Musicz: The Virgins " Nice Being Happy"

Music: The Horrors "Still Life"

a Turkish afternoon by the sea

Miusick- Gotye "Somebody That I Used To Know" (feat. Kimbra)

Turkish Diary - The Carpet Factory

Back in June I made a trip to Turkey where I got to see as much as I could in the short time span of one week. I will definitely be making a second trip back soon. One place I visited was a carpet factory (I know so touristic, but...). They swere showing all of the intricate work that goes into the whole process. In one large room there were about 7 carpets being made, each tended  to by one woman who was thoroughly and rapidly threading them. My eyes could not even register the motions...

Wishlist: ring from Roman jewelers MOLAYEM

Roman based jewelry brand, Molayem is run by two young sisters, Diana and Stella who have managed to create contemporary designs using antique traditions such as the ring pictured above. I bought it back in February and I have not taken it off since then. I love the simple and delicate design that stays true to the organic shape of the stone. When in Rome don't miss out on visiting the beautiful shop which is only a few steps away from Piazza di Spagna.
For more info visit: www.molayem.it 

"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by 

moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the 

dawn before the rest of the world."

— Oscar Wilde

Mu-sic: Todd Terje - "Snooze 4 Love"

(Well worth the patience of sitting 8 minutes throught this song)

Norwegian producer Todd Terje makes dancefloor-oriented slabs of techno out of cheeky edits from unlikely sources. "Ragysh", the A-side to his new single on Running Back, liberally pairs strips of Detroit house with a bubbly beat that recalls Blondie's "Heart of Glass". But the real revelation here is "Snooze 4 Love", which ducks away from Terje's disco and Balearic roots and heads into full-on trance mode. It begins with a wispy ambience, barely audible synth pinging back and forth in the mix before the gorgeous slow build begins. Terje is in no hurry here-- "Snooze 4 Love" is eight minutes of pure blissed-out rapture, and he takes his time layering on each element until all the parts are feeding off each other in joyful communion. Terje knows exactly when to tinker and when to play it straight: He briefly strips away all the beats near the halfway point, allowing us to gaze into the daybreak synth tones and tangled-up samples at his disposal. As a breakdown it feels perfectly timed, as does the subsequent passage of bass-driven melancholia. The only flaw here comes when that final stretch winds down, as the eight-minute runtime never feels like enough.

- Pitchfork

My Artist Statement

My blog explores the relationship between emerging sexualities and urban spaces.

With influences as diverse as Kierkegaard and John Cage, new tensions are crafted from both simple and complex textures.

Ever since I was a child I have been fascinated by the theoretical limits of relationships. What starts out as hope soon becomes corroded into a hegemony of lust, leaving only a sense of chaos and the prospect of a new understanding.

As spatial phenomena become transformed through diligent and personal practice, the viewer is left with a statement of the inaccuracies of our future.

Need to write an artist statement? click here 

its where I found mine :)

Thoughts on Fatherly advice

This is the color of my dreams...

- Joan Miro

Music: Tapes 'N Tapes "Badaboom"

 

Coolness: Jimi Hendrix, Michelle Phillips and Cass Elliot

 backstage at the Hollywood Bowl, 1967

Music: I wanna be your lover

Sailing in Sardegna

A drawing I made from this incredible sailboat I saw sailing in Sardegna at 6am when the sun was rising

all about the L.G.R Boys and the Eyewear

Tommaso Sanfelice (left) and Luca Gnecchi Ruscone (right)

Having just wrapped up my polaroid project for L.G.R, I thought I might give you a preliminary introduction to the duo behind the dreamy sunglasses that take you back to "an era long forgotten". Luca Gnecchi Ruscone ,founder, and Tommaso Sanfelice, Sales Director, two Romans in their 20's, who have managed to take these classic colonial frames and turn them into a European object of desire. I should add that Luca discovered these sunglasses in his grandfather's warehouse in Eritrea, which date back to the 1930's(for more info on their heritage click here).
     A couple of weeks ago I did a polaroid project for them where I basically had to go around different incredible locations in Rome and take pictures of some of the "L.G.R friends" in the Summer 2011 Collection, which are amazing by the way (they will make it to stores the first week of June). Here are the images that were posted up on their fan page.
P.S. don't forget to check out their BLOG page, its quite cool! 

WISHLIST: L.G.R SS'11 Collection - October and Victoria

From top to bottom: "Victoria" in Matt Green, Brown Crystal, and Matt Honey. Then "October" in Havana 02 and 09

Bagnoreggio and a little bit of the Umbrian countryside...

The above photo is Bagnoreggio which is one of the most surreal places I've ever visited in Italy, simply stunning.

