“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
- Oscar Wilde
Random Thoughts: a dreamer
- Oscar Wilde
Random Thoughts: Society
“Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.”
- Oscar Wilde
Holidays!
I've been a little absent around my blog, being busy with my master project and other things, hope during the holidays I have some time and mind to come back and do some updates and also share a couple of things.
Meanwhile I wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!
Meanwhile I wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!
Random Thoughts: Experience
“Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.”
- Oscar Wilde
Random Thoughts: Tragedies in life
“There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.”
- Oscar Wilde
Random Thoughts: A man hapiness
“A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her”
- Oscar Wilde
Random Thoughts: Richeness
“Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.”- Oscar Wilde
Random Thoughts: Proper judge
“It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it”
- Oscar Wilde
Random Thoughts: Doubt and Judge
“Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgement. And you can see forever.”
- Nancy Lopez
The Beard man said | it's ok to be different
"If there's any message to my work it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgement on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different colour."- Johnny Depp
This typeobsession: Handmade Fonts
Today I bring some more typography. This time the Handmade Fonts. They have really awesome fonts. Their motto is "We make ideas real through beautifully crafted design.We believe good ideas can be applied to anything."
Handmade Font are an Estonia based design company HMF (HandMadeFont). It was founded in 2008 by Vladimir Loginov and Maksim Loginov.
They have specialize in developing unique, untraditional fonts. Taking inspiration from everything that surrounds them.
You can find them at Behance Network and their Website.
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| Egyptian Inspired, very ethnic vibe. |
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| And last, but not least, my favourite one, this sort of candle font. |
Random Images: GO out and explore the world
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| photo By Öykü Öge |
This sort of defines what I want to do this week and what I want to feel: GO OUT and explore the WORLD!
Bites and Bits of My Weekend
So, as you can notice, I've change the blog layout a bit. The organisation it's pretty much the same, just the header and background have changed. I feel this way is way more clean.
What do you thing of the new header?
I was kind of absent this weekend, was working on a personal project. Nothing very fancy or so, just doing some DIY lightbox for myself. I'm so excited, I can't wait to finish it.
I went and bought almost all the materials yesterday and start to construct it and painting it, with help from my dad. And yesterday it was all fine, the weather was ok, the sun timidly came through the clouds, it was kind of warm. The paint dry really well, I was even able to apply two coats. Put today, oh well, today it as been total different, it's raining like hell, and there is a lot of storms around. (poor granny, she is so afraid of them). With this it means everything is kind of wet and really hard to dry. (oh well but what could you expect for the southern wind. OH north winds when will you came back? - well if you don't know, where I live, most of the time there is north winds, it's lightly cold sometimes, or even really cold, but its the normal around. Everything goes crazy and storm when the winds come from south).
Oh yeah, was saying that I was building a lightbox... here are some pictures of what I've done so far.
So as you can see in the first picture, it's a frame that we've made, and I painted with paint for wood. In the rest of the photos are some of the materials that we are going to use.
If everything goes well on wednesday or thursday I will have my lightbox made.
Recently I've also starting to be kind of obsess with christmas gifts. I've almost have bought everything. Now it's time to start to thing about some fun and creative packagings. I've been seeing some card or paper diy boxes, and that's probably what I'm going to do.
My latest purchase were these beautys
And you, are you already programming your christmas gifts?
Hope you had a nice weekend, and I which you a lovely week.
Oh, and if you have time go and check my art/drawing blog, I've launched it this week. Scribbling Drafts
What do you thing of the new header?
I was kind of absent this weekend, was working on a personal project. Nothing very fancy or so, just doing some DIY lightbox for myself. I'm so excited, I can't wait to finish it.
I went and bought almost all the materials yesterday and start to construct it and painting it, with help from my dad. And yesterday it was all fine, the weather was ok, the sun timidly came through the clouds, it was kind of warm. The paint dry really well, I was even able to apply two coats. Put today, oh well, today it as been total different, it's raining like hell, and there is a lot of storms around. (poor granny, she is so afraid of them). With this it means everything is kind of wet and really hard to dry. (oh well but what could you expect for the southern wind. OH north winds when will you came back? - well if you don't know, where I live, most of the time there is north winds, it's lightly cold sometimes, or even really cold, but its the normal around. Everything goes crazy and storm when the winds come from south).
