Bicycles in Fashion! Ellen Von Unwerth - Vogue Nippon

(photo: Ellen Von Unwerth for Vogue Nippon)

Ellen Von Unwerth is one of my all time favorite fashion photographers ! - I absolutely love it when she turns her eye to a view with a bicycle included. This is images appears in the June issue of Vogue Nippon. Enjoy!

Jesse Autumn's Bicycle and MUSIC! - a Cafe Day

You may remember seeing this bicycle and it's rider Jesse before - that is if you've been reading this blog for awhile...

Well as is often the case I spotted the bicycle well before seeing the bicycle's owner! I was so drawn to the contents inside the basket, those lovely strawberry print linens, well I just got giddy admiring them- so vintage, so perfect.

Next simply turn around (Shelly) and there was Jesse herself - a stones throw away seated at a charming outdoor cafe table at Lulu's where she was contently painting away...

As it turns out Jesse is an artist and musician. The best part of our chance meeting was the CD Jesse gave me. It's her brand new release. What a surprise I was in for! I have been listening to her CD non stop. I can't recommend it enough. It's so delicate, haunting, romantic. My BF says Jesse kinda reminds him of Tori Amos while for me she reminds me distantly of a female Nick Drake*.

"beautiful emotive and ethereal acoustic alternative folk/pop on piano, harp, organ, and glockenspiel" -- via her facebook page

Besides, the first track on Jesse Autumn Live EP is entitled 'November 5' (that's my birthday) and it is sooo pretty.

Jesse Autum's CD - go ahead and click it!

(*Why does someone always have to remind you of someone else anyway??!!)

Meet the Little 'Foldie' Bicycle - Panda Shots

Meet my darling little vintage Raleigh (folding) Bicycle-- followed by a series of (my first ever) panda shots taken with my new(ish) camera.

Oh, this last shot is of the dinner, we so thoroughly enjoyed at the end of a great and fun day. just had to share :)

Yes, it really fun riding around and finally starting to get the hang of taking panda shots--especially since I was all thumbs before with no talent for managing panda shots at all. Now however my new(ish) camera has this fantastic swiveling viewer on it making it SO much easier for me than my old camera was. Funny how the little things, like simply figuring out how to do panda shots can make me excited like a little kid....

Surfers, Boards, Bikes, Pleasure Point

(you naughty surfer boy!)

This past weekend it was all about vintage long boards, Pleasure Point and living the beach life. Enjoy!

Style Alert

Today I spied this bike from way down at the end of the block. The owner had a style that made me take notice as well. I think it was his red soled shoes, the cool tinted eye wear he had on.

I learned his bike was a 1970's Italian racing bike. Bottecchia.
My, oh my...

Bike In Discount - Happy Earth Day

John & Yoko- a faded photo sits waiting on the counter inside ...

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Pacific Coast Highway at the turn off for Swanton Berry Farms - with not much traffic this particular day on The Slow Coast...

First of all Happy Earth Day - Hope your day was glorious!!

The photos I'm sharing today are all from Swanton Berry Farm.
As you can see from the first photo a discount is given to anyone who bikes in which is just the kind of Earth Friendly discount I like!

Inspiration...

Well its that time again and I have a new project to begin! The project is a digital print project and the theme is Organic-Synthetic. For this project I think I am going to go down the more organic route and create prints made from collages of flowers and animals. I have been really inspired by the work of Abraka and Pixel Nouveau. It is worth checking out both of their websites! I have also found a lot of inspiration in flowers and animals such as tigers and deer. 

Tutorial

I had my tutorial yesterday and it went quite well. The main emphasis int he tutorial was for the tutor to see where I am going with the project and what kind of imagery I am looking at and what my inspiration is. I have a wide ranger of imagery for inspiration so now its time to start drawing and taking photographs which I can then use to create collages for print designs. As for the end result of this project, I would like to come up with a range of print designs with supporting illustrations, however I am going to see where it takes me.

New channel

The name of our new channel is PixiwooMadness. This channel will feature random videos of no rhyme, reason or significance.
The first video is part 1 of my jewellery collection and includes some of my favourite rings and earrings.
PixiwooMadness will only be worth watching if you are bored and have a bit of time on your hands.

How to Organize a Tweed Ride - a Working Draft

Just today I was contacted for advice on how to organize a Tweed Ride. Now I'd already given advice to a couple of others wondering the same exact thing...but alas I couldn't locate those prior emails I'd written.

What you see below is the verbatim reiteration of the email I sent off earlier today;

"Regarding how to organize a Tweed Ride, you can start by gleaning bits of info from other ride organizers by reading all the comments under The Tweed Report.

So far, setting up your face book is good! People really seem to like FB. Or you can put up your own localized Tweed Ride Blog for your ride. If you click on each of the invites it will give you an idea as to how others have set up their rides.

More random thoughts----People love winning prizes, so giving away prizes and finding prize sponsors are good. Making it into a Charity Ride and doing an auction is also being done. Contacting all your local papers and TV news station helps get the word out as well.

As far as the ride goes I’d encourage attracting newbie riders. I see yours is xx miles. Try to have an option for slow pokes (I’m a slow poke). Some rides turn into races with all the fit young (mainly) men in the lead and the slow pokes getting left lost in the dust thus wind up frustrated….so this is something to think about.

Also if you see a past ride that seems to match what you are trying to achieve with your ride, why not try contacting the ride organizers for feedback regarding what they think made their ride as successful as it was. Hopefully they’d be happy to share info with you. If you do go that route and get any particularly sage advice please let me know!!!!

Hope this helps!!!!"

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ANY ideas, suggestions or input you'd like to add to this is so welcome!!

Project Runway, Design Cycle Chic Wear, Oh My Gosh

(illustration by Garance for Celine)

The above is an example of CYCLE CHIC design wear by none other than Pheobe Philo for Celine....which I previously posted about before here.

Now for the Project Runway part. Recently I was contacted by the people who cast for Project Runway--would I want to submit an application resulting in a possible audition for the show? Hmmmm. ...the deadline is here, and guess what-- I didn't get my application in. So next season I will give it a go!!

In the meantime I am so incredibly flattered that I was even contacted at all and so aghast at my own procrastination. I also think that Celine's designs in the above illustration is beautifully simple but hits it.

So now it's time to get out my sketchbook and sketch up a storm, and really think about what it would be like to go on Project Runway with the chance to win all that money to back a line and launch it.

Bicycle Fun in SF - Sunday Streets

These are a couple of photos from the recent Sunday Streets in SF.
What a Fun Bike Day!! More to tell in another story, on another day....

Tim Sirin Editorial...

What a fabulous photograph! I love the mix of the normality and the surreal. What do you think?

Source: dripbook

On The Road...

Love this!

Location: Cape Town South Africa

Photographer: Alex Singer

Source: dripbook