For two reasons:
1. I’d spend the day reading (because I am a nerd and also because I’d spend this perfect day on the beach in Croatia)
2. I’d wear that necklace dancing at night in Barcelona (which means this perfect day would also involve teleporting. Oh dear. My nerd really is showing, isn’t it?)
This photo is from Garance Dore’s beeeautiful post on Anna Dello Russo.
Never cease to inspire me. Take Danny Roberts, for example. The 23 year old illustrator from California makes me wish and hope and pray I could actually draw.
His blog is packed full of dreamy eye candy, but my favourite piece?
The Doe and Her Fawn, signed prints of which are available on his online store.
I knew quite a few people involved in the film – the co-director Phil Lyall, the animators at Sequence, the composer Adam Locke-Norton. And it was through the film that I felt like I got to know Eva Markvoort. Or at least, I got to know her battle with Cystic Fibrosis.
And it was very, very hard to watch.
It was hard to watch her drowning in her own mucus, it was hard to watch her surgeon pray before performing her double lung transplant, it was hard to watch her speak after the screening at VIFF.
I cannot even imagine how difficult it is for her.
Yet she remained such a bright and charismatic and positive person through the good, the bad and the painful. Which made it the most powerful film I’ve seen.
I’m just thankful I knew so many people involved (y’all did such a good job!) because I would have never had the fortitude to see it if I didn’t. Eva is a warrior. I am a wuss.
65_RedRoses airs on November 16th on CBC’s Passionate Eye (10pm Pacific). Watch it. If only because it will compel you to sign that donor registration card and change BC’s status as the province with the lowest number of organ donors in Canada.
UPDATE: 65_RedRoses won more awards than any other film at the VIFF Closing Gala awards presentation. Congratulations, mes amis! Well deserved.
Finally (fiiiiiinally!) The September Issue has come to Vancouver. And I have fallen in love with it, but for very different reasons than I thought I would.
It wasn’t Anna Wintour who fascinated me, it was Grace Coddington, Vogue’s creative director. She is art, not fashion. And I love that.
Photo by Patrick Lichfield.
So here we go:
Lawrence Hill’s The Book of Negroes still haunts me (it’s published everywhere other than Canada as Someone Knows My Name). Read it.
Thank you Surina and Ashley for recommending it. Image found here.
The Audreys and the Jackies of the world. But iconic blondes have a place in my heart too. Take Debbie Harry for instance, one of the coolest women of all time. Is it ironic that Blondie looks so b-b-b-bad to the bone as a brunette?
I love that dress. So much so that I’m considering having it made. Perhaps in Kelly green.
Photo found here.
other than the fact that I just watched the outrageously beautiful Marie Antoinette for the 8,367th time, here’s Jason Schwartzman.
Something about this photo makes me wish I was at the shoot when it was taken. I’d like to think they would have been rocking out to something from the Marie Antoinette soundtrack (which is my favourite) trying not to burst out laughing.
Photo via the addictive Design Love Fest.
First, I envy you. Second, you might want to stop by Vancouver artist Ben Tour’s show.
It’s at the Joshua Liner Gallery July 11th until August 8th. Via Stylefinds.
I thought it might be interesting to take a look at the limited edition art book/fashion magazine Visionaire whose first issue came out that year. The theme was spring and its editors couldn’t afford to bind it so they assembled all 1000 copies by hand and sold each for ten bucks.
That was then (photo by Tyler Askew).
Now, issue 56 is out. Its theme: Solar. Its collaborator: Calvin Klein Collection. Its effect: magic. When the book is placed in direct sunlight, works by artists like Richard Phillips (above) mysteriously transform from black and white into colour.
Which is kind of like a sophisto-twist on the hypercolor t-shirts I wanted so bad (but never got) way back in 1991.
Don’t know if I’ll ever have a chance to go, but right now my aesthetic has lined up quite nicely with that of some blogs from Australia. Not that I went searching for them, per se, I just started to notice some of my favourites are from the land down under.
And here they are:
Style, food, and coolness on Distillate.
Gorgeous photography and whimsical inspiration on Pia Jane Bijkerk.
Beautiful interiors, shops and spaces scouted by a props buyer on The Design Files.