
Friday, November 25, 2011
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Monday, November 21, 2011
Bubbles

My sister takes these breathtaking microscopic photographs of plant cells as part of her research for her Masters architecture project. She experiments a lot with back lighting in order to get the blues, violets, purples, and greens. Just further proof that Mother Nature knows beauty best.
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Sunday, November 6, 2011
Monday, October 24, 2011
FLORABOMB
Photography = David Schulze
Styling = Catherine Newell-Hanson with Artwork by Christopher Favale
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Ignore the Dead Girl on the Floor



Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Positive and Negative Space

I've always been obsessed about shadows, silhouettes, figures --- the positive and negative spaces of images, the black and the white, the opposites. You get the drift. Even when I was a child I put on a stellar shadow puppet play for my fourth grade class that was the envy of every student. Something about Giovanna Battaglia's AMFAR Stephen Sprouse dress fascinates me. Everything is defying gravity in this outfit. The dress is essentially a skirt suspended across one shoulder --- how it does not fall off her shoulder, I'll never know. Add to that the strategically places black bra cups over the two most important areas of a woman which the dress/skirt neglects to conceal. The creativity in Giovanna's experimentation with the exposee makes this outfit so modern. And sexy sexy sexy.
Friday, August 5, 2011
Graffiti on My Street
Saturday, May 21, 2011
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Ravenhaired Girl Likes Blonde Redhead
Friday, May 13, 2011
Saturday, April 2, 2011
Toi Jamais

Let's not forget Fanny Ardant either, who I first saw in Kapur's Elizabeth as Mary of Guise. They say that supporting actresses are sometimes more important than leading actresses (was that Shakespeare that suggested that?), since they reveal the protagonists. Although I am an avid fan of Cate Blanchett, Ardant's fifteen minute screentime in Elizabeth was so memorable --- particularly the scene where she wipes the blood off of a young, twelve year old soldier on the battlefield and sends him back to the Queen of England. "Tell that bastard Queen not to send children to fight Mary of Guise!" Ardant's dialogue with Geoffrey Rush before he beds her and assassinates her creates a quick screen moment where we see Ardant's sly seductive smile. When I saw that smile again in 8 femmes, it was like a deer hitting a car windshield. I, and apparently much of the cyber world, cannot get enough of how Ardant smokes those long cigarettes in the film, all the while smiling slyly. Did she or didn't she kill Marcel?

The film's plot and suspense reads like an Agatha Christie novel, and the comedic timing is like a Woody Allen film. The entire cast is rarely on-screen altogether at the same time, and there are no Jean Renoir long camera shots here, which builds up a type of whodunit suspense. The movie's vintage 50's/60's style is also Hitchcock-like in how there is an implied association between shots, almost like a game of Clue. (Was it the maid with the knife in the bedroom? Or Miss Scarlett in the dining room with the revolver?) And since the movie is a about women, Francois Ozon couldn't forget to throw in the French knack for unexpected twists by making sure Deneuve and Ardant have a lesbian moment.
And from the first picture in my post, you can tell whose shoes belong to who --- each pair as diverse as each individual vixen. Ironic, non? Despite any murderer's attempt to hide the trails left behind of a crime, a person's all-encompassing individuality is like a signia. There is no denying who that person is or what you can expect them to do or what they could have the potential to do without you eventually being lead to them...even if they have a few dark secrets along the way. I also just love all the colors and patterns in this film! I guess it's only appropriate now that Prada and Jil Sander's collections use so much of it this Spring right?
Monday, March 28, 2011
Julie

Friday, March 18, 2011
I've been far, far away...
Monday, January 24, 2011
Art Cinema


Plus, the movie posters kick ass!
Saturday, January 8, 2011
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Copycat
Maya Deren


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