Ooh-la-lá!!!

A new album by Farish Nourallah for free download if you register on Magic (Revue Pop Moderne)!!
Thank you Faris, Merry Christmas for you too.
:)


...Although I have to confess my favourite Faris record still is “I love Faris” (2003).

*(If you love The Beatles, Elliott Smith and so on you won’t be disappointed)

The Powers of Ten is a cult short-film made on 1977 by Charles and Ray Eames for IBM.
Scale matters, if you have any doubt ask a quantum physics expert like this amazing man.


powers of ten :: charles and ray eames from bacteriasleep on Vimeo.

Been loving these Limi Feu hair headphones showed on her SS09 Paris Fashion Week Show since the first time I saw them.
I'm a total braid fan...



But you know who is Limi's father, don't you?

*Backstage picture taken by Clement Dauvant, catwalk pictures borrowed from Style.com.

Recently discovered this vintage kid's book blog. Fab.
Below a selection...

(This is one of the things I’ve been doing recently...Hope you like it*)
Seasonal greetings, ho-ho-ho...
Time to spend at home, cinnamon cookies, jingle bells and Topo Azul wallpaper customization!!
Yes kids!! And not-so-kids... paint-it-yourself, build your own tale while listening to beautiful Cineplexx melodies.

A PAINT-IT-YOURSELF CHRISTMAS TALE from alanthegallant on Vimeo.

If you want your own Topo Azul to colour it at home you can buy it on Gallant Tales.

Have a nice weekend!
:)

Yesterday received a link to this great Store Wars video. A really funny organics vs. transgenics food animation.
Tofu D2 is amazing!
:D

May the farm be with you!

Is this fantastic chair designed by Samuli Naamanka the sustainable response to Aarnio’s iconic Bubble Chair?

Perfect for slow-designed gardens!


...and Eero Aarnio’s retro-futuristic bubbles!

*Saw it on Wannekes!

Today one of my architecture and design heroes: Buckminster Fuller.
A total visionary, internationally known in the 50’s because of his Geodesic Dome research and development, was a brilliant and inspiring human.
He even fully documented his whole life (every 15 minutes everyday for decades!) in a diary series called Dimaxion Chronofile!
A total recommendation for further research and inspiration... have a nice day*



*Photographs borrowed from Flickr.

Here’s a beautiful beautiful Gucci commercial directed by David Lynch.
Look at the lights, the colour palette, the atmosphere ...and Blondie’s Heart of Glass is the soundtrack!!


And the behind the scenes...

Topo Choco is a new wallpaper from Pattern Tales®, the neo-ornamental brand created by Sir Alan The Gallant!


Below some detail pictures...





*If interested in buying visit GallantTales.com (Alan’s e-shop).

Have a nice sunday.
:)

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot once again about Archigram (the amazing avant-garde conceptual arty architecture collective created in the 60s by Peter Cook, Warren Chalk, Ron Herron, Dennis Crompton, Michael Webb and David Greene).

Below see some Peter Cook’s collages:

As you supposed I’m a huge Tropicalia fan, yesterday saw a great documentary about it from the BBC “Brasil Brasil” series.
You can see the whole documentary on YouTube as well, embedded below is part 3.
Enjoy it and have a nice day*

Akihiro Furuta family portraits are just wonderful.
Here you have 3 sweet samples:

The first photo was taken at the dog’s birthday party, aren’t they all gorgeous?

See the dog’s face at the bicycle, cuuute!

Discovered it via Booooooom!

Sorry for not posting these days... I’ve been on a business trip :/
And now for something completely different: A personal November’s Soundtrack:
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Fleet Foxes : Fleet Foxes
(This record is magic! It makes me think sometimes about The Hidden Cameras scoring a Sergio Leone’s Spaghetti Western movie. “White Winter Hymnal” is just brilliant. )

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of Montreal : Skeletal Lamping
(I know that I repeated this one... but I’ve been months hooked on this amazing album. Kevin Barnes is a total contemporary genius. )

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Tom Zé : Grande Liquidação
(God Bless Tropicalia!!! )

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Glenn Gould : The Complete Goldberg Variations 1955 & 1981.
(A classic masterpiece. A must.)

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Jessica Bailiff : Old Things. Une collection de chansons 1999-2003.
(Dreamy shoegazer hypnotic compilation. Some of these songs seem to perfectly fit on Twin Peaks.)

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Beach House : Devotion.
(What a warm beautiful and dreamy album...)

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Final Fantasy : Spectrum 14th Century EP+ Plays to Please EP.
(I am a total self-confessed Owen Pallet fan. Final Fantasy concerts are A-M-A-Z-I-N-G. I wish I could attend to his show together with Grizzly Bear and The Brooklyn Philarmonic on next February! )

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Ally Kerr : Off The Radar + Amorino.
(Ally’s delicate pop songs are soft and brilliant.)

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Vinícius de Moraes & Toquinho... : Grabado en Buenos Aires.
(Really funny bossa-nova albums, great songs mixed with jokes and a lot of saudade.)

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Comet Gain : Broken Record Prayers.
(Fantastic fantastic garage band! One of my favs.)

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