... to be the official announcement of the Public Bureau launch.
It is what you think it is: a clothing line. I've always wanted to do something related with the field and the IPWT umbrella sort of prepared the ground and gave us the means for this to begin happening.
I'm not looking to bear the label of a fashion designer here, or pretend to be a grande connoisseur of the sartorial art and I do find the word "Fashion" to be widely abused, especially in the past few years. So, though I do do the designing, for the most part, I like to see it as another project. An amazinly fascinating project, that is.
You can check out the Public Bureau website, where all the garments will be exclusively available in November, and find out more, and maybe register too!!
Charlize is back! Well, so is Grace kelly, Marlene Dietrich and Marylin Monroe...
Is this ad a Dior reboot, after the much bloated scandal from earlier this year? Did they pay someone something to feature the faces of the three screen mega-legends in their Jean-Jacques Annaud-directed ad?
However, the one-minute-and-a-half ad is impressive, it definitely feels like a celebration (I really like that they went with Beth Ditto for the soundtrack), and could Charlize Theron look any more gorgeous?
Scandal or no scandal, Dior seems to be floating above the flood.
"Martha Marcy May Marlene" is a movie I probably won't be able to see in theaters here. I'm not sure when I'll finally see it, but I'm sure it will be one of those intense emotion-inducing films, of the likes of "The Virgin Suicides" only a bit harsher, I guess, and from what I read. (Dare I say: Finally, an Olsen sister with talent!)
Anyway, the reason I decided to post about this film is the above brilliantly designed poster.
I first heard of Sia in 2006, when I finished watching all five seasons of "Six Feet Under" (in less than three months) and her track "Breathe Me" was featured in the very very last scene of the series. (I have never cried so much in front of a screen, in my whole life. "Breathe Me" was to be blamed for this too.)
Though Sia fell off my radar in the past few years, I recently bumped on her newest material through Oh Land's twitter feed, since they were touring together in the states this past summer. Despite the fact that her latest album "We Are Born" was released a bit over a year ago, I only got to listen to it this past August, around the same time Sia's collaboration with David Guetta on Titanium started gaining ground around the web. The word "awesome" does not even begin to describe Titanium, by the way.
I humbly found "We Are Born" utterly perfect! I have been obsessing over "Clap Your Hands", (video below), "The Fight" and "You've Changed" because of their absolutely genuine and positive vibes and given that I am going through a -mainly- good and positive period right now. However, tracks which deviate the "happy path" like "I Am Here" and "Oh Father" have that same, impactful and overwhelming effect "Breathe Me" had on me.
Because of that very first encounter with Sia's voice through SFU's finale, I can't help but have it associated with dense emotions. I guess I am not the only one, since the people over at Showtime used "Lullaby", off her 2008 album "Some People Have Real Problems", for the Season 1 finale of The Big C -another über emotional scene.
I mentioned this before, but the Australians seem to never fail me. I am happy to have rediscovered Sia's magical sound and wish for more to come! Sia, I Clap My Hands… for you.
All of the above is happening; part literally, part metaphorically and parts just in the form of a strategy plan in my head, but happening nonetheless. We'll get back to this in a bit.
I'm definitely not the person whose photo sits next to the word "Workaholic" in dictionaries. However, I do put a lot of time on client's projects -often at quite unorthodox hours- and do stress over deadlines. But what additionally keeps the cogs in my head turn nonstop are the little (and not so little) side-projects I plot, draft and mold until I feel they're really meant to happen. In need of some time-off and to escape the fact that I started shifting into a "mental hyperventilation" mode, I took a couple of days off and spent them with THE bunch of friends out of town.
Apart from swimming, cooking and eating nonstop, we had some productive fun too. Thanks to Myria's underwater camera, Maggie's underwater styling efforts and Andria's breath-holding abilities we (drank some of the pool and) made a couple of fun shots.
I also had a chance to try some of the awesome Tattly tattoos I had received a couple of days before. (FYI: Instagram was the gang's gadget fetish this summer, thus the snaps.)
Oh Land, a reoccurrence on Memrants as of today, just released her new gorgeous video for White Nights! Produced by CANADA, White Night is packed with all sorts of elaborate imagery from different, awesomely dreamy visual spectrums. And you can definitely tell that Oh Land is a trained and skillful dancer.
Rodarte have collaborated with Opening Ceremony, once again, for the creation of a confessedly impressive line. (Say hello to gorgeous elaborate prints!)
In order to see the pictures of the to-be-released new line you have to "Like" the Rodarte Facebook page. (Say hello to social-media marketing gimmicks!)
I was wondering when someone would go and put together all the imaginary logos featured in movies make a list or blog! Kudos to Tymn Armstrong for putting Fauxgo together. It's fun to revisit the past via design (hello "Back to the Future" and "Ghostbusters")!
I always loved the way people back in the 80s imagined and delivered the future in futuristic movies, and the logo from "Robocop" is a fine example. (Now throw in a couple of logos from Total Recall and we'll be best friends!)
I remember when Hard Graft first started. Back then they were named Working Class Heroes (I really love that name) and I was drooling over one of their unfold bags. I still am drooling over their handmade bags but I was excited to discover their Phone Fold Wallet a few months back.
Well, this week I finally ordered one and got is just a couple of days later. Their tagline very simply states: "You lose what you don't hold" and I know my iPhone would definitely be lost (for good) if I kept dropping it.
Now, I am seriously lusting over (and need to start saving for) their 2Unfold Laptop Bag, while I am impressed by the engineering in their design for the 3Fold Multi-Use Bag.
Monday, September 19, 2011 at 4:51 AM 
