out there are showing daily what this-little-madame-is-wearing-today, but this time it’s alexa clocking in.

like all the other blogs, every day she sends in a photo from her phone to show us what she’s wearing and yes, cardiagns and sandals are feature so far, but ANYTHING COULD HAPPEN in the world of chung wardrobe. heck, maybe we’ll see a romper (not trying to give anything away here, but you should check out today’s selection. there may or may not be a romper. but if there is, it’s pretty cute).*

*i need to add: wherever she is, it not england. i can see the fricken sun. and she’s in sundresses. and she is wearing sunglasses in almost every shot. not fair vogue, not fair. pass me the fake tan.

image via wesewfashion

living with the lark

Lark began in england in 2005 when allison jones started to make things using the vintage materials she had been collecting since she was a teenager. her whimsical range of hand-made toys and vintage dresses were bought by some lovely shops and so she decided to create her own business, combining her passion for craft with the skills she had gained through her career in publishing. she now runs the business/blog/online store ‘lark’ with her australian husband and lives just outside of melbourne, australia.

here, via the design files, you can take a wee little peek in to Allison’s wonderful, cosy abode of old fashioned arts and crafts charm and design memorabilia. i love her house. it is in equal parts olde-worldy chic and children’s play room, never taking itself too seriously.

i want to go round and play at allison’s house!

your path to happiness

flow diagrams make everything so obvious. They cut all the clutter out, take away that dastardly personal thing called ‘emotion’ and present you back with clear cut options and their subsequent outcomes.

For anyone who’s starting 2010 a little unsure of themselves, and not quite as chippy chappy as you’d hope, take a peek at this one.

My future abode

I think this is the house for me. equal parts ewok-tree-village-from-star-wars, and 2001: a space odyssey.

This building was created by Robert Harvey Oshatz for the Wilkinson family in Portland Oregon. A futuristic mess which seemingly winds and tumbles like the tree canopy in which it invades. Magical.

Robert Harvey Oshatz via burstoid.com

The Room: apparently the worst film ever made! (2003)

one of the guys i work with in adland showed me a really weird 7 second clip on youtube about a month ago. it features a long-haired, heavily scarred actor, (methinks he could be an ex-pornstar…)  declaring his lover laura was “tearing him apart”. the thing is, his line was delivered with equal part drama to equal part zero acting ability. we laughed, we cried, we marveled at this piece of novice thespianism and randomness. and then, my colleague ended up seeing the film from which the clip came late one night in london.

in his own words: “it was one of the weirdest experiences of my life!!!” it turns out this film has quite a cult following and they are pretty devoted to watching it in late night cinemas and playing along with the script.

when there was a sex scene EVERYONE walked out saying “let’s get out. it’s the sex scene. we can’t see that!! sex scene! OUT!!” or in a scene where a spoon features on the wall of an apartment, the entire audience, minus my friend, started throwing plastic spoons at the screen, shouting “SPOOONS SPOONS SPOOOOONS!!!!”

yeah. that would weird me out too. check it out on youtube. please. it just might bring a little bit of amusement to your world and also a touch more appreciation for when cinema actually gets it right.

SPOONS!!!!!!!

via wikipedia

image via plumblines

via flickr

how many times can you get FUG in to the title of a blog post?

pretty much EVERY time, if you’re one of the (teetering on the edge of) genius writers for one most AWESOME celebrity blogs this solar system has ever known. hey- i can’t speak for the whole milky way, but i suspect this one takes the biscuit for those of us orbiting around the sun. what am i babbling about today? well it’s not new but it is pretty amusing and you might not know about it, so here it is: gofugyourself.

yes, apparently fugly is the new pretty. especially if you chose to obey (in a slavish fashion) the dress-sense of the famous the writers have chosen prey on. yes, it’s slebs in pretty fricken interesting (or straight out horrific) fashion choices, with witty discourse to prove it. whether or not they deserve their comeuppnace is always open to debate in the comments, but i have to say, i am a little bit in awe of their writing style. someday i hope to be able to write in such a scathing, hands-down LOL funny tone and not feel bad about it. until then, go fug yourself.

“I love you, but we need to talk. Visible bra? Girlish pleated skirt? Puffy vest? Bare midriff? You’re reminding me of something….what is it? Beef dressed as veal — no, that’s not it. Pickles dressed as cucumbers — no, almost, but not quite. 35-day dry-aged rib eye dressed as 21-day dry-aged rib eye — nope. Shoot. Right on the tip of my tongue. Oh, right; MUTTON DRESSED AS LAMB. Sweet honey child sister friend. You are allegedly 37. The days of schoolgirl skirts and bare midriffs are O.V.E.R. I hate to break it, but someone had to.”

