I am in love with the animal portraits by an American photographer called Catherine Ledner. Her other work is also pretty amazing, but just look at the donkey! It doesn’t get better than that. Found via laissezfaire (plenty of inspiration there, btw).
And now, say hello to the squirrel!
These items are from a London based shop called Couverture. On the website you can buy a small selection of their charming collection. Best to visit them in Notting Hill, and stock up on goodness.
The print on the left is by a young Australian artist called Madeleine Stamer. In her own words, she is “dead keen on all things Mexicana, natural history, skeletons, traditional folk art, vintage fabric and things that are nice to touch.” I especially love her black and white pieces such as this one.
The gangster shoes are called ‘Jean’, and they are from Mariana by Golc.
A couple of music items I’d like to share:
Room Eleven
A relatively new Dutch band, who released their second album last month. Put jazz and blues and folk and pop together, and you get Room Eleven1. This band caught my eye on siagrafica2, but I wasn’t 100% convinced until I watched their live gig on Fabchannel3. Amazing.
Room Eleven: Hey Hey Hey!
Blonde Redhead
Blonde Redhead4 have been going for fifteen years already. Behind my back, too! I only found them last year via Skatterbrain5, and was immediately hooked. Their music is melancholic and dramatic, but not soppy or wimpy. Excellent listening when you’re running at the pace of approximately 9,5km/hr.
Blonde Redhead: 23
the dø
The dø are a Finnish/French folk/pop duo. Slash slash. According to last.fm, the dø “can be classifed as diverse, incorporating many different genres and styles, including avant-garde noise, hip-hop and classical music. Thus the music could be said to fit into the freak folk-genre.” Sounds pretty accurate. Here is the dø on MySpace. Very charming!
the dø: Stay just a little bit more
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