You're my Favourite DayDream.

Sam Octigan

Homie Lover Friend

...is what im looking for.

t-shirt by Work It.

Does it Hurt?

"What is REAL?" asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. "Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?"

"Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real."

"Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit.

"Sometimes," said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. "When you are Real you don't mind being hurt."

"Does it happen all at once, like being wound up," he asked, "or bit by bit?"

"It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."

"I suppose you are real?" said the Rabbit. And then he wished he had not said it, for he thought the Skin Horse might be sensitive.

But the Skin Horse only smiled.

(The Velveteen Rabbit)

Rebel Youth.

Mum & Dad

You Looked ok With Others, You Looked Great by Yourself

My Great Aunt, Grandmother, Uncle & Second Cousin.

My Mother.

My Grandfather & Grandmother.

My Uncle, Mother, second Cousin & Aunt.

The Summer Season Was Cheap.

Kanye West by Olivier Zahm

Where Did You Get That Painter in Your Pocket?

Yulia Gorondinski

Raw

Kate Moss

(Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott)

(AnOther Magazine Video)

(unknown)

(Glen Luchford)

Hello Mystery, Don't Bother to Explain.

Glass Photography, Walter Hugo.

He built a giant room sized camera to capture his sitters through an antique brass lens using ancient photography techniques. Each unique image is constructed on a silver nitrate glass plate which acts as a giant positive by reflecting bright lights.

Walter Hugo Interview (AnOther Magazine)

Why did you decide to do this project?I've always been fascinated with the original techniques of photography, and have collected ambrotypes and old cameras for years. The combination of the scientific complexities and the potential to explore something new with what is generally regarded as an ancient process is incredibly alluring.

What were your reasons for photographing this particular group of people?Probably a combination of things: on one hand, I wanted to capture a cross section of creatives at this particular time and place. Also those faces that are more familiar highlight the style and process much more. We’re so used to looking at images that are re-touched and heavily worked on, that I think it has affected the way we regard beauty. With just one moment, one chance, to capture someone, and with the intensity that is drawn out of every subject, partially due to the process they go through when sitting for the glass plates (bright lights glaring in their eyes and having to hold still), the images really draw something else out.

Considering the contemporary nature of the subjects and the historic techniques used, are you looking forward or are you looking back? Well obviously there is a respectful nod to the history of the photographic process, but the piece is definitely looking forward. I'm a big fan of the complex and the scientific sides of things, I love to investigate how things work and then take those processes further to make things that we can relate to now. With the advent of the digital age which gives anyone the ability to take photographs, and instantly replicate techniques which previously would have taken years to master, there seems to be a trend of people throughout the creative fields of fashion and art that are working more to master their crafts. This often means utilising and researching older techniques, and thinking laterally to develop new techniques. In my mind, this is a definite positive step to the future.

Will you be developing this further?Yes, I'm planning to do 50 portraits in total. I'd also love to develop the project to do some even larger glass plate pieces – a full, life-size one would be amazing. As far as I know, it would be a first historically (I think there was one done of a landscape in Paris, in the 1890's, that was 5ft by 3ft). It'd be such a massive project just building the camera, the developing trays, making lots of the equipment myself...

Blue&White

Vogue Italia (models.com), Karla's Closet, & Grazia.

The Last of The True Romantic Fantasist.

Hedi Slimane

C.Love

Hedi Slimane

How Do I Look? (Fashion Journalism Short Course Article)

A short pixie crop, freckles, a dimple and a girl meets boy style. My go-to uniform is bookish brogues & loafers, a button up blouse, & neutral coloured shorts or skin tight leather pants. I prefer a mix of masculine & feminine, a ‘Parisian cool’ style epitomized by Emanuelle Alt, French editor of Vogue, in her sharply tailored blazers and low rise skinny jeans. The dapper blazer is perennially polished and brilliantly versatile; it adds an element of sophistication, punctuated with sculptural black boots. I’m partial to statement jewellery but I often wear only three silver rings set with semi-precious stones from Morocco, Tibet and India.
I borrow from the boys and add a vibrant twist in platforms teamed with bobby socks however, beneath this polished ‘no-frills’ facade is an “unhealthy” undergarment obsession, where lace briefs, sheer bustiers and embellished braletts secrete themselves. The seven deadly sins: ‘La Perla’, ‘Rigby & Peller’, ‘Coco de Mer’, ‘Agent Provocateur’, ‘Myla’, ‘Calvin Klein’ and ‘Phillip Lim’ tempt me in Net-a-porter’s ‘Soft Cup Bras’ and ‘French Briefs’ sections. My controlled, neat, tidy exterior conceals my wild and uninhabited lust for lingerie. Seductive underpinnings in silk, lace, tulle and chiffon make my heart beat faster. To be more precise, ‘Victoria’s Secret’, is also my secret and every other woman’s. Don’t judge a girl by her dress because Alexander Wang, Preen and Stella McCartney may be hiding a ‘femme fatale’.

'Best to be British?'

Ashish ss11 Topshop

“The inspiration was very easy – I love junk food. I was thinking of what I would like to wear to the gym, and I thought junk food on t-shirts and sweatshirts would be perfect. Perhaps not very motivational, but definitely very amusing.”

Martin Parr, British Food.

Mini fry-up

Ingredients

For the fried bread
3 tbsp olive oil
1 thick slice white bread, cut into a 7cm/3in round

For the fried sausage and tomatoes
1 tbsp olive oil
2 good quality sausages, cut in half
5 baby vine tomatoes

For the fried bacon
1 tbsp olive oil
2 slices smoked streaky bacon

For the sautéed mushrooms
1 tbsp olive oil
15g/½oz unsalted butter
½ large flat field mushroom, sliced
salt and freshly ground black pepper

For the fried quails' eggs
1 tbsp olive oil
3 quails' eggs
salt and freshly ground black pepper

Preparation method

To make the fried bread, heat the olive oil until in a frying pan very hot. Add the bread round and fry for one minute on each side until golden.

To make the fried sausage and tomatoes, heat the olive oil in a frying pan. Add the sausage and tomatoes and fry for 8-10 minutes, until browned and cooked through.

To make the fried bacon, heat the olive oil in a frying pan. Add the bacon and fry for 5-6 minutes, until crispy and golden.

To make the sautéed mushrooms, heat the oil and the butter in a frying pan. Add the mushroom and sauté for 3-4 minutes, until soft, then season.

To make the fried quails' eggs, gently heat the olive oil in a frying pan. Crack the quails eggs into the pan and fry on a low heat until cooked through.

To serve, arrange all of the cooked items onto a plate as you would a conventional fry-up and season, to taste, with salt and freshly ground black pepper.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/minifryup_81633

'Wear the mask long enough, & it becomes the face.'

Dazed & Confused

A new exhibition at the Orange Dot Gallery explores the revolution of the iPhone hipstamatic photography. Hipstamatic was awarded the 'application of the year' by Apple, the app captures the effect of an old hipstamatic analogue camera on a modern camera phone. Digital hipstamatic photography is so popular because like polaroid, photo booths and lomography, analog photography is unpredictable and spontaneous.

'Oh screw it she said, & stabbed out her cigarette.'

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