Art is freedom!

‘When I started to see graffiti as something essential in my life, it woke up my imagination and formed a desire to overcome and I began to make better works.’

-- Belin

Artwork by Dave

Angelique Houtkamp

Angelique Houtkamp - a Dutch tattoo artist, painter and shoe designer.

Pretty, old-skool drawings!

Chadwick Tyler

Photographer - Chadwick Tyler

Magazine - Camouflage

Model - Melody

Jonathan Yeo

Okey.... I will not post too many of these pictures as they may offend.
(If you're easily offended, please don't look closely at the following pictures in this post.)

It is collages from the artist Jonathan Yeo.
The 'disturbing' thing about them is that they are made from cut-outs taken only from pornographic magazines.

If this sounds cool, then look closely at the 3 pictures below for details. Or visit Jonathan's website for more close-ups and collages!

Woman.

Paris Hilton

George W Bush

Cirque du Soleil

I got my hands on the hottest tickets in town!!
Cirque du Soleil is coming to London once again, this time with the show VAREKAI.

Frenchie took me to see my first Cirque last winter - QUIDAM - and I fell in love so hard that it turned into a slight obsession....
I am now on a mission to see all shows around the world.

The show is once again going to take place in the amazing Royal Albert Hall.

Here are some pictures from the show......









Oh so beautiful.......

There's another show that's showing at the same time in January; SALTIMBANCO.
But this one is in Barcelona.
I might actually get some tickets for that too ;)

Michael Raivard

This is Michael Raivard - he paints with glue and glitter.
The end result on this is beautiful!

Neon tetris

Dope.

It's a human neon tetris on freebord!

FashionMan

I love to find a good man-blogg! Come on guys - you can too!

Today's find was ModeMan.

This was some fashion spread from WWIT Magazine. (Model's not him though. Unfortunately.)


And he had found these hi-tops by Balenciaga.
He called so cleverly 'shoe-porn' and I couldn't agree more!

I got a free download from Mr Scruff tonight.
You can also get it free, here.

Backstage RVCA

Erin Wasson x RVCA Backstage - New York Fashion Week - video test from jayjayp on Vimeo.

Some backstage footage from the RVCA show.
Hot.

Fall

I want to...

... meet fall in New York in a nice pair of knee-high boots.

.... have more time over for painting.

And.....

I am actually enjoying the arrival of the fall......

Including the cold. I like my sweaters..

Xmas sorted

Just got my ticket to Sweden for Christmas.
Hope we get some snow....

Today I wish I had a sunny-collection like this.
It would be nice to be able to hide behind the urban cool.

Lamp-post art

Found while walking the New York streets.

"Please do not forget me"

To make things more complicated

South Africa

I lived for some time in South Africa, most of this time in Cape Town.
I must say, it's not my favourite part of the world, but it sure was interesting and I learned a lot.
Coming from a modern world, we take everything for granted; such as proper housing, timely travel, clean streets and education. When you go to a place like Africa you realise that this is not always the case, and it is so much different to see it in real life than to see the news clips on the telly.

Picture borrowed from Alexia Webster, a S.A'n photographer.

Cape Town is a mixed town - one minute you will see million dollar houses along the beautiful beaches; the next you will drive past a township like the one above.
I was extremely fascinated by the townships, but I never went in to one. My boyfriend at the time said it was too dangerous. I just think you gotta know what you're doing (and maybe being a local helps..).

One Faith47's blog you will get a better insight to this world.
This is made by a Cape Town local; one that's not afraid to hang around in the 'forbidden' areas.
I hope I will get the chance to explore this part of South Africa again one day.

Lounge

From lazy evenings in the studio.....

- my beautiful beautiful frenchie -

dr.d

Just heard of this guy dr.d.
He's got some cool works.

He makes, or re-makes, posters around London.

Move over Winehouse - there's a new girl in town!


I'd say so.


Amended text: "Does your bank account suck like ours?"


Some extra bits added to the Star Wars poster.


This was made from scratch.

Well, ain't this true?

Wet studio

Yesterday it rained like mad. Today I went down to my studio and found everything wet. It had rained through the rooof and wet all my paintings and stencils...

Then a friend came over and we talked about his friend's music studio which is being built now. Apparently a lot of money is being spent on it. His grandad 'invented' the shopping mall so he got some cash to spend.


So I am a little too sick to actually go out and do some work of my own, so I'm working from the livingroom, creating stencils:

Miu Miu

I am thinking hard about buying this beauty.


I can get it for cheap but my dilemma is this.....

.... when you go to a party you often put your bag down on the floor so you can dance without the weight on your shoulders.

Now, at parties you are very inclined to loosing property, whether it's due to being too drunk and misplacing it, or having a thief stealing it.

I know us girls are usually nice to eachother, right? But when you see a designer bag/keyring/sunnies/etc left unattended; do you keep it for yourself, or do you leave it where it is?

Shall I spend the money on this appetizer, or is it just not worth it?

Skull McQueen

I'm trying to buy one of these scarfs from Alexander McQueen.
I freaking love them but think that 130-something pounds is way too much to give for a scarf.

So I just found a site where I can get 2 of them for about £30, and that includes shipping!
wooo! Just gotta choose colour...

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Few hours later.....


I got 5!!
Now just waiting for the payment to go through and shipping to go quick!

These are the colours I bought: