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"A woman should never be seen eating or drinking unless it be lobster salad and champagne, the only truly feminine and becoming viands."

Lord Byron, 1812.

Flaming

I adore this fashion shoot featuring Beyonce for Dazed and Confused magazine. My fave is the first pic, the clashing patterns and colours are just perfect, and of course the decaying shed in the background attracted me as well.

Never mind the director, lets talk about the costume designer.

So I went to see 'Tree of Life' this evening. It left me with a lot of thoughts, however the only thing i'm certain of is I'd like one of every dress Jessica Chastain wore in the movie. Beautiful.

Wooden Yokes

Illustrations of mine.

Business Card

Leftovers

Paintings by Lorri Ott.

Faces

Endearing drawings by Bruno Walworth. They remind me of monoprints I did on my last project.

(check out his sculptures on his website)

Patchwork Paper

Two lovely videos from Fred Butler, directed by Elisha-Smith Leverock. Fred is a props and accessories designer based in London. Beautiful aesthetics to these, also adorable sountrack to the second one.

Wiggy

A wig I made for a group project in 2010 with Jessica Hales. Yes, it looks nice, but it was completely nonfunctional, every time the model took a breath, a few of the paper circles would pop out.

Susie & John Joe

My Granny and my late Grandad. I seriously need to get raiding her wardrobe next time I'm home.

Sunday Music

As i've mentioned before, Sundays are my traditional 'music finding days', I don't always get around to it, but I found a few nice tunes this morning.

Trophy Boyfriend: Distant Chimes



Cloud Control: There's nothing in the water we can't fight.



Best Coast: Boyfriend

Trophy Boyfriend - Feels like Autumn

Feels Like Autumn by Trophy Boyfriend

Bearded Lady

I've been a bad blogger of late. Hopefully will improve in the next few weeks.

Here are a few snaps from a project back in 2009, The concept behind it is shame, humiliation, and covering the mouth as a way of hiding something. I was looking at things like facial hair on women, spinach on teeth, and other things which cause humility in a person.

New Haus Door

Intimate Photography

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Beautiful Photography from Maarit Hohteri from the Helsinki School. She captures fleeting moments from her life and family, creating a beautiful, personal, meaningful photography series.

Easton Awesome.

Easton Miller, a young Chicago artist who combines painting and sculpture with found materials to create art. I like it a lot.

Back to basics.

Beautiful Letterpress Tutorial

Robots.

Soft Works by R.M. Fisher (via. Beautiful Decay)

Four New Albums

Usually I do these things in threes, but I've acquired four new albums of late which I'm very happy about, as they're very good.

Austra- Feel it Break



Beastie Boys- Hot Sauce Committee Part Two



Sleigh Bells- Treats



The Weeknd- House of Balloons (official mixtape)

Priceless

So I started following Irish fashion designer, Peter O Brien on Twitter and he's gradually becoming my favourite Tweeter (person who tweets??)

Here are some gems from him in the past week:

"Oprah says she "learns so much" from her audience............... Like what; how to be unseemingly hysterical when given free gifts?"

"What evil sadist dresses Vanessa Williams on 'Desp Housewives'. They should be sent to Bustier Hell and made wear too small clothes forever"

"'The Only Way Is Essex' has just won a BAFTA. Just waiting for Jordan to win The Man Booker prize."

"Why is the carpet in The Taoiseach's office Klein blue and the chairs bois de rose, hideous combo!"

"Know I'm 136 years too old to 'get' Lady Gaga; watching on BBC3 for first time, about as edgy as an angry 14 year old; and lip synching."

"Why would a one shoulder dress have a shoulder pad.........she looks like she is carrying her own pesonal toilet roll."

Colours.

Beautiful Photography from Youngna Park.

NWBU


The English language is gone to the dogs.

Beyonce Billboard Award

I'm not mad about the song, but there's no denying this performance is unbelievable, and the visuals? Extremely impressive. (if it's too long for you, skip to 3.30 for the essential bit)

JAM ART

There's a new Gallery in town, its called the JAM ART FACTORY. Its on Patricks St, near the cathedral. It's a really nice laid back place to pop into. I have a few digital prints in it, as well as the wooden pieces. There's also some lovely illustrations, textile art, and photography. Also, check out their Facebook page.

Why don't you like Strangeways?

"BECAUSE THEY JUST PLAYED BEASTIE BOYS AND NO ONE CARED"

My first shoe crush.

I'm more of a handbag fiend rather than a shoe fetishist, but HOLYFUCKINGJESUS look at these:



(via: Black Jacket Boys)

Genre: 90'sfemaleRnBwhoarenomoreRIP.

Uneducated?

The Queen of England visited today.

(via the Daily Edge)

Pieces

Modular.