Nearly there...

Carl Kleiner's...

...photos are so beautiful. The top few are from his diary, but his main page is equally delightful showcasing pictures like the bottom one. Ethereal and dreamily surreal. Lovely. Plus I really really really want my whole house to be covered in colour co-ordinated bookcases.

http://www.carlkleiner.com

Tube or False

Dream campaigns; i saw them yesterday on the tube and think they are the loveliest things. They're like fabric throws, all woven and type and pattern and HERITAGE. The patterns are seat cover designs used on the circle, northern, piccadilly, jubilee and metropolitan lines from the 1039's to present.

No surprises, but they're all true but i guess the slogan tube or false sets up the idea that they seem unbelievable but aren't and that just how exciting and interesting the underground is.

I just need to find out who did it now...

(pictures courtesy of the tfl website)

I wish i was her friend.

I discovered Donna Wilson on my first year of a level and her makings literally made my life and influenced so much of my work, explicitly at first and now subtly inching its way in. I found her when i was doing a project entitled freedom and armed with a matchbox of buttons i could make anything. i decided upon these fabric creatures that were my favourite things for a while, until they were dubbed 'silly little creatures' by a teacher and i got a bit put off. They probably are a bit, but now i don't see that as such a bad thing.

I feel it's mainly the core idea of making and crafting that has developed in my practice for the past 5 or so years. With her work i found that whimsy and charm that imperfections have and embracing that rather than forcing my hand to do something that generic and perfect.

http://www.ohdeedoh.com/ohdeedoh/toys-kids/donna-wilson-creatures-063732

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Unrelated but my friend Dulcie told me about the Dum Dum Girls and i've pretty much been listening to them on repeat.

Brum Brum

Our neighbour had a visitor with a Fiat 500 and, feeling like a bit of a creepo, i took a picture of it. If i could muster up the energy to learn to drive/had a spare £6000 + lying around i would snap one up in a heartbeat.

It reminds me of a green car i had for my polly pocket when i was tiny. That's what i'm talking about.