liil is me! My job is to track all kinds of design and art introducing some new quality, both in terms of of easthetics and satysfying practical needs. As a designer I'm going to contribute to this as well!
by Lidia Sajdak, Avedon gave me inspiration, J.gave
me her beautiful face and time
I go to toy shops pretty often. Well, the reason for that is not that I’m particularly keen on teddy bears and other cuddly, fluffy things. In my case, it’s kinda habit I have had since I started teaching English to the blind. At the very beginning of this part of my professional life I had to change my approach towards teaching process completely. I had taught before but then my assumption was that students in 80% acquire knowledge via vision and what to do in the case of students who use every sense except for sight? And at this point, toy shops came really handy. They provided me all teaching aids or simply “props” I needed. Now going through boxes with toys is just an unconditioned reflex. This way I purchased an elephant (visible in the picture)
And did you know that If you are in love you can see elephants?! :)
Well I either you can see elephants or you go blind; one of two options Neither's good :D
This long discourse on elephants made me to think about elephant skin. Have you noticed that it looks a bit like a maze. Insects living in the skin of an elephant make long distances everyday not knowing where they get stuck finally; in the mouth, in the ear, or in the ass.
Isn't similar in life, generally? We think we make conscious, reasonable decisions but in fact we are groping in the dark, many a time ending up in the... ass.
And to finish this stream of conscious I'll tell that elephants make me think about dinosours. I feel like a dinosour myself. Well in terms of extinct species. Well... I mean I feel like the only living representative of an extinct species;) And in a result, nobody is like me, just nobody!!!
A few weeks ago I saw glimpse of hope when I learned that some scientists dug a mammoth out. I thought that at last I found my half! Well joy ceased really quickly when it turned out the mammoth was female...
Any final conclusion? Yes! Whatever you do, wherever you go, whoever you love,or whoever loves you, there is no remedy, at the very end the ground will be awaiting you. (have you noticed that's the third element, come back to previous posts and wait for air!!!) Either you NOBODY or VIP you''ll end up as R.I.P.! Isn't depressing? Isn't comforting? Well, at least, it works two ways on me.
Let me take you to the parallel world. The world which will enchant you! I came across by pure chance these extraordinary and distinguished by breathtaking beauty, dolls. Their authour, Marina Bychkova, was disgusted by mediocrity of mass-producted dolls and decided to make something contrary, unique pieces of art.
And here we have a photo session, inspired by dollies too, from 25th issue of Lounge that really enchanted me. Aneta Kowalczyk is its author. Though her surname is very common in Poland the high standards of photography she achieved are not.
The following portraits come from Annie Collinges' forthcoming, Five Inches of Limbo.
The series was inspired by dolls found in junk stores. What makes the
cycle even more interesing is the fact that the models are mostly
strangers Annie met on the streets.
“Il faut souffrir pour etre belle.”? Bullshit! According to the icon of fashion, Coco Chanel: "Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury." So basics have been covered. Now it's time to think what it takes to achieve this unconstrained style of mademoiselles and madames. I bet that most of you thought about money in the first place. Do you really have to fork out to look like a Parisienne? Again, bullshit! :)
Let me prepare ten "commandments" sticking to which will allow you to mimic successfully French style.
I. Wear dark and neutral colours (black, navy,
grey and white)
II. Tracksuits? Forget about tracksuits!!!
III Buy yourself a good pair of jeans. What does it mean good? Well, compelementing your figure.
IV. Don't dare to wear leggins without a skirt or tunic. C’est vulgaire!
V. Jacket. Wear mens jackets but make them more femminie. How? Combine it with a flattering top and add a nice belt for examaple, and ta-da! :)
VI. It's about layers! Wear clothes in a natural way. Everyday clothes are not your uniform, let some bits of your sweater just to peep out from behind your leather jacket. Add an eye-catching scarf et voila!
VII. Trench. Your wardrobe would be just useless without it.
VIII Don't wear sets. Everybody looks in them riddiculous. And a
Parisienne seeing you in them would think your useless at clothes
combination. Therefore mix, mix, mix! Expensive and cheap go really well together.
