check this shit out, yo!

Artist Fritz Panzer has done these amazing wire sculptures… I think they’re absolutely beautiful! I love how they play with negative space and detailing. My favourites are the escalator and the ladder…

You can see more stuff here.
Found via Neatorama.
-Sally

Ahahahahahahahahaha! Haha! Ahahahaa!

-Sally

I think this is absolutely lovely!
Emiliana Torrini – Big Jumps

-Sally

Man, I friggen love Project Runway. It’s just such a fantastic mix of trashy and fashionable and great. I thought I’d hate Heidi Klum as the host, but I ended up loving her. And Tim Gunn! I love Tim Gunn. The challenges are entertaining and there’s just enough bitchiness and twists and most of the designs are actually friggen awesome. The contestants are quirky but on the whole, likeable. It is a great show.. Imagine my disappointment then, when I saw Project Catwalk. After already watching seasons 4 and 5 of Project Runway USA, as well as season 1 of Project Runway Australia, I thought to myself “Aha! Another! I can feed my unhealthy addiction!”. It was such a beacon of hope, combining my loves of London, fashion and trashy TV. Alas! It was not to be. I started watching season 3, and could not even be bothered finding out who won. Ridiculous! Kelly Osbourne is terrible, she has that horrendously annoying mixed accent with a lisp, and it’s like someone said to her “Act sincere!” and she said “OH OKAY I’LL PAUSE A LOT AND LOOK RIDICULOUS AND SYMPATHETIC”. She doesn’t look sympathetic! She looks ridiculous! The challenges aren’t entertaining, and next to none of the contestants are likeable. The Tim Gunn equivalent (I forget his name, that’s how good he is…) is so very, very, very very veyrvvervyervsfdkjh annoying. I cannot stand him. All he does is bitch at contestants about designs and then is all like “GATHER ROUND” (but not in that endearing way Tim Gunn can say it) and then yells at them! Tim Gunn is all “I LOVE YOU GUYS, I AM SO SAD YOU ARE LEAVING” and just lovely. He is lovely and flamboyantly gay and makes hilarious remarks, and no-one can say “Holla at ya boy” like he can! I find him adorable. Michael Kors and Nina Garcia are even okay! They’re on it for like 5 minutes at the end and still manage to convey charisma; the judges on Project Catwalk have no personality at all, and they don’t show any of the discussions about designs. All they say is “nurr I don’t like it nurr it was crap” and don’t say anything at all interesting! And any of the half decent garments that actually wouldn’t look out of place at a fashion week they’re like “I HATE THEM” and then all like “I know what would be good at a music festival! A tight silver halter minidress with a hood! That would be fantastic!”. FOOOOOLS.
Bah. I just want to watch more Project Runway! And even if Kenley is damned annoying (“I wasn’t GOING for sophisticated, HEIDI!”), she makes a damned fine retro dress. I am glad Leanne won! That is all.

-Sally

I have to admit, I am a little bit addicted to street fashion blogs.
Here are a few you might like to check out:
Dropstitch- I love this, because it is from PERTH. Sometimes, I see people I know in it, and I get contact cool (like a contact high, only you get cool from being around people, instead of high). Unfortunately it isn’t updated very regularly, but I do rather like it! It was also one of the finalists for..
Streetclash- This was initially a competition for other street blogs, but now the dude who runs it takes photos himself. It is pretty darn good, mainly in Berlin and Brick Lane.
The Vagabond Set- Okay so this isn’t so much street blog, but it’s by the same chick who did the now-defunct Manchester Looks. She takes some rather cool photos and talks about a whole bunch of stuff, and you can find a whole heap of other stuff from there!
There is also Jak and Jil, which is more from shows and stalking models, but there is some real cool stuff. EVEN if they said Martin Margiela’s ridiculous stocking-pant-shoe combination was genius (it wasn’t! It made the stick thin model’s legs look faaaaaat and it was just aaaaall ridiculous!)
By faaaar the best of these is Glam Canyon- I absolutely love it love it love it. Kat Walks also wrote an article and took some photos for the current issue of Attitude, so if you have one check out her article on ldn club kids.

By the way, you should all go out and buy retro briefcases and wear (oversized for girls, too small for boys) blazers. And my long-standing style rule has been confirmed: you can’t go wrong in monotones. Black, white, grey, I friggen love it.

And to finish off, Christopher Kane’s London fashion week collection was amaaaazing (although I found the fur on some pieces a little…hmmm…). Those sheer circles on the sleeves kill me. Photos are from londonfashionweek.co.uk.

Also, this was WICKED (although I am super scared of the model’s face):

Okay, that is me done for my fashion gushing.

-Sally

On my travels through the internets, I found myself on the Mystery Jets’ blog. From there, I was led to these dudes. Micachu and the Shapes are rather rad, I must say. Kind of a mix of TV on the Radio and Patrick Wolf and maybe Sunset Rubdown. But like, sung by a girl with a ldn accent (the Micachu of the trio). I guess it is hard to describe? But I really like it, and maybe you will too? Check them out!

- Sally

This may interest PERTH-dwellers, and probably won’t be of much use to anyone else. But I imagine most people who’d read this fall into the former category.
Anyway some funky fresh cats have started up a little “microcinema” in the city. It doesnt show the hollywood flicks, but rather an eclectic mix of stuff which as they note, provides an alternative to the established ‘alternative,’ eg. your luna cinemas and whatnot, which are dandy, but purportedly less mind-bending and intriguing that this new cave-based venture.
Here’s their About Us bio thing.

“Formed in December 2007 in Perth, Western Australia, Cinema In A Cave is a monthly microcinema screening the most profound, bizarre, important, unimportant, obscene, heart-warming, gut-wrenching, controversial, not-so-controversial, plain kick-arse films from around the world. When mainstream cinemas show only minor variations of the same American film, and when the arthouse cinemas are constantly clogged with music biopics, harmless quirky-oddball comedies and coma-inducing bourgeois dramas – Cinema In A Cave offers a very real alternative.

“Cinema In A Cave is a deliciously off-the-wall monthly screening program that features as an eclectic bunch of films as you’re ever likely to get. “
- The Drum Media”

Website—– CINEMA IN A CAVE

-lyndon

I love these! Some dudes have made some tshirts and hoodies and junk with reproductions of the British WW2 propaganda poster, which some people may be familiar with? I think it is a wicked cool image, and I would totally buy a tshirt but I am as poor as a door, boo. If, however, you are not quite so poor (perhaps you are not a door), you can find these at Keep Calm and Carry On (dot com). I think they are neat!
Also, there are these:

My Little Star Wars! I think it is a bit naff, but way cute. More can be found on this dude’s deviantart, like a My Little Edward Scissorhands, and My Little Pan (as in Labyrinth… one way to scare the shit out of your children!).
I saw all this stuff on crapwelike.

-Sally