Posted in Design, Op Shop, Sustainable on Jun 25th, 2008
Today I discovered that my neighbourly (and I really do literally mean neighbour) op-shop is selling earth-greetings cards, it’s a peculiar opshop in that it sells some new things as well as standard opshop things. Earth Greetings is Interesting in it’s philosophy, I not 100% sold on all their designs, but some of them a [...]
I like the odd challenging book once in a while. Last night I started One Hundred Years of Solitude. It’s a novel by Nobel Prize winning, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and translated from Spanish.
Currently I’m amiss as to what is going on with each particular character as they all have names that blend into one, I [...]
Posted in Op Shop on Apr 30th, 2008
I’ve had to upload via Flickr, but it was necessary to share such a good opshop find.
So I got this jacket for $15, it’s some designer brand (Custo Barcelona), fits quite well and is nicely cut/good length. It’s a bit more crazy than what I’d wear normally, but it was far too fun to let [...]
Posted in Create, Design, Experiments, Op Shop on Apr 29th, 2008
I was so close the other week to buying an old op-shop chair and doing something with it.
I confess when I was younger and maybe even now, I had a small fascination with things being re-done or made-over. Tonight I found this chair that has been made over. I am a) jealous b) inspired. I [...]
What better way to get used to the weirdness of the new Wordpress backend than to talk about someone weird.
Salvador Dali.
In truth I know very little about him, but I did manage to score a nice looking Phaidon book about him today. Some of the work is familiar so I’m looking forward to seeing what [...]
