So here we are, this represents something which might change the way we do art. I did this on my iPhone today with a new app called 'brushes', which I found on The New Yorker site. This week's front cover of that venerable magazine was created by Jorge Colombo. I checked out the app on the iTunes store, and decided to treat myself to it. (its only $5.95, but I usually prefer getting free apps..) I can't wait to get really fluent with this, being the iPhone junkie that I am!
WOW and wow again...How can this be compared to anything or anybody? Henri Matisse created this print in 1945. (yes..) Everything else here on this blog today just gets wiped away into a frivolous little pile of nothingness. I love it when that happens. Everything just gets put into perspective. BTW, this poster is for sale. Yes.
Marc Jacobs has re-worked the eighties to the extreme, and introduced this era's multi-layered-ethno tribe (which is also quite eighties I think). Check out the rest of the cat-walk, it will be very familiar to those of us who were flying our feromones back then in the eighties!!
This must be one of my favorite colour combinations, and then to see it used by one of my favorite designers, in what looks like a sort of glossy organza...swoooon...
I took this picture when we were in Koh Samui the year before last. I still look at it alot, because of the dancing light, and the pattern created by the relationship between the girl and her dog. The dog was leaping up into the air for the ball. The light was dusk, and the air was thick with the scent of spices and frangipani, and that moist warmth which makes every cell in your body surrender.
I just love this elegant and timely classic. This picture is from a wonderful slide show currently being shown on 'The Daily Beast' page. Well worth checking out, there are some great natural yet journalistic pictures here. Enjoy!
'Talisman to vitalize the tongue. It is to be used under the sign of the thrid brand of the Twelve Earthly Branches, with corresponding symbolic animal Tiger, Zodical sign Gemini, hours 3-5 a.m., and point of compass East-North-East. It represents the Vital Energy (ch'i) of the purple clouds of the Centre of Heaven....'
Yeah I know its a bit corny...but how about that delicate transition from pale cool yellow, to frosty sweet pink, and that slight wind and angular light..I just couldn't resist! I took it with my phone camera (quality isn't great) yesterday in Preston. Poignant and sweet...
aaahhh...yes, this somehow evokes a universal beach dreaming state I think. It is from a book I have of Thierry Mugler's photographs from the late eighties. He has been a big influence on me.
Wow! I have a large pile of French and English Vogues dating from 1974. Some of them are falling apart at the bindings, they have been leafed through so much; and then moved from one place to the next over the last 35 years. (I have moved with all my things about 18 times in this period I think.) I have used them ruthlessly at times as the pillars of shelves or they have been left in cardboard boxes in the shadows of their former selves. They are fantastic, and I love them. I don't look at them very often these days, but today decided its time to dip in again..(stay tuned)
These exquisite hand made place mats are from the 1930's. They are perfect. The colours glow, the weaving is just so neat, the colours are jaw-droppingly beautiful (the reduduction I have created here really doesn't share how saturated and radiant the colours really are...). I inherited them from my mother. She had a draw full of linen and straw place mats. These were the best ones. They are some of my favorite things, and continue to nourish my eyes and heart with their simple beauty.
I look at this picture a lot. I took it in Dharamsala when I was there a few years ago. Somehow the colours remind me of the people I saw in the Andes when I was growing up in Columbia in South America. Only here are Tibetans in India! I love the echos of these saturated colours...
