Photography

LOVE!

Love Rodarte for Opening Ceremony collection

and most of all

Papa in 1944

Via Ffffound, Twisted Lamb, The Sartorialist, TomBoy Style, Opening Ceremony and ones I lost the credits for. If you know any of the credits please let me know.

Lixa

National Geographic’s Ultimate Adventure List

National Geographic compiled a list of the top 20 adventures on the planet. Here’s a few of them…

Dive the Blue Holes, Photograph by Wes Skiles, National Geographic

Descend Into an Active Volcano, Photograph by Bradley Ambrose

Climb, Swim, or Surf the Poles, Photograph by Yassine Ouhilal

Cross the Sahara Desert, Photograph by Joerg Modrow, laif/Redux

Megatransect the Amazon, Photograph by Peter McBride

Wingsuit Fly off the Eiger , Photograph by Corey Rich, Aurora

Swim with Great Whites – South Africa Photograph by Jeb Corliss

Ski K2, Photograph by Dave Watson


Free Climb Yosemite’s El Capitan, Photography by Jimmy Chin

For the rest of the list and info (definitely worth a read) on each adventure click here.

Lixa

 

Whitepods

Ohh to spend a night in one of these cosy looking Whitepods…

…and then to wake up and do a bit of this…

Sweet dreams.x

Lixa

Whitepods Via The Desighner Pad

Photo via Transworld Snowboarding

Paper Love

Below are photos by LA-based photographer Nicholas Alan Cope. I’m not going to try putting in to words how I feel about this series entitled ‘Paper’ as I won’t do it any justice! Check out his other work here. His still life work is incredible, they have the aesthetic of paintings depicting 16th century banquets but with less of the indulgence and gluttony seen in such paintings. Nicholas’ work is definitely worth a look.

Lixa

To Lee, With Love, Nick

Below is a new fashion film tribute to Alexander McQueen from photographer Nick Knight. The film featured on his impressive SHOWstudio is set to an exclusive track by Bjork. The trio collaborated many times over McQueen’s career so it seems a very fitting tribute.

‘This film is my way of speaking about a very unique and important person who changed my life. My desire was to speak in some way about the dark and the light contained within Lee, and within us all.’
Nick Knight

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Sung Yeon Ju

Korean artist Sung Yeon Ju created this incredible series of elegant edible dresses entitled “Wearable Foods”. Feast your eats on these…

Red Cabbage Dress

Aubergine Dress

Bubble Gum Dress 2

White Radish dress

Tomato Dress

Winter Mushroom Dress

Lotus Root Dress

Winter Mushroom Dress 2

Spring Onion Dress

Check out her website for more dresses and information about the concept.

Lixa

Locals Only

Below is a selection of photo’s from Hugh Holland’s Locals Only exhibition at M+B in Los Angeles. The images were taken in the mid-seventies and captures the beginning of skating before extreme sports and mass corporate sponsorship. Holland captured kids skating in pools and drainage bowls which were emptied due to a drought which allowed them to ride boards in a whole new way. The images were captured round Venice, Orange County and Brentwood’s Kenter Canyon Elementary School. Enjoy bare feet, long hair, sun-kissed skin, the innocence and the knee pads!

For the rest of Locals Only click here and more info about this work here and buy the book HERE!

Lixa

National Geographic’s Photography Contest 2010

Below is a selection of images from this years National Geographic’s Photography Contest which closes at the end of the month. The images below are taken from the three categories of People, Places and Nature. I don’t think my words would do these images any justice, so happy viewing…

For captions and more images go here or browse the full galleries here

Lixa

Is it a Lens? No! It’s a Mug!

For all you camera geeks out there this mug has to be the best way to drink a wee tea on a cold day. The mug looks just like a 24-105mm lens and is complete with a lens cap lid, rubber grip focus and zoom rings and an auto focus switch!! Maybe they’ll make some shot glasses out of a fixed 50mm lens. Anyway get your mug HERE for $24.00, that a whole £14.83 very well spent I think.

Lixa

All-Hallows-Even

A selection of creepy costumes.. Why is a kid in a mask so scary?!

“The word Halloween is first attested in the 16th century and represents a Scottish variant of the fuller All-Hallows-Even (“evening”), that is, the night before All Hallows Day. Up through the early 20th century, the spelling “Hallowe’en” was frequently used, eliding the “v” and shortening the word. Although the phrase All Hallows is found in Old English (ealra hālgena mæssedæg, mass-day of all saints), All-Hallows-Even is itself not attested until 1556.”

Have a hoot!

Lixa