Mila's Daydreams

Copyright © Adele EnersenAdele Enersen, a copywriter from Finland, found an absolutely brilliant way of spending the spare time she has while she is on maternity leave. What a great blog and cool idea!

959 - Unfasten Your Seatbelts

959 (Paolo Ferrari), got their name from the year Volvo introduced the seat belt as a safety standard in vehicles.

Since 1998 Paolo Ferrari has been producing these brilliantly crafted bags from recycled seatbelts, a concept which started off as a university project. Given that they're made of seatbelt material, they should be immortally sturdy and light (and they're gorgeous!).

Now, I need to get me one of these so badly.... 

Why, Hello There!

Okay, first of all, I don't own a desktop, (I wouldn't even thing of owning anything else but a Mac by the way), but this little little block of... magic made the idea tickle a bit, for a second... I really love the mobility of my MacBook Pro, but that is another story I'm not getting into in this post...

So, I was looking around the internet only to find out from another blog that Apple (very secretly) unveiled the Magic Trackpad which does everything the trackpads on the new generation Apple notebooks do. I have to say, the functionality and user friendliness of the new Apple trackpads make the use of a mouse virtually unnecessary. Well, that's if you limit yourself to just browsing the internet and working on stuff which don't require much precision; so, graphic designers, photographers, movie editors and musicians you can pretty much forget relying on this for making a living. 

I'm still getting one if/when I get a desktop Mac!

Anna Koumoushi Fall 2010

I finally managed to upload the Anna Koumoushi - Fall 2010 project on my website.

AK is launching her website soon. For now, all the annakoumoushi available lines can be viewed on her official facebook page.

The full project is here.

Sundayman - Now That I Found You

Originally featured in a series of TV advertisements for Cutty Sark, though I am not sure in which countries these ads aired. (Some of the ads: here, here and here)

I personally went through hell to get the track, find who wrote it and all the info I always feel the need to have when I like somethign, and I was surprised to find that it's by a Greek musician who goes by the name of Sundayman, (Kyriakos Moustakas). 

The video, concept-wise, is not anything we haven't seen before, however, it is very appealing from an aesthetic aspect while, thank God, it is consistent with the song (as opposed to many other Greek video productions). Directed by Vasilis Bourandas.

I love Now That I Found You, and Sundayman has some other amazing electro tracks that could make for an awesome soundtrack for those long researching/brainstorming summer sessions...

Agnosia

Imagine not being able to trust your senses.

I think I enjoy this new wave of Spanish-speaking horror/thriller/fantasy films. Pan's Labyrinth from Spain in 2006, then 2007's The Orphanage from Mexico, now The Silent House from Uruguay and Agnosia from Spain. 

I'm yet to see "La Casa Muda" (if we ever get to see that here) and I think this will be very interesting too... 

Mondrian Swimwear by Sarah Schofield

These Piet Mondrian inspired swimwear pieces are so cool, that I'm wondering if anyone's gonna make the men's collection? (and are these available?)

Created by Sarah Schofield and photographed by Tracey Lee Hayes. (Ahh... these Australians again...)

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Old Spice - Questions

I kinda like the other one better, but this is great too!

iPhone Fashion Shoot by Lee Morris

"Owning an SLR does not make you a photographer"

This is the name of an italian group I once saw on facebook, and I thought: how true! I mean, in this time of vastly available digital enhancement and inventiveness, being stuck up with equipment debates and the infatuation with things bearing the "PRO" label is plainly stupid, if you ask me. Maybe it's the resourceful nature of the graphic designer who lies in me that speaks, but when the final result is the way you want it to be, who gives a "duck" about how you got there?

So, these guys at F Stoppers (hats off by the way) made a full fashion shoot using the (confessedly crappy) camera of the iPhone 3GS! They used great lighting, their model had professional makeup and hair styling done before the shoot and some retouching was done afterwards. The result is simply amazing!

From FStoppers
A few weeks ago I did a full fashion photo shoot with my iPhone 3gs. I posted a few of the images and asked people to critique them (never exposing that they were shot on my cell phone). I couldn’t help but laugh when a few of our readers claimed that these were “the best images I had ever taken.” Nobody ever claimed that they were too grainy, too soft, or lacked detail.

Okay, I admit that using the iPhone camera was an extreme way of getting their point through, but this comes to prove that one doesn't need the top "pro" (and very pricey) equipment to come to an awesome result. I wouldn't shoot with an iPhone (3GS or 4 for that matter) and expect the results to save my life, but shooting with my Powershot G9 instead for my DSLR, never seemed as an "off" idea to me.

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Ektoise

A couple of months ago, I mentioned Purity Device in a post on Bola, saying that he would be remixing one of their tracks in an upcoming release. 

Well, a "little bird" told the that Purity Device changed their name to Ektoise, and that their Remix/Reform album will be released around the end of August with "retouched" tracks by Bola and The Black Dog among others. Both the Bola and The Black Dog versions of their track The Thought Police can be heard on their myspace page.

By the way, I just love the accompanying imagery as well... Those Australians can be so impeccable...