Reincarnation

The man is a genius. Edouard Plongeon.

Floriography

The language of flowers, sometimes called floriography, was a Victorian era means of communication in which various flowers and floral arrangements were used to send coded messages, allowing individuals to express feelings which otherwise could not be spoken.

Beauty Project

I saw this and immediately decided to restage the entire thing.
List of Things I Need:
1. Coloured Powder.
2. Little lamb (preferably one that makes epically sweet 'baa' sounds).
3. Appreciative boyfriend to enjoy the show.

52 Bunches of Flowers

52 Bunches of Flowers I Bought Myself, by Julia Schauenburg. Faded flowers tug at my heart, and Julia's photographic ode to them is particularly lovely, no?

Gorman Winter 2011

Gorman Winter 2011. How sweet!

Ayaka Nishi at The Hotel Chelsea

Beloved Ayaka Nishi is having a show. Anyone lucky enough to be reading this, whilst living in NYC, should do 3 things: 1) Consider yourself lucky! 2) Get to know Nishi's sublime work, and 3) GET TO THE SHOW! Yum!

Photography is by the gifted Tal Shpantzer; another friend of mine, and a photographer you should all go lust over.

Willem Jaspert for Arise #12.

Lovely makeup by Mel Arter.

Once upon a time...

"She was beautiful, but she was beuatiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful"

(Neil Gaiman)

"A lady is one who never shows her underwear unintentionally"

(Lillian Day.)

In the increasingly convincing darkness, the words become palpable, like a fruit, that is too beautiful to eat. John Ashbery

There’s an anger to everything in our culture right now. And I’m sort of ready for a kind of sweetness and a softness to things. Tom Ford

"One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving"

(Paolo Coelho.)

Those faces you see every day on the streets were not created entirely without hope. Be kind to them: like you they have not escaped. Charles Bukowski 

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own. Johann von Goethe

"Let heart firmly connect heart…” 

 (Mang Ke.)

"The only real valuable thing is intuition." (Einstein.)

"Understood in its metaphysical sense, Beauty is one of the manifestations of the Absolute Being. Emanating from the harmonious rays of the Divine plan, it crosses the intellectual plane to shine once again across the natural plane, where it darkens into matter."

(Jean Delville.)

"Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better"

(Andre Gide.)

"Little fish, big fish swimming in the water,

Come back here man gimme my daughter"

(Down By The Water by PJ Harvey.)

 

'I was perched outside in the pouring rain

Trying to make myself a sail

Then I’ll float to you my darlin’

With the evening on my tail

Although not the most honest means of travel

It gets me there nonetheless

I’m a heartless man at worst, babe

And a helpless one at best

Darling I’ll bathe your skin

I’ll even wash your clothes

Just give me some candy, before I go

Oh, darling I’ll kiss your eyes

And lay you down on your rug

Just give me some candy

After my hug

Oh I’m often false explaining

But to her it plays out all the same

and although I’m left defeated

It get’s held against my name

I know you got plenty to offer baby

But I guess I’ve taken quite enough

Well I’m some stain there on your bedsheet

You’re my diamond in the rough

Darling I’ll bathe your skin

I’ll even wash your clothes

Just give me some candy

before I go

Oh, darling I’ll kiss your eyes

And lay you down on your rug

Just give me some candy

After my hug

Oh I’ll be there waiting for you...'

(Candy by Paolo Nutini.)

Images via the tremendous Covered in Snow.