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.

YET MORE HANDS

I saw this old Jil Sander campaign the other day and it led me onto a whole new hands post. It is not a weird fetish thing they're just really great.

I especially like how clean Mr Hold Fast's nails are, I wasn't expecting that.

LEDA AND THE SWAN

Tom Hunter top left in the illustrious company of Leonardo da Vinci right and Michelangelo.

Can you spot pervy Castor and Pollux having a peek?

SHINY SHINY

I bought a reversible jacket yesterday. The sleeves are ridiculously shiny but I can't help but love them because they're stitched to the softest pale grey leather/suede.

I would like to wear it with this kind of make up face decoration:

recreating the look with stick on diamonte I bought in poundland. I think I'll have to wait for the right occassion, which is sad because I dressed up very badly for a space-themed Bestival a few years ago and this combination would have been great.

If I don't use the diamonte to give myself a terrible rash, I might try THIS OUT with black boot converse.

Watch this space for some super classy DIY.

COLOURED WATER

As crowd control.

Opposition supporters run as anti-riot police officers spray coloured water to disperse them in Kireka area on the outskirt of Uganda's capital, Kampala.

Purple haze: Police use coloured water from a water canon to disperse Kashmiri government emloyees in protest against the government in Srinagar, India

CHAIN SCULPTURE

 Liza Lou's beaded links above, a Brighton Sculpture graduate's ceramic chains below.

SNAP!

Same same but (not that) different - Art Wednesday plagiarising Palace plagiarising Coco and Gianni. 

MARK WALLINGER

Mark Wallinger's 'Construction Site', 2011.

This is a still from a Mark Wallinger film soon to be on show at the Baltic Centre in Gateshead. 'Construction Site' is an hour long recording of three scaffolders creating and dismantling this structure. The temporary structure reminds me of the grids artists have traditionally used to accurately scale images - the similarity is pleasing because Wallinger's largely conceptual work is the antithesis grid-painted works.

FINALLY SOME SUN!

GLASS DETERRENT

I presume this glass on Percy Road W12 was stuck on as a rudimentary deterrent to climbers/trespassers/burglars - it also looks brilliant.

JEREMY WHO

I wonder what Bart would say...
 

AGGRESSIVE MONOCHROME

Perfect garms for aggressive/nihilist souls.

GREY AND YELLOW

Jubilee weekend is meant to be all about red white and blue but for some reason I was just seeing grey and yellow - deep I know. First the cars on Colville Road, then the Gucci necklace on mustard velvet, then my feet.


   

SUMMER SHADES

New shades! I wanted a new pair for summer which were subtler than my current collection but it turns out subtle wasn't to be.