Oh yeah, was saying that I was building a lightbox... here are some pictures of what I've done so far.
If everything goes well on wednesday or thursday I will have my lightbox made.
Recently I've also starting to be kind of obsess with christmas gifts. I've almost have bought everything. Now it's time to start to thing about some fun and creative packagings. I've been seeing some card or paper diy boxes, and that's probably what I'm going to do.
My latest purchase were these beautys
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| These are soap, from a portuguese manufactured. They are made with coconut oil, and these ones smell like Plum, Lemon and Peaches. I've been wanted to offer these ones for a real long time, and now it's time. Where I've bought these ones, were the only available, put in other shops exist really neat and vintage like soaps of this brand. I almost felt tempted to have them for myself, but no, not this time. |
Hope you had a nice weekend, and I which you a lovely week.
Oh, and if you have time go and check my art/drawing blog, I've launched it this week. Scribbling Drafts
7A: Alice in Wonderland (1915)
Lewis Carroll's classic novel, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, directed and written by W.W. Young and starring Viola Savoy as Alice.
This is Alice's Adventures in Wonderland of 1915.
How in almost hundred years things became so different?
And this post finish the Alice in Wonderland week them.
Did you enjoyed this kind of week's theme? Have any suggestions?
Have a nice week!!
Alice Inspiration for the WeekEnd
What about Alice? Here is some drawn Alices.
That's it for this theme. Hope you have enjoyed the hole week theme Alice in Wonderland.
Have a nice Sunday!
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Alice by *AdamHughes |
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Alice in Wonderland 2 colors by ~floina |
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Alice in Wonderland 1 colors by `Bakanekonei |
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Alice in Wonderland by ~UlaFish |
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s'more Alice in Wonderland by *jfrison |
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alice in wonderland by collaboration piece between ~digispectre and ~maikn |
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Alice in the moonlight by *sugarcream |
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Kawaii Alice In Wonderland by ~darren72 |
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Alice in Wonderland by ~Coolgraphic |
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Alice by ~ArtNerdEm |
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02_Alice in wonderland colored by =handrewx |
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Clever Little Alice by ~MirrorCradle |
Have a nice Sunday!
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alice in wonderland II. by ~granula |
Sting in the ear: Alice in Wonderland
Ready for another Alice in Wonderland relate article? Today it's time for music or soundtrack related issues.
I've choose some musics I've liked or found funny from the latest film about Alice.
"Her Name Is Alice" performed by Shinedown
"Sometimes the curiosity can kill the soul but leave the pain
And every ounce of innocence is left inside her brain
And through the looking glass we see shes painfully returned
But now off with her head I fear is everyone's concern
You see there's no real ending
It's only the beginning
Come out and play"
“Follow Me Down” performed by 3OH!3 featuring Neon Hitch
“In Transit” performed by Mark Hoppus with Pete Wentz
“Welcome to Mystery” performed by Plain White T’s
"Imagine a place you can always escape to
An island off the coast of nowhere
A new destination of your own creation
Just waiting till you choose to go there
Blue tree tops and velvet skies
Blue ready to blow your mind
Oooo
This is a place where your mind can escape
All the problems today and go far, far away
This is a time with no history
Welcome to mystery"
“The Lobster Quadrille” performed by Franz Ferdinand
"You can really have notion
How delightful it will be
When they take us up and throw us,
With the lobsters, out to sea!"
But the snail replied, "Too far, too far!"
And gave a look askance -
Said he thanked the whiting kindly,
But he would not join the dance.
Would not, could not, would not,
Could not, would not join the dance.
Would not, could not, would not,
Could not, could not join the dance."
