You probably know by now that I’m big on culinary pornography. So when I found Fancy Fast Food, I did a double take. What you see in the pictures is actually a Big Mac, Popeye’s Chicken and a Wendy’s Baconator, and on the site are the how-tos. Yeah it’s still bad for you, but see how good it can look!
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.
I can’t go to Tokyo Disneyland this trip because Jenny’s already been so I’m finding comfort in this entry to Projeto Gudi by Andre Azevedo. I haven’t got a clue what it all is because I don’t speak enough foreign languages but it made me happy and if you click on revista gudi on the project page, there’s tons of great artwork to peep.
There are two things in the world I’ve lost and don’t miss. My reputation and my awful milk teeth. Click here for the lives of the cutest milk teef you’ve ever seen! An adorable project by Inhae Renee Lee.
I learnt to knit from my grandmother when I was about 7 years old and I’ve never really gotten much better at it, but it has generally been tradition for me to knit when the seasons change. I’ve knitted some pretty neat stuff like purses, beer cosies and scarves before to entirely futile shit like journal covers and umm, even a bum bag (In my defense, it was inspired by Carrie Bradshaw’s Gucci fanny pack in season 4, thanks). I’ve never attempted anything too fancy, although this owl mittens pattern has me smitten and willing to try. I knitted this awkward scarf a while ago and because I used three skeins of wool and created such a stiff stitch, was able to turn it into a really warm neckpiece today.
My photographer friend Matty always has interesting picture albums, and I told him I wanted to blog about his work. He’s always experimenting with different mediums – analog, digital, holga, tri lens lomo, which makes me totally envious. Pieces of the People We Love is a tumblr project he just shared with me, an ongoing portraiture study of the people he is endeared to. The last photograph in this lot is of me.
The cutest daily weather forecasts you’ve ever seen, a project by Steffi Gloor and Kurt Riedi. Love the handmade aspect, adorable. The city I live in is on it, maybe yours is too.
5am: I discover these Doo.Ri A/W’09 tights and this dreamy DIY by Park and Cube, thanks to Krisatomic.
8am: I’m slashing a perfectly boring bracelet and anklet to make my own. It’s an easy DIY, as easy as ‘sew beads onto tights’. I see no point in waiting or buying supplies when I already have something I can use. I store the beads in bottle caps.
8.15am: I search through my handbags and find the beaded belt that popped and broke thanks to my food baby Barry. I put it into a recycled sardines tin. So now I have pretty rainbow coloured beads, black beads and muted gold beads and bobs.
8.3oam: I begin. These are the patterned stockings from the other day. I’ve been mending them since the day I got them, they’re positively vintage in stocking lifespan and they’re easy to sew and sew onto. I fear that I won’t have enough black thread, I only have one of those tiny sewing kits from my last hotel room. Please let it be enough.
9.30am: I’m a third done and thread situation looking pretty dismal. However, while scouting for more I find a couple of cute charm and bead earrings from my adolescence and decide they must be added to the embellishment. I love playful pieces. Thread’s almost gone. Oh noes.
9.40am: Eeeeeeeee! Nutella on toast for breakfast and I find a fat spool of black thread. Jackpot.
10.30am: Halfway mark. Mine don’t look like either of the above but I used rainbow swarovski crystals and smiley faces so I can hardly expect them to. Errant beads and delicate needlework. I am not bovvered though.
Little People, is a tiny street art project where artist Slinkachu leaves little handpainted people all over London to fend for themselves, and photographs them as he last sees them. This pint sized project made me gasp in delight. Why is anything miniature always so much better than anything lifesized? Slinkachu creates installations of his little people doing wonderful things, ordinary, illegal, even violent things. The project has been going on since August 2006, has received much press, there’s even a book now and you should go through the archives. Enjoy.
Slinkachu also has a project called Inner city snail and the last image is a beauty from there.
I love maths. Well I did. I was insanely good at those maths + logic puzzles at school. I was even on a math team. I loved maths right up till trigonometry and then quit while I was ahead. This is new math. Writer and artist Craig Damrauer posts a new equation on his website More New Math each Monday to illustrate the mathematics of life, philosophy and an assortment of other things.
This last one made me chuckle.
