Orange Crush

    

  

Autumn Nails

Courtesy of H&M

     

Something In The Way

      

   

Last weekend marked the 20th anniversary of 

the release of Nirvana's iconic Nevermind album

- an auditory reminder of the angsty episodes &

teenage turmoil of at least one generation.

 

Sleepyhead

   

  

Jungle Fever

  

   

FEATHERS!

  

  

  

  

 

 

ALL @ TOPSHOP

    

   

Peace Of Mind

  

International Day of Peace

September 21st

    

  

internationaldayofpeace.org

 

Do You Dream In Colour?

  

Lucy Dyson is a Berlin-based Australian artist, animator and music 

video director who has perfected the art of technicolour kitsch:

   

 

 

    

   

    

 'Your clear eye is the one absolutely beautiful thing.

I want to fill it with colour and ducks,

The zoo of the new'

        ~ Sylvia Plath             

       

Pretty Paper

  

 

Have been spotting bits of Rob Ryan's 'Papercut Art Fun'

here, there 'n' everywhere, these past months.

   

Lost In The Woods

  

Picnic at Hanging Rock made for suitably empyrean
viewing, of a weekend, not least because of its fanciful
outfitting - all gossamer petticoats & victoriana lace:

 

  

 

  

 

 
The original, & typically obscure, Polish publicity poster:
 

  

Les Feuilles Mortes

   
' The falling leaves drift by the window,

Autumn leaves of red and gold.'

     

  

   

  

   

1. Silk Bird Print Dress, Warehouse
2. Yves Saint Laurent 'Arty' Ring, Net-A-Porter
3. Tan Leather Saddle Bag, Princes Vintage
4. Gold Hanging Cross Earrings, Urban Outfitters

       

    

For What It's Worth

    

    

- For What It's Worth

 

   

Let It Grow

   

 

Written On The Forehead

Much to my chagrin, I was forced to miss Polly Jean's performance at last weekend's Electric Picnic proceedings. Disappointment was eased somewhat on Tuesday, when it was announced that she had won the Mercury Music Prize for the aforementioned, and brilliant, Let England Shake, released in February of this year.

She is the only artist to date to have been awarded the prize on two separate occasions, having also won in 2001 for Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea.

In the interim since its release, I've come to love Written on the Forehead maybe most of all. Part prayer, part prophecy, this haunting incantation makes for completely compulsive listening.

  

Reminds Me Of You

Shampoo Memories:

#163 of 1000 Awesome Things

  

See, whether you like it or not: You smell. Yes, you’re some bizarro concoction of shower soap, dryer sheets, and hair spray. You’re a walking cloud of deodorant streaks, sweat stains, and perfume spray. Your closest cuddles with your closest pals will reveal your smell to them and them to you.

  

  

When you walk away from old places and disappear from forgotten scenes, you might miss those little moments that come from cuddling in between. Shampoo memories are distant smells of days gone by that pop back into your brain a long time later.

  

     

They surprise you in random closets, walk by you in jeans at the mall, pop out of dusty old dressers, and come back like no time’s passed at all. Shampoo memories are Grandma’s skin cream on crinkly letters, an ex-boyfriend’s cologne on new friends, shampoo memories are smells that pay you a visit, new beginnings or teary-eyed reminders of an end.

  

    

When a shampoo memory pops into your brain make sure you stop to appreciate it’s there. Because those memories built you and made you, they formed you and raised you, and that little moment gives you a chance to remember someone who helped shape your life.

1000awesomethings.com

      

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