Gregory Crewdson, photographer extraordinaire

I bloody love Gregory Crewdson's photography. It's an art directors dream, the attention to detail makes me salivate. I love the stories they tell, the poignancy and longing each shot delivers and the dream like vision he evokes. I love the light, the filmic approach, the surreal moods he creates from everyday scenes. Best of all I love the intrigue he creates from every image, like an incomplete sentence. I love it all. I've just bought his latest book Twilight. Perhaps one day I'll have my very own print.

Fab app

If you're like me and have 20 million windows open and 15 thousand tabs on each of those windows then you'll find this app fab. http://www.instapaper.com/ A simple tool to save web pages for reading later. A 'read later' button is installed into your window and from there you can save any website for... reading later. It's brill and like most useful things it's also available in an iphone app. You can sync it with your kindle and better yet you can share your reading to do list with others. Now all I have to do is actually get round to reading them.

Yay! I'm old*

This week I got older. That's the terrible thing about birthdays. The great thing about birthdays is that it's the perfect excuse to get drunk! Check out these two pics, one is from my forth birthday and one from my twenty something something birthday(cough). As you can see there's a big difference, in one I'm enjoying some tutti fruitis with my cousins and friends and in the other I'm enjoying some tutti fruitis with my cousins and some friends**. As you can my hairstyle has barely progressed (fashion goes in circles, at least that's my excuse) and my skirts aren't much longer. It's good to see some things never change.
*insert sarcasm here.
** not included in pic- too drunk ;)

On me halidays

I've been on holidays, well not quite. I've been home, in lovely Donegal, for a whole week and it was bliss. I've been snapping away at Lagg, as usual, but this time with a toy camera. It was fun to see how the shots would turn out. Check out that dramatic sky action! I've uploaded more onto my flickr if you'd like to check them out. I'm back in the big bad city for now so it's nice to look back at these and feel a little healed. 

Etsy regretsy

This site makes me laugh out loud. For all your etsy regretsies there is now a place to pubish your shame. I've some especially dodgy online purchases hidden away under the bed. Me and my lovely Mum cannot turn down a bargain. I think it's actually genetic. I could definately publish to the ebay equivilant of regretsy. Here a link to my latest purchase which I actually still quiet like but my sister told me "it's the worst looking thing I've ever seen on you. You look like you spend your evening's consulting the oracle and making potions". It might be a future regret.

LOVE, Love, love it.

Definately the ad of the year, in my opinion, soooo so AWESOME! Samsung Electronic, "The 3D truth in old masters". Genius use of VO from the Mighty Boosh's Rich Fulcher. Unfortunately I can't embed the ad so I only have a quick screen grab. See the full ad here. So worth a look. I wish I could credit the piece but unfortunately I can't find any details on that either. Bravo to the team behind it anyhow. 

Nicely done

Aardman Animations have recently launched a new, self-funded short film programme to showcase the talents of its directors and the first two films have been released. Fly is directed by Alan Short. Click here to see the second film.

via CRBlog (thanking you).

Another tee

So I've done another tee design. I haven't submitted it yet, I'm going to apply the logic of my last design and post it here and let it sit for a bit. That way at least I'll know if I like it or not. I decided to design around the phrase "It can't rain forever". I just liked it. The idea was to fill the t-shirt up with water and have an arc floating at the top. It wasn't really sitting well in the design though and ultimately this t-shirt would hopefully be one that people would wear so I changed it and added the underwater city. I've distressed the type to appear as though it was beginning to bleed out.

Looking into the past

The Museum of London has launched a free iPhone app which brings its extensive art and photographic collections as well as geo tagging and Google Maps to guide users around London where, via the iPhone screen, various historical images of the city appear - just like in the image above. You can look into the past of the London, and explore the hidden history of London that surrounds you. This idea may have been inspired by the Flickr group, Looking into the Past .  Via: Likecool Check out The Museum of Londons site for more info.

Tee Designs

This is a t-shirt design I did with the intention of submitted it to Threadless. I call it "Moustachio Pistachio'. I'm going to 'rest' it for a week and maybe come back and see if there's anything I'd change. I usually find space and distance from something determines whether I love or hate it. So often though I come back to something and wonder what the hell I was thinking. I'm posting this to see my before and afters. Watch this space....

Photography

Featuring the beautifully atmospheric work of Texan photographer (and history teacher) Bryan Schutmaat. 

SATC 2 and my fashion blog

A totally frivolous fashion post (yet again) but such a wonderfully perfect summer ensembles and the imminent realease of SATC 2, I couldn't not. I need Vanessa Hudgens dress, shoes, accessories (hair, body, face). The dress is georgette mini from Tibi incase you've an extra 380euro laying around. SJP's beautiful yellow frock is Valention if you please. It'll set you back 5,0000euros*


For more fashion and style bookmarking check out my fashion tumblelog. It's stylish


*speculation

So you need a typeface.

Find yourself using inappropriate amounts of helvetica and futura due to lack of any real type education and an irrational fear of not looking cool among more design savvy peers. Well default no longer, Julian Hansen has created a font info-graphic to answer all our font dilemmas. A sigh of relief for all those who reflected on their past design ventures and wondered what the hell you were doing with papyrus.

Cannes Dah-ing

So Cannes film festival was this weekend. I've been checking out the fabulous dresses and style online. Oh to be rich and famous. I've done a little montage of four of my favourites here. I'd imagine wearing one of these little number on my weekly trip to Aldi or Lidl. Where else! I particularly love the dusty pink dress (top left) of course being a mere mortal I have a feeling I'd have more than a passing resemblance to a giant walking talking marshmallow in it. I guess I'll never know. 

I just stumbled across these beautiful images from the 2006 Skywalkers project in Miami by Fwy Studios. What a fun project that must have been to have witnessed/ photographed/ been involved in. 

Summers here

I've done loads today. Isn't it funny how warm weather can motivate you. I think I belong in a warm climate, California sounds good. If I could just lift all my family and friends off I'd be gone. Here's a shot I took on my old polaroid and scanned then tinkered with a little. Very summery, wee bit californian too. 

An Irish heat wave, yes really.

We've been having a bit of a heat wave here in lovely Eire. I took the opportunity to avail of the lovely weather and take my canon D5000 off on a hike. Here's a shot from the top of Knockamany Bens over looking Lagg strand and chapel. I'll upload the whole set to flickr soon. It's really tough to leave home and go back to Dublin when there's weather like this, there really isn't anywhere nicer in my biased opinion. 

I love when artists cut right through to the truth of the matter, and Laurel Varian hasn’t put a foot wrong in outing all the popular themes on Etsy! This illustration is called “It’s Etsy”. I'd suggest some twee cats added to the wallpaper pattern. It also reminds me of the pringles logo. It's fun. 

Photoblogging

Check out the wonderful work from Swedish* photographer and photoblogger Anna Aden. I really admire her framing. See www.imable.se and www.imable.blogspot.com for more. 
*I think, there's no english going on here. 

Olympus Pen. A pen story

New offering from Olympus pen. Very cool stop motion, 355 pictures were taken, printed billboard size and reshot. The actual video was produced on Olympus PEN itself which is impressive in itself when you look at the production quality. No tricks or animation used. A lovely wee tune too.