Film: Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

Terry Gilliam has always been hit or miss with me-- here's hoping for a hit. Looks incredibly intriguing!


Also, this was Heath Ledger's last (unfinished) film.

Here is the trailer---It's very pre-production, but it looks like it has great potential:

Photographers: Abandoned Japanese Amusement Park

For anyone who was a fan of Spirited Away, this may feel strongly familiar. It's a great site-- the photographer tends towards abandoned sites like this amusement park.


It's all in Japanese, and you only need see the images, but I WISH I had the photographer's name.


Click here to go to the link!

Something extra... how freaky and amazing is this shot of a statued Gulliver?

Animation: Mary Blair

Alice in Wonderland (1951)

A great link that I found with some images of the great Mary Blair's work. If you have ever been to Disneyland (the one in California) and have seen the It's A Small World ride, you've experienced some her great imagination as she had a great hand in designing this experience...

Ideas for character and costume design of Cinderella (1950)

Click here to go to the link!

Please click here to go to Cartoon Brew - a GREAT resource for retro 50's style animation-- one of the best and most beautiful phases of the art form....

Yum: Siggi's

Like eating a rich dessert... but not too sweet. Really good!

Click here to go to Siggi's

Check Out: Barbie!

This bitch gets everything!!!!

The new Barbie Store in Shanghai is here... and look at this staircase! Three stories tall with 800 dolls encased.

I never get too old for her.

Check out more here: Barbie Shanghai Store

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