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I’m going to be in the south of France at the end of June for work, for fun, for my birthday. Have you been? Any tips on places to visit between Menton and Marseilles?
Merci.
Filed by vic at May 16th, 2012 under music, travel
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Joel Sternfeld captured a renegade elephant resting on the road in Woodland, Washington in 1979.
Filed by vic at May 11th, 2012 under no biggie, photography
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Serge Gainsbourg in Cannes.
[source unknown]
Filed by vic at May 9th, 2012 under photography
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More hanging plants via: small spaces, Mieke Willems, the brick house, apartment therapy
Filed by vic at May 4th, 2012 under interior
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There were a few days at the start of April where London looked like this. But it’s rained every day for a month now and it feels so cold and so dull.
But you get by. You see art, you eat delicious food, you work and work and work. But mostly, you just countdown to things that are coming that will make you feel different. To an exact point on a calendar and a map that herald the start of something or the end of it.
Filed by vic at May 4th, 2012 under london, New York
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Eatin’ apples.
(I’ve just started a babin’ Mick Jagger board on Pinterest, FYI).
[via The Tally Ho]
Filed by vic at May 2nd, 2012 under Babin', no biggie
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Brigitte Bardot visits Pablo Picasso, 1956.
[via retronaut]
Filed by vic at April 29th, 2012 under no biggie, picasso
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A test audience reacting to the chestburster scene in ALIEN.
[via twitter]
Filed by vic at April 28th, 2012 under film, no biggie
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I took this photograph five years ago. I still regret not buying the painting in it, like I regret not buying some green and white striped denim shorts I tried on in Madewell two years ago. Like I regret saying this or not saying that, doing this or not doing that.
Sometimes I wonder how the world still turns under the weight of things we should have done or the things we definitely should not have done. And then I remember that not everyone feels like this. Not everyone has this thing that is always in the back of their head or this weight that is just above their heart.
Filed by vic at April 26th, 2012 under photography
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I quit my job again. I signed up to a screenwriting course. Already, the stillness of my house is bringing things back into focus. There is so much to see, to do.
Filed by vic at April 18th, 2012 under photography
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Speaker’s Corner, 1959/2011.
[1959 photos via retronaut]
Filed by vic at April 17th, 2012 under london, photography
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Stevie Nicks breaks into song while getting her make up done for a Rolling Stone shoot.
Filed by vic at April 17th, 2012 under Babin', music, no biggie
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Catching and drawing butterflies. NB.
Filed by vic at April 16th, 2012 under no biggie
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It’s the first morning. I’ve taken things back.
Filed by vic at April 16th, 2012 under photography
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Parking and driving. Stopping and starting.
Filed by vic at April 13th, 2012 under photography
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Believe it or not, this is Communist Dictator Josef Stalin way back in 1902. For such a bad dude, he was totally babin’.
Filed by vic at April 13th, 2012 under Babin'
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70s apartments, Alghero.
Filed by vic at April 13th, 2012 under photography
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The sea, the sea, the sea.
Filed by vic at April 12th, 2012 under photography
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There’s a procession in Alghero on Good Friday. It starts at eight and winds through the streets until two. We watched it from the door of a restaurant, then stumbled across it again on the way home. There was a group of tenores singing in a circle and we stood and listened to them until the procession had passed again. This is what they sounded like, complete with old men and cars spluttering, with the quietened chatter of the nearby devout.
Just minutes before I recorded this, we’d seen the dead body of an old man covered in a sheet on the corner near the market. He’d fallen and hit his head.
Life is awful, terrifying, mysterious and wonderful.
Filed by vic at April 12th, 2012 under world
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There are tiny caves on the island of Sardinia. They’re known as fairy houses or Domus de Janas and were used as tombs by the Ozieri between 3400 and 2700 BC. They’re empty now, sitting alone on mountains and in fields dotted with acacias. The trees here make it look a little like home but it is nothing like home.
Filed by vic at April 11th, 2012 under wishlist
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A rough sea, the constant threat of rain. On the road between Alghero and Bosa.
Filed by vic at April 11th, 2012 under photography
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We drove to Grotta di Nettuno, a stalactite cave near Alghero. Only a few hundred metres are open to the public but we were told there are 4km of caves all together, growing constantly and silently in the cliffs of Capo Caccia.
Filed by vic at April 10th, 2012 under photography
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For an Easter holiday to an Italian island that you booked wishing for gentle seas and endless skies, for skin warmed by the sun and legs freckled with sand. That instead, holds forecasts of rain, thunderstorms and wind. So you dress the part at least, in costume, layers under which you wear your swimsuit, ever hopeful that the tides will turn.
From left to right:
Steve Alan Drawstring Coat
Irish Fisherman’s Sweater
Randall Solid Pocket T from Saturdays Surf
Anthropologie Natalie one piece
Atlas of Remote Islands by Judith Schalansky
RayBan RB 2143 Wayfarers
Bec Brittain Hand-dyed Rope Bracelet
Ocean/Eternal Return by I Hate Perfume
Blue Rebel by Chanel
Filed by vic at April 5th, 2012 under wishlist
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These photos were taken on the same day, on the same camera, just metres from each other.
It is interesting to me how they capture the light and dark of it. Of the ocean and sky and the point where they vanish together as the earth curves from view, taking with it day after day after day.
Filed by vic at April 3rd, 2012 under photography
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I’m introducing a new category of posts around here called Babin’. It doesn’t need a real explanation. Just look at this picture of a young Salvador Dali and his wife Gala. And there you have it: totally babin’.
[photo by Brassaï]
Filed by vic at April 3rd, 2012 under Babin'
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Filed by vic at April 3rd, 2012 under music
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In 1975. Total babes. NB.
[from the clinton library via tim]
Filed by vic at March 30th, 2012 under Babin', no biggie
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Bill Cunningham New York finally made it to London this month. I saw it with Polly last night at the Curzon in Mayfair and I’ve only just realised it was exactly a year to the day that I saw it with Joanna in New York.
This is not a film about fashion so much as a story about dedicated artists, about legacy and passion and finding unexpected beauty. And it’s just as remarkable and heart breaking on the second viewing as the first.
Filed by vic at March 29th, 2012 under film, New York
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Hanging in the bath. No biggie.
Photograph by her husband, the Earl of Snowdon.
Filed by vic at March 29th, 2012 under no biggie
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