This painting is by Spanish artist Alberto Mieglo and I saw this about a year ago on Purple Fashion accompanying 'Innocent in a way' short film/doco by Alexis Wanneroy and I was incredibly moved the moment the painting caught my eye. The short film, about 8mins long was sitting on the backburner of things to do and I finally got ...
For times when you feel like an oddballl and one day hope to appreciate the full extent of your utter madness, know that you're not alone - someone already beat you to it. Enjoy xx
I have to say I really like this season's South Park, it went back to it's usual edginess which I really missed last season, what happened to you guys Trey and Matt?? I'm glad your zest is back and I hope it stays that way the rest of the season. I have never previously blogged about an episode (even though ...
Written on the 26th of November.So happy exams are over, and had my fill of sleeping in, wino and sangria and movies for the last two days. So thought I'd write up one last blog post before getting dressed to head over to the airport. I'm off on a no phones/ no internet meditation retreat at Jhana Grove, Serpentine ...
Whatever happened to the days of having your portait commissioned and taken? Obviously we don't live in a time period that such matters garners into normal consideration - maybe it's because of my art history background but I can truly say that I am nostalgaic for it. For one of my papers last year, one of my favourite lecturers gave ...
"Le plus beau vetement qui puisse habiller une femme, ce sont les bras de l’homme qu’elle aime" Paris, 2014 by Paul Franco and Emmanuel Giraud is a beautiful little film for Saint Laurent based on the words the founder once imparted; "The most beautiful clothes that can dress a woman are the arms of the man she loves", after ...
I'm sorry this took me over a month to post, but my retreat was amazing. On the very last day I felt almost as if I had been enlightened or awakened. I wasn't but in a different kind of way I was or closer too I like to think, and because I'm a rain child and I love anything to ...
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Audrey Hepburn, Sabrina 1954 One of my favourite films of all time, Billy Wilder's Sabrina with Audrey Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart with so many memorable lines. Love this amazing scene with Sabrina at the French cooking school, apologies for not being able to find an English version but from memory the ending - encompassing one of the most important ...
A picture is worth a thousand words, and some images just grab you and imprints your mind forever. This one surely did - so much so it was on the back of my art history folder, and I still have it. And it inspires me even today but yes I aknowledge the disturbing history it invokes (I always have and ...
I've always said that the best movies you will ever watch are the ones in your imagination. And in Art History we have a tendency to romanticise and over imagine art whilst admiring and especially researching the tale behind the painting in a way that is indescribable. A friend showed me this video entitled Beauty directed by Rino Stefano ...
These words are the kind I hear often from almost every meditation teacher I've encountered, as well as my Mom (a total non-meditator). Also I'm pretty sure I've heard it on one of the Kung-Fu Panda movies, so you know these are definitely wise words to live by. But recently I've come across Impossible, fronted by one of my favourite ...
All the things I love about May so far. May you find inspiration xx "Don't lie about something before you've given it a chance to come true" Photo credit: Brandon Stanton, Humans Of New York Canadian Astronaut Chris Hadfield on board from the ISS - has to be the best video on the internet fullstop. Blimey Cow Skit Movies I'm ...
Ideally it should really be the other way around but I feel Mr. Wilde may have been correct that this is in fact the more frequent reality. My two recent flower crown bearing, Summer road-trips proved it thus, particularly the last. The surroundings were just too beautiful to be described, other than prior to going in my mind I had ...
I have a really busy weekend and week ahead so probably not many posts, but finally got around to watching this week's round of vid's from TYT and Forbes with my breakfast, and this is just amazing I thought - and as I was planning on doing a piece on Bespoke creations and the impact of social media, this mini ...
Eat me: A feast for the eyes and imagination Edible wonderland inspired by wild bohemian gardens and oils of ornate Northern European still lifes. Magical and infested with candied butterflies. Almond and lavender pound cake with vanilla bean and fresh citrusy frosting that you just want to lick. Strawberries, baby tomatoes and herbs plucked fresh from the garden. Delicious ...
Historians will especially know what I mean, but in your whatever area of interest when you come across a video/exhibition/book where you've absolutely been like OHMYFUCKINGGOD, it's like an absolute intense intellectual orgasm. I just had a mini one and you're about too as well. This just in from my Vogue feed, you're welcome. Will be posting the Dior exhibition ...
The Male Nudes exhibition at the Pah Homestead is closing today and this photograph hanging in the Ballroom on top of the fire place has to be my favourite piece in the entire collection. Being a baby Latinist this particular work called Caducus (2011) by David K. Shields couldn't be more approprately named.I managed to source an actual copy from ...
"You think this is just another day in your life, it's not just another day, it's the one day that is given to you; today. It's given to you, it's a gift, it's the only gift that you have right now and the only appropriate response is gratefulness. If you do nothing else but cultivate that response to the ...
Happy birthday Jesus! (Kind of) So Christmas has come and gone at least in this time zone. And as usual it's the anti-climax. I'm just going to share my favorite part of this holiday; the making of the tree. This year after 16 years of Warehouse plastic that had weathered through it's share of stress of how to be decorated ...
