i have a plan.

 

this is just a quick announcement now.
i had my birthday two days ago.
i just turned 52. it is incredible how quickly time flies.

up until a few years ago i had this feeling that my whole life is still ahead of me. that i have all the time in the world to make something out of myself and to explore things, so there's no need to rush.
well... not any more. for some time i have been feeling that time is running out. but i'm still in a kind of a funk. i dream about making art and making things but i rarely do. not never, just rarely. and in my opinion even that with too little structure.

i plan to change that. i wanted to change it last year too, and it didn't happen. so i'm not so sure it will happen in this next year in my life. i feel the pressure of time. but i really don't want to do it because of the pressure. i want to do it because i want to. because creating brings me joy. 

you see, when i was young i never shied away from trying things. i tried everything. i didn't finish everything, but i was not afraid of starting. i drew, i designed clothes, i made papier-mâché, i crocheted, i knitted (i never finished any knitting projects though, something was always missing, one sleeve, one sock, one glove...), i sewed (my sewing projects were more successful, i wore many of my self-made garments), i tried to make a tailor's dummy from of the cardboard tubes that fabrics came on, i batiked a shirt using wax as resist, i tie-dyed my jeans and painted another pair with wall paint. i never hesitated to try things and i loved it.

i don't know since when, maybe since the advent of the internet, but at a point in my life i started to live much more in my head and in my dreams and less in the physical world. and on the internet, of course. combined, on my pinterest, insta and my various computers and wd passports, i have at least a few hundred thousand images saved. this is not an exaggeration. images that i saved for my blog, images that i simply like and images saved with the exclamation "oooh, i wanna try that, too!".

so in this next year in my life i want to get back into getting my hands dirty. without the pressure of creating something that is "valuable". simply for the joy of creation.

i hope you'll follow me on this journey. i don't dare to share this on insta just yet, i figure that here there will be less people seeing my announcement. :)

next, i'll write a quick manifesto. 

above: the tip of the iceberg – a few pics from a private pinterest page of mine.

simplicity

i just love these simple fruit illustrations

by hirotoshi shiki. he is a japanese

graphic designer and art director.

in this series he depicts rare fruits.

see the whole series on behance.

hirotoshi shiki | instagram | behance

"red alert" on the albanian coast

 

just another red-green-and-blue post.

red sol resort by ricardo bofill taller de arquitectura.

this red, fortress-looking hotel and residential complex is
(or rather will be, i think it might still be in design phase as of now)
nestled in green along the albanian riviera, looking out on the

blue of the ionian see.

read more on

arquitecturaviva

or dezeen.

rgb meets fiber

i love this idea! i love how tom katsumi takes something digital — the old
bbc test card — and reinterprets it in embroidery.

it's fascinating how the colors appear in our eyes/brain, even though they’re made of physical threads, not light. i guess, the black background does the trick, and maybe the fact that the treads are shiny. 

tom katsumi | instagram | etsy

i might be back

 

we'll see.

:)

1 _ photo via pinterest 

(couldn't find photographer)

2 _ print by villaraco

note to self

"to know what you're going to draw, you have to begin drawing."

– picasso

This quote resounded in my mind as I took a bath to 

think about what exactly my line of work should be.

Found some time ago on brainpickings.

in other news _ i'm starting over

haha. i guess i've said that or

something similar numerous times before.

but then again, so what. it happens every
now and again. starting over, i mean.

so after two years as an art director/layouter
at a small trade magazine for "all things baby and
kids", i am now free to embark upon my journey
as an artist slash illustrator slash craftsman
slash ... (i might fill this in later).

i know i shouldn't share this lest it
wouldn't turn out the way i had planned it,
but i do. i need to share most everything
anyway just to put myself out there and
to maybe gauge the worth of my little
"darlings", so you would've
noticed anyway.

what's more, today marked my 44th
birthday, so here's to a (hopefully) wonderful
new section in the life of me.

(photos by me)

i like the idea _ collage play

i like the idea of this unset collage.

you just arrange it any which way you like,

take a photo, then set it another way, 

take another photo, and keep on playing

until you get bored. maybe you'll never

even get bored. i'll try it.

collages by dewey saunders made while at ace hotel nyc.

follow him on tumblr or instagram.

(via)

things _ vertical stripes

1 _ photo by vedran vidak.

2 _ photo by a sweet friend of mine, angie palmai.

(here, another post of her works)

3 _ fusion series #2751, 2009, collage on paper by cecil touchon

via hayday.

things _ four

1 _ photo by giulia muraglia, via ...etc

2 _ image part of the series "smudge 02" by travis stearns,

available at youworkforthem

3 _ martin margiela garments photographed by eric traoré

for "a magazine", via ffffound

4 _ phptp by wendi donalson, via the gifts of life.

one thing _ bent

i like the surreality and the simplicity

of this artwork ("gebogen foto") 

by nico kok.

point of view

photos by willy vanderperre for the 

winter 2015 issue of dior magazine.

via wearesodroee.

see more of this here at awake-smile.

that coat _ stereo vinyls x jean julien

i just love that coat.

and the sweaters too.

products of a collaboration between

iconic french artist/illustrator

jean julien and stereo vinyls.

online shop here (south korea)

i like the idea _ objects displaying "minimes"

1 _ socks, kikiya

2 _ shapes vase by sandwich shop, at sightunseen
3 _ bottle design by korefe for l'eaundry, via fuldendehneli

design idea _ outside in, inside out

introspection rings by nick dong at turtle and hare.

"kopenhagen fur" bangles by charlotte sunnen.

kauri patina blue plant table by rupert herring at the clever designers.

you get the idea.

and this can of course be applied
to most anything.

like, quite a few years ago i've seen a jean jacket
that had a heavily embroidered lining.

or do you remember that collection of

jil sander (s/s 2000) where she put some simple
pieces on the runway, that were printed on the inside?

they looked like pale print from the outside, but if

you turned them inside out, it was obvious that they were

printed only on the inside with very vivid colors.

which means of course, that she simply used the

fabric outside in. i've already seen men's shirts

using the same concept too.

and maybe i've also seen wardrobes that were
painted on the inside only. not sure.

:)

agnes

i like these distorted photos that ernesto artillo made for delpozo ss16

nice, aren't they?

ernesto artillo.

he also seems to be quite a busy man,

it's something that i really look up to

in a person because i still seem

to struggle with some laziness...

funny thing is, i'm still optimistic about

being able to change.

:)

a necklace that i like

necklace by lisa walker

for her exhibition "museum actually"

(was 17 oct - 06 nov 2015)

via klimt2.

don't stop, make it pop _ cat sideboards by edgardo gimenez

so funny are these sideboards by

argentinian pop artist

edgardo gimenez (b. 1942)

his website.

his facebook page.

images via peepersmuseum tumblr

and la nacion. 

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