Sunday, 17 October 2010

Illustration: Mini Labo

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I love the illustration style and funny characters created by the Mini-Labo team
via a lovely notebook I bought


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Passion




love
hate
revenge
rage
excitement
sacrifice
hope
suffering
pain
regret
despair
resignation
repentance
grief
longing
resolution


All of those and more in Verdi's "Il Trovatore"
and how incredibly exciting those 8 seconds are... la zingarella, la zingarella, la zingarella...



fHow many tales and stories the Romani people have given to artists' imagination through the times


Amparo,  Julio Romero de Torres

Gypsy with child,  Hermenegildo Anglada-Camarassa, 1925
via revista de arte

Gypsies in Granada, Peter Severin Kroyer, 1879
from mi espacio flamenco via plastic paradise

Unfortunately in the real world Mr. Sarkozy has different plans


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Monday, 11 October 2010

More wwwandering in Morocco































































































 The fabulous Majorelle garden in Morocco

Sunday, 10 October 2010

Prints and patterns in Madrid Fashion Week

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Ágatha Ruiz de la Prada



Cruz Castillo


Esther Lebrato


Elisa Palomino


Lydia Delgado

Juana Martín


Elio Berhanyer


Jesús del Pozo


Javier Larrainzar

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Devota y Lomba


Adolfo Domínguez




you can see the complete collections at vogue.es , fashion from Spain.com and elpais.com

Lyubarov

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by a Russian artist I discovered the other day: Vladimir Lyubarov

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"Imagine that all colours of life were taken away, blue, red, green, yellow, beige...Do you think we could live without them? How monotonous everything would be, how terrible. That's what the arts are: the colours of life"


Sunday, 3 October 2010

Sounds familiar?





Reality sucks, via adpunch.org

wwwandering in Morocco



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If you ever have the blues, may they be indigo





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Illustration loves fashion: Leitmotiv

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Leitmotiv for Furla, 2010 collection
the land of Oz
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The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe