tilt-shift photography

From Wikipedia: "Tilt-shift photography" refers to the use of camera movements on small- and medium-format cameras, and sometimes specifically refers to the use of tilt for selective focus, often for simulating a miniature scene.

 pattagon

 Vincent Laforet

 City Shrinker

I really love it, so i dug out a software that helps you getting the effect, tadaaa: Alien Skin - Bokeh 2

LN-CC.COM

A project incorporating menswear, womenswear, books and music with high quality content and brands including Rick Owens, Damir Doma, Raf Simons and Levis Vintage Clothing

http://www.ln-cc.com/ 

luv the Rick Owens jacket

Jean Michel Basquiat: Drawings - Signed and Numbered

the bike shelf

My flatmate has gotten a new bike, the third this year, two were stolen and he decided enough is enough so the new one he is bringing upstairs, leaving it in the halway. All swell, but the darn bike keeps sliding down the wall, or I kick it in the morning on my way to the kitchen, or the other flatmate falls over it, making noize, waking me up. I am getting annoyed, so I was looking for a solution to hang the darn bike on the wall or store it in a different way. And lookey here, this is what I found, supercool solution, plus it's multifunctional, funky idea, Chris Brigham's BIKE SHELF!

... and you get that extra space to either place keys, phones, mail or whatnot on it. Our halway is screaming for a shelf like this!

http://knifeandsaw.wordpress.com/furniture/bike-shelf/

what i still want for X-mass! Anyone?!

I have started working on my minor Products & Concepts first project. Design a give-away present that the community of Schiedam gives away as a representative gift. We had the option to design either for children and schools visiting Schiedam or the more prominent visitors, like mayors from other communities etc., i decided to go for the latter. Schiedam has been building and spreading and now the communitiy wants to refer to its history again, but in a newer, more modern way. So I decided to reinterpret the cliches in a new way.
The first object that came to mind as inspiration was Oooms Milkmaid Dildo, an object designed for the Dutch Souvenir Project combining tradition, hence the delftblue, inspired by Vermeer's Het Melkmeisje painting, brought together into a somewhat provocative shape of a dildo. I love it, because it has humor and still looks like a beautiful Dutch traditional delftblue object. I guess the fact it took a shape of a dildo also makes sense to me as Holland is fairly liberal when it comes to prostitution and sex, with sex museums, brothels and prostitute shop-windows. It is referring to cliches in a funny and new way.

http://www.oooms.nl/the-milkmaid/ - in case anyone is wondering what to get me for X-mass, I've been wanting this since quite a while now! Please, thank you!

P.S. As on how my minor project is developing, more some other time in some other post.

SOUTH - SOUTHEAST, 1.10 - 31.10 2010, Ljubljana, Slovenia

"What is the identity of southeastern fashion design and fashion designers? Is it the geographical term of Southeastern Europe, cultural differences, social and economic categories, stereotypes, boarders that exist and boarders that are vanishing? Is it the nostalgic view on the eastern bloc, the transitional mix of post-communism or a reflexion of a modern eastern Europe? All this and more!
We are presenting established, contemporary, avantguard, conceptual and trendy Croatian, Polish, Latvian, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Serbian, Czech, Bosnian, Romanian, Ukranian and Slovenian fashion designers."

This is what the introduction text says, about the fashion exhibition takingplace in Ljubljana next month. An interesting concept, to present, unite and advertise young designers from eastern Europe. I like the concept of the bringing together.
Here are a few of the designers exhibiting:

 Aida Korman/ Bosnia

 Citoyenne/Croatia

 Etna Maar/ Croatia

 Hypnosis/ Latvia

 JSP/ Serbia

 Manitas/ Slovenia

 Manufaktura cdR/ Serbia

 Miro Design/ Slovenia

 Niiro/ Slovenia

 Ninaluba/ Slovenia

 Pure, Aga Paul/ Poland

 Tine Kozjak/ Slovenia

ZOFA/ Latvia

what it's all about

I cannot avoid blogging as it's an obligatory part of school work, so I might aswell use it as a platform to show you what I stumble upon while browsing the allmighty WWW and dump all things inspiring, shocking, creative or things I anyhow find interesting. It's difficult to make an inspiration page solely out of images, as I draw inspiration out of so many things, may it be books, films, music, art, sometimes even crappy jokes people make in bars. So I guess this is it, here we go!