“Running Out of Time” performed by Motion City Soundtrack
"I won't tell you how to live your life
So please stay far away from mine
Always watching out for which and when
Is always running out of time"
“Fell Down a Hole” performed by Wolfmother
"Could you lend a hand,
Cuz people don't understand
She lives on her own
Down in wonderland
Fell down a hole
To another town
Living underground
Looking for that sound
She got everything on a string
And everything else in between
It don't matter which way or how
Gonna hafta get there somehow"
"Topsy Turvy" performed by Family Force 5
"Maybe I'm crazy
What did I fall into
Lookin' for a key to a door that I can't get through
Just maybe
I'm crazy
Don't you know, don't you know I'm going under
Just maybe
In a world of wonder
Wonder"
"White Rabbit" performed by Grace Potter And the Nocturnals
I've choose some musics I've liked or found funny from the latest film about Alice.
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| Original illustration from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, drawn by John Tenniel. |
"Her Name Is Alice" performed by Shinedown
"Sometimes the curiosity can kill the soul but leave the pain
And every ounce of innocence is left inside her brain
And through the looking glass we see shes painfully returned
But now off with her head I fear is everyone's concern
You see there's no real ending
It's only the beginning
Come out and play"
“Follow Me Down” performed by 3OH!3 featuring Neon Hitch
“In Transit” performed by Mark Hoppus with Pete Wentz
“Welcome to Mystery” performed by Plain White T’s
"Imagine a place you can always escape to
An island off the coast of nowhere
A new destination of your own creation
Just waiting till you choose to go there
Blue tree tops and velvet skies
Blue ready to blow your mind
Oooo
This is a place where your mind can escape
All the problems today and go far, far away
This is a time with no history
Welcome to mystery"
“The Lobster Quadrille” performed by Franz Ferdinand
"You can really have notion
How delightful it will be
When they take us up and throw us,
With the lobsters, out to sea!"
But the snail replied, "Too far, too far!"
And gave a look askance -
Said he thanked the whiting kindly,
But he would not join the dance.
Would not, could not, would not,
Could not, would not join the dance.
Would not, could not, would not,
Could not, could not join the dance."
“Running Out of Time” performed by Motion City Soundtrack
"I won't tell you how to live your life
So please stay far away from mine
Always watching out for which and when
Is always running out of time"
“Fell Down a Hole” performed by Wolfmother
"Could you lend a hand,
Cuz people don't understand
She lives on her own
Down in wonderland
Fell down a hole
To another town
Living underground
Looking for that sound
She got everything on a string
And everything else in between
It don't matter which way or how
Gonna hafta get there somehow"
"Topsy Turvy" performed by Family Force 5
"Maybe I'm crazy
What did I fall into
Lookin' for a key to a door that I can't get through
Just maybe
I'm crazy
Don't you know, don't you know I'm going under
Just maybe
In a world of wonder
Wonder"
"White Rabbit" performed by Grace Potter And the Nocturnals
Sting in the ear: Punching in a Dream
The Naked and Famous – Punching In A Dream
All the lights go down as I crawl into the spaces
Fight tight all the screens, life tearing at the seams
Wait, I don’t ever want to be here
Like punching in a dream breathing life into the nightmare
If it falls apart I will surely wake it
Bright lights turning green
This is worse than it seems
Wait, I don’t ever want to be here
Like punching in a dream breathing life into the nightmare
For get through, forget you
In the place that you’re feeling lost
In the corner where this moment
And the face that you wish was a ghost
(woooow … wooow … woooo)
Wait, I don’t ever want to be here
Like punching in a dream Breathing life into the nightmare
Inspiration for the WeekEnd 5/6
I confess that I don't feel prepared for this weather, rain, then sun, then super cloudy and more rain, oh and wind. It's crazy! I want to use winter clothes, but then I feel to warm, but if I don't use "rain" clothes, I will stay all wet! Oh well... I don't mind the rain, I just would like that would only rain when I'm at home, and not just when I leave home.
