Check Out: Alice in Wonderland

Ethereal, tenderly executed taste in fashion and style, I love Alice Saga and her eye.


Click here to go to Alice in Wonderland

Retro: Olivia Newton John

"Magic" from 1980. SHe was absolutely ADORABLE!

art art art: Will Cotton

Sweet, surreal,spooky...

Alpine Ruin -2008

Eutopia - 2008
Candy Curls - 2003

Click here to go to Will Cotton

Le Sigh: Parisian Guy

I love. And the shoes, the shoes....

The Sartorialist

True Blood: Ad Campaign

Damn.

Excuse My Cuteness! : Baby wolf & mom

Baby wolf cub playing with his mother.

Photo: Alin Dragulin

Photography appreciation is something that is starting to develop on my life's horizon.



Here is Alin Dragulin-- Romanian-born and living in Portland.. amazing eye and subjects.



Click here to go to his site

art art art: Carter Hodgkin

(Whatchamacallum- 2008)

Some time ago, on a dusky eve in SoHo, I found myself mesmerized in front of a shop's window, watching a ceiling of twinkling little lights changing color againsta a black surface. Once again, I find myself mesmerized, but by the still works Carter Hodgkin's Electromagnetic Series.

(Electromagnetic Circles-2007)

Her spirited work is reminiscent of physics and science studies for me, with the Lite-Brites feel. I could stare at her work and see galaxies. I could stare and see elegant women moving gracefully. I could just stare at this all day....while listening to the Devils. (Dark Equation 2 - 2009)
(Dark Equation 2 - 2009)

Click here to go to her Website

Comment: Erin Featherston's pants

I can't quite figure myself out on this one. On one hand I really really love those pants.. they remind me of Crystal Barbie when I was in 5th grade and anything that shines I have an inherent weakness for. Opalescence? Forget, I'm all over it. Of course, I want to try them on.. but, there's where reality kicks in.

The IDEA of the pants is amazing. I love the outfit.. but something... SOMETHING.. just seems off on it, and I have to pass...

Music: Hot Chip

"Ready for the Floor" V. cool video, fun fun concept. Love the yellow paint splashed on the hidden bodies.

art art art: Jen Corace

Airplane
Tub Monster

Jen Corace's work reminds me of the vintage animation work created by Winsor McKay-- sort of if Gertie the Dinosaur met Marc Jacobs.

Click here to go to Jen Corace's website

Music: The Flying Horses

I know nothing about this band, except that they are from Japan and I really love their cover of Paul McCartney's "Take it Away."

Click here to see more of The Flying Horses!

Le Sigh: Another Christophe Galfard pic!!

Oh, to be the scarf draped around his shoulders...

This is the gorgeous gravitational physics guy Galfard, and the lovely (and lucky ) lady in the pic is Stephen Hawking's daughter, Lucy.

Thanks to Lindsay

Check Out: The Great Gatsby

Last winter, I began revisiting some of my assigned high school readings. I came back to the Great Gatsby, and just want to remind everyone how incredibly touching this book is. I think if F. Scott Fitzgerald were alive today, he could be a film director.

Gatsby is just the saddest character ever.

art art art: Kathie Olivas

I've been looking at Kathie Olivas' work on and off for the last couple of years...It suits my darker moods (obviously) and admittedly, I can only take so much of it. However, I've never been able to NOT check in and see what's new. Do I need a psychiatrist?



Click here for Kathie Olivas' site

Animation: French Animation

I'm not sure who this is by, but I fund it googling "French animation"... wonderful, non?

I need to take French lessons this summer. Gah...

Design: Silverair

Insanely beautiful combo of art, science and design.



Designed by Pod Design

art art art: Barnaby Barford

Normally I'm not one for guns, but this ain't your grandma's Precious Moments collection, either...Love this work.



Please click on BARNABY BARFORD

Music: Depeche Mode

I've missed Depeche Mode. Ever since Alan Wilder left the band, I thought I could notwholly embrace them again. THis video gives me hope for the new album.



Depeche Mode's "Wrong"

Le Sigh: Season 2 Sneak pics of True Blood

art art art: Elizabeth McGrath

Truth be told, when I first saw Elizabeth McGrath's work.. I wasn't too moved. This late offering of her-- a menagerie of phantasmagoria in springtime pastels and steeped in ice creamy fairytale lore. I find myself mesmerized, caught and kept....

Excuse My Cuteness!: Orisinal

I've been confounded by the word "twee", but I think if anything were twee, it is Orisinal.

This is an ADORABLE site... and I HATE using that word.

Orisinal

art art art: Simon Kim

"Missing"

Still in school and full of promise. Amazing sense of fantasy and color... Enjoyed his portfolio and will be keeping an eye on his work!

"Tempest"

Simon Kim

Design: May Luk

She will be at the Brooklyn Indie Mart on April 4th.. If you are headed there, be sure to have a look at her amazing ceramics...

May Luk's Take Me Homeware

art art art: LoopyLu

I saw these guys in Union Square not too long ago... Very perplexing, dreamy and discombobulated...they call it Assemblage art....

Loopy Lu

Design: The Iron Chinchilla

Furniture that looks like it's straight from the topsy turvy world of Wonderland...


The site is a bit cumbersome, but the pieces are worth it.

The Iron Chinchilla

Animation: Vintage ToonCast

Vintage ToonCast!

For vintage animation clips from yesteryear...Brilliant!

art art art: Kristin Hassenfeld

Amazing paper structures that take my breath away... like magical paper pumpkin coaches...

Animation: Disney's The Princess & the Frog

Looks awfully lovely, doesn't it?

Jim Hill Media

Le Sigh: True Blood

This show is gorgeous.


A Viking Vampire...I am besotted!

Fashion: Sonia Rykiel

Sometimes, I have days where this outfit would be entirely appropriate!

art art art: Patrick Jacobs

Art is always good for the soul. This guy is amazing with the mini dioramas...


Patrick Jacobs

http://www.pierogi2000.com/flatfile/jacobspat.html

dandelion field, 2002
(2) 5" glass lenses, paper, concrete, plastic, paint, glue, lighting - (all materials behind wall, viewed through 5" glass lense)

Art is always good for the soul.

Comment: Social Networking sites

THere are too damn many of them.

Twitter. Myspace. Facebook.

And for art: DeviantArt. Red Bubble. MyArtSpace.com

and the professional sites: Adholes, LinkedIn...

Is all hope lost for face to face contact, or this the beginning of something new and great?

Music: MGMT

I give this guy props for art direction and concept. I would have suggested (superficially) that the guy shave all facial hair before applying face paint. The makeup just lays better that way than upon facial hair. Perhaps it was the point...

I am just loving this song, and this band.

Off....

...to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see.


Kidding. I'm putting the blog aside for right now. I'll be around, though, definitely.

Comment: No!

I read that one of my favorite restaurants in NYC has had their rent raised from 6,000 a month to $58,000, and is up for sale.

Truly, I think this is one of the scary things about living in Manhattan. You can be uprooted at any moment.


www.restaurantflorent.com