Weekend Video

The PEN Story from PENStory on Vimeo.

Showing what you can do with stop-motion film-making, this film by PENStory was made after shooting 60,000 pictures, making 9,600 prints and re-shooting over 1,800 pictures.

Marvellous weekends to you all!

Aline Smithson: Arrangement In Green and Black

I came across these fantastic works by artist Aline Smithson and immediately fell in love.
She explains the concept for the series on her website:

"The series incorporates traditional photography techniques, yet becomes richer with the treatment of hand painting. It is my intent to have the viewer see the work in a historical context with the addition of color.
My patient 85 year-old mother posed in over 20 ensembles, but unfortunately passed away before seeing the finished series. I am grateful for her sense of humor and the time this series allowed us to be together."




www.alinesmithson.com

Summer Camp -"Round The Moon"

Paired with footage from the 1970 Roy Andersson film, A Swedish Love Story, "Round The Moon" is our pick of the week.
Watch it below!



SUMMER CAMP - Round the Moon from Paddy Power on Vimeo.

Super Sonic Sale - STARTS TOMORROW!

Get ready for take-off, as the Super Sonic Sale starts TOMORROW!

And, even more excitingly, MARSU HOMME is hot-footing it as a last-minute check-in to the sale!

Here's those deets again:

If, like me, you haven't got your monocle handy, and need help with that fine font ...

The sale is at:

Tom Dunne Gallery
11 Little Burton Street
Darlinghurst
Phone: 0409 921 290

BE THERE!

x Samone

Super Sonic Sale - 3 days to go!

Gearing up for the Super Sonic Sale, blasting off this Thursday?

With just 3 days to go, here's a sneaky peek of what to expect from ...

ANTIPODIUM:

and

FRIEDRICH GRAY:

And here's that flyer again:

More sneaky peeks ... tomorrow!

x Samone

Super Sonic Sale - one week to go!

The Art of Happiness, I am sure the Dalai Lama will tell you, has nothing to do with happy pants.

In fact, let's forget happy pants, cos this post is all about Happy Socks.

Happy Pants. Forget them. Please!

Oh, Happy Socks. How you make me Happy! 

Even a lonely Happy Sock looks Happy!

And, what makes me even Happier, is the thought of Happy Socks on sale! Opportune for my Happiness, is the fact that the Super Sonic Sale is on in just one week, Happy Socks n' all!

Here's the details again:

And, here's some more Happy Socks!   

More Super Sonic Sale sneaky peeks ... SOON!

Super Sonic Sale - two-week COUNTDOWN!

Sonic Youth ...

Sonic boom ...

Sonic the Hedgehog.

Lawd, there are so many SUPER SONIC things, here's another for your list!

And, the sale kicks off in TWO WEEKS' TIME, so lock it in your SUPER SONIC SCHEDULE.

Watch this space for some SUPER SONIC sneaky peeks ...

SOON!

x Samone

Florence Welch totally digs Stolen Girlfriends Club

Pssst!

Word on the street says that Florence Welch (of Florence and the Machine, ya dingo!) TOTALLY DIGS our favourite Kiwi renegades, Stolen Girlfriends Club.

See Flo go in London! Dressed in Stolen Girlfriends Club, 
of course.

And, if that's not enough bona fide evidence for you, Florence recently dropped by Stolen Girlfriends Club headquarters, NZ. There, she cuddled teensy leopard-print clad baby dolls with Marc Moore ...

Struck a pose in Stolen Girlfriends Club's Batcape Dress ...

And, if you won't take my word for it, WROTE HER VERY OWN AFFIDAVIT!

Word on the street: Florence Welch Totally Digs Stolen Girlfriends Club.

Bona fide.

x Samone

Julia deVille and William Llewellyn Griffiths: The Exhibition!

It's not so often that I quote Edgar Allan Poe. That is, unless you count my midnightly ritual of slipping out to the local cemetery and raising the occupants with a rousing Cockney knees-up recitation of 'The Raven', thus:

Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,
By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,
'Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou,' I said, 'art sure no craven.
Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly shore --
Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!'
Quoth the raven, 'Nevermore.'

So anyway, this brings to mind an upcoming joint exhibition by Melbourne-based artists Julia deVille and William Llewellyn Griffiths at the Sophie Gannon Gallery from 28 July to 21 August. Both artists are well known for their exquisitely delicate interpretations of all things creepy, kooky, mysterious and spooky.

Check these tiny critters a-glitter beyond this mortal coil in marcasite, diamonds, silver and gold.

Julia deVille's 'Night's Plutonian Shore':

William Llewellyn Griffith's 'A Deus Ex Machina':

And, if a distraught young urchin child happens to tug at your shirt-sleeve and yowl: "But why isn't Angelina Ballerina dancing?" you are soooooo of the hook, Jimmy!

The little mousies are en pointe in a diorama driven by gears!

Where is it again?

Sophie Gannon Gallery
2 Albert Street
Richmond, VIC, 3121

And when did you say?

28 July to 21 August, 2010

And, as they say in the taxidermy biz: GET THERE OR GET STUFFED!

x Samone

Gail Sorronda is gale force!

Hang on to your hats, kids, because Gail Sorronda is one label a-stormin' up a serious gale. Yeah, you heard the forecast! Hector Pascal’s manning the Barometric Pressure Bar and it’s weather-related puns ALL ROUND.

Now obviously I don’t know a single thing about meteorology, but I do know that Gail Reid’s label Gail Sorronda was recently announced as one of seven finalists in the Vogue Italia emerging talent competition 'Who Is On Next'. 

Well, friends at Vogue Italia, I can confidently answer your question (curiously devoid of a question-mark, which means it is probably a statement), thus:

GAIL SORRONDA IS ON NEXT, THAT’S WHO!

(Only don’t ask me to say it in Italian.)

So, as a finalist for 'Who Is On Next', Reid presented the Gail Sorronda ‘Murmur’ collection in Rome last Saturday. As you can see, the SS 2010/11 collection is a diaphanous plume of exquisite gathering, ruffles and tulle, all tethered with zips, buckles, seriously taut tailoring.

And, speaking of hats, as I vaguely was at some point, get a goosey gander at these hats, why don’t ya?

Gail Reid may have called this collection Murmur, but I say SPOLMONARSI.

(According to my real Italian friends -- also known as Google Translator, as my real Italian friends are, at a pinch, fictional -- ‘spolmonarsi’ means ‘shout oneself hoarse').

So, I'll shout myself hoarse by shouting, hoarsely:

SPOLMONARSI!

x Samone