The Falcons by Patrick Wolf
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| It's one of my daily obsessions of read online. The blog from the amazing Claudia (aka Twiggs). I adore her writing and also her photography. Really worthy to visit. a place for twiggs I found her blog, maybe two months ago, and since then it as been a constant reading. |
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| Autumn inspiration wall By Mundo Flo (Adriana Oliveira) |
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| don't want you to wake up. By Adara Sánchez Anguiano. |
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| How much I like you By .YOKOO Gibraan |
my own photography
these photos were taken last sunday afternoon, and I've called them Fall VineyardsSting in the ear - Patrick Wolf
The Falcons by Patrick Wolf
Sting in the Ear | The Same thing
Currently obsessed with this music The Same thing by Cass McCombs, that I've discovered recently.
The Beard man said | Hapiness is rare
“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know”- Ernest Hemingway
Sting in the ear: Nouvelle Vague
Nouvelle Vague is a French musical collective led by musicians Marc Collin and Olivier Libaux. Their name is a play on words, meaning "new wave" in French, and "bossa nova" (new trend) in Portuguese. This refers simultaneously to their "Frenchness" and "artiness" (the '60s new wave of cult French cinema), the source of their songs (all covers of punk rock, post-punk, and New Wave songs), and their use of '60s bossa nova-style arrangements.
Members, former members and contributors include many French artists who are now very well known on their own and considered as part of what is now called the "Renouveau de la chanson Française" (the "Renewal of French Music"). Singers like Camille Dalmais, Phoebe Killdeer, Mélanie Pain, Marina Céleste, Gerald Toto and Mareva Galanter.
Discography
You can find most of their musics at Youtube, I've only chosen some of my all time favourites.I have theirs third CD, besides the great musical selection, all the design and graphics are excellent.
2004: Nouvelle Vague
On their first album, Nouvelle Vague, the group resurrected classics from the New Wave music era, and reinterpreted them in a bossa nova style. The songs were stripped back to acoustic arrangements with lithe shaker rhythms achieved by gathering a parade of singers from all over the world (six French, one Brazilian and one New Yorker) to cover bands including XTC, Modern English, The Clash, Joy Division, Tuxedomoon, The Cure, and The Undertones. The various female singers on Nouvelle Vague only performed songs they had never heard before, to ensure that each cover would have a unique quality.
1. JOY DIVISION : Love will tear us apart (feat. Eloisia)
2. DEPECHE MODE : Just can’t get enough (feat. Eloisia)
3. TUXEDOMOON : In a manner of speaking (feat. Camille)
4. THE CLASH : Guns of Brixton (feat. Camille)
5. P.I.L. : (This is not a) love song (feat. Melanie Pain)
6. DEAD KENNEDYS : Too drunk to fuck (feat. Camille)
7. THE SISTERS OF MERCY : Marian (feat. Alex)
8. XTC : Making plans for Nigel (feat. Camille)
9. THE CURE : A forest (feat. Marina)
10. MODERN ENGLISH : I melt with you (feat. Silja)
11. THE UNDERTONES : Teenage Kicks (feat. Melanie Pain)
12. KILLING JOKE : Psyche (feat. Sir Alice)
13. THE SPECIALS : Friday night, saturday morning (feat. Daniella D’Ambrosio)
NOUVELLE VAGUE - BANDE A PART(2)
1. ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN : the killing moon (Melanie)
2. BUZZCOCKS : ever fallen in love (Melanie)
3. LORDS OF THE NEW CHURCH : dance with me (Melanie)
4. YAZOO : don't go (Gerald Toto)
5. BILLY IDOL : dancing with myself (Phoebe)
6. BLONDIE : heart of glass (Gerald Toto)
7. THE WAKE : o pamela (Marina)
8. NEW ORDER : blue Monday (Melanie )
9. THE CRAMPS : human fly (Phoebe )
10. BAUHAUS : bela lugosi's dead (Phoebe)
