21/10/2010

Chaudfontaine Park, Belgium

The few times I've visited Belgium, it's always been nice but nothing really special. It feels empty. However, I may have missed their sense of humour. This whimsical outdoor art in Chaudfontaine Park is absolutely hilarous.

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30/09/2010

i want to go to there

I really want this to be my weekend. Friends, intimate setting and yet in such an iconic and grandiose place. And Jordan Fearney made it all possible.

travel photographs, 1920s

Can you really believe these colour photos were taken in the 1920s?

Albert Kahn, a French banker and philanthropist, travelled the world in the 20s (yes he had loads of dough!) to collect a photographic record of the world. Before the stock market crash, he collected 180,000 metres of b/w film and 72,000 autochrome plates. The photographs are amazing - they look like an artist rendition. And it reminds me you of all the destruction/construction between the wars...

Images found via the Albert Kahn museum, found through Graphic Exchange.

20/09/2010

Letters to dead people, beyond


How did I not find this website earlier? Celine Song has created this sometimes ironic, sometimes sweet and sometimes brutally honest blog about her ' letters' to the famous dead.

Images and the fabulous 'Letters to Dead People' website... what is your favourite?

17/09/2010

Trafalgar Square, London

Design week in London has arrived! Liam and I are headed to Trafalgar Square tonight to take control of the audi production robots and write messages in the sky.. There's a long exposure camera that will capture the messages and upload them on the web.
Have a lovely weekend. I hope to get back to posting in a regular fashion again!

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15/09/2010

Dreaming, office

I'm back from New York and have been hit with a busy work schedule and excessive jet lag. I'd rather be working in that office instead.

Image via the lovely Pink and Blue blog

03/09/2010

Friday highlights

Strangely, I'm off again. I'm meeting my brother and sister-in-law halfway by traveling to New York. We're staying a week, I only have to do one day in the office and going to a Yankees game. Life is sweet.

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01/09/2010

autumn style for london, part 2

Other inspiration for my autumn 2010 look is from COS, a UK high street store. How perfect are those outfits for lazy Saturdays (or maybe the leather outfit for a bit more of a night out on a Saturday)? I just adore the neutral beige and charcoal colours that come back when the leaves fall.

i want to go to there

Autumn has come to London in full force. It's officially sweater and tight weather again. And it's reminding me of winter. Which, therefore, reminds me that I'm not going back to Victoria for Christmas this year. I'm a little homesick, so today, I want to go to there.

My image taken during Christmas 2008. It was snowy fabulousness.

31/08/2010

Barbican, EC2, London

Sorry, no pictures yet of Madrid. We got home relatively late last night and I just wanted to crawl into my bed. So instead, here's a few old pictures of the Barbican. One of my favourite spaces in London - it is an art, dance, theatre, culture and conference building just off the 'City'. It also has residences and business space mingled in.

In the spring, they hosted an incredible art exhibit on birds and their relationship with music. In a big open room (with a few nooks and crannies), little white birds had free rein to fly around and, by chance, make music by perching on the cymbals or guitars (all wired to speakers). The best part was that birds had started to nest in the guitars and had water in the cymbals.

Images via Liam and I.

27/08/2010

Friday highlights

The bank holiday approaches and Liam and I are off to Madrid. Goals are to see Guernica, eat a large number of tapas and soak in the 35 degree sunshine. It's currently about 12 degrees and pouring rain in England (apparently autumn arrived early).
  • Forget the guitar, where can I get that dress?...
  • This makes me want to learn to knit....
  • I've been taking some personality tests this week. And not a surprise, I'm a judgemental introverted thinker. What are you?...
  • Cowgirl, if my tent was that big I'd definitely give camping another shot...
  • I love Danny Boyle but can James Franco really handle an entire film on his own? I've always thought of him as a supporting character...
Have a lovely weekend.

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london fog

Wow Christina Hendricks never fails to impress me. The recent campaign for London Fog makes me actually want to switch my desire for Burberry trench coat to a London Fog one instead. I think that's the aim of an ad campaign non?

Side note: I had recently grown out my hair colouring to get it chopped and styled in my originial colour. As I wanted fringe (bangs), I went someplace expensive so they properly worked on my hair. They got it so wrong that I cried (for the first time in my life) at the hairdresser. I asked for Hendricks, I got a hatch job. Now my hair is permanently in a ponytail with an incredible amount of pins. I'm still hoping it will grow out to her beautiful style.

26/08/2010

autumn style for london

I'm loving the Michael Kors Fall 2010 collection as my inspiration for autumn in London. The beautiful colours, the 70s re-imagined and a bike - exactly the type of Londoner I'd like to be. The heeled boots are also an essential September buy item. Though I am a little worried that biking in them will destroy them immediately.

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25/08/2010

istanbul, turkey



Liam and I went to Istanbul for Easter this weekend. It resulted in my first mosque visit, delicious stuffed mussels and amazing scenery. Of course, there was also a considerable amount of air pollution and no-one is swimming in that river. But that paled in comparison to the beautiful decor, the grand bazaar and the best boat ride I've ever been on!

19/08/2010

edinburgh, scotland


At the beginning of May 2010, I took L2 to Scotland. It involved long walks, castle adventures and visiting an entirely underground city. Edinburgh was, in short, amazing. Key thing to do - read One Day by David Nicholls while visiting the city. If that doesn't inspire you to climb Arthur's Seat, I dub you officially insane.

18/08/2010

isle of man, uk



















Rain is a necessary evil in the Isle of Man. While you have to bring your wellies and raincoat - it's one of those places that is incredibly lush and amazingly vivid colours. An easy location to shoot.

It's been on the top three places I've wanted to visit since I was a child. Last year, Liam took me for my birthday and despite the mixed weather, or perhaps because of, it was everything that I thought it would look like.

17/08/2010

stockholm, sweden

At the end of May, I broke my Sweden ban to visit an old friend in the city. Needless to say, I felt quite silly about my ban after hours and hours of sunshine, colour coordinated museum exhibits (that haven't even started yet) and the super friendly people. Scandinavia never disappoints in its beauty.

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