Hel Looks

Hel Looks is one of my favourite street style blogs. Damn people of Helsinki, ya look good.
It's left me with a big craving for a yellow velvet blazer. Here's a couple of my favourites, check out the website for loads more weirdly perfect outfits. 

Heidi Systo

Heidi Systo's Flickr is beautiful and definitely worth taking a peek at. A lot of her more recent photographs are really interesting takes on body image/sexuality.

  

Sigur Rós- The Valtari mystery film experiment

One of the most beautiful dream-like videos I've seen in a long time.
Fjögur Píanó- Sigur Rós.

The Valtari mystery film experiment is such a brilliant idea.  Sigur Rós have given a dozen film makers a modest budget and asked them to create a film based on their imagination and reactions when they listen to songs from the new album Valtari.

"we never meant our music to come with a pre-programmed emotional response. we don’t want to tell anyone how to feel and what to take from it. with the films, we have literally no idea what the directors are going to come back with. none of them know what the others are doing, so hopefully it could be interesting."

Miu Miu

I think I first fell in love with Miu Miu in their Spring/Summer 2010 collection (shown above). Naked girl/cat/bird prints, I don't know what could be better. It's no doubt one of my favourite collections and never fails to make me swoon. I'll write a post dedicated to it later so I don't lose focus on their new collection. I have a love hate relationship towards Miu Miu's Autumn/Fall 2012 collection, however it leans further towards love.

The main reason I'm not 100% sold on the outfits is because I wouldn't personally wear them. And while that can be a pretty common response to the majority of catwalk collections opposed to ready to wear outfits, I would have given my left arm to be able to strut around in some of Miu Miu's earlier creations. The more masculine styled suits aren't particularly my taste, but generally I like them. I would have been in love with the burgundy suit pictured, but I have a deep seated hatred of black and bright coloured square print fabric thanks to the teenage scene phase. The striped suit is a favourite, but I love the overall use of pattern on pattern. The main source of my love for the collection isn't necessarily because of the designs aesthetically, but more so because of what they remind me of.

The use of pattern on pattern reminds me of my dad, or both my grandparents, which is a really comforting feeling. The person I most immediately associated with the patterns and clothes was Ray Hughes. A few years ago I went and saw his portrait in the Archibald prize by Lucy Culliton. About an hour later I saw him at another gallery, wearing and equally bright and patterned outfit as in his portrait. Strangely enough I'm kind of reminded of Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka in the 1971 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. It's extremely hard to dislike a collection when it reminds me of such happy and nice things.

I found a bunch of big pieces of thick brown cardboard style boards lying around the house. I've started some really rough drawings on them that I'm going to draw/paint into later. Exciting exciting!

Dead sound- New playlist

Dead sound from lizardpike on 8tracks.

11 tracks for the getting out of the blues.

1. Dead sound- Raveonettes

2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind theme- Jon Brion

3. The Funeral- Serena Ryder and The Beauties (Band of Horses cover)

4. Vanessa- Grimes

5. Peach Plum Pear- Joanna Newsom

6. The hours- Beach House

7. Weighty Ghost- Wintersleep

8. Genesis- Grimes

9. R.I.P Burn face- CocoRosie

10. Crazy- The Kooks

11. Myth- Beach House

Artist: Francis Upritchard

I have a new artist crush. Francis Upritchard's sculptures are so perfectly weird. I love the strange proportions of their bodies. Odly enough, some of them (particularly the one pictured below) remind me of Buddhist monks, but they all have a surreal dream-like feel about them. Check out more of her work.