waited for that

stills from this clip & this show

You, who know all the secrets of life

accidental composition...

kumiya mashita

two things that I'll never forget

light play: black white and grey, by Laszlo Moholy Nagy


...Moholy-Nagy's fellow Hungarian Alexander Korda commissioned him to design special effects for the science fiction film Things to Come. He was asked to make a film about the sex life of the lobster, at a time when David Attenborough was still a boy. A quizzical Moholy-Nagy spent several weeks on the Sussex coast getting to know the fishermen, grappling with their dialect, recording their families and close community. At the other end of the social spectrum, he took photographs for Bernard Fergusson's book Portrait of Eton and John Betjeman's Oxford University Chest. Where Sybil responded to 1930s England with an often explosive impatience at its snobbery, Moholy-Nagy remained unemotional, professional. The English class structure was the object of his fascinated observation.

But Moholy-Nagy was not totally cold-shouldered. He designed the publicity for Jack Pritchard's English modernist Isokon Furniture Company. One leaflet included a typically dreamlike small drawing of a figure floating in a bath, suggesting that a Breuer Long Chair gave a similar sensation. Imperial Airways commissioned him to design a mobile exhibition to tour the British empire in a railroad car, promoting the still-novel idea of air travel. He became display consultant for the menswear store Simpsons of Piccadilly, bemusing passersby with his abstract compositions of striped shirts and bowler hats. But these activities were desultory in relation to Moholy-Nagy's far-reaching design philosophy.

Is there anything this man didn't do? I really wonder how a conversation between hedi slimane and moholy nagy would play out.

lightly played

beautiful underwear by Jean Yu / epic angles by bassam el okeily / reflective graphics

stung by the silence

1.christophederiviere, 2.ed ruscha,
4. clyde keller, 'two on the skid'

the picture of...

'Lady Grey'
Vogue Italia March 2010
Shot by: Tim Walker



some more pictures here...

tim walker turns earl greys home into a disheveled dreamland of shadowy greys...

silence in the shadowy land

Kim Høltermand

via the strange attractor

(and wise words from designer Chad Hagen for this article on overcoming a creative block)

Staying creative is hard work. Honestly, I don’t think when I got into art school I was very talented at all. I struggled to stand out. I struggled to stay in school. Staying creative was hard work. BUT, the one thing that kept me focused was my desire to be good. I wanted to be really good. I wanted to be as good as those people that WERE talented. I used to think I would eventually, if I worked hard enough, master art like a math equation and then I could relax and just make great stuff and let everything else follow. That time definitely never came, and I know now I never want it to, because the most important thing that keeps me creative is my wanting to be good. So if I’m ever in a rut, the best things to get me out of them is to put myself in places that engage that desire to be good. In a general sense this means to get out and be expose to others creating. In my opinion, there is no better way to trigger your own creativity, than to see what great things others have made or are making. Going to museums, galleries, shows, etc. always inspires my mind in a way that make me want to get back into my own work and make good things. Be good.

do come in, the light's quite perfect

secret chord

i like the way a neon and grey palette can be soft and subtle even if the thought of it is harsh. its strange to think of all the colours that fit in between fluoro and grey
grafik jan05...jil sander 08 / agnes martin

fading canvas

'closed lids' erwin blumenfeld

'the style of michelle obama', by brian rae

'resident church' by zecc

... when minusing is more important than adding.

the moon hung low in the sky like a yellow skull

dark and creepy editorials are often my favourite.

Vittoriano
Photo : Jean François Lepage
Model : Mathilde Frachon

(i think parisienne model Mathilde Frachon from the editorial above has such a stunning and unique face. not sure why she isnt everywhere.)

give me the key

losing my way in a labyrinth of grimy streets

spaces between...the ultimate grey area.
japan has the best alleyways and i became a little obsessed with photographing them when i was there...




Japanese architect Tsuyoshi Ando has explored this concept in his house of corridors... Mysterious, minimal and just extremely cool. see more at what we do is secret.

bring coffee, and fine champagne, and some cigarettes

preen SS10

soft fabrics, quiet palettes, fierce silouhettes. its not often you find all three in a collection.
this was exquisite...