A young photographer who is loud through images.

This photograph was shot by a girl aged 17.
Nothing special?


Boring?
Normal?


How about this, which was shot by a girl aged 16.
Still not attractive enough?

Well, this was shot by a girl aged 14/15.

All of these are by Nirrimi Hakanson. (More photos to be found in her website)
Forgive me not uploading more photos of her, because there's copyright and I couldn't copy her photo from her Flickr. Please check it out yourself. You may find some inspiration.

Anyways, it may be normal for most of the people out there.
But hey, do you still remember what were you doing while you're aged 14/15?

No doubt, she has the talent. Also, I like her attitude:
"i like pretty young things that i pull from the streets and film (i call what i shoot digital film, because it still has the colour). the sun is my lighting, the clouds my diffusers and i find studio images bland. if you want to be original you have to shoot outside the (literal) box. i want be a traveller and live, photographing realness."

"last year i became agency signed, shot a commissioned editorial for my favourite magazine and came first in the photography division of qantas spirit of youth and youth week awards. this year sees me shooting in new york and releasing a book. and next i want to write and create films. live dreams + be real!"


Btw, I actually get to know this from the PAPERFASHION blog, which I've introduced earlier : )

Je t'aime vs. I love you

Lately, I have watched some movies.


So far, I really like this movie.
New York, I Love You.
Seriously, it's more than the trailer suggests. Watch it!! :)
Nice, nice, nice!
What more to say?
It's pretty intersting too with many directors shooting one film, MANY! 10, 11? Owh btw, I think they call this anthology film.

(ps: I want to thank my dear friend for sharing it and now it's my turn to share)

However, there are quite lots of negative reviews for this movie.
Although I agree that the storyline is flat, all love stories being connected together, the connection somehow makes the flat love stories beautiful and romantic, at least there are some space for you to interpret the story yourself, it is not too directly played.

Maybe, nowadays people are getting hopeless in a pure romantic relationship.
As I saw one of the reviews suggesting that romance is not all about one person attached to another and there is lack of tension/seduction/confrontation in the movie.
That is sad, very sad, but people love all the dramas and this is the reality, don't they?

Or, maybe, the negative reviews are true that the earlier film, Paris Je t'aime, by the same producer is much better.
Comparison and expectation.



Indeed, the trailer seems better.
I won't judge it too soon tho' until I've watched it.

Destruction. Cornelia Parker.

Earlier, I came across this piece of art by Cornelia Parker.
I was stunned by the real thing. Believe me, it is much better and fascinating in real. I don't mean the photograph is not good, but you know, it's always the best to experience it by one self rather than seeing it through others' eyes.
I don't have the chance to take the picture I perceived through my own pinhole because there was the 'non-photograph-sign'.

It really calms me, like a dream, although with the destruction of the intruments.
I think the artist does really enjoy the destruction of objects and the aftermath.

"There’s a lot of violence in the making of these things, but a quiet aftermath. I take things that are worn out through overuse, that have become clichés, like the shed, a traditional place of rest and retreat, and I give them a more incandescent future. Explosions are very familiar from films and the news, but how many of us have seen one or even touched a piece of the debris?" She said.

The shed, the garden shed that was exploded under her request were recollected and re-established into another piece of art called Cold Dark Matter.



Destroy and rebuild? Consider it to be another way to see the 'dead things'. Or maybe, not a dead thing as it is given new value, probably a reborn.

Although I am not sure whether the artist was thinking that way, I recognise that she has special feeling towards destruction, while normally people do not even want to touch the charred pieces.


While Cornelia Parker working on the "Hanging Fire"


"It's sort of to do with fear," says Parker. "There's a lot of violence in the world, we're surrounded by potential catastrophe all the time. And somehow making calm installations about destructions, it sort of calms my fears."

I guess, the unique thinking of artists make them the artists and different from others whom the majority consider as 'normal' and 'reasonable'.

Does destruction mean more than destroying?

The Royal Tenenbaums

This is one delightful movie to watch!

First of, i love it because all of the signages of buildings, covers of books (except one or two- but the director has his reasons), and headings- every word there is in the movie for that matter!-are set in Futura.

