shoes for women that are in fact shoe art.......

I stumbled on Kobi Levi- Footwear Design’s blog and realized that his shoe creations enlarge the imagination with women's footwear.

They are from another world, original, humorous and wonderfully imaginative that I guess they are in fact art.

Probably you already know them and I’m sure his unique shoe designs have certainly already made a "splash" in the fashion world.

However I’m not seeing myself with any of them, because despite I've always had a bit of a shoe fetish, this is definitely taking it to the next level!

Coffee Time???

Banana Peels!

Puppy Love...

The Mallard Duck... Canada's National Bird

Don't you just hate stepping in gum?

go for the bold with a statement pure art silk scarf...

With so many lovely neutrals available this season, accessories are a great way to punch up an otherwise subdued look.

It’s not the first time that I declare to you that I’m a scarves’ lover. If you remember all winter and spring there I was with one of my scarves. What can I do? I am, period!

So here I was, looking for new things, new trends when I dropped by this site Women Clothing Today with such gorgeous scarves that I had to shout out about it.

Can you defy this amazing tie-dyed silk scarf?

I found that Women Clothing Today is a family business based in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, with the mission of delivering handcrafted accessories that double as wearable art, including women silk scarves and wraps.
Each scarf or shawl is hand made, unique, and made of the most luxurious and highest quality silk, so no two scarves are identical, even if their patterns and colours are nearly the same.

The women’s silk scarves and shawls I saw are so elegant and stylish that just adding one hand painted scarf to an outfit will pull it off with a different vibe.

Who can resist to a hand painted scarf like the one above which is pure art?

Or wrap yourself adding a dash of colourful elegance with a wonderful square scarf like this.

Or even give your purse a feminine charm...

I actually recommend you to visit Women Clothing Today to browse a gorgeous collection of scarves and shawls. I’m sure you will find that perfect gift you were looking for or why not that perfect accessory that is missing in your wardrobe.

All images courtesy of Women Clothing Today

show some art wearing Murano Glass Jewelry…

After seeing a CC’s post about Murano Glass’ pieces I found myself so obsessed by theirs unique items that I had to go check the site and share it with you.

Both Murano Glass and Murano Glass Jewelry are known and revered around the world for their elegance of design and superb craftsmanship.

Being a family owned business, dedicated to quality and customer satisfaction, the beautiful articles are still made today on a small island just north of Venice using the same methods that has been the Murano Glass trademark for centuries.

What a better way to set off an outfit with an elegant and stylish vibe than add it one of the Murano Glass Pendants which are fine pieces of art.

Or why not make a statement with one of the Murano Glass Necklaces, hand-blown by master artists making that every single necklace is a unique work of art, while preserving the general look of the original piece.

But Murano Glass Gifts Company are not just jewellery made of Murano glass, they also have a beautiful variety of martini glasses, centre pieces, vases, animals and more.

So why not indulge yourself or make a beautiful gift with one of those pieces (which come with a certificate of authenticity)? Go check it!!!!

All images courtesy of Murano Glass Gifts

let’s take some tea… and see my painting…

My dear and talented friend Vicen from MALDITA MODA and LOOK 10 made me a beautiful painting which was hanged up on a tea room as you can see below.

So I thrust you to go see how Vicen made it, here, showing your opinion.

Thank you so much my dear friend Vicen, I really appreciated it.

No tengo palabras para agradecerte el magnífico trabajo que has hecho, mi amigo!
Me encanta!!!!! Gracias, gracias, por lo tanto.

Ay, workman, make me a dream…

My mood…

Zsuzsanna Szegedi

Elevation

Mainland is at the same place… and so am I.
No shopping trips, no movies watching, no cultural or art bath…

I’m sorry my dear blogging friends for being away of your blogs, I promise that as soon as I can I will visit you.

TO – 04/03 – I’m just a normal woman… taking photos of what wears to go to work…

My outfits can be sophisticated, creative or very simple, because my choices are according to my moods.
You know I don’t dress for the picture.
Which means I take my shots with the outfits that I go to work or to do something on weekends.
Which means, despite I do not have a rigorous dress code at work, I have a perspective, based on my education, my cultural background and also, why not, my age.
I can’t go with whatever overtakes my mind.
I might dress colourful, I might break some rules, but I must dress comfortable and with a certain formality.
So you would never see me with some youngest forward trends.

