PINK BIRDS

Elad Lassry's Chilean Flamingo 90028, 2007

TROMPE L'OEIL

Is this trompe l'oeil? Probably not quite but it is a beautiful low relief. Can any architects tell me? It's on Carthusian Street EC1, duh - the corner of Charterhouse Square.

WIEN

Writing my dissertation completely squeezed the joy out of looking at or reading about the work of Egon Schiele. So severe was this feeling, I reached the point where the only pleasure I took from my research was the great colours highlighters make when they overlap.

Happily my Schiele fatigue has gone and I am trying to plan a trip to Vienna to see the Leopold Museum's collection of his works. While I'm (theoretically) there I would also love to see their current exhibition exploring the Male Nude as subject which looks fantastic. 

BJORK POLAR

Bjork photographed by Jean-Baptiste Mondino - teaser of a serious Polar post coming soon.

AROUND CHARTERHOUSE

WEDNESDAY'S CHILD

Is full of woe. Last night I savaged my hand - perfectly in time for Halloween. OUCH.


Queen Wednesday below.

VOLUME

THE ULTIMATE INSULT

I'll save extolling the virtues of how great Clueless is because everyone knows already. If you don't, there are literally no words. 

LANDINGS

I grew up in a flat that was on one floor and as a result have always found landings very pleasing. The angles outside my bedroom door are particularly great.

PLUMAGE

This image/quote of Elton John I tore out of a supplement a while ago reminded me of my favourite advert which never fails to get me excited about the most fun weekend of the year. Elton's stage time is akin to the pigeon's macawnival (sorry).

When else is it acceptable to spend two solid days rum-punch drunk dancing in the streets?
Elton's sentiment is, I'm sure, how most revellers feel on the tuesday morning.

FOGGY TOWERS

The epic London fog obscuring Barbican's (wonderfully named) sixties monoliths Cromwell, Lauderdale and Shakespeare.

GORY EYE

Dad's eye looked spectacular last weekend. 

GILBERT APFEL

The new cover of Dazed & Confused featuring Iris Apfel reminds me of an old drawing I did of Gilbert Heron, father of Gil Scott-Heron.

RISPEK TO GAD

 

As someone who likes to think they can completely understand the accents of all the Jamaican relay team (I can't) this appeals to me a lot.

MANICURES

Saturday manicures at work.

MILKY PUDDLES

It's definitely autumn. I can't work out what  causes the colour of these puddles, to me it looks as though somebody has poured ouzo in the gutter. 

Milky eyes, watery clouds, street cleaning, petrol, bleached puddles.  

SHADES OF GREY

Although the weather outside makes me want to get under a duvet and hibernate till March, I still love grey, especially the dove shade of Katie Shillingford's wedding dress.

A close friend of Gareth Pugh and fashion editor of Dazed and Confused, it was a given that Shillingford would wear something amazing.

WASHOUT

Styled by Katie Shillingford for Dazed & Confused.

CHARLOTTE PRODGER :-*

This work by Charlotte Prodger features youtube videos made by and for trainer geeks. These videos record the fetishistic pleasure enthusiasts take in ruining pristine pairs.

I have always found trainer afficionados totally weird and Charlotte Prodger's piece only confirms my gut feeling. The work reminds me of being at school with talk about Nike Huaraches and those gross toe trainers. (The phase of New Era hats with tags kept on was also pretty amazing, the logic being that when the tag got scruffy it was time for a new hat.)

Desert sign/psychic hand, 2010 [c/o www.gsamfa.com]

This last image is also Charlotte Prodger from a different work.
Look out for Prodger's 'I was Confused About the Dancefloor Code' about her friend's experience at Berlin super club Berghain.

For Londoners, she has an exhibition coming up at Studio Voltaire.

JULY - AUGUST

 

STAND BY ME

I don't shut up I grow up and when I look at you I throw up

FOXY LADY

Such a wonderful  editorial shot by Juergen Teller for Vogue Italia in 1997.. 

I have a story about a Russell & Bromley loafer-guzzling fox concerning my friend Josie but this fox is far too chubby and cute to tarnish by association.

CAMOUFLAGE OVERKILL

This is the season of my favourite print and I'm gonna have to get my kicks elsewhere.

PINK FLUFF

I know it's wrong but I like to think it falls into the so wrong it's right category *. I think the draw to a fluffy pink Tesco pencil case might be something to do with not having had Hello Kitty/Sanrio phase during my formative years.


* Rosa disagrees.

FLESHY TATS

Hands hands more hands. This time some knees scars and grazes too. According to my (half)French cousin his knees say 'Some extra miles mean less trouble'.


Perhaps I need to do a second blog about hands.