Tuesday, 2 April 2013
Wednesday, 12 December 2012
Science is lovely
Absolutely love the Periodic Table Of Videos. Informative, bitesize and most importantly adorable videos from some people much cleverer than me explaining things in a way I can understand.
This video about Gold filmed inside the Bank of England's secure gold bullion vault is wonderful, and gives you a rare peek into the kind of place you'd usually have to be very rich, very powerful or extremely adept at thievery to see inside.
Science class was never this interesting.
Wednesday, 9 May 2012
Sunday, 11 March 2012
The Appraising Ear
A quick sojourn in Berlin last summer introduced me to the idea of dancing for 18 hours straight fuelled only by coffee and Club Mate to music that never quite drops. It took me all of two minutes to turn into a techno fist pumping, "der hammer" shouting wannabe.
Kris Menace's latest mixtape, Cold Spring, is an hour of pure Teutonic joy. He began making music under this name in 2005, and since then he has carefully toed the line between commercial and underground, mixing electro and house loveliness and remixing the likes of Metronomy, Moby and Kylie Minogue.
It is in fact a recent remix which led me to write this post, as he has turned his estimable talents to the music of Lana Del Rey. Now I used to love the perma-pouty one, but since her disastrous SNL performance I've found myself skipping her tracks. However this reminded me of how pretty her voice can be, when she's not drunk or eaten a shit load of gillyweed or something.
Kris Menace's latest mixtape, Cold Spring, is an hour of pure Teutonic joy. He began making music under this name in 2005, and since then he has carefully toed the line between commercial and underground, mixing electro and house loveliness and remixing the likes of Metronomy, Moby and Kylie Minogue.
It is in fact a recent remix which led me to write this post, as he has turned his estimable talents to the music of Lana Del Rey. Now I used to love the perma-pouty one, but since her disastrous SNL performance I've found myself skipping her tracks. However this reminded me of how pretty her voice can be, when she's not drunk or eaten a shit load of gillyweed or something.
Wednesday, 7 March 2012
Blonde Ambition
The plants are budding,the little creatures are stirring and the birds are building nests. As the days grow longer we look for light, new growth and pretty pastels. It's time to crack out the bleach.
I'm going East for a tour of the land of the cherry blossom, but before I do I want my hair to match the immaculate whiteness of these ladies do's. Watch this space.
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All photos of the beautiful Aline Weber and Abbey Lee Kershaw are obviously not mine. Especially those of Aline in French Vogue.
I'm going East for a tour of the land of the cherry blossom, but before I do I want my hair to match the immaculate whiteness of these ladies do's. Watch this space.
All photos of the beautiful Aline Weber and Abbey Lee Kershaw are obviously not mine. Especially those of Aline in French Vogue.
Sunday, 8 January 2012
Eve Arnold's photographs capture the easy glamour of the fifties and early sixties. Hence my topical style goal of 'looking you stepped out of an Eve Arnold'. Perfect for January as no one should like they're trying too hard after Christmas, and the slightly worn and vunerable look is something that I for one won't have to try too hard for post New Years Eve.
Thursday, 7 July 2011
Dream outfit for Melt Festival in Berlin
Damn I want this, the perfect outfit for getting down in the industrial wasteland that is Melt Festival. I'm leaving on Monday, it's going to be wonderful.
Monday, 27 June 2011
sum arts
Here are three artists I like, I saw Henrijs Preiss and Maurizio Anzeri Giovanni at Newspeak Part 2 at the Saatchi Gallery, and came across Jason Treagar online. Not much else to say, click on their names to find out more.
Friday, 17 June 2011
Kaboom
NEW GREGG ARAKI FILM! EVERYONE STOP WHAT THEY'RE DOING AND GET TO A CINEMA!
However, doesn't look like it's going to live up to his other offerings. Mysterious Skin was much more mature than the Teenage Apocalypse trilogy and I hope Kaboom continues in that vein. It has good reviews so here's hoping.
caring is sharing
I know this song is already overblogged, but the video features the pastel loveliness of the care bears, which I owned a small troop of as a child.
The 2 Bears are starting a club night with some of the guys from Horsemeat, and they're calling it BUNGA BUNGA. We already have one by the same name in Oxford! Everybody loves Berlusconi, what a joker.
Friday, 10 June 2011
Tuesday, 7 June 2011
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