I’m just a simple and normal working woman…

flat shoes - local store
black wide-legs pants - C&A Clockhouse (F/W 2008)
black belt - Mango (F/W 2008)
black turtleneck - Zara (F/W 2005)
scarf - flea market
black biker jacket - Stradivarius (F/W 2008)
gray handbag - Mango (F/W 2008)
cocktail ring - gift from Hubby
perfume - Noa from Cacharel

My today’s mood…

"The Scream" by Edvard Munch (1893)

600th post – The Art of Jesse – Alkimia

I’ve been waiting for a special moment to show you a special art piece that I was given. And what better moment that the celebration of my 600th post.

The very talented artist and my dear friend Jesse, from The Art of Jesse, has created and sent me this fierce painting as a special gift. More, he allowed me to name it.

I must say I felt very touched, grateful and happy. I even danced the Happy Dance with Happy Feet when it arrived.

When I unwrapped the package and I saw it, the first word that came to my mind was "alquimia", the Portuguese word for alchemy.
Alchemy transforms a normal thing into gold, which means changing something without value in a very valuable thing.
That's how I see this painting, two halves joining and changing in a value thing, a heart. (Not a broken heart)

So I named it "Alkimia"!!!

Thank you so much my dear friend Jesse, words are failing to thank you.
I wish you all the best and may the Universe be with you!!!!!

Namasté Jesse!

today’s mood… it was raining... and Mother wasn't well...

We will make you comfortable before you leave.
Not for your memory.
But for ours…

Ian Aleksander Adams’s Photography in Where We’re From

am I beautiful…?

photo from weheartit

TO - 01/23 - it’s the crisis… but don’t stare at me… it’s just a hat…

Britain has officially entered recession for the first time since 1991, after the economy shrank at the fastest pace for nearly 30 years in the fourth quarter.

The United States, Japan and Germany are also in recession.

Here central bank predicted the country's economy will enter recession in 2009 for the third time in six years. (Great...)

We are one of the European Union's smaller economies, representing around 1 percent of the bloc's total gross domestic product.

I think we should be grateful if we have good health.

We have also bad news in the world of fashion, Chanel cancelled Mobile Art Tour.

Conceived by Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld and Iranian architect Zaha Hadid, the exhibition of works by 20 artists including Daniel Buren, Yoko Ono, and Wim Delvoye, and installed in a handbag-inspired, pod-like structure designed by Hadid, was widely considered one of the most ambitious, if not ostentatious, collaborations between the worlds of art and fashion. The show has already been seen in Hong Kong, Tokyo, and New York, but nobody was counting at that time with the economic situation; stops to London, Moscow, and Paris are being cancelled. Chanel has not disclosed the project's costs.

So the Mobile Art Tour ends its short life. After all the uproar it caused in New York, where he held a big party for the opening, we see as Chanel is also not immune to the crisis (as happened to Louis Vuitton some days ago).

But according to sources from the French firm, because of the current economic situation, it has been decided to stop the project and dedicate this budget to other areas of research and development.

Apparently, no one is immune.

Source

Hmmm… would I be able to do my “shopping trip”??? Lord knows.

black ankle boots - local store
black short carrot-top pants - from my boxes
black turtleneck - Zara
red and black plaid coat with faux fur collar - Tally Weijl
white wool scarf - gift from Hubby
gray handbag - Mango
black hat - mainland store
bracelet - gift from Hubby
cocktail ring - gift from Hubby
perfume - Noa from Cacharel

today’s mood…

Who you would want to be should not be nearly as important as who you are right now.

Ian Aleksander Adams’s Photography in Where We’re From

capricorn... the goat...

my zodiac photo by lenaah on Flickr

model is hayley clough

The 500th post - you’ll know who loves you…

“When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their mouth.
— Billy, Age 4

Try and keep that feeling...because if it goes…you'll never get it back.

Collage made with Rodney Smith’s Photography

Vote!!! More important than the US Election…

As I’ve told you my lovely blogging friend La Belette Rouge has been nominated for the 2008 Avant Garde Bloggie Awards with her post “How to be a Writer and Sleep Like a French Woman”.

Now the voting has begun, so let’s all go to the site and vote on her, because she deserves it.

The link to vote is this:

http://avantgardebloggies.wordpress.com/2008/11/17/best-how-to-post/

Come on V.O.T.E!!!!!

islands of haze

Outside the fog daces in the air and the wet ground begins to smell like Fall.
And the soul of the islander starts to feel nostalgic.
In our lives, in the film produced by each of us, is a song, lyrics that are not ours, but it is as if, as we know how to sing ... because we know to use it! In peace on the islands of haze lies an unknown roadmap designed in the tone of a deaf voice and in the agility with which the ropes move stretched by the forgotten promise... the "Feature Film" of our lives!

