Originally published in 1964, the First Things First Manifesto is something to be quite proud of as a to-be designer out there.
Adbuster republished/rewrote the manifesto and you can read it here.
Category: <span>Culture</span>
I’m not obsessed with perfume by any means. Perfume is FAR too expensive, however wonderful the bottles look and smell. My sister Emily has a method she uses to capitalise on her perfume purchases – Emily owns a LOT of perfume.
Her trick is to keep an eye out at Kmart and the like on gift boxes. These gift boxes often come on sale. You can’t always see what’s in them as they are sealed over but the back should give it away. The box I got today cost me $35. I got a body lotion, shower gel, 50ml bottle of eau de toilette of the L’Air du Temps (essentially a cheaper, ‘less pure’ version of the same scent as the real perfume) and a very small bottle of the real stuff. An equivalent 50ml bottle of the real stuff on it’s own would’ve cost me near $100.
Good deal. Yes.
Before Friday I have to crash course myself in Tour de France everything. Our friends Cat and AJ are rather into it all and we are heading to theirs for an evening – I guess it’s the final (I don’t know!!!) of Tour de France everything. So we have to each pick a team: I will be going for team Columbia (because Geoff told me I should because I have Columbia shoes and a tent….err yes – besides they’re good) – no one is allowed the same team…
I will do some scouting tomorrow – but if you have suggestions for something like a quick but thorough overview, that’d be great. I know diddly squat. Except that it’s long distance team cycling through France.
I got to visit the Salvador Dali exhibition today. Massive exhibit with a crowd to match – which seems odd as it’s been going a while and it was a Wednesday afternoon. Intriguing certainly. The guy was truly messed up on some levels but exceptionally clever. It freaks me out slightly that I felt some kind of affinity with his story and it interests me also that he wrote. Dali is truly insane, utter genius in his exploration of such a wide variety of both medium and style. The lobster phone was sweet – but not so impressive in person, some of the jewelery very beautiful. So much conceptual work.
The painting to the left: Morphological Echo was my favourite. I really love the repercussions through the image, the repetition, familiarity and yet there is still something disquieting.
I recommend a visit should you be in Melbourne, also take the time to watch the short film that Walt Disney and Dali collaborated on, it’s beautiful, beautiful animation.
Em, Han and I went to the city this morning. I showed off Piccolo and Chapel St Bizzare. Then we wound up at the Art Gallery to check out the Persuaision fashion exhibition. It was small and quite disappointing, the only real redeeming feature was that they had Colin Firth’s Mr. Darcy costume on display, the dresses weren’t very exciting. Had a wander through some of the European section too – love the Mogdilangi that hangs next to Picasso’s Weeping Woman. Then had a sweet little jaunt down Degraves St for a coffee in Hells Upstairs/Hell’s Kitchen and a wander through a few arcades.
And had to get a photo of Han (right) infront of Haigh’s as that’s my nickname for her, Emily just likes being in photos.