11. THE SOUND : escape myself (Phoebe)
12. HEAVEN 17 : let me go (Silja )
13. VISAGE : fade to grey (Marina)
14. BLANCMANGE : waves (Marina)
NOUVELLE VAGUE 3
1. DEPECHE MODE :Master and Servant (Melanie Pain, feat. Martin Gore)
2. VIOLENT FEMMES : Blister in the Sun (Eloisia)
3. TALKING HEADS : Road to Nowhere (Nadeah Miranda)
4. ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN : All My Colors (Melanie Pain feat. Ian Mc Cullough)
5. SIMPLE MIND : The American (Silja)
6. PSYCHEDELIC FURS : Heaven (Karina Zeviani)
7. MAGAZINE : Parade (Nadeah Miranda feat. Barry Adamson)
8. GARY NUMAN : Metal (Eloisia)
9. PLASTIC BERTRAND : Ca Plane Pour Moi (Leelou)
10. THE GOGO'S : Our Lips Are Sealed (Marina Celeste feat. Terry Hall)
11. THE SEX PISTOLS : God save The Queen (Melanie Pain)
12. SOFT CELL : Say Hello, Wave Goodbye (Sophie Delila)
13. THE POLICE : So Lonely (Nadeah Miranda)
NOUVELLE VAGUE : COULEURS PARIS
1. GAMINE : Voila les anges (Coeur de pirate)
2. INDOCHINE : L'aventurier (Helena Nogerra, Louis Ronan Choisy)
3. ETIENNE DAHO : Week-end a Rome (Vanessa Paradis)
4. TC MATIC: Putain putain (Camille)
5. LES RITA MITSOUKO : Marcia Baila (Adrienne Pauly)
6. ELLI ET JACNO : Anne cherchait l'amour (Julien Dore)
7. JAD WIO : Ophelie (Yelle)
8. KAS PRODUCT : So young but so cold (Charlie Winston)
9. DOGS : Sandy Sandy (Soko)
10. LA MANO NEGRA : Mala vida (Olivia Ruiz)
11. WUNDERBACH : Oublions l'Amerique (Nadeah Miranda)
12. LIO : Amoureux Solitaires (Hugh Coltman)
13. STEPHAN EICHER : 2 people in a room (Cocoon)
14. Les ailes de verre (Jeanne Cherhal)
15. MARIE FRANCE : Dereglee (Melanie Pain)
16. TAXI GIRL : Je suis deja parti (Coralie Clement)
This typeobsession: Candle Packaging
I really like packaging with big and bold simple typography. In this one the cut out numbers do really the trick.
"White Wood' is designed by Marc Atlan, an art director with packaging credits including Comme des Garçons, Helmut Lang and Yves Saint Laurent. Atlan, whose résumé previously includes projects for Baxter of California, describes his design as “a play on the contrast between a classic restrained elegance and a bold modern statement'."
via TheDieline
"White Wood' is designed by Marc Atlan, an art director with packaging credits including Comme des Garçons, Helmut Lang and Yves Saint Laurent. Atlan, whose résumé previously includes projects for Baxter of California, describes his design as “a play on the contrast between a classic restrained elegance and a bold modern statement'."
via TheDieline
The Beard man said | Steve Jobs on creativity
“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they’ve had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people. Unfortunately, that’s too rare a commodity. A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have”
- Steve Jobs
- Steve Jobs
Inspiration for the WeekEnd 29/30
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| romã By ines milagres |
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| Wild & Free By katiedaisy |
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| Cosmopolitan magazine | Illustrated by J Frederick Smith | September 1955 | via leifpeng |
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| lunettes rondes By Laura Serra |
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| Licky Legs By aprintaday |
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| Exposição André Letria at Casa Ruim | Exposition. I've only saw it in a little bit of a rush, but was totally worthy it. |
So finally we can sense the Autumn, and I'm already starting to be concern (obsess) with Christmas gifts. Now I'm going to sleep... oh don't forget the hour change! ;) Have nice Sunday!
Print the Graphic: Colaboratorium
I've like this design very much, mostly because of the cardboard and the typography, and also because of the logo, it's a fantastic double reading.
