week late but

The Nativity, Piero della Francesca, 1470-5. Oil on poplar. The National Gallery, London.
My absolute favourite nativity painting.

chrstms

photo by myself 

I hope all your christmases were merry & bright!

Mine was filled with champagne, homemade mince pies, candles, new books and knitwear, blue stilton, baileys, log fires, making mixtapes & presents, mulled wine, baking, harry potter films, knitting, nat king cole, new shooz, dark lindt choc & childhood nostalgia.

~

an ocean of resolutions

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I have a very good feeling about this year.

The transition from '11 to '12 seemed right and natural, as opposed to last year where everything was hanging in the balance and just waiting to be completed & achieved. This year is going to be prosperous in creative endeavors and spontaneous happenings. I am going to stop thinking about what I should, could be doing in three years time and focus on now. I'm twenty this year and that scares me quite a bit. Been going through a bit of a quarter (?) life crisis, not knowing what I'm doing / what I should be doing / whether I've made the right choices etc etc. First term in, maybe it's inevitable. Don't get me wrong - my course, friends, flat, london - everything is incredible but it's overwhelming and daunting to now have to make pretty big, life altering decisions and stick with them when you're not fond of, or very good at, decision making. The post-christmas blues haven't helped my mood but the dawn of a new year has given me a new kind of optimism. Even though everything is an unknown, I will make the most of this year.
I'm finally where I want to be... and I'm excited.

fifty five minutes before the sun goes down

Playing With Fire by Ryan Kenny.
So beautiful.
---- supposed to be writing an essay on Gerhard Richter & another one on theories of authorship & originality in art history and this is major procrastination seeing as they are both due in before friday urrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh gotta go see ya bye.

gigz/z/z

Saw Dum Dum Girls on Saturday at Rough Trade (although we did only manage to catch their last song, but we've seen them before supporting mgmt ) and Trophy Wife afterwards at Crack Magazine's launch party at the Nest in Dalston, which was so good. Last time we saw them was at Latitude so we were happily reminiscing about summer times. So yeah, then tomorrow it's Washed Out w/ John Maus and saturday seeing The Neat back in Dalston. Stoked.I'll pop some mp3s & photos up here later, got to go to UCL's student newspaper / zine elections - hoping to be the website's photography editor, but we shall see! /// Laterz.

epiphenomenal

Deerhunter at Latitude 2011

Finally got a couple of films developed. Got a load more to scan, and like 7/8 disposables from over a year ago to get developed too. Finally getting to grips with my film cameras, so I'm hoping when I get my newer film developed, it'll be a lot better than my hap hazard photography skills I had a while ago haha.
Anyway, so much love for these Deerhunter photos, they were beyond amazing at Latitude. // Also go listen to Atlas Sound's aka Bradford Cox's new album, Parallax, its a beaut.

scintillating

Kirsi Pyrhonen shot by Tim Walker for Vogue, December 2011, styling by Kate Phelan.

Everything about this editorial is beautiful. The setting; Mongolia, Kirsi Pyrhonen (beyond beautiful, and she's only 17), the photography / composition / colours / lighting (Tim, you've done it again), the clothes (Lanvin, Miu Miu, Givenchy, Mary Katrantzou, Comme des Garçons, et al)...Will be stuck onto my flat walls when I return to ldn as a source of inspiration for the coming winter months.

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((( please excuse the adhoc scanning but i think it looks rather cool )))

fragmentary

Beautiful artworks by Brooklyn based artist, Jessica Williams.

Her blog is awesome, and NSEW, a/her publishing platform have an amazing build your own collage thing here which I naturally spent absolutely ages on..

threeorchidsthreeayem

HELLO.
Instead of ranting on about how much of a terrible blogger I am, I shall just say that I am back after a hectic but amazing few months. Just realised the last time I posted was before results day which is surreal seeing as I'm a month in (studying History of Art) at UCL and in love with it all. London is insane, and beautiful and everything I imagined it would be like living there. I hardly feel like a student walking around Waitrose (it's the most local okay) & the beer ain't cheap (it is London after all) but the walk to campus every morning, black coffee on mass, visiting Regents Park with the flat mates to watch the sunset, setting off fire alarms, drinking games, spending hours in the library, getting a free ticket to Frieze Art Fair, having to visit numerous exhibitions / collections / museums / galleries as 'assignments' (love), having covent garden, brick lane (almost) and camden all within walking distance, accidently sitting in on MA Philosophy lectures, and actually being able to go to gigs / see bands are just some of the brilliant things about being a fresher that make the lack of money / essays / etc etc totally worth it. All in all london is pretty darn rad.

So yuh. I'm going to reinvent this blog a bit and keep it for inspiration / photography / artwork purposes.

Surfing the internet on numerous blogs / zines / portfolios / websites at 3am used to be a regular pastime but now the only reasons I'd be up now would be because either I had an essay deadline the next day or I'm out dancing the night away in london town. I'm back in chelt / dumbleton this week though so here I am, half 3 in the morning, gorilla vs bear october mixtape on, multiple tabs open, sat in an eerily empty room but in my lovely lovely bed by the light of the moon. jokes that would be too perfect, I'm so sentimental. But yeaaaaaaaaaaaaah, hi guys.

// Time in LDN goes so fast, it's just so nice to be home.

oh, and changed the url / blog name // I have a thing for blue flowers... 

I dream for figments of existence

Comme des Garçons & Crystal Stilts