love handsome things

Hanneke has one of the most important sites for South African creatives, Handsome Things... and The Cake League have been featured on it! I don't know how this happened, but THANKYOU!!!!!

crazy enough to think

Source: lifeonsundays.com via Miss Bergie on Pinterest

“Here’s to the Crazy Ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status-quo.
You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius.

Because the people who are crazy enough to think
they can change the world – are the ones who do.”

~ Apple Computers

found here

who killed Florence Broadhurst?

from here

bitches be wary

my brother is a genius.

adults and adolescents

The dangerous times of youth under the heavy twisted ideals of society, may they not swallow up your mischief, passion, adventurous beauty as you resist the inevitable manhood. The hungry boys need brothers as the watchful, thoughtful men need their compatriots.

flesh

my favourites from tattoologist and other places (I can't remember).

When Gravity Fails - Sruli Recht F/W 2011

WHEN GRAVITY FAILS

SRULI RECHT F/W 2011

A diagonal line for men

“born out of this
and trying to get back in

worn out from bliss
and floating in sin

falling back through this future
and from where I’ve been

sky-born, deliberate
draped raw from within”

“Icarus, post-crash” Show Piece One

21 Svartfugl [blackbirds] on a hunted wild reindeer base. After meeting a group of hunters, hunting birds and beasts, we struck up a deal: all the birds they could bring me, in exchange for a pound of breath. And birds they brought, bags and bags of them. Hands soaked in feathers and flesh, they were sorted through, sent on ice to my tanner (a craftsman so brilliant I heard he once tanned air). What returned to our studio was not a pile of feathers and feet but rather the full-bodied, beaked husks of those once soft flying blackbirds. And out of their box they were pulled, put onto the stand, and the garment quite literally designed itself. All we had to do was sew it together... by hand and heart, on a reindeer base, body to body to back to wing, to have our Icarus, post crash, sombre and in between.

Photographer - Marinó Thorlacius
Model - Emil Þór Guðmundsson
Stylist - Arash Arfazadeh

all via www.srulirecht.com

Jean Matos | Jeemas

I've been a stalker of Matos's work for a while now. Everything he does is amazing, beautiful and touching. Basically, I'm a fan - which is big, 'cause I blatantly dislike most people.

I first discovered Matos's photostream I think over a year or so ago, when it was mostly filled with darkly delicate watercoloured illustrations, defined by strong, organic black lines.

I found his stuff again - a bookmark that I thought I'd lost - his genius is heartbreaking. It seems he's gone into the whole fashion thing, translating his inherent sincere sensitivity to the human condition into almost architectural sculptural apparel, the organic quality of which is reminiscent of nothing other than the abstract - magick spells; quiet introspection; the flight of crows. I am filled with admiration and respect.

dreamsong

hiroaki samura's blade of the immortal (volume 3):

Makie is a natural-born killer bred to be a geisha. Splitting her life between servitude and slaughter could lead to an untimely death, so it's time she chooses a path, but her choice could mean trouble for Manji, the immortal samurai.

so insanely beautiful.

for some reason Makie reminds me of Karen O (YYYs - my musical taste seems to be frozen in 2007). Their Skeleton (from younger Heads Will Roll 2010) is beautiful too.

impressions of life - b&w

In 2007 (when I was in 3rd year) I conceptually developed the branding and design for a lifestyle concept store, Imago Space. This, though a while before the whole lomo/vintage camera hypefest, was focused around the idea that beautiful memories are precious and their authenticity should be incorporated into one's living space.
Blatantly inspired by the b&w photography Liam Lynch's Open to Misinterpretation

It was proposed that the existing space be converted into a photography/graphic illustration bookshop with organic coffee and chocolate bar; a silkscreen printing studio (custom images or found within the store's gallery printed onto sustainable natural materials - hemp, cotton, etc.); and a second-hand vintage camera shop with workshop and darkroom facilities.

Anyway, this is how it turned out. Perspective renderings are hand drawings superimposed over photos of a model I built of the design.