“Fergie-Ferg was running so 2000-and-late to this party, she didn’t have time to change after the rousing game of “I Did Not Sleep With A Stripper And I Will Duct-Tape You To The Bed Until You Believe Me” with her husband. Whoops! Next time keep a pair of scissors and a mini-dress in the limo.”

ANYWAY. you need to go there, because i am only ripping off what is only one of the funniest blogs i have ever read and it makes me feel cheap.

lots of love,

lady worthington x

all images and quotes via gofugyourself

MANswear

Every fashion week since it’s creation in 2005 MAN has created a platform for some of London’s most promising up and comers. The show is sponsored by Topman and has seen the likes of Kim Jones, Derek Walker, Siv Stoldal and James Long parade their latest creations. In spring/summer 2010 the chosen ones were; Katie Eary, Christopher Shannon and J.W. Anderson.

Amazing. Fresh. Cool.

Katie Eary

J.W Anderson

Christopher Shannon

For more show pictures click here

Nico X

Triptych Tuesday: Moules mariniere

I hope this is how I’m remembered.

Scott Nellis, hallucinogenic visions

We like email. We also like being able to help spread the word about young upstarts who are starting on their mission to get real paid. This is how I came across Scott Nellis, a Brighton based artist/illustrator who shot me a link-laden email a while back to promote his wares.

Nellis’ work isn’t something that i’m instantly drawn to – quite the opposite actually. But perhaps therein lies the appeal for some people. His drawings are quite disturbing, hallucinogenic visions replete with nightmarish imagery of giant floating eyeballs and hooded assailants.

I’m sure they’re frightening up close – and considering hollywood continues to pump out horror films, and tool still sell out, there’s clearly a market for this kind of artwork.

scottnellis.co.uk

Sarah Harvey, underwater love

Sometimes a well written press release sums it up better than i ever could. And sometimes i just get lazy.

Sarah Harvey’s figure portraits are the fruit of an unusual technique. Often seeking out a third person to photograph her bathing in emerald waters, she then pieces together the underwater images to build pictures of herself or another immersed in, and obscured by, liquid and light. These she works up into large canvases that provoke an immediate response of curiosity, of desiring to engage with and discover the person through a fluid confusion of visual cues. In this way, Sarah approaches painting from a most original position: as both a form of hyper-realism, documenting her images with photographic accuracy, and at the same time an exploration into the boundaries of abstract painting, and of where the two disciplines overlap. Her ability to make this a sensual and enticing experience for the viewer marks Sarah out as a truly exciting young painter.

sesameart.com

i’m having a my-little-pony-hair moment right now.

yes, i brayed in the face of lily allen’s strawberry sundae barnet circa 2008, but hey, i pretty much snort at most things the chain-smoking urban princess of pop does. still, top points for originality, lily i’ll give you that.

meanwhile at the turn of the decade, the idea of ‘new year new hair’ is hardly groundbreaking BUT the new colour palette of candy floss and italian ice-cream that certain fillies are going for has definitely NOT had a major fashion moment since the mid 80’s.  yes, the 80’s- when every girl’s favourite plaything was a plastic pony. why did we love them so (apart from the fact that most girls go through a horse phase and a pony counts as an even cuter smaller horse)? i think, looking back it was because of the fantasy colours they came in. it was all soft candy pinks and lollipop shades of blue and purple. and you chose your pony in accordance with your little budding personality (i was a blue girl. never pink, thank you).

…and little girls don’t grow up- we just get bigger. and we learn about bleach and we get bored. so here it is: 2010- the year of the my-little-pony-gilato-palette-mane-do-hair-thingy. i’m feeling a little pistachio right now.

not quite right… but…

georgia may gets it spot on!

tavi’s doing it for the blog…

this little fashionista’s going for a darker take…

and kanye’s girl, amber rose is matching her mane to her pants!

and here we have the original style icon herself, my little pony. what a star!

images via nowmagazine, webservices, stylerookie, jak&jil and buzznet

black.

who ever said we needed a new black? black is always and forever the only black you’ll ever need.

and as demonstrated by the cool and lovely giorgia, as snapped by frenchie’s finest garance dore, black-eyeliner never really dates. the smudgier the better.

image via garance dore

Paris couture is ok with me

Couture collections are the good, the bad and the ugly in fashion intensified. When it’s good it’s breath taking, but when it’s bad it’s….well, really bad. What I’ve come to realise over the years is whether you’d actually wear this stuff or not is beside the point, it’s all about creating pieces of art. I like that.

