Last week received an email from Greta and Isla, two finnish designers who have designed wallets from cassette tapes.
They want me to ask you how much would you pay for these beautiful recycled wallets...

Someone said 20€? Make your bids and tell them.


It's a pity that last week I already bought a new owl wallet for me at H&M...

The other day watched “Rivers and Tides” a documentary by artist Andy Goldsworthy.
We were amazed by the beauty of the images and it reminded me how much I love land art (and environmental art).


Below a some of the classics...

Spiral Jetty by Robert Smithson (1970) The Icon.


Displacements by Robert Smithson.



Christo and Jeanne Claude. Early Works+Surrounded Islands.


Walter de Maria: Lightning Field on the left, NYC Earth Room on the right.

and remember: I don’t care if Monday is blue, Tuesday is great and Wednesday too...

Rocket Science. (Jeffrey Blitz, 2007)


L’Homme de Rio. (Philippe de Broca, 1964)


BBC The Story of Jamaican Music. (BBC)


What just happened. (Barry Levinson, 2008)


Låt den rätte komma in. -Let the right one in- (Tomas Alfredson, 2009)


PBS American Masters: Andy Warhol. (2006)


The Beatles. Let it be. (Michael Lindsay-Hogg, 1970)


Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie. (Luis Buñuel, 1972)


Japanorama. (6 BBC Documentaries, 2002)


La Notte. (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1961)

Below some great art installations by Portia Munson.





Her “Pink Project” reminds me of the JeongMee Yoon’s photographs I posted last year.

I love this amazing ceramic amplifier designed by Science and Sons...
Below a “how it works” explanation taken from their website:

“Without the use of external power or batteries, the Phonofone inventively exploits the virtues of horn acoustics to boost the audio output of standard earphones to up to 55 decibles* (or roughly the maximum volume of laptop speakers). Upon connecting active earphones to the Phonofone their trebly buzzing is instantly and profoundly transformed into a warm, rich and resonant sound.”

“The Phonofone is constructed entirely from ceramic. Not only environmentally low impact, ceramics are inherently rigid and resonant, lending themselves well to this application.”

I’m so happy that it’s officially springtime now!
I would wear some spring-summer Gaspard Yurkievich clothes to celebrate!
Below my selection for boys and girls...

Lighting designer Stuart Haygarth makes these STUNNING lamps...


Spectacle(2006) is created from over 1000 pairs of prescription spectacles.


Aladdin (2006) made of different colour glassware found on fleamarkets.


Tail Light(2007) is made of vehicle light lenses.

Some days ago saw on Grain Edit this beautiful typeface and I just can’t get her out of my head...
She’s gorgeous and has 9 different styles! What else can I ask?
Steve Mehallo is the designer and it’s available via MyFonts.

Some plates by E.A. Seguy taken from the book “Papillons: vingt planches en phototypie coloriees au patron” -1924-.

Found the other day these two drawings I started last summer, think it’s time to work with them a little bit more...
I want them to be REALLY colourful!

I like roller skates very much, haven’t used them for years as now I’m a bike and walk person but admit they have a kind of retro-kitsch feel that I totally adore.
Below a roller skate selection on the screen!


Xanadu (1980)
Ohhh... iconic.


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Roller Boogie (1979)
Amazing movie! Look at The Rapture’s video inspired on this film... groooovy!


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Skatetown, USA (1979)
Love on wheels, cheesy outfits and Patrick Swayze on a leather waistcoat!


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It’s always fair weather (1955)
Gene Kelly tap dancing on roller skates is amazing!


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Unholy Rollers (1972)
Playmate Claudia Jennings as a skating goddess.


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and my beloved Anna Karina singing Je suis la rollergirl on Anna (1967)
Anna Karina - Rollergirl

Jan Vormann made this great street art installations using Lego pieces to reconstruct the streets of Bocchignano (Italy) and Tel Aviv.





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And today Alan The Gallant has been covered by The Retrospective!
Muchas gracias!
:)

Architect Richard Neutra designed the Boomerang Chair in 1942.
Isn’t it gorgeous?

Love the atmosphere in Lina Scheynius photographs.

Today I’m totally addicted to “The Mayfly Dance” a fantastic psychedelic freak-folk album by Stuart and Caan.
Below a video of one of their songs...and here you can download on MP3 a session they recorded at Dublab Radio.

This amazing bear-shaped sleeping bag has been created by Eiko Ishizawa.





I’m a self-confessed Peau d’Âne fan and I think this is a great contemporary revisitation! :)
Below darling Catherine Deneuve as Peau d’Âne.

Well, seems that Maurice Pillard Verneuil (1869-1942) is my new “Pattern Hero”...
I’m TOTALLY AMAZED with his book “Kaleidoscope: ornements abstraits” -circa 1925?-.
Below some plates from the book.

Oh... How I love Yamauchi Kazuaki’s illustrations...











Enjoy Friday :)

visit his website for more...
Beautiful.

I adore Robert and Sonia Delaunay’s work, but lately I’m specially into Sonia’s fashion creations...









This embroidered coat she designed for Gloria Swanson is fab!

Yesterday attended to the Cildo Meireles exhibition at MACBA and got crazy about Babel (the radio tower you can see below), in the whole exhibition space the only lights were the ones from the transistor radios and the sound was a crazy mix of all the cassettes, radio stations and so on...


After MACBA went to another museum, but in the middle of the walk I got surprised again by these temporary city lights The Barcelona Council has installed in Ronda Sant Antoni. They are so strange that I can’t even describe them... all kind of materials mixed (concrete, wood, plastic, metal...), they are so not-designed that seem really modern indeed!

Three of my favourite Hella Jongerius projects, so contemporary and warm...

Office Pets





Home Props



Backpack Sofa & Stool

Ty Segall : Ty Segall
Dirty sound, distorted guitars and a one man band with an incredible sound! Follow him!
Two songs to download here and here... and look at him.


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Clancy Eccles : Presents His Reggae Revue
Oh... years ago I wasn’t into reggae at all, now I can’t stop listening reggae records to make up for lost time.


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Olivia Tremor Control : All their records and rarities.
So brilliant, so psychedelic, so pop sometimes...What else can I say about such an amazing band?


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Gary War : New Raytheonport
Psychedelic, underwater-like sometimes, full of reverberation and totally addictive.


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The Pains of Being Pure at Heart : The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Indie pop with a C86 touch, a great debut album.


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Emitt Rhodes : Daisy-fresh from Hawthorne, California. The Best of the Dunhill Years.
An anthology of an incredible artist, more similar Paul McCartney than you would ever think...(he is known as “the one man Beatles”!)


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Bert Jansch : Bert Jansch
What a great debut album...


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Various Artists : Trojan Rocksteady Box Set
More reggae roots to make life calmer and happier!


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Thelonious Monk : Underground
The piano unorthodox master.


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The Vaselines : The Way of the Vaselines, a complete history.
Since I was a grunge teenager I’ve been loving them.


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