Chau Har Lee ShOeS.

So i have not posted in a while, but i have been really busy lately working in the studio on some new stuff but i thought while i gots me a hot sec, i'd post this.
Chau Har Lee is a young fashion designer that graduated with an MA from the Royal College of Art. She has an inventive eye with her designs and has won some prestigious awards for her work and has also been awarded the RCA 2009 award from Minolo Blahnik. anyway, back to work for me but check this shit out, it's grool.

DEN Vita Fasen ...the white phase.

It seems as if white has become my predominant color.

White:

White is a color, the perception which is evoked by light that stimulates all three types of color sensitive cone cells in the human eye in nearly equal amounts and with high brightness compared to the surroundings. A white visual stimulation will be void of hue and grayness.
White light can be generated in many ways. The sun is such a source, electric incandescence is another. Modern light sources are fluorescent lamps and light-emitting diodes. An object whose surface reflects back most of the light it receives and does not alter its color will appear white, unless it has very high specular reflection.
Since white objects such as clouds, snow and flowers appear often in nature, human culture has many references to white, often related to purity and cleanness. The high contrast between white and black is used to represent opposites. In some Asian cultures, white is considered to be a color that represents death. White also represented death in ancient Egypt, representing the lifeless desert that covered much of the country; black was held to be the color of life, representing the mud-covered fertile lands created by the flooding of the Nile and giving the country its name (Kemet, or "black land").
In Nature:
Snow and ice are normally white due to the diffusing structure of transparent water ice crystals. The same is true for many types of clouds where droplets of water diffuse the white light from the Sun. Many mountains with winter or year-round snow cover are named accordingly: Mauna Kea means white mountain in Hawaiian, Mont Blanc means white mountain in French. Changbai Mountains literally meaning 'Perpetually White' Mountains, marks the border between China and Korea and Mount Kilimanjaro's name could originate from Swahili meaning little white hill. The White Sea, an inlet of the Barents Sea on the northwest coast of Russia is undoubtedly named so due to the icy environment.
Beaches with sand containing high amounts of quartz also appear white, which may explain the number of islands called White Island around the world.

...i like white.

Gemini and Libra Tornado

I am once again taking a look at my astrological sign and it's compatability with the other signs. I'm a Gemini and so according to some horo-pros, the most compatible partners for me are other air signs and more specifically, Libras.
one of my google searches:
These two air signs are well suited intellectually and every other way. It is difficult for the representatives of both signs to control their passions. If love makes this world spin round, then this couple gives an initial push to it. This is an ideal partnership. Both favor similar changes of interests. In the case of this pair, Libra is the judge and Gemini is the responsive jury in the nuptial courthouse. The combination's intellectual and artistic interests are compatible. Both sides of the Gemini's nature will be under stood by the Libra. Both of them are passionate and nobody is too jealous at the same time . Their characters have a lot in common, and they perfectly understand each other in the bedroom. Libra is a highly sexual sign, and their lovemaking will never go lacking. Their sex-life will never be dull. This is a perfect connection; the warm and happy married couple.
So yeah, it might be that i'm single and bored, but like i said in December, i feel astrological signs do sometimes play a strong role in life. ...so if anyone knows a Libra, tell them that this Gemini needs to find some balance. bdumpt! 

McQueen Tribute

The British Fashion Awards happened less then a month ago, but during the ceremony, they played this tribute to the Great Alexander McQueen. The video was produced by Showstudio and Bjork, a close friend to McQueen, created a song strictly for his tribute. the video also features only black models and one of which was another of his dear friends, Naomi Campbell. The Video is gorgeous, so give it a gander. here it is
McQueen Tribute.

Party TOTS

I just recently watched The Time Traveler's Wife, and it made me cry like a menapausal mother at a wedding, but anyway, my friend told me about the work of Vee Speers, whose photography is lovely, and when looking at her latest work, i know if i could travel back in time to my childhood i would most likely arrive to my parties dressed like one of these kiddies.
Lens culture is another blog i look at, and this description truly evokes the spirit of what the work's intention tries to bring to it's viewers:
 
The Birthday Party

photographs by
Vee Speers

Imagine you are 8 or 9 or 10 years old. You are invited to a birthday party, a costume party, and encouraged to dress up as a creature of your own wild imagination. How would you imagine your alter ego at age 10?

Some of the innocent ones dress as princesses, dancers, spacemen, or angels — sublime and stunning. Some boys choose the macho images of soldiers or gladiators. Other young party-goers seem more in touch with their dark sides, and arrive as gleefully-mean rodent exterminators or scowling torturers of baby dolls. The scared ones seem as if they were dressed bizarrely by Mommy Dearest and forced to participate against their wills in this nightmare freak show.

All together, the party takes on the tone of a twilight zone of dark dreams, hidden desires, innocent beauty, and sinister revelations of twisted inner realities. An unsettling mixture, to say the least. Not much fun, unless you crave the bizarre and surreal. A little bit like real life sometimes, no?

This is the most recent photo series created by Australian-born, Paris-based photographer Vee Speers. People who remember her Bordello series will recognize Speers' continuing fascination with the trickery of appearance, and the power of masks, costumes and outward signals from inner worlds.