Saturday, August 30, 2008
It’s nearly spring in the Southern Hemisphere, one more day or so! And for once, it actually feels like the season it’s meant to be. In celebration I’m flinging off my grey felted coat, neatly stacking my muddy boots to one side and breathing a little colour into my design agency uniform. Today it’s a [...]
It looks like the influence from the sunny land is finally bursting forth and hitting the mainstream… bodacious. I love these new Afrika prints from American Apparel. There’a also a headband and a boobtube, but no, I want sun frocks, I want colourways like emerald and a non apologetic yellow.
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Thursday, August 28, 2008
[A departure from our normal programming... However it is stylish to be well fed and stylish to impress people with your baking skills, so there you go!]
drop scones with maple syrup and cream by ramtops.
In the last 24 hours or so I have cooked about 150 pikelets. You may know them as drop scones or [...]
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
I’ve been a fan of Keren Richter’s illustrations for ages! I kept up with all her latest developments on ye olde Livejournal - from her sassy work on Vans shoes to saucy animations. Her latest endeavor is a fun, nicely written blog. I particularly like the documentation of her bedroom and a run down of [...]
Last weekend I was lucky enough to attend Semi Permanent, a design and ideas conference held in Auckland. It was 2 coffee-fueled days of thought provoking speakers and inspirational stories. It was a real creative industry affair, with all sorts of people coming out of the woodwork to attend – cool friends, idols, old clients [...]
I have been dreaming recently about those tiny portable scratch pads, like the Pacemaker - which got me pondering: “Wouldn’t a turntable on a watch be great?”. Obviously a working one ain’t possible (yet) but the are some wee replicas out there. Delving into the search engines, I found a few!
Tokidoki means ’sometimes’ in Japanese… [...]
Thursday, August 21, 2008
While it is still way too cold for me to consider wearing any sort of skirt without thick tights, the days are getting lighter! Which means, yes, it is time for the summer collections to be released. Awesome! Here are my picks of the perennially intellectual Zambesi’s 2009 summer collection.
First up we have the Blouson [...]
Lucas’ Papaw Ointment has a frightfully ugly site, but what comes out of the little red tubes is magic! An ointment made of fermented paw paw, made in Australia. It smells delicious and works wonders on lips, chapped skin - even the blisters I get after scrawling madly in my journal for hours. The price [...]
Perchance you haven’t skipped across to The Selby yet? Possibly you have missed the shouts of glee from across the internet as people exclaim over the latest in shelter porn? Prepare yourself for some serious envy then…
Todd Selby has been hooking up with all sorts of creative wunderkinds, then taking photographs that detail the [...]
To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you do not like to do. You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.”
Agnes Martin - painter, lady of pleasure.
