I´ll be right back!

I have been wondering how to improve my blog for some time now and of course hundreds of ideas came to my mind. So I decided to stop posting for some time and start all over again.

I´ll let you know about it as soon as possible.

Thanks to all my dear readers: Take care and have fun!

egawa+zbryk

http://egawazbryk.com/

Combinat - Museumsquartier Vienna

"In the northwest corner of the Vienna Museumsquartier, near the entrance from Burggasse, surprised visitors will come upon a room filled with a unique selection of fashion, handbags, jewelry and accessories – the Combinat: A welcome and refreshing Combination of lifestyle-pieces from several designer labels. A creative interplay of choice Designer-Soft-Wear. An assortment which can confidently hold its own, with museum-quality ambience achieved through a mass of creativity emerging out of the successful collaboration of several designers from various countries."


Photo: Sebastian Toth

"For visitors who have frequented the spot since its opening in April of 2005, the most important aspect of the picturesque and charismatic room (which was once apparently directly below a tack room for K & K Hofstallungen, the horse stables of the Habsburgs) is that 5 inter/national designer labels – Pitour, meYoTa, Artista, km/a, Claudia Güdel – use the space as an ever-evolving showplace for their creative abilities."


Photo: Sebastian Toth

"Thus, every month, the Combinat opens its doors to offer the opportunity for young artists to put their creativity on display on the walls of the room, in the form of photographs, paintings, or illustrated works.It is no accident, then, that designers of the Combinat host vernissages more often than fashion shows, and it is also no coincidence that just this kind of dynamic creative enthusiasm is easy to see within their unique individual works.For the creative minds of the Combinat, art is more than merely a buzzword. It is a symbiotic duty and persuasion. From these multiple interconnections within the discipline, an independent style emerges, which the Combinat employs in creating a space of its own - a space with a charisma that not only stretches past the borders of its Shop-in-Shop-Concept, but also reaches far beyond the walls of the Museumsquartier."


Photo: Sebastian Toth

Sebastian Toth is the current Exhibition_Artist. His pictures take a sneak peak behind the glamorous curtains of fashion photography.


Photo: Sebastian Toth

http://www.combinat.at/
http://trixmilk.blogspot.com/ (Sebastian Toth´s Photo Blog)

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My picture upload is not working at the moment! As soon as I have fixed the problem I will share some very nice pictures with you....Stay tuned!

Katy Yookyong-Chung

CSM Graduate 2008

Photos: Christoper Moore/catwaking.com

Katy Yookyong-Chung on catwalking.com

Alicia Buelow

Alicia Buelow is a San Francisco-based illustrator and designer who integrates traditional media with found objects, text, digital images and photographs.
Her works are partly available via her homepage.

"My work reflects the relationships between technology, nature, and anatomy, as described by our everyday emotional and physical experiences. When building an image, I start with a background texture created from traditional materials by painting, scraping, drawing, and gluing imagery onto a surface. I also take tons of photos for source backgrounds such as faded, peeling, and rusted surfaces. I scan the photos and hand-made backgrounds on my flatbed scanner, then add other elements digitally."

http://www.aliciabuelow.com/

Built NY

http://www.builtny.com/

Jan Taminiau - SS 2009

 

 
Photos via AIFW

www.jantaminiau.com

Eyola

Another Blog-find is London based label Eyola. Thanks to Queen Mary from Kingdom of Style

www.eyola.com

Jonathan Trotter

Great Blog Designboom introduced the work of ceramic artist Jonathan Trotter. Thanks!

What Jonathan says about his work: 

"PRESERVING ENGLISH TRADITION IS AN IMPORTANT CONCEPT THROUGHOUT MY WORK. USING CERAMICS, CONTEMPORARY PROCESSES AND MATERIALS I CREATE OBJECTS WHICH CELEBRATE BRITISH SOCIETY AND DOMESTIC WARES.
I REINVENT FAMILIAR DOMESTIC OBJECTS INTO CONTEMPORARY PIECES WHICH ECHO TRADITIONAL VALUES THROUGH THEIR FORMS."

www.jonathantrotter.blogspot.com

Johnny Griffin - R.I.P.

John Arnold Griffin III 

(April 24, 1928 - July 25, 2008)

US jazz tenor saxophonist Johnny Griffin, who played alongside such luminaries as Lionel Hampton, Art Blakey and Thelonius Monk, died Friday in France, his agent Helene Manfredi said. He was 80.
Nicknamed the Little Giant, Griffin was due to perform Friday evening alongside US organist Rhoda Scott, French saxophonist Olivier Temime and drummer Julie Saury.
Griffin died at home in Mauprevoir, a village in the west-central La Vienne district, where he had spent the last 18 years of his life. The cause of death was not disclosed.
After studying music at the DuSable High School in his native Chicago, Griffin joined vibes star Hampton's orchestra in 1945 before leaving with trumpeter Joe Morris to join the latter's own band.
Throughout the 1950s, he played with a variety of combos, including Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers.
He also played alongside cornetist Nat Adderley and recorded with John Coltrane. The fruits of that collaboration produced the 1957 Blue Note album for which he is perhaps best remembered, "A Blowin' Session."
At the start of the 1960s, Griffin founded his own group along with another saxophone player, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, but in 1962 he decided to set up home in France.
A spell in the Netherlands followed in the 1970s, before his return to France, where he continued to record and tour right to the end.
Legendary London jazz club Ronnie Scott's described Griffin on its website as a "member of jazz's elite ... his burning solos and furiously nimble runs anchored by an amazingly well-informed and complete grasp of melody and harmony, marking him out as one of the greatest tenor sax players". (AFP)



Griff on Myspace
NY Times Article

A Cup of Jo - Blog

One of the blogs I really like is A Cup of Jo. It´s the blog of Joanna Goddard who is a magazine writer in New York and works for magazines like New York, Cookie, Elle, Glamour and Town & Country Travel.

I like her selection of Art, Photography, Fashion, Design and the posts about the people around her. I often have the feeling of daydreaming when I go through her images. Inspiring!


Luke Stephenson Canary Print


Floating Home


Little Boy who decided to dress like Mr. Bean


Home Inspiration

http://joannagoddard.blogspot.com/

Alithia Spur-Zampetti

CSM Graduate 2008

 

 

 

Photos: Christopher Moore / catwalking.com

Alithia Spuri-Zampetti on catwaling.com