Since I am in the show and tell corner this week I thought I`d show you one of my alltime favorite photo books. The book has the most wonderful title: "For every minute you are angry you loose sixty seconds of happiness" and is made by photographer Julian Germain.
I initially picked up this book at my local bookstore some years ago because of the cover I think. It reminded me of the fabric of a sunbed my mom had in the 70s. And when I opened the book I saw these wonderful pictures taken of this sweet old man living alone with his flowers in a bright yellow house somewhere in England. I just had to have it.
The colors and the mood in the pictures are so beautiful, and really makes me appriciate the simple things in life. Like flowers, flowernames, toast and pebbles. :)
I`d also like to share some of the text in the book with you:
"I met Charles Albert Lucien Snelling on a Saturday in April 1992."
"On the walls of his equally brightly decorated room there were numerous photographs of a lady I innediately understood was his wife. I said I thought they were lovely pictures and he told me that Betty had died, a few years ago now."
"Charlie was a simple, gentle, man. He loved flowers and the names of flowers. He loved colour and surrounded himself with colour. He loved his wife. He seemed totally unambitious; all he wanted was for his children to be happy.
Occasionally he would ask if I`d like to listen to some music and then he might play, for example, just tree songs from a Nat King Cole LP; but we would really listen to them. Music was never something to have on in the background.
He loved words and had the most well thumbed dictionary I have ever seen.
He did the Daily Mirror crossword every day. He was not a thinker, but he wondered. I bought him an atlas and he studied it in such detail, amazed by the world.
Without ever trying or intending to, he showed me that the most important things in life cost nothing at all. He was my antidote to modern living."
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Just wanted to show you two newly thrifted books that inspire me.
The first one is a book from the 50s or 60s called "Porselensmaling som hobby" (Painting porcelain as a hobby). It has the most beautiful stilised illustrations in blue grey and black, and has lots of mid century scandinavian pottery as inspiration pictures. And there is also some information about some of my favorite swedish designers/patternmakers like Stig Lindberg, Carl Harry Staalhane and Marianne Westmann.
Yay, what a find!
Some of my favorite spreads here:
And the other book is called "Småretter" (tiny/buffet dishes), and is also from the 50s. This book is filled with all kinds of quirky dishes like aspic logs and toadstool eggs, all with mayonaise and cream of course like all food from that time. :)
It is also filled with these beautiful handcolored pictures that just make me want to dive into the picture and start to eat everything, yum!
These are my favorite spreads:
Got to love this dish, called "Toadstools on the meadow".
The mushroom body is made from an egg, the hat from half a tomato, the grass on the plate is spinach purè and the hat dots are of course mayonaise. :)
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Just a quick little post before I go out in the sunshine.
Spring is finally here, and there is no time to loose.
There are cherryblossoms to be sniffed and ice creames to be eaten. :)
The first picture is a wonderful vintage etsy find. A lovely celluloid brooch with the sweetest card from the seller. Ah, the joy of online shopping!
And the second is an amazing old porcelain brooch I found at this wonderful shop.
Their shop is filled with the most wonderful vintage clotes and accessories, I just have to go in every time I walk by.
Another amazing vintage shop is Alphaville. They also remix old clotes in new styles, very nice!
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Last exhibition post. :)
Just thought I`d show you some of the images from the flyer I mentioned in my previous post. I put in some images there that I did not get to use in the exhibition itself.
The lady on the front cover I have posted before, but I think she can handle to be posted again. The larger poster under her is the backside of the flyer put together from some of the sketches I made in my sketchbook for the exhibition. I usually draw with a ballpoint pen because it does not smudge and bleed much.
And here the little snail promocard too:
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Just thought you`d like to see the paper mockups I did of the larger pieces at my Forest Deep exhibition. The owl picture was sold and did not make it to Berlin, but I`d thought you`d like to see the mockup anyway. :)
I cut them in a small origami sized paper first to see if they would work, and then did the originals based on them. So fun to do small diorama mockups, I should take time to do it more often.
Some nice paper clipping links:
Elsa Mora
Elisita
Rob Ryan
Flickr papercuts
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