Inspiration Elsewhere

Long time since my last Inspiration Elsewhere post. Probably due to the fact that I spend much less time around the web these days.
Enjoy!



Fascinating portraits by Meghan Forsyth


Stunning textile prints by Zoran Dobric




Ah, I love the way Natsumi Hayashi is floating around Tokyo...




"Clink" is a Larice Barbosa's project that combines the click of a camera shutter with the ink of Larice's great illustrations. I remember seeing some of her early works on her Flickr and now I couldn't avoid falling in love with the whole project.





The Guggenheim museum expands their digitalized archives and launches museum exhibition catalogues in digital format. This is such an incredible resource for art lovers/students. I spend a couple of hours last night browsing exhibitions' catalogues of some of my favorite artists such as Léger (here) and Klee, and can't wait to browse the many many more available at the digital archive.







Dutch designer Lucas Maassen has hired his sons to paint a furniture collection he has designed and created (he actually paid them 1 Euro for every piece of furniture they had painted!).
I love the way the kids' height-factor effected the painting. Such great design mind! (via Mocoloco)




Such exquisite, dainty hair accessories from Conroy & Wilcox, they look like little works of art.



I've watch this intriguing video from glamour.is, documenting the design process of Icelandic fashion designer Agla Stefánsdóttir's latest collection for at least dozen time. Read the interview and watch more photos here.

Caroline Hancox

Oh. I'm having a slow start to my week.
The weather is dry, hot, and heavy and I'm feeling tired.
All I want to do is sit down in front of the fan and stare at those prints by my bloggy friend Caroline Hancox who just opened her shop - Ribbon Squirel (congrats darling!!).
Isn't she super talented? I love her photographs so much!!

Hope your week is as delicious and smooth as a large sweet gelato.
Galit x

Bits and Pieces

Bits of art and photography pieces from my Summer House tumblr:

Untitled by Lukasz Wierzbowski // Collage 1 by Chad Wys // Joe Lauzon by Siggi Eggertsson \\ Cave Man by Liam Brazier // Painting by Shabazz Palaces by Leif Podhajsky

Inspiration Elsewhere

A little longer/bigger Inspiration Elsewhere post today. Enjoy!


I'm hypnotize by this painting - Iron Curtain by Kevin Chupik - from his Femme Fatale series. I can't get enough of the sensual texture in his works. Wonderful (via Lost in E Minor)



Quirky retro cameras cookies by Manjar. Sweet! (via A Merry Mishap)




Ah... Angelica Husten. Her look is so unique that it can't be mistaken for anyone else no matter her age, the place and time.
Those photos are from the Halston book (via Cat Party)



Red Velvet shoes by Janae Hardy. How lovely is that? (via Beautiful Mess)







Cinema Hotel was originally one of the first cinemas in Tel Aviv (back then named "Esther" after the owner's wife Nathaniel Moses).
The building is one of around 4,000 Bauhaus buildings built in Tel Aviv from the 1930s, what is now known to be the White City of Tel-Aviv - an UNESCO world heritage city.
I saw it a couple of times as a cinema when I was a kid and many years later standing empty and sad. It really warmed my heart to see it go back to its glory and the beautiful way it was renovated while keeping the place's spirit.




Mind blowing architecture photography by Maria Luisa (click on the photos to go to their orignal Flickr set).





You know how attracted I am to street art. I'm probably not made of the right stuff that make artist take their art out. So here's a little something for people like me, who still want to get their hands dirty and paint on walls: The ultra cool Walls sketchbook is filled with over 80 photos of New York walls instead of blank pages. Now all you have to do is hold on your pens and start painting the walls of NY one by one! How brilliant is that?
Designed by Think of The, published by Quirk Books.



Dreamy photography by Lukasz Wierzbowski.




Damien Hirst's Psalm Prints. Look closely - those are butterflies paintings that make a large silkscreen collage.



This photo made my day today: Charlie Chaplins take to streets of London to shoot a short film, marking the launch of Virgin's Short Film Competition (via MindFood Magazine)



Blik is A short animation tells the story of a young boy who moves to a new neighbourhood and falls in love for the first time.

Seriously one of the best animations I've seen lately. I was amazed at how beautifully emotional it is and how the characters express so much with their blank faces.
Made by the creative guys at Polder Animation.

Happy Friday friends!

Gottlieb Jazz Photos

“Who is Billie Holiday? Look at Bill's shots. Who is Charlie Parker? Look at Bill's shots.”

Jason Koransky, Editor, Downbeat

Billie Holiday's stunning and very famous photo shown on my last post is taken from the archive of William P. Gottlieb jazz photos. Gottlieb was both a notable jazz journalist and a self-taught photographer who's images document the jazz scene in New York City and Washington, D.C., from 1938 to 1948, a time recognized by many as the "Golden Age of Jazz".

His photos are fantastic in the way they capture the essence of jazz, the emotions, the tense and excitement. Looking at them, you can feel the vibe and even sense the beat of the music, go back in time, and bring the stories back to life.

You can view Gottlieb's photos on this flickr set or on his archive site


Photographs: Downbeat, New York, N.Y., ca. 1948 // Portrait of Louis Armstrong, Aquarium, New York, N.Y., ca. July 1946 // Portrait of Wesley Prince, Oscar Moore, and Nat King Cole, Zanzibar, New York, N.Y., ca. July 1946 \\ Portrait of Sid Catlett, New York, N.Y., ca. Mar. 1947 // Portrait of Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Ray Brown, Milt (Milton) Jackson, and Timmie Rosenkrantz, Downbeat, New York, N.Y., ca. Sept. 1947 // Portrait of Billie Holiday (and her dog Mister), Downbeat(?), New York, N.Y., ca. June 1946

Mary Katrantzou by Erik Madigan Heck

My pattern loving heart missed more than one heart bit when I first saw this editorial of Mary Katrantzou's latest collection.



The set was photographed by NY-based photographer Erik Madigan Heck for Nomenus Quarterly (The World’s Most Expensive Magazine! ummm....).

Heck, who was inspired by the late interior paintings of the 19th century French painters Pierre Bonnard and Edouard Vuillard created a dream-like, luxurious (decadent even) looking editorial with layer over layer of rich, dazzling pattern. I can't stop looking. Stunning!


P.S. If you want more blinding patterns, Amy of Umbrella Prints, just published a beautiful post yesterday - Pattern over Pattern, have a look.

Bohemian Sydney

Nostalgic, beautiful photos from the State Library of New South Wales collection showing little scenes from Bohemian Sydney.

From the late 19th century to the early 1970s, there was a distinctive bohemian subculture in Sydney. Alternative thinkers gathered in private houses, clubs and coffee houses. Some of the best known bohemian hangouts were Kings Cross and the area around Rowe Street (demolished in the 1970s to make way for the MLC Centre). One of these Rowe Street cafes, the Lincoln Coffee Lounge, is considered the birthplace of the Sydney Push.

Doesn't it always seem like in the old times, everything looked more glamorous, with more passion and elegancy? Even drinking coffee looks more purposeful.
Of course it is pure romanticism, but I would love the option to step back in time, to this era when things looks new and possible and even smoking cigarettes seemed harmless....