Cool Music Website: We are Hunted

If you are looking for new artists, this is a cool music website. All you have to do is start from the first box and the playlist starts. 

http://wearehunted.com

Jane Birkin

Nairobi

Artist Profile: Giampiero Celani (Piendlbach)

Wearing super cool L.G.R sunglasses

I met Gianpiero about a year from now and did not discover his work until only 6 months ago. As you can imagine, it is very tempting and addicting to constantly commission drawings from a friend who is an artist. He does beautiful ink sketches of the most careful and delicate details. My preferred work happens to be his elaborate fantasy maps, busy with labyrinthinc neighborhoods that are complete fabrications of his immagination. So I have decided to share with you my small, yet ever growing, collection of his work that he has done for me. You would never imagine from the picture above but he is also covered in incredible tattoos that he designed himself. The one below is one of my favorites. 

- To commission art from Gianpiero, contact: gpiendlbach@yahoo.it

Hope you like it!

-Drawing of the tattoo that he designed for his right arm

-Jack the Ripper

Il disegno è ritratto dall'alto, dal"punto di vista di Dio".

Non vuol esser una copia fedele di una città, è la fantasia che ha creato vie, piazze, chiese, binari,boschi e terreni agricoli.Non vi è nessuna pretesa di realtà.Ho disegnato per ore su questo foglio, seduto in un Caffè, o durante noiose lezioni universitarie,l'immaginazione era libera. Ho così sviluppato ,senza nessuna particolare pianificazione, un centro storico, con i suoi viicoli e vie minute prive di piano regolatore-Sono passato a quartieri settecenteschi, poi 8-900enteschi.Continuando fino ai giorni d'oggi, con tanto di speculazioni edilizie,grigi palazzoni!Ma intorno a questa città di modeste dimensioni, ci sono ancora ampi spazi agricoli, foreste, campagne e piccoli borghi non ancora inghiottiti dall'espansione edilizia.E quelle strade di campagna, oltre quei boschi, dove ci porteranno?
La città con i suoi reticolati, la città come una piccola opera d'arte che vista dall'alto, non rivela le sue brutture ma la bellezza di una ragnatella intessuta dall'uomo-formica.
Sta ora a chi la osserva(sempre dall'alto, sempre da una posizione privilegiata), aggiungere dettagli, balconi fioriti,desolati palazzoni, campi arati frequentati da rondini, piazze affolate.Al medesimo osservatore, perdersi in questa "realtà", anche per delle ore, come feci io mentre la Creavo, decidendo nella propria mente, dove passeggiare, dove sostare e forse, in quale degli innumerevoli edifici, trovar casa! - Gianpiero CP

-My portrait :)

-tatouage

Moosic: Herman Dune + Wishlist: LC-A+ (lomography)

So I'm following up on my last post that I did on Herman Dune (basically I just posted their latest music video with their super catchy song which I love love love!), and coincidently I received an email from someone at Lomography, (which by the way dear sir if you are reading this I put one of your cameras on my blog's wishlist, and I still havn't been able to find one yet... hint hint... ;)

Anyways back to the point... Their album was released a few days ago and I just received some press pictures and an interview that they did with Lomography and their collaboration with the new LC-A+.

I myself am a big fan of Lomography and can not get enough of my Holga camera, which I've posted quite a few shots on this blog too.

So here is the interview + images. Enjoy!

"Strange Moosic", the latest album of Herman Dune, was released May 23rd! Yaya Herman Dune was kind enough to take some time to tell us his story with Lomography and the LC-A which is running for some years now. He took some pictures related to this new album, and also shows us some other pics related to his personnal life and the life of his band. 

How long have you been a lomographer or are you new to this whole thing?

I met Peter Boesch, when I became his Room-Mate, moving back to Paris from New York, in 2004. He was developping a French Taste for Lomography at the time, being the ambassador in France, and he introduced me to these wonderful cameras, first the Holga, and then the LCA.

The strangest, funniest, or hands-down greatest photographic/Lomographic encounter that you have ever had.
I have learnt to take pictures of two wonderful beings. my beautiful girlfriend and my little dog. I remember capturing them both together, and when I saw the film processed, I saw an image of my love for them.

For more on the interview click here

Musikha: Herman Dune "Tell me something I don't know"

Coolness: Patrick Bateman

“Do you like Huey Lewis and The News? Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Sports came out in ‘83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He’s been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far much more bitter, cynical sense of humor. In ‘87, Huey released Fore, their most accomplished album. I think their undisputed masterpiece is Hip to be Square, a song so catchy, most people probably don’t listen to the lyrics. But they should, because it’s not just about the pleasures of conformity, and the importance of trends, it’s also a personal statement about the band itself.” - Patrick Bateman in American Psycho


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