weekly glee # 19 2009.

1. desertions.

bright colours in the coldest season.

# thehoodwatch's 'rural decay' - suburban wonderfulness, with old cars, almost derelicted shacks and houses in a nice autumn atmosphere. thehoodwatch never fails to amaze me.
# raskalov_vit's 'small abandoned town' - i am beyond words for this fantastic place. it looks like the spirits of the previous owners still float around everywhere, and it's somehow sad and creepy to see an entire town all left behind.
# rusty tagliareni's 'the overbrook asylum' - this guy's pictures are my new favourites! it's great that he always researches informations about the places he explores, how they looked in former times, what happened there... and the videos he provides score with amazing music, which is a double plus. makes the places more creepy. check out his blog for more stunning places!

2. photogenius.

bubblegum beau / armoured ingeniousity

# 'ascension' by nick knight for dazed & confused october 2008 - this photoset is damn brilliant! i like the mirror effects a lot and that it looks straight out of the most horrifying and creepy movie ever invented. nick knight is surely one genius photographer and together with gareth pugh's strange clothings this can't turn out as some bad project. click here for more details on the shoot!
# emile hirsch by alexei hay for gq style italy fall/winter '09 - oh my, i think i still have a thing for longhaired men... this photoshoot brought up some memories... doesn't he look a little bit like ewan mcgregor? well. he's handsome nonetheless.

3. architecture & design.

vincent darré's home & shop on selby.com - let me introduce you to vincent darré, owner of maison darré ( a furniture shop ) in paris. todd selby photographed his home & shop and lead me to the most amazing desks and chairs ever:

aren't they absolutely fantastic? you will see this furniture on the selby site as well & more of mr. darré's pieces on his own website: maison darré - check out the other skeleton-inspired stuff!

another selby-shoot i liked was the 'back to nature' home of photographer dan martensen & model shannan click. trés naturel & beautiful!

4. diversity.

de-li-ci-ous! om-nom-nom-nom, like the cookie monster would say :D

since it's soon turkey day in america, luxirare's prepared the most delicious thanksgiving diner ever! oh my. this girl is too much for me. how can someone be so creative and overwhelmingly productive? i'm a teensy weensy bit jealous.

5. videotime.

the perfect diner leads me directly to the cookie monster of the sesame street. since 'sesame street' is getting 40 years old i'd wanted to show you the cookie monster instructing us how to eat a cookie the right way! happy birthday sesame street!

Charlotte Gainsbourg - Heaven Can Wait from Charlotte Gainsbourg on Vimeo.

and the video is just super lovely, especially the slowmotion sceneries. the faces of some of the people starring in there are priceless!

oh, and since christmas isn't too far away anymore, check out the crazy holiday party of bob dylan! i'm a bit distracted by his strange hair, but it's nonetheless a typical dylan-esque video and i'm really excited to give the album a listen soon! ( i bought it today, but sweared to myself not to listen to it before the 1st of december... well.. seems like i can't wait that long anymore... :P )

i wish y'all a nice time setting up the christmas lights and decorations. well, just don't get all crazy with it. and get your christmas presents early! think of the poor people who will work for you on christmas. ugh, yeah. sorry, just had to point this out, because i fear that my christmas will be stressful, apocalyptic and... not christmassy because of things like that, haha.

still, happy advent times to all of you!

may '20: seeking modernism.

super pink rhododendron buds emerging! i start off this post with some flower images to appreciate and praise the time of spring, especially the month of may, which is the most abundant spring month to me personally. all the blossoms, all the fresh greens amass during may, and my heart and mind are hardly ever able to not frolick & gush about it all! for this post i am returning to one walk i did with the sole purpose to find a special mid-century villa in königstein ( which would ultimately prove to be a failure - i did find it, but i couldn't approach it properly to have a good look at it and only ever saw a tiny bit of the garden/forest side ). the whole walk was not a letdown, though, as i did find some other mid-century & brutalism gems and thoroughly enjoyed walking through the old spa town in the taunus mountains. rhododendron shrubs yield all kinds of different blossoms in myriad colours, they are easy to breed, therefore a wide variety can be found all over the wor...

autumn impressions.

a selected assortment of autumn related things. ( or things that don't fit into a 'bigger picture' ) i will get around to posting my autumn vacation photos as well. my parents and me visited france a second time and i think it was almost as wonderful as the first time. but i'll get to that soon. moth in front of a vinyl shop window. i bet you know who's smile it is that strikes at you from the record. elvis! i went mushroom hunting again, this time with jasmin, the best mushroom finder i have :) but we didn't have a lot of time together this past autumn, i am very sad to admit this. she's one of our apprentices in the serving area in our market, but recently she's on exchange in a different outlet until january. but soon we'll have her back and our sporadic meetings will stop being sporadic. i think times like these make me realize that there's something worth living for. mostly my life is very grey and i'm so thankful to s...

of dragons & critters and yin & yang kittens.

my cat shadow is a very prolific cat and gives birth to baby sweethearts annually. we always let them grow up until they're old enough to be given away. growing up in a huge garden where they can roam around freely - isn't that the best way to grow up? it's always a joy to visit my parents and my cat in that time of the year. i have also included some pictures of a little rhine trip i made in the middle of may. and the occasional random ones that didn't fit somewhere. rhine wood dragon. sitting on the rhine beach enjoying the beautiful day. my stone collection of the day. ( i seriously have a lot of stones in my home. i love to collect them! ) the river rhine near eltville. random skull assortment ( shot this at the naxoshalle in frankfurt - i was there for a japanese movie festival ) rosey roses. they also smelled heavenly. raindrops on my window. chameleon tail. i adore spirals. baby kittens drinking momma m...

ghost of nature.

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