This is one of my favourite photographs I’ve ever taken and this is one of my favourite poems, which I rediscovered the other day while surfing this lovely blog. I’ve recited it aloud probably fifteen times since. E. E. Cummings is magical.
Entries tagged as ‘Inspiration’
Recite me
January 26, 2010 · 2 Comments
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Tagged: Inspiration, Photography, poetry
Editorial
January 20, 2010 · 1 Comment
So like I’m styling now! Strangers have been like ‘Are you a stylist?’ (I think it’s cos I wear MC Hammer pants) and now I flip my hair and I’m like ‘Why yes I am, how’d you know?’ It’s like, brilliant. Speaking of which I love these editorials – Vogue China, etc. Much needed inspiration today.
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Tagged: Fashion, Inspiration, Style
Diya’s House
October 31, 2009 · 3 Comments
Diya Sarker is a beautiful girl and talented art director I just met. She lives in Bombay in a one bedroom studio, which Neville and I visited inebriated post midnight last Friday. I was in awe. Beautifully lit with fairy lights and Robot Chicken on her macbook, she has art and her own prints everywhere, a blue mural in her kitchen, lots of lovely possessions and a great selection of reading material. Two very cute street cats keep her company when they please.
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Tagged: Artists, Colour, Decor, India, Inspiration, Light, Style
Wayne Tippetts
October 30, 2009 · 1 Comment
I love Wayne Tippetts’ photography blog. As far as street style blogs go, I shan’t be bothered with ones that feature only middle aged men in bespoke Italian suits with pocket squares. Pssh. Wayne’s on the other hand is full of lovely, light, creative styling and good looking guys and girls. And he’s a very talented photographer.
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Tagged: Inspiration, Photography, Street, Style
Reasons to Plant a Tree
October 10, 2009 · Leave a Comment
So you don’t have to wear this in the future.
Although I secretly love it. Bio-Accessories was on display at Melbourne City Library (my library!) and was the brainchild of designers Ben Landau and Brittany Veitch. Described as ‘an effort on the wearers behalf to green their own personal space’, this collection was part couture, part social commentary.
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Tagged: Design, Environment, Inspiration, Melbourne
My own space
October 10, 2009 · 2 Comments
Feeling particularly uninspired in my grandparent’s home. Not that I don’t love the proximity to them, but I miss my freedom (and sanity). I want to have my own place and my room without their ugly, ancient PC and even uglier and older cupboards in it. I want to hang baubles and blu-tack pictures and drink red wine in my underwear at 2 pm, things I became accustomed to having lived alone for a million years. I miss having a billion pretty editorials on my walls, coming and going as I please, entertaining people. I just want a space to call my own again, something like these would be nice.
Mosquito nets are oddly romantic. I think this is Naomi Campbell’s room in her house in the Caribbean.
South Indian film posters. Fuck yes! They are so kitsch. I like Katie’s comic book wallpaper also.
Lovely egg-yolk lamp and magazine stack desk. I think the desk would be fairly easy to make if you punched a big hole in the center through the mags and inserted the actual legs. Maybe?
Love this. The wall, the colours and the suede seat.
This room looks expensive. But it needn’t be really. I like the contrast of the artwork against the starkness of the white.
What a beautiful nook. I could sleep here.
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Tagged: Colour, Decor, Inspiration
Bread story
September 17, 2009 · 1 Comment
I’m really fascinated with methods of cooking that I can’t do (i.e. most). I love alternative ovens for instance. Wood fired pizza from ovens like this and this is the most phenomenal thing. Anywho, so in Leh when I lost my friends (Vodafone has no cellphone coverage in Ladakh), I wandered the bazaar finding all these great little alleys with shops selling dried apricots and butchers and grocers. And then I stumbled upon this tiny bread workshop. The three owners were so polite and friendly when explaining to me the bread making process as I stood outside and watched. Which was nice, grumpy bakers don’t really do it for me. They make big batches of dough, rolling them into balls, finger pressing and flattening them. The dough is pressed with a poker against the walls of the coal fired oven which is a literally a hole in the floor. The dough sticks to the sides and when it is ready, slides off easily, freshly baked and ready for sale.
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Tagged: Eat me, India, Inspiration, Ladakh, Photography
Apartment love
August 17, 2009 · 1 Comment
Last week, I managed to sort out my paperwork in order to live and work in India and I had to go to Bombay again to do so. Again I had a lovely time. I stayed with my friend Sohrab in his adorable apartment. I think I’ve mentioned him before on the blog, he was my first ever crush and he’s a beautiful pianist with an incredible voice. We ate gnocchi and sushi, watched Love Actually and stayed up all night London apartment hunting, smoking and talking in his wrought iron window sill which he turns into a magical nook with oversized cushions and pot plants and candles. His pad has the nicest lighting, lamps and low lighting from below and he has Freddie Mercury artwork hanging above his piano. I was a little mesmerised.
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Tagged: Decor, Inspiration, Light, Style
State of Emergency
August 2, 2009 · 2 Comments
Not happy. Having a huge fuck off and die tantrum, eyes rolling, phone off, Facebook deactivated, door locked, the works. I’m not fit for human consumption and I don’t want to speak to anyone unless they’re giving me good news. This Steven Meisel shoot entitled State of Emergency for Vogue Italia September 2006 really appeals. The only drama I can handle.
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Tagged: Inspiration, Photography
The Uniform Project
July 21, 2009 · 1 Comment
Rikki, one of the girls from the Mayorettes blog, which owns BTW, it’s definitely one of my dailies, posted about The Uniform Project and I thought it was so great, I wanted to share it further. The Uniform Project is an exercise in sustainable fashion and a fundraiser for the Akanksha Foundation – a grassroots non-profit in India, that aims to provide education to slum children in India, 7 million of whom don’t get to attend school. Brainchild Sheena (jinx!) Matheiken has pledged to wear the same dress for an entire year, embellishing and completing her outfits with accessories and accoutrements and collecting donations, all of which will go to a wonderful cause. A girl after my own heart, these are some of my favourite outfits on her and she’s as cute as a button.
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Tagged: Inspiration, Projects, Style