Secondly, i love the characters and their own oddnesses (is that a word?). I can feel the obssession of the writers with each and every character, they made them perfectly imperfect.

also!! the setting of this movie is so beautiful, every still is like a vintage photograph composed carefully to tell a story.

to me, The Royal Tenenbaums can be a very serious, deep thinking movie, or a very light and fun one to watch.

enjoy~!

[第36個故事] - 价值。Value.

每个人对每件事或每一样东西都有着不同的价值。
价值会随着年龄心理人生经验而改变。
那就是，影片里的“心理价值”？

If you're questioning about the value of your dream or your life, this movie might be a good one to put you into a deep thought.
P/s: might not be applicable to very rational people.Lol.



我不常看台湾电影，也不特别爱好偶像剧。
不是偏见，只是个人嗜好不同。
但，这部电影，很不一样。
画面也很柔很美。有想像空间。

对自己的梦想的价值存在怀疑吗？
自己坚信的，但却对别人而言不切实际不务实的想法
该放弃，还是该继续相信自己的那个心理价值？





“在你心里，什么是最有价值？”
影片里，穿插着街头访问，蛮有趣的。
反映出每个人对价值有着不同的定义。
其中一位，提起‘纯真’最可贵。
因为社会的不同价值而抹煞最初的那份纯真，梦想都变得那么的遥远吧。

非常不错的一部戏。
值得观看!

然后，电影里的歌曲也很好，‘雷光夏’得作品。

“给我我想要的生活...”

最后,以电影里的一句对白为这篇画上句号：
“事情常是这样，不会都照着的你的意思走”。

Dreams and Unreality by Tim Walker.

I've introduced the fashion illustrator Kathryn Elyse from FASHIONPAPER in my last post.

Yes, this is her another illustration but, not to worry, I'm not repeating myself here about her. So, she was inspired to draw this illustration because she likes the photographer, or likes his works. Well, this is according to her. And because I like her works so much, and this particular illustration left me a 'wow!', I went on to search for the photographer by whom she was inspired - Tim Walker.

I did not regret for spending my time on searching him in the google.

He is a fashion photographer, done works for Vogue and also I've seen his works before in the i-D.



Like the above picture, is like a painting.

He said in an interview that he got no other choice to be a photographer because he is not good in studies.
However, he stressed that he is comfortable at art, not good at art.

The reason he chose fashion photography because that's the only aspect where he can create fantasy, create the unreality and play with that.

So here goes the 'unreality', huh?



Here is the interview I watched. I agree with him that only the unreality is interesting. Dream is always beautiful. Who says that unreality can't be real? He is the evidence that the 'unreality' can be created!



"Fashion photographer Tim Walker doesn’t seem to belong to the world of you or me. He’s a Peter Pan, a daydreamer, a fantasist. His pictures are mirages, telling stories conjured directly from an imagination that most of us left behind in childhood. Looking at Tim’s photographs is like following the white rabbit into a world where elephants are painted blue, horses are dusted lilac, paintings come to life and pretty girls with Thirties faces are transformed into marionettes or abandoned princesses.

Tim creates photographs that evoke wonder – a skill as rare and fragile as one of his butterflies. In presenting his imagination to us, his photographs remind us of our own capacity to dream. And, even though his images are pure whimsy, they feel true because thy have been meticulously executed." - by Charlotte Sinclair, 2008, British Vogue. (The full article could be found in Tim Walker official website.)

Lastly, quoted his words to end this post:
"Only, only ever photograph what you love."

PAPERFASHION.

This is Tavi, a very young and well-known fashion blogger, which her blog is titled as Style Rookie.


This is also Tavi. She is so famous that I think many people already heard of her before or already actually become fans of her blog. I adore her but, well, this post isn't about her.

This post is about the person who did the illustrations for her, as shown above - Kathryn Elyse. She is a fashion illustrator who owns the blog PAPERFASHION.

Here are just some works of her that I've simply copied from her blog...





and, that's her and her workplace, A.K.A her house..



Find out more in her blog!
And you may also get to know many fashion information or get some fashion inspirations from her posts!

Enjoy!:)