Folds

This is a pattern that I threw together last Saturday, from pieces of origami instructions that I previously altered. There should be lots of variations to this theme, maybe something could be made with some movement to it...
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The other night I dreamt that beer was a clear, slow flowing beverage with origami folds in it. When you looked at it from the side you could clearly see the origami pattern. (What would it taste like to swallow a fold?) The beer contained at least six spices, the dream was specific on this, that looked like mix pepper and the beer tasted something like litchi... It was served in jugs shaped like Napoleon hats turned upside down.
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This night has been a night of magical, horrific dreams, WW2 and something made of studs and fur that could change colour, that I was very proud of, and waking up in the middle of the night in panic, frightening the Glenn. The dreams are taking over.

HC SVNT DRACONES

Olaus Magnus' Carta Marina shows Scandinavia in a rather different light than the guidebooks normally do. Here be dragons, my friends, in the sea and in Lapland. In Finland there is a big snake problem and in the east the bears are climbing the trees.

Click to enlarge. The amount of detail is worthwiledly sweet.

tunnel T banan

"tunnel T banan
The building of the subway
Favour Götgatan's businessmen
Slussen Södra Bantorget Skanstull
Skarpnäck Enskede Örby"

Photo 1, March 7th 1933, photographer unknown, Spårvägsmuseet


"every day
The Stockholm Paper
Stockholm's Daily
to the point - independent - fun - stimulating"



Photos 2 - 6, 1933, photographer unknown, Spårvägsmuseet


This intersection I pass by almost every day, to and fro my home, shops and transportation. (I live to the left!)

Photos 7 - 8, 1957, photographer unknown, Spårvägsmuseet

Photo 9, 1933, photographer unknown, Spårvägsmuseet
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This concludes my historical pictorical tour of Skanstull. No more of this.
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Tonight! Flexing in the weekend is yours truly Colouroïd DJing the home studio 80's synthy tunes at El Mundo. Erstagatan 21, 21 - 01. You're most welcome!

Would you like to listen to an early Flexi-mix? Clicken sie hier, bitte.
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PS. I have a crush on this necklace - bodylace! - by Fannie Schiavoni at
Bon Vintage. Ooh, the high back. I wouldn't mind this with a simple white tee.
Maybe it's time to get an income?
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Weekend Hello!
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Photos published with permission by Stockholmskällan/The Stockholm Source.
(The images link to their original locations.)

From black and blue all the way to white and orange

This x ray pin up calender I first saw over at my.god.damn.gown.
This being June it's a bit of old news, but that doesn't stop me.
I think it's thrilling, silly and all the way.



Hope Gangloff's beautiful work I found through an acquaintance at Facebook.
She does more varying motifs than people laying down.
These somehow stuck with me.
I like the coldness of colour.

Holly Woodlawn

Jackie Curtis

Candy Darling

Last some old Hollywood, 60's glamour.
I love the backlit hair, their soft hands and serious expressions.
Where the 40's pics seem somehow eternal, these feel momentary, like a window shutting out a noisy street. The make up will come off and a new shape form.

(The images link to their original locations.)

PRC Paper dolls

Sometimes I like having old Project Runway episodes on when I work.
After going through Project Runway Canada season 2 yet another time,
I decided to make my own paper doll creations for some of the challenges.

And a bathing suit for some reason.
Silly but fun.

From bedroom to boardroom, a power suit and underwear.
I was thinking a Russian inspired dress going suit, with paisley cuffs and a tie belt, and black halterneck underwear with long silk ribbons.

Return of the supermodel: A dress for Coco Rocha.
I took an Elizabethan lacey collar and turned it down and added white pearl buttons. And then a clean raw silk dress with an open back.

I really wanted to draw a bathing suit though there was no such challenge.
I was thinking a white bathing cap with a bow, either a real one or one drawn on with black contours. And a black halterneck bathing suit with a shirt collar.

Fun!
Now I'll go back to work.

(The original paperdoll comes from here. My! She's a busty number.)

Sur la plage

I'm in awe of Bea Szenfeld's latest haute papier collection Sur la plage.
It's so beautiful, repetitive and imaginative, sheer, sheer suits that would disassemble under any pressure.

I wonder how she came to think of basing a collection on haenyos?
A beautiful idea.

Something is wrong with me, I've stopped sleeping at night.
I've resisted the call of the woods, when tonight turns into today I'll have to go running. Let's see if I'll resist - or sleep.

(The images link to their original locations - except this the last one which is a photo of a spread in Swedish Elle Interior no 5/2010.)

A world in black and white

Celebrating this tiny speck of light and enormous explosion - see previous post - I turn to Woman in the moon (1929). The moon seems to be a world of darkness and eternal winter, something that does appeal to me, a Northener.

I think of the White Witch of Narnia and the realm of Hel though I can't find no testament that the latter's land is that of winter.

(Do I associate women with winter?)

Did they ever find the woman in the moon?
I must find out.

Look at these lovely graphics:



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Informant

This morning I long for blunt, graphic, black and white patterns, I want repetition and nonsense. I content myself with this handsome graph from Information is Beautiful - good name - and look toward the future, for right now my vision is impaired by a tiny throbbing thunderbolt by my temple.

Stop it, you!

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The record that goes round and round

Autechre - Oversteps

Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma

Autechre - Move of Ten


Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma (again)

These covers intrigue me plenty, so simple and nice and precise. I'm very drawn to patterns and repetition, thin lines and the black and white. These rhyme with my mood, and the music is great as well!

Have a sweet weekend!

I'm thinking a barbecue and Voltfestivalen and making some Colouroïd nonsense. And sun. Lots of it please.

First up though is... the laundry.

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In my tree house

I can't remember how this post originally came about, but there's something very lovely fairytale:y with the idea of sleeping in your own safe homemade indoors wild nighttime forest.

Me and the Glenn sleep - he actually sleeps as I post - in a golden hallway under the cheapest of chandeliers, surrounded by shoes and doors.

Our forest.

I digress.

(The pics link to their original locations.)