neon

1. My old roommate's dog Lexi.
2. An ode to Juergen Teller with the shoes I diy'ed for my birthday.
3. A beautiful sign near by house, this is one of my favourites from the roll, if I had money I'd buy this sign and hang it in my house, I love it so much.

filmsy/flimsy

I'm a terrible paht tyme bloggah, but thanks to a little encouragement from my friend Kavi, I'm now back. Here's a lazy post to get me started. These are some shots from the first roll of film I took with the Minolta I got at the Cabbagetown garage sale back in September, but you probably don't know about that because I only planned to write a post about it in my head, head blogging is much easier than real blogging.

nostalgia

“When I was young,
Nostalgia was a tiny stamp,
Me on this side,
Mother on the other side.

When I grew up,
Nostalgia was a narrow boat ticket,
Me on this side,
Bride on the other side.

But later on,
Nostalgia was a low, low grave,
Me on the outside,
Mother on the inside.

And at present,
Nostalgia becomes a shallow strait,
Me on this side,
Mainland on the other side.”

- NOSTALGIA BY YU GUANGZHONG (YU KWANG-CHUNG) translated by himself.

Via Gray Sky.

Barbra

I know this is like, old or wotever now, but I'm still liking it. Barbra Streisand.

Satyricon

From Federico Fellini's Satyricon.
I love this movie, it's so decadent and the costumes are beyond wonderful.

color

This is the poster art for the upcoming film For Colored Girls, the illustration is done by Marion Bolognesi. It's so great to see illustrations being used, it's completely striking in a sea of busy photographed movie posters.

Clothes Make the Scene

Free time is awesome. Today I made an essential Artful Costumes film list on Mubi.com, complete with snazzy pictures, check it out, I had a lot of fun making it. I felt like I was putting my research skills to good self-indulgent use, obviously I haven't seen all 123 films so I had to look them up.
I've also been reading a lot, right now I'm almost finished On Beauty by Zadie Smith, it took a while to get into but now I'm really enjoying myself.

1. Juliet of the Spirit. 2. El Topo. 3. Orlando.