Leilita

Saturday, 14 May 2011

Fruit - Foods - Nature

This looks delicious. I love hamburgers. I would say that hamburgers are my favorite food. Hamburgers from all different countries. I love Japanese chain Mos Burger. Singapore had most excellent upscale hamburger boutiques. Melbourne has Grill'd. London has Gourmet Burger Kitchen & pub burgers. Drool.

Fruit - I'm so glad to be back in Australia, if only for the fruit! Amazing variety, freshness & deliciousness. I virtually stopped eating fruit in England, but made up for that back here. Mmm, look at the dragonfruit & juicy watermelon. Can't wait to scoop out a kiwifruit.

Mmmm, Bompas & Parr, the jellymongers. 2 creative young men whose main medium is jelly! They create amazing sculptures, glow in the dark jellies as well as other food experiments/art installations. They also have created feasts, with highly experimental menus. From their website: "Bompas & Parr designs spectacular food experiences often working on an architectural scale with cutting edge technology. Projects explore how the taste of food is altered through synaesthesia, performance and setting. " They also provided expertise to Heston Blumenthal on his Feast series - not a surprising fact, as B&P's food feasts often have a Victorian era theme, resurrecting long forgotten recipes. Its worth looking at their website !

Emma Bridgewater. I love her pottery due to the amazing graphics.

More Bompas & Parr. The boys also tour the world, often recreating famous landmarks with jelly. They've recently toured Australia (& Melbourne).

Awsmazing Viktor and Rolf gown - look at the cut outs! This is nothing, the whole collection is similar, but with even more crazy dresses. She looks like a delicious fluffy dessert.

Thursday, 12 May 2011

Delightful homewares

Dinosaur Designs started as a jewellery line, using polyester resin as a medium. They also do homewares, and I luff them, and want to fill my house with their colourful uniqueness. Inspiration for the designs come from nature & art (as you can tell from the title of the collections). Looking at the items below, you may think they are plasticy, but they are not - they are heavy, quality, smooth and solid. A very nice medium. Weeee.

Their jewellery is pretty too. All chunk & colour block-y. These items are all handmade.

http://www.dinosaurdesigns.com.au

Wednesday, 11 May 2011

Hello Kitty (stuff)

I luuuufffff hello kitty & I won't 'grow out of it'. Anyhooo, hello kitty proddy seems to mate like bunnies by constantly multiplying (in awesomeness too). The internets is always pleasing me aesthetically with new & awsmazing hello kitty-ness. Behold, a small taste of the cute!

<3 pics from japanla.com & hellokittyjunkie.com

Tuesday, 10 May 2011

Tracey Emin

Tracey Emin commissioned her painting Black Cat (below) to be made into a tapestry. Last weekend it was on show at Craft Council’s Collect 2011 exhibition in London.

Tracey Emin says: “The Black Cat is one of my favourite paintings. It took me over seven years to complete, not because I was hesitant, but because it’s two completely different paintings. It has bold strong shapes as well as subtle washes of colour. I thought this would be perfect for a tapestry, and I am delighted with the work Caron and Philip have done in translating my work to the woven form.” Emin adds: “Black Cat has many layers, emotionally as well as literally. The painting underneath is landscape, and is of a figure crouching down with the words ‘Things I say NO to’. I then turned the painting so it was portrait, and with the inspiration of the Edgar Allan Poe story, The Black Cat, I proceeded to paint what appears to be a rather demonic self-portrait in my long black dress.”

http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/