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!
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Monday, July 28, 2008
Katy Yookyong-Chung
Labels:
Essential Style
CSM Graduate 2008
Photos: Christoper Moore/catwaking.com
Katy Yookyong-Chung on catwalking.com
Alicia Buelow
Labels:
Essential Art,
Essential Design
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/
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Saturday, July 26, 2008
Eyola
Labels:
Essential Style
Friday, July 25, 2008
Jonathan Trotter
Labels:
Essential Design,
Essential Living
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."
I REINVENT FAMILIAR DOMESTIC OBJECTS INTO CONTEMPORARY PIECES WHICH ECHO TRADITIONAL VALUES THROUGH THEIR FORMS."
Johnny Griffin - R.I.P.
John Arnold Griffin III
(April 24, 1928 - July 25, 2008)
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
Thursday, July 24, 2008
A Cup of Jo - Blog
Labels:
Essential Design,
Essential Living,
Essential Media
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/
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Archie Shepp - Jazzmusician
Photograph by Juan Esteves
Archie Shepp started playing jazz in the early 60's and still tours around the world playing tenor saxophone and piano, accompanied by his soulful voice. Archie has worked with Cecil Taylor, John Coltrane and Yusef Lateef, as well as countless other jazz greats. To write about his musical qualities would take quite some time, so please check out more on his website:
He was the first Jazzmusician I really met and I was immediately captured by his absolutely amazing style and his cheeky grin. That day he wore a great dark hat, a very well tailored dark double breasted pin stripe suit and had a cane in his hand...very much like on the picture above. He was so incredibly cool and relaxed between all those busy people working at the festival office where he was...I was ravished by him!
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