Pierre Debusschereplus – blind-strobe

If you aren’t good with strobes don’t watch this, or just close your eyes slightly!

by Pierre Debusscher

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Clown GIFs

Slightly scary but highly amusing! Love the plaits.

Photography by Pamela Reed and Matthew Rader and Styling by Nikki Igol

via inafractionofasecond and here

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Last Walk Around Mirror Lake – Boom Bip (Boards of Canada Remix)

This makes my tummy go funny, especially at 2 mins 40, even after the 5th time of watching it. Put it on full screen for full funny tummy effect! Enjoy the flight.

Via Ed Shek at dtail

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Sam Weber, Lord of The Flies

William Golding’s Lord of The Flies, illustrated by Brooklyn based Sam Weber. A classic story with contemporary illustration. Illustrations done with the darkness and vulnerability that the story deserves and not to mention they are so  beautifully satisfying. Shame the copy I had at school (below) wasn’t quite so bold. Although defaced I still think it’s a sweet cover, I don’t think I’d go defacing Sam Weber’s edition though.

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Walls Are Dancing

This summer, we invited mural painter Matt W. Moore to create a series of live painting performances on walls in MARSEILLE, LYON, and PARIS. Directors Le Groupuscule captured the evolution of each mural, gathering over 700,000 pictures, that were edited as a stop-motion animation to an unreleased track by Monsieur Monsieur : “Walls Are Dancing”, to create this music video.

Check out MWM

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Sparkle Magic

LOVE LOVE LOVE!! Made by Australian designers Billy Bride Jewelry

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Grab your 3D glasses you got on your trip to see Avatar and watch the beautiful Kate Moss in this 3D film for AnOther Magazine with Baillie Walsh. Bjork looks like she’s been lucky enough to wear a piece from Bea Szenfeld’s collection “Sur la Plage” that I posted about earlier in the week. Ohh I look forward to getting my mitts on this months issue.

Watch the film HERE

My post about Bea Szenfeld here

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Japan

Sweet time lapse from Japan

via www.dtail.com/

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Bea Szenfeld

Swedish based fashion designer Bea Szenfeld’s innovative collection “Sur la Plage” (On the Beach) is a 12 piece collection inspired by mythical folklore of the sea and of the creatures that lure and seduces sailors into the depths of the sea and rivers from such fantasy. Each piece has been arduously created by paper, which seems ironic considering the environment which the collection has taken its inspiration from. Other inspiration that the Polish born designer has drawn from is 1950′s burlesque feminine high-waisted forms, geometry and architectural influences. I’ll begin with my favourite, enjoy the splendor that is “Sur la Plage”…

This piece took an amazing two and a half months to create.

Check out Bea’s other creations here. I’m off to dream of the sea. Night

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Joie de Vivre : Gareth Pugh A/W 2010 : Raquel Zimmermann

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Greg Eason

Check out more of Greg’s beautiful work at his blog and website.

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Sean MacAlister – Solstice

Here’s a sweet skate film by Lifetime Collective that made me smile ! Inspired by New York photography and with Petula Clark’s famous track Downtown, Director Brock Mitchell shot this short film following Sean MacAlister cruising about the streets of Calgary.

Via Lifetime Collective Vimeo

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Time

I love everything about this …

Hans Zimmer & Johnny Marr Live

Night night

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Josef Hoflehner and My Annoying Phobia.

I’m scared of planes. When I’m on a plane I am convinced something will go horribly wrong and I am going to plunged to my death helplessly from 35 thousand feet, so I spend much of the flight feeling anxious, this anxiety grows when we are over the sea. It’s not much fun. I have been hypnotised twice, which has taken the edge off my fear and I’m not hysterical any more (!!!), but still something is at the back of my head stressing me out. But what annoys me is that when I’m not on a plane or know I’m not going on one for a while they totally fascinate me. Concorde, Jumbo, Fighter, sea planes, that big ass air bus that frankly shouldn’t stay in the sky but does. See below…

People constantly tell me how safe they are, they say planes don’t just fall out the sky, (this one did), and say how much fun they can be. I just can’t get to that place. Every crash in the news I have to know every detail, where, why, what was the weather like at the time, if it was at day or night. Some might say I’m unhealthily obsessed and this interest probably just feeds my anxiety. I can’t help it though. I’m in awe of their capabilities and engineering when im on the ground but once I book that ticket a sense of dread sets in and I think way too much about my impending time at 35 thousand feet. Maybe it’s my brain telling me that flying is my calling in life, Captain Lixa…! Nahhhhh. A plane spotter more like it! GEEK

So when I saw these photos by Austrian photographer Josef Hoflehner the two conflicting sides of my fear kicked in, the anxious side and the part of me that is completely enthralled by them. Hoflehner’s photographs of low flying airliners might be a little dull to some but I love these wide-angle ,high contrasting, black and white beauties! It’s 2 months and 25 days until my next flight…and relax. To see more go here

If you too have got some annoying fear go see Dawn Flockhart at Brain Train Academy in Hill Street Edinburgh. She was brilliant. dawn@braintrainacademy.co.uk

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Kids.

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