February 1, 2012

Everyone on the internet is excited about Moonrise Kingdom.

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January 31, 2012

“The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.”
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

[photos by Bazzerio]

Filed by vic at January 31st, 2012 under New York, photography
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January 30, 2012

I have never told you the story of the woman that sits atop this blog, with her red hair and lips and accusing eyes. It’s a story best told in person, a real kicker.

She is an emblem of the day these photos were taken. It was early November in Los Angeles. There was a wide, hot sky and an old friend who represented a past life, greyhounds in a bar in Echo Park, and a soul shattering revelation from a distant stranger.

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London feels so dull right now. I want it to be spring. I want to have enough money to not work and to really do things.

[polaroids by Tim Frank Schmitt via the thinking tank]

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January 29, 2012

This Elliot SS lookbook has me so excited for a long, jobless summer.

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Frank Sinatra’s pool, Palm Springs.

[via Everything You Love To Hate]

Filed by vic at January 29th, 2012 under no biggie
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January 26, 2012

Wild at heart and weird on top.

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January 24, 2012

I work five minutes from The Barbican now. It’s one of the finest examples of Brutalist architecture in London, a self-contained residential estate built for City workers in the 60s and 70s. I’m obsessed with the harshness of paradise.

Filed by vic at January 24th, 2012 under london, photography
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January 23, 2012

This roll of film has been with me in Morocco, Amsterdam, Paris and all around London.

I felt sad today when I finally finished it. No more surprises. No chance of a miracle. Just the world in black and white.

Filed by vic at January 23rd, 2012 under amsterdam, london, paris, photography
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January 20, 2012

Some half-frames from Rabat I never posted. I miss Morocco.

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Black cat auditions in Hollywood, 1961.

[via Retronaut]

Filed by vic at January 20th, 2012 under no biggie
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I was pretty chuffed to be featured as blog of the month in Italy’s PIG magazine. Here’s the translation:

Hi Victoria. How are you?

Hi! I’m excited to be here!

Where are you from?

I spent the first 20 years of my life in the leafy hills above Adelaide, Australia. And have since lived in Brisbane, and Manchester in England’s northwest.

How old are you?

I turned 30 a few months ago. I panic about birthdays.

Why did you start your blog?

I started my blog about five years ago as a way to collate and collect all the pretty things I found online. I’ve always been a writer but as my interest in photography grew it became a good place to post pictures for my friends too.

I didn’t realise anyone but my Mum read it until last year.

Where do you live?

I live in Dalston, east London, in a big, old five bedroom Victorian house with four housemates and a family of foxes. A few years ago the council discovered one of our neighbours had spent 40 years digging a web of tunnels spreading out 20m in every direction from his house. It’s now a deserted, roofless, crumbling old mansion, but the Mole Man is still a local legend.

Do you study or work? Where?

I’m a creative in a London ad agency where I work on digital campaigns for big brands. I also do some freelance writing and photography on the side.

In your blog there is a lot of photography and also fashion. Your favourite fashion photographer?

I think Autumn De Wilde’s work for Rodarte for Opening Ceremony this year was game changing.

Favourite fashion film of this season?

I saw the Bill Cunningham documentary in New York in March. I was inspired by his passion and ability to find beauty everywhere. His point of view influences everything he does in life, not just his work. I think it’s how every artist dreams of living.

Advice for a good blog?

Find your own voice and your own point of view. There are so many blogs out there that post the same things and speak in the same way. The more of yourself you put into your blog – and I don’t mean just posting photos of yourself – the more people will care.

Filed by vic at January 20th, 2012 under inspiration
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January 14, 2012

My brain’s too full of other things to take proper pictures so I’m using Instagram as a stop gap. Are you on there? Follow me: @victorialhannan.

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January 12, 2012

Obsessed.

[sources: freunde von freunden, dear golden, skinny laminx, the brick house, moon to moon]

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January 9, 2012

[via back to the machine gun]

Filed by vic at January 9th, 2012 under no biggie
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January 8, 2012

I just found these half frames I took of Michael Phelps at Fells Point in Baltimore last year. It was about 9.30 in the morning and we’d just spent two hours filming an interview with him in his house. The air smelt sweet, of baking bread. Mike the locations guy (who also worked on The Wire and later drove us past John Waters‘ house) told me the bakery that makes the buns for all the McDonald’s restaurants on the east coast was nearby. Behind me, one of our directors was running around trying to wrangle seagulls into shot and the crew was shivering in air barely above freezing. It was a good day.

Filed by vic at January 8th, 2012 under photography
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January 7, 2012

Just Bill Cosby…

In a sea of Bill Cosbys. No biggie.

By Michael Rougier.

[via jesuisperdu]

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January 3, 2012

Alfred Eisenstaedt visited George Balanchine’s School of American Ballet in 1936.

[via Life]

Filed by vic at January 3rd, 2012 under photography
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January 2, 2012

And then you discover your friends are poets and magicians. That the sun shines even when it’s cold.

Now there are new hours, new days and weeks.

Filed by vic at January 2nd, 2012 under paris, photography
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Just Marilyn…

Reading about Goya. No biggie.

[via Vintage Gal]

Filed by vic at January 2nd, 2012 under no biggie, photography
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December 31, 2011

In February, I spent three days in Paris for work and drank beer with bare legs in Jardin des Tuileries. In April, I went to New York, to Baltimore and then back to New York again. We shot Michael Phelps with music video directors, ate at Shake Shack, stayed at The Hudson and The Jane, I spotted Ice T filming Law & Order on the streets of Greenwich Village. I went to a street party for the Royal Wedding, curated my first ever exhibition at CAMP and spent a fun weekend showing Kate and Anabela around London. I went to Primavera Sound in Barcelona and stayed up until dawn four days in a row. In June I celebrated turning 30 with a Jazz Age garden party. In July I farewelled my dear grandmother who I miss every day. I travelled through Morocco for two weeks with Liesl in September, I went to Amsterdam to surprise my friend in November, I quit my job, I decided to go to Paris five hours before going to Paris and then I wrote a novel.