Designed by Andrea Avidad
“Colaboratorium was born as a collective of ten graduting design and marketing students. The main idea was to mix different cultural backgrounds, counting with people from Sweden, Italy, Spain, Ireland and Venezuela. Also to mix different knowledge in areas like graphic design, media design, marketing and art direction.
After the group was created, the need of an identity was imminet. I decided that not only a logotype or selection of colors was enough for the formal part of Colaboratorium. I wanted to work with different materials, to have different textures, cardboard, metal chains, papers, stickers.
This is a packaging that defines the own nature on the collective: eclectic, unique and surprising.”
via Lovely Package
Sting in the ear: Mat Kearney
Recently a friend of mine share with me the musics of Mat, and basically it's what I've been listening.
He was born December 1, 1978
Mat began focusing on music fusing his simple guitar playing with spoken word, or rap, he started to play at coffee shops and soon began to make small amounts of money. At this time, Mat had met friend and future producer, Robert Marvin. The two began to make music together, but Marvin had plans to move to Nashville, Tennessee. Marvin asked Kearney to help the move and Mat accepted the journey. Kearney says, "I helped him pack up his trailer and we put a mattress on the back of his truck. We basically drove cross-country and slept in the back. When we pulled into Nashville we slept in a school parking lot for three days until we finally rented this apartment where the roof was caving in and mice were crawling all over." Mat decided to stay in Nashville to record a few demos with Marvin and after a few months, Mat had no plans on returning. "By the end of the summer, we had three or four songs and I realized this is what I wanted to do. It just clicked. So I called home to Oregon and said, ‘I’m not coming back’ and I never left Nashville."
While record labels were starting to offer Kearney development deals early on, he wanted to wait until he had his new material at a higher level. "I knew my songs weren't quite there yet, so instead, I worked every kind of odd job you can think of. I worked at a coffee shop, was a banquet server, worked as a youth mentor with kids. But I kept working on music," he says. "I tried to devote time to write and to perform at the same time. I started by playing these songwriting nights and performing my songs around people like Nickel Creek and Duncan Sheik. Living in Nashville really stepped up my songwriting."
It took about four years, but once Kearney felt he had his songs right, he completed his first album, Bullet, on a self-financed, shoestring budget. The album would go on to sell roughly 40,000 copies through an independent label in Nashville. The response to his songwriting was instantaneous and lead to a record deal with Aware/Columbia Records.
Mat Kearney
He was born December 1, 1978
Mat began focusing on music fusing his simple guitar playing with spoken word, or rap, he started to play at coffee shops and soon began to make small amounts of money. At this time, Mat had met friend and future producer, Robert Marvin. The two began to make music together, but Marvin had plans to move to Nashville, Tennessee. Marvin asked Kearney to help the move and Mat accepted the journey. Kearney says, "I helped him pack up his trailer and we put a mattress on the back of his truck. We basically drove cross-country and slept in the back. When we pulled into Nashville we slept in a school parking lot for three days until we finally rented this apartment where the roof was caving in and mice were crawling all over." Mat decided to stay in Nashville to record a few demos with Marvin and after a few months, Mat had no plans on returning. "By the end of the summer, we had three or four songs and I realized this is what I wanted to do. It just clicked. So I called home to Oregon and said, ‘I’m not coming back’ and I never left Nashville."
While record labels were starting to offer Kearney development deals early on, he wanted to wait until he had his new material at a higher level. "I knew my songs weren't quite there yet, so instead, I worked every kind of odd job you can think of. I worked at a coffee shop, was a banquet server, worked as a youth mentor with kids. But I kept working on music," he says. "I tried to devote time to write and to perform at the same time. I started by playing these songwriting nights and performing my songs around people like Nickel Creek and Duncan Sheik. Living in Nashville really stepped up my songwriting."
It took about four years, but once Kearney felt he had his songs right, he completed his first album, Bullet, on a self-financed, shoestring budget. The album would go on to sell roughly 40,000 copies through an independent label in Nashville. The response to his songwriting was instantaneous and lead to a record deal with Aware/Columbia Records.
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