Here’s some pieces that caught my eye.

chanel

givenchy

jean paul gaultier

nico xx

Amish. Hot or not?

Photographer: Lachlan Bailey

Stylist: Beth Fenton

Nico X

Arial vs Helvetica

No font is held in such high regard for a generation of designers as Helvetica. Similarly, apart from comic sans, few fonts are as disliked as Arial.
I’ve always wondered if it was simply a mac vs windows thing, or that it was just a safe name to drop when in a conversation with a designer?

Some smart person has done the obvious, yet crafty thing and put the two fonts side-by-side and overlapped to reveal their differences. In most instances Helvetica is clearly the simpler, more elegant font (see the angles on the r, t and c for example).

I wonder if this comparison chart only lists 10 characters because all others are identical? I might have to do some investigating myself…

found on the deerbrains blog

the catorialist.

are you a cat lover? meow, me too. i love cats about as much as i love fashion and thank goodness, i’m not alone.

ladies and gentlemen, may i introduce to you…

the catorialist. selected as one of Cat Fancy’s Top 100 Catstyle Influencers!

have a bowl of milk and get your paws on this little blog. it’s more amusing than your average ball of yarn.

yours, as ever,

lady worthington x

The dark art of gardening

You might cop a few stares being a green thumb after dark. However, any fashion photography that has been executed in a way that is as good as the concept itself, is a winner in my book. This is a great shoot for Vogue by photographer: Raymond Meier and fashion stylist: Elissa Santisi.

Nico XX

Mastering the fine art of collecting stuff

We try and find lots of cool stuff and post it up here. And we think we do a pretty good job most of the time. But every now and then I stumble across someone who clearly has finely tuned the art of ‘collecting cool shit’.

His name is junkyard.dog – and these are a few exerpts from his Flickr stream. Epic.

on Flickr. Found by Huwwwwie D

UFO’s & Crop Circles…are awesome

I don’t know what to believe.  It’s massively outlandish to concede that alien life forms come down to make some large scale temporary art installations, or that ‘earth vibes’ cause the beautiful shapes.

But then again, humans aren’t that crafty – for every crop circle creation you’d expect 10 groups being busted for tresspassing, but you don’t hear about it.

What do you think causes them?

PS: check out this vid. it’s pretty rad:

David Fullarton, words + pictures

These are 100 shades of awesomeness. Delve through David Fullarton’s Behance folio and be pleasantly surprised.

Words + pictures (in the same frame) usually suck. But he manages to toe the line perfectly.

I would write more, but I’m spent.

David Fullarton on Behance

Artist interview: Har Mar Superstar [video]

Waaay back in 2003 I first witnessed experienced a Har Mar Superstar show at Livid festival in Melbourne around that time also I saw him play a club show where he made out with half the audience. It was pretty frickin awesome, and definitely something everyone should witness.

I was lucky enough to catch up with Har Mar when he was in town playing some shows and kicking jams off his latest long player ‘Dark Touches’. Check out the clip of me in interview mode.

It’s hard to think of questions to ask and look composed when all you can think of is this:

Thanks to Har Mar and the Mercenary crew for the time

Philadelphia’s ‘Love Letter’

This clip is pretty inspiring. shows how an idea, some paint and an open minded local government can really transform a community for the better.

Meanwhile back in London…

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Go Figure

Triptych Tuesday: Eau naturale

I’m starting to enjoy triptychs that use the form to add an extra depth to a seemingly regular image. This is pretty sweet, a beautiful image split across three panels and multiple depths. I’d tell you who it’s from, but fffffound doesn’t give that kinda info. grrr…

butdoesitfloat.com via fffffffffffffffffffound

Snowblind in a polygonal landscape

I’ve been a bit slow at posting stuff of late, but no time like the present.

Mr Anthony Cozzi of Denver Colorado grew up on a diet of snowboarding, cycling, hiking and the good ol fashioned treats of the great outdoors that we don’t get or understand here in London.

It comes throuh in his work. Anthony creates delightful pieces under the moniker of snowblinded that you can put up on your wall in your city – and go back to pretending that the outside world doesn’t exist.

check out more at snowblinded.com