A Renaissance Dream

Dear Bloggers,

The lack of blogging is due to extreme amounts of work i'm doing to complete my final major project. I will be back on form just as soon as this is out the way and i can have a life again!

On a positive note though, the second issue of my beloved Book 77 Magazine is well on its way to becoming a reality and is set to go to the printer on Wednesday!! Exciting stuff, until then however, i will be living in an InDesign nightmare! Being the perfectionist that i am, i have to have everything just right which means hours tweaking everything! Why i do this to myself i do not know!

Anyway, getting back to the point of this post, and to avoid anymore precious work time, i came to share some pictures kindly borrowed from ShowStudio that are simply drool-worthy.

It was Alexander McQueen's press day recently in Paris and here's just a glimpse of the spectacle's on show. Inspiration came from Renaissance paintings, marble sculpture, intricate bibles cherubs, angel wings and Hieronymus Bosch. What a dream.

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Get Away

Made it across the pond for a week at le villa.

Nice to finally see some sunshine!

i love the cleaning staff! They're amazing!

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Easter Sunday!

x Happy Easter x
Today consists of this:

And some of these!

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Just Some...

...Amazing photography by Jim Fiscus.
'Known for his pioneering work integrating conceptual photography and computer generated imagery.'

He's worked with the likes of Levis, Showtime, Nike, ESPN, Channel 4 and many more.
Really epic imagery, and look at Dexter's handsome face!

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DM Disaster

So Thursday just gone, as some of you may know, was the 50th anniversary of Dr Martens.
Their life began with the 1460 boot which was named so in accordance to their first production date 01/04/1960. As part of their celebrations, which include money off, collaborations with music artists and much more, there was one event which i was very excited about.

A tweet popped up on my trusty blackberry from Wonderland Magazine, telling me about a treat too good to miss. Dr Martens would be selling their famous 1460 boots at the amazing price of £14.60 for one day only at their Flagship store on Neal Street, Covent Garden!
At first i couldn't believe it, it must have been an April Fools joke...but it wasn't!

I was traveling home at 12 on the day of the event, so i knew i had a couple of hours to grab my bargain! So after getting up super early, going through an unnecessary kerfuffle at the station with retarded ticket staff, and dealing with the fact that EVERY ticket machine in London seemed to have simultaneously broke, i made it to Neal Street at 10am - when the shop opened.

I was horrified to see about 100 people already queued up infront of me! Sure i'd expected there to be others there but it was hardly advertised!

So to cut a long story short, i stood in this queue, watched people walk past with their DM bags in their hands, saw some people getting stopped for street style photos, saw a model get scouted, and moved about 200 feet in like 2 hours!

Needless to say, i had to leave the queue to catch my train. My hands missing a pair of DM's, and i was gutted.

On another note, i was totally gonna go to the American Apparel rummage sale until i found out i wasnt going to be in London. Soooo glad i didnt go now! Have you seen the videos?! Geez. I mean, i do like aa, but their stuff really isn't worth attacking a group of police over! Those people were desperate!

These WILL be mine one day!

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Web Play!

One more sleep till i'm home for the Easter break! As of 10:54 tomorrow i'll be sat on the train waving bye bye to the 'Garden of England' - (HA!).
Although, i have been doing some rooting around and i think i might be getting up super early and rushing up to London to grab myself a super bargain... i'm keeping schtum for the time being but i will spill all tomorrow!

Anyway, i've stupidly lazy this week and done sweet F.A. Feeling very guilty about it now however because ive just realised my final magazine goes to print in less than 4 weeks! God help me! Seriously need to work my butt off from now until the 8th, which is when i'm jetting off to the villa in Florida! Don't get me wrong, i know i cant afford a week of bliss, so i'll be taking the mac with me, but if i can get as much done as possible beforehand, i can enjoy the sun, the pool and relax without the stress!

Although, i say i've done nothing all week, i spent most of yesterday researching for the website im creating for Book 77 Magazine. Was looking into flash sites (i really want to incorporate flash into my site, even if its a tiny tiny part of it, but it looks so complicated!) and there are some pretty epic ones out there!
Here are some of my favourites i came across that i think are seriously worth having a look at:

1.http://prismgirl.org/ - Really beautiful site. As a project from Azusa Mano's graphics portfolio, its simply there as a means of showing off design skills, but its such a great piece. The interactive element with the firefly, leaves falling, flowers bursting into bloom is so relaxing against the background soundtrack.

2. http://www.mono-1.com/monoface/main.html - I picked out this site purely on its entertainment factor! It's completely pointless, but really funny if you have couple of spare miutes. It basically features a face, made up of different parts from different peoples faces, and you simply click the facial feature to change it to the next person. You can make up a correct set of features or have fun and mess it up. It's been designed so that no matter what feature you pick from whichever person, they all blend together to appear as if it were completely normal.

3. http://soytuaire.labuat.com/ - This is a page for Spanish musician Labuat, for the song Soy Tu Aire. The page loads and you press play. The song begins, and your mouse becomes a watercolour painting tool. As the song plays, the page is moving from right to left as you paint along to the music. At various intervals, little features pop out of your drawing, like butterflies, fish, and phtoographs. Another beautiful little touch is the way the weight of your brush becomes thinner as the music is quieter, and it becomes heavier and faster moving as the tempo increases. This is one of my favourite things ive found in a while, and i love the song too!

4. http://www.hypr.com/ - A cool little site for a creative design studio. As you click through the adjectives for HYPE at the top of the page, just move your mouse back to their logo in the middle of the page and see what happens! Its all very clever!

5. http://mnatwork.com/#/?state=0 - Magnetic North, another interactive design company. It lets you make the site your own. You draw shapes to see projects, draw a diagonal line through the shape to delete it, draw a horizontal line to see news pieces and draw a vertical line to open the search bar. Try it and see for yourself!

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Chanel To Go

Check out this quirky little offering from Chanel!
The Chanel Paris Shanghai Takeaway Bag.
Not a fan myself, but fun all the same! And you can't say no to Chanel-o.

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