Islands of Haze
(lyrics translation)

I still feel my feet on the square
Where my grandparents danced the "Pezinho"*
The beautiful "Aurora"* and the "Sapateia"*
As in my veins run black basalt
And in memory volcanoes and earthquakes

That’s why I am from the islands of haze
Where the seagulls go kiss the earth

If in my eyes I bring the rock of the waves
The look is the sweetness of lagoons
As I bring the tenderness of hydrangeas
In the heart the burning of the volcanoes

That’s why I am from the islands of haze
Where the seagulls go kiss the earth

As in my veins run black basalt
In the heart the burning of the volcanoes
The immense sea fills my soul
And I have green, so much green to indicate me hope.

The music and lirycs of this song are from Manuel Medeiros Ferreira

This is a free translation by me

*Azorean Folklore Song

What Dreams May Come

Neither complicated nor original it becomes an affecting piece of drama, it focuses on the sacrifices one man will make for true love.
Love that does not end with death.
Those who embrace this belief and don't mind a somewhat artistic approach are likely to enjoy.

Prada - Fallen Shadows

Fallen Shadows continues Prada's engagement with experimental work in film, animation, architecture, art and sound design.

The animation, undertaken together with director James Lima, experiments with cutting-edge technology. Computer Motion Capture and Cyber-Scanning - in which an entire body is scanned and recorded, rendering a completely animated character - have been employed here for the first time.

The film draws inspiration from Buñuel, Dali, Duchamp, and Escher evoking Film Noir, Surrealism and Futurism in a striking, cinematic form. And while employing the latest high-end computer software and technology, it remains romantic, tragic, and elemental.

The film depicts the story of a woman and her shadow. “The Shadow is more alive and expressive than the woman,” Lima notes, “She is the sub-conscience, the dream, the soul, and it is the journey of self-discovery with the sensations of the city that confronts her…and us.”

readymades...

Fountain by Marcel Duchamp 1917

In the sequence of the artist Jesse Mendez’s from The Art of Jesse, comment in my post “head beast...” that called for some of my knowledge, I would like to come out with an Art side, the found art or readymade.
The concept of readymade (any object purchased "as a sculpture already made) was coined by Marcel Duchamp (French, 1887-1968), who wanted to test the limits of what qualifies as a work of art, meaning an object manufactured for some other purpose, presented by an artist as a work of art.
The thought of distinguishing ordinary stuff in this approach was initially a scandalous defy to the accepted difference between what was measured art as contrasting to not art. Though it is now commonly established in the art world as a possible exercise, it continues to provoke media and public opposition.
Marcel Duchamp (whom you might know as the guy who put the urinal in a gallery) has created a revolution in saying that everything is art and everything is possible with the readymade.
Duchamp wanted to state that the artistic act is not completed by the artist independently; the observer fetches the work in touch with the outside world by decoding and taking to mean its internal qualifications and therefore inserts his participation to the artistic work.
He marked the inception of self-reflexive art, art not seen with aesthetics forms, but part of an intellectual conception.
Duchamp's readymades also asserted the principle that what is art is defined by the artist.
So it's all art…

Whether you like it or not, whether you agree with it or not is another question entirely…

head beast...

I’m driving up the wall.

I’m sorry! But don’t tell me that everything is possible in the name of Fashion or in the name of Art.
I know there’s a thin line and that Art is somehow a way to put boundaries in question.

But saying this is “conceptual fashion”….. WTF????????
For me this is an attack to WOMAN DIGNITY!

It was for this the struggle of many women in decades?

Marlies Dekkers at Paris Fashion Week

Source
guardian.co.uk - lifeandstyle

women in art...

My friend T sent me the adress to this YouTube video that I actually think is amazing.

The video "Women in Art", directed by the enigmatic creator Eggman913 Missouri in the USA, is an impressive anthem devoted to the history of art through the image of women. The music is that of Yo-Yo Ma playing the Sarabande of the Suite for Cello No. 1 by Bach.

This video is a true masterpiece of digital art in terms of technical mastery and artistic creativity. Eggma913 has created other interesting videos, available on You Tube, through software "morphing" images of FantaMorph Abrosoft.

The artworks used to create the film "Women in Art" were listed by Boni, professional instructor "Fayetteville Technical Community College “on the website dedicated to novices of the Internet http://www.maysstuff.com/womenid.htm .

I hope you'll see it.

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I want to thank all of my blogging friends and dear readers the nice and kind words in my last post