Litchfield, Connecticut
We’ve just had a wonderful weekend away (one of many, luckily) at our friend Peter’s house in Litchfield. It was the best weekend for seeing the leaves change, all pink and orange and loads of them covering the ground. Good for the toddler to romp around in!
Dimlite – Prismic Tops EP (Stones Throw)
Dimlite – Prismic Tops EP (Stones Throw) – Friday afternoon, just been listening to Declan Kelly’s Against the Arctic mix #225, and this tune comes on…
Kit Kemp: A Living Space
Kit Kemp is the genius behind the Firmdale group hotels, and I find them lush. All clashing prints and beautiful lighting, and so much attention to detail. Check out a space at the Contemporary Applied Arts Gallery in London, of which Kemp has created a space to illustrate the vast possibilities of commissioning art and craft for the home environment and how it can transform a room.
Chateauneuf de Grasse: the end of an era
It’s soon to be the end of the garden flat 
Katie is off to Zurich with her job, and I’m off to a lovely little mews house in Bermondsey (thanks to Jeff). To soften the blow of our cohabitation in London coming to an end, the most fabulous Miss Dinon organised for us – and a couple of handfuls of her closest friends – to spend two weeks in the sun in September.
Bul store now open in Melbourne
Lucky you, Melbourne peeps! The lovely Virginia Martin has opened a shop of gloriously beautiful tailored clothing that are as charming as the lady herself.
Find it at:
Level 3
Curtin House
252 Swanston St
Melbourne
t: 03 9663-0390
curtinhouse@bul.com.au
twenty ten. time to grow up.
One of my goals for twenty ten is to do something very adult – I’m going to buy a piece of art for myself. It’s going to have a ltd. edition number on it, something like 10/30. It’s also going to be from Jeremy, the lovely man behind The Jacky Winter Group, which represents Australian illustrators.
in nineteen eighty five…
This semi-autobiographical graphic novel (try saying that five times fast!) is set in a Cali beach town, the protagonist is a graffiti artist whose constant run-ins with anti-graffiti locals, cops and rival crews sees him getting into mischief at an unstoppable rate. But it also recalls the characters and art influences of a 80s street art scene, that, if you trace it forward to today, probably has something to do with the art on your t-shirt, skateboard or favorite CD artwork.
Props to James for doing this graphic novel. He’s a wonderfully talented artist & animator, his productions include Madvillain – ‘All Caps’, Cut Chemist ‘Spat’, Quasimoto ‘Bullyshit’, an ad for HP/Serena Williams that was shown in Times Square NYC, and many more, of which you can view on his TFU Studios YouTube page.
ben frost ‘by the throat’
This weekend my old friend ben frost visited me at the GF en route from reykjavik to adelaide – first time we’d seen each other in years.
london graced us with a spectacularly sunny and warm day, so we walked over to primrose hill. i somehow managed to get us lost but it was to our fortunte – as we’d accidentally stumbled across l’absinthe, a cute little french bistro on chalcot street. it was lovely from the get-go. we sat at a little table out on the pavement in the shade, our waitress was cute and the host-chef guy was endearing.
