whoa

Video using the mac OSX Leopard desktop by a digital filmmaker named Dennis Liu.
After a while you don't know what you're watching.

sweet soft charlotte

I finally got to take a look at the Paris Vogue from winter with Charlotte Gainsbourg. She cited Bertolucci's "Last Tango in Paris" as the movie she has seen with the most erotic scene. The interview goes on to talk about her own body image, and I'm sure it gets much more personal, but the lingo was a bit difficult, being in French and all, and my studies from high school allowed me to grasp just the tips of her long tousled hair. I got a rough idea about the contents of the magazine: sex, or perhaps sexuality (it is the French edition after all).
She intrigues me. I saw her in "The Science of Sleep" and "I'm Not There". She's so beautiful, no doubt about it, but that soft airy voice, and that long matured face...I'm ignorant, I know, but there's something about her that is hard to put my finger on. Maybe because I can't make a direct or indirect correlation with her to any other person I know, celebrity or not. Maybe because her personal sense of style seems so different from what she wears at various events. Maybe it's because she seems separated from high fashion, yet she's Nicolas Ghesquiere's muse. I'm anxious to see more of her work, that's for sure.

Here she is for Very Elle magazine.






Or, do you prefer...



Both are amazing.

On a side note, Charlotte's picture reminds me of my friend's mom, Tracy Burtz's paintings, no?

the book

catalog, actually. for neiman marcus, actually.
a long long time ago, in a (now) far away land, there was a fairy tale themed photo spread with little children dressed in luxury and innocent decadence. These reminded me of that.













Eugenio Recuenco Photography


Then I searched for those long lost and forgotten photos and discovered they have created a pop-up book.





And though my quest for those darling photos was in vain, I came upon this youtube video.



Slut (the end in Swedish)

my tokio

Taken tonight at Shinjuku station with the 3.2 mega pixel digital camera on my phone. An advertisement for OIOI, a department store.
'smoking in the rain, a cigarette butt grows and grows, raindrops, tobacco, crumbling'

The legal age to smoke and drink in Japan is 20, and everyone does. They're quite eco-friendly about it, but so naive about tobacco and nicotine, it's hypocritical in some ways. For example, every few hundred feet, you'll find big bright vending machines for cigarettes, sometimes two or three in a row, and any kid who can reach the buttons can buy a pack. There are select areas all around the city and inside buildings for smokers: by the train station, next to a convenience store, at school it's by the staircase, smoking sections at restaurants, office buildings have smoking areas, even on the train platform there's a smoker's area, and an allotted time to smoke (generally non-rush hour). However, as per the photo above, we have this sign (covering a big ash tray), with beautifully written prose to stop people from throwing away their cigarette butts, and there are similar signs all over Tokyo. Walking and smoking is not permitted in most areas, and many stores sell cute and practical hand held ashtrays (and every so often I'll see someone using them). They're worried about where all the cigarette butts will end up, whereas in the States, every single box of cigarettes sold will tell you you're going to die. I suppose the Japanese emphasize community, and building a more beautiful dwelling. Americans, on the other hand, concern more about their own health and well being. I wonder which one costs more money, which is more effective. In the states they have commercials to keep adults and kids from smoking. Those anti-smoking truth campaign ads, some give me the shivers, but some are clever and cute. Effective? I suppose. I've seen a few ads on the train here, not necessarily anti-smoking ads, but 'get yourself checked for lung cancer before it sneaks up on you and it's too late' ads. They look very wordy and pristine, and they change the train advertisements so often, so its effectiveness is dubious at best. But then again, people live long healthy lives here. I guess what I'm trying to say is get rid of the vending machines and save some energy...at least.

I thought it was funny. They're florida grapefruits.

The last two photos I also took with my phone, but using my phone camera not the digital camera. Why have two cameras on my phone?...just having that option makes me feel...free.
(excuse the sarcastic undertone, goodnight)

an advantage

So, sex and the city premieres in London. No sweat off my back, but it doesn't seem to make much sense. I mean, it is sex and the city, right? and by the city, they do mean New York, right? let's not get into it. But I'm happy to hear some of the reviews here
i heart sex and the city.

The advantage, you say?! (not really an advantage unless you take it), I'm in the future! I just realized I could be the first to post about so many things, and this happened when I went online today and saw the fresh headlines for the sex and the city movie premiere (of all things). I noticed this before on my google reader, updated items for the sartorialist and the style bubble popping up only seconds after scott and suzy click on 'publish post'. But, of course, it's not really true, and this is not really important. The article is posted and then I post about it, and already, I'm not the first. It's the world wide web, an afternoon in one place is an evening in another, and the following day over here, and all at the same time. It's almost like the converse of the time/space continuum. no space. no time. (I don't know what I'm talking about).

I was walking around Nakameguro with a friend today, and we were looking for a store, ilil, but we couldn't find it, so we check on the internet with her phone, in the middle of the street! Does that not reek of the future?! She has a very slick phone from softbank. It's a slider, huge screen with a touch sensor, and can go widescreen just by putting it on its side, and when you shake it it becomes a 3.2 megapixel camera, you can watch tv on it...and the list goes on.
hazah!

hardly recognizable

I also like it because it makes her looks like a clown/harlequin, as opposed to most of her other fashion spreads where she's dressed in null and a bra. And, I have recently become very fond of Miu Miu...and Sonia Rykiel (not pictured above).
My friend gave me this magazine, she's such a sweetheart. It costs 2678yen, roughly 26dollars, in Japan, and 5pounds, 10dollars, in England. Hey, Japan is expensive, and we all gotta make money somehow, right, Sienna?

I saw 'factory girl' a while ago. Downloaded it, and it was all right, but she was not very good in it. The movie is just coming out here in theaters, lagging much? I saw her in that 'Cassanova' movie at my friends house. He downloaded it. I wasn't disappointed, only because I didn't expect her or the movie to be that good. Heath Ledger played Cassanova, oh, Heath, such a tragedy. This weekend I was sick and I saw 'I'm not there' (and 'The Phantom of the Opera' 'Always' 'My Blueberry Nights' and 'Chinatown') I don't think I understood all the elements of that movie, but I love Michelle Williams. I mean, what was Richard Gere and Billy the Kid all about? I guess I'll have to read a biography on both of them, the Kid and Dylan, that is. But I did love the songs they chose, 'The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carol' 'When the Ship Comes In' 'The Times They Are a Changin'.' Good soundtrack...in a...Forrest Gumpy kinda way. My classmate likes the soundtrack to 'Coyote Ugly'. I know, 'what soundtrack?' right?
good night
xx

series a: refine antiquity

Magazine: Vogue Italia
Issue: March 2008
Title: "Individuallure"
Model: Freja Beha Erichsen
Photographer: Paolo Roversi

I love the lighting and the grainy quality of the photographs. Are they black and white photographs? I don't know, but a single hue need not be present.

Contrariwise, I'm making a shirt for my next school project, which will be bright and floral and summery. Will post pics.
xx