IX. Accessories. Don't wear too much at a time. A necklace, bracelet and earings piled up on one woman are out of question!
X. Shoes. Parisienne hate breaking their legs that's why they avoid stilletoes and they invest in safety, namely in ballerines. Sometimes even sneakers will do! Hard to imagine, huh? ;)
Basically, keep your outfit simple. An obvious combination of a T-shirt and jeans can look tres chic when combined with an attractive accessorium.
And time for the EXPERT!:
http://tammie900.onsugar.com/tag/Audrey-Tautou
Audrey Tautou starred the film ‘Coco Before Chanel’. Some people claim that she was a perfect inacarnation of the French fashion icon I'm not that sure of that what I'm sure is that she's got the French look. And looking at her is pleasing to the eye.
I'm fascinated by Asian design. It's difficult to say what it takes to create that smashing stuff. Is it a question of an ability just ingrained in Asian genes? Or is it rather a question of mundane work and fertile imagination? Who knows? But the results are blow-minding. And below a bit of oldies but goodies: Collection by Kunihiko Morinage at Japanese Fashion Week 2011/2012.
Kunihiko Morinage
Kunihiko Morinage
Kunihiko Morinage
All photos above come from: http://www.ballajack.com/mode-8-bit-geekettes
And at the end one of the best commercials I've seen this year :)
For the first time I've heard about analgesia from one of the books by Stieg Larsson. It's a condition which is characterized by lack of pain sensation. Sounds like a really cool disease... ;)
It took me about six days to read the whole trilogy. And I must admit that for a very long time no books have engrossed me so much!Though at first sight they seemed to longish it soon turned out that they are so skillfully written and end with a cliff-hungers that a reader is just dying for more! That's a great pity that it's only trilogy. And though you may hope the writer will write something more... you hope in vain. Stieg Larsson is dead...
That's Rooney Mara, she starred A Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.
An old saying goes: "Don't judge the book by the cover" But I do! And I find the original covers by a Swedish illustrator, Jörgen Einéus, smashingly the best! They make the books by Larsson just jump off the shelves.
And this is a French version of the covers... maybe they're nice... but they suggest some gothic stories and they don't go well with the real content of the books.
"Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the
sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what
is happening."
1920's fashion is still present. To me it's no surprise. It was a time
when people made a big step to the future and with no sentiment said good bye to the
previous era. The change embraced all fields of life; manufacturing,
technology, music. And the revolution of that time still has wide
repercussions. But the greatest change took place in women themselves.
They were fed up with waiting for company of men in everything. (note
that many young men had died in the WWI). They wanted to have FUN, FUN,
FUN! And the first thing they did was to kick out old-fashioned torture devices like corsets and crinolines. Freedom reigned!
by Sarah Moon
http://minaandoli.blogspot.com/2010/04/other-sarah-moon.html
Contemporary designers are still reaching for a great variety of cuts and patterns dating back to 1920's. One of my favourite collection inspired by flappers was the one created by Galliano for Dior for season A/W 2009/2010
Some time ago I couldn't help myself and designed a rubber flapper
dress. Dress is made with vinyl gloves and rubber bands. It took a w h i
l e... to make it! The results below :)
And a bit of Polish music from that times but in new arrangements. Enjoy! :)
Sometimes bad hair may cause some great misunderstandings. You may be taken for somebody you aren't, you never were, or even don't want to be ever. A hillarious situation of this kind occurred once to Frank Zappa during of an interview.
"An interviewer with a wooden leg said to Frank Zappa, 'With your long
hair, from where I am sitting you could be a woman.' Frank Zappa
replied, 'From where I'm sitting you could be a table.'"
Hair extensions may be a good idea. Hair extensions may be a bad idea... But think it twice before you make a change difficult to repair . Buy a cap first! ;)
![Man SOM Hatar Kvinnor [The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo] (Chinese... Cover Art](http://i43.tower.com/images/mm114212284/man-som-hatar-kvinnor-stieg-larsson-paperback-cover-art.jpg)
![Flickan SOM Lekte Med Elden [The Girl Who Played with Fire]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51M39Abi-hL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
