Photo of Little Pieces

I really love little remnants of animal remains. Especially bones and fossils, because they are white and look like porcelain. Carlita sent me this pretty image from http://verywells.com. I recently found some tiny fossilized shark teeth at my favourite crystal shop (a little obsessed) and made a wee charm necklace out of them. Its cute, people think they're granite. 

Memento Mori

Julia deVillle makes some amazing artwork and jewelery. She is originally from Wellington, and now resides in Melbourne. Her work most prominently combines elements of life and death, this collection in particular titled Memento Mori (remember that you are mortal), using techniques of silversmithing, and taxidermy. I love her animals skeleton tattoo, the sparrow broach and the skull and bones box the best.

Here is a statement about her latest collection from,  http://www.klimt02.net

My jewellery is inspired by the Memento Mori jewellery of the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries and Victorian Mourning jewellery. I find the acceptance of death in these periods fascinating.

I work predominately in traditional gold and silversmithing, combined with materials that were once living such as jet, a petrified wood historically used in Victorian Mourning jewellery, human hair and taxidermy. I use these materials as a Memento Mori, or reminder of our mortality.

I incorporate the symbols of death through out my work because I think it is important to identify with the concept that we are in fact, mortal creatures. The nature of our culture is to obsess over planning the future, however in doing so, we forget to enjoy the present.

I consider my taxidermy to be a celebration of life, a preservation of something beautiful. I feel strongly about the fair and just treatment of animals and to accentuate this point I use only animals that have died of natural causes.

Day for Night

Another delightfully perfect video with Lou Doillon for Vanessa Bruno. It makes me sad, then it makes me smile, I like the juxtaposition. Also, Lou singing is a tad amazing.

Very Swell

This blog is amazing http://verywells.com/wells/. The images, the subject matter, the attention to detail. He goes places I want to go, notes little quirks I would be awing over and knows how to put a swell collection of interesting things together. Wish we were friends. I also wish I could steal most of his images. My only criticism would be that the images are too big. Its like being in the front row of a film screen, you just end up staring at your popcorn.

PS. Someone asked me what my favourite word was the other day, and I said it would be something like, well. Its a nice word, simple, nice connotations, Wells is even better because its not really a word.

Minerals

This woman really likes crystals. I like that. She is an artist, that second image is a painting of hers (Pyrite, oil on masonite), amazing! I also like all of the shapes that crystals make (hence the permanent homage), hmm geometry.

See more of crystal ladies life here... http://carlywaito.blogspot.com/

Ears and Claws

Ye old fashioned New Zealand road trip, if only we knew we were lost.

Skull

Beautiful artwork by Gatito, thanks for posting Peach!
http://thislookscool.tumblr.com/

I love you Carlita!

World At Large

Each one of us is potentially mind at large. We live together, we act on and react to one another but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. Embraced the lovers desperately try to fuse their insulated ecstasies into a single self, transcendence in vain. By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies, all these are private and except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable. We can pull information about experiences, but never the experiences themselves, from family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes.

Unknown source. Sounds very Humian, will endeavor to find out where I wrote it down from. I have a feeling it was from a poetry shrine in the Algonquin Hotel (Manhattan) dedicated to the poets of the Round Circle circa 1920s. Dorothy Parker I believe her name was. We shall see how my investigating skills go.

The Dodos, Love

TO THE ONES WHO DRINK THEIR WINE, WHILE THE REST OF US JUST DIE

Glorious Hip-Hop

Hanging out with the girls, substances from the garden, entranced by glorious hip-hop. I wish Mos Def was in my life and I could dance like the ladies from Da Rockwilder (and also have Meth and Red in my life). Dreamy babes and videos.