JOIE DE VIVRE PHOTOGRAPHY

Jacques-Henri Lartigue was a photographer that knew how to capture the sensual parisian feeling and was famous for his parisian women from the turn of the century - Thought of himself as a painter and only at his 60's was fully considered a photographer. That is definitely something to think about when we feel such pressure about becoming successful in this world. Everything goes so fast and we want our carriers to go faster, however experiences take time.

INTO SPACE

This is Major Tom to Ground Control
I'm stepping through the door
And I'm floating 
in a most peculiar way
And the stars look very different today

For here
Am I sitting in a tin can
Far above the world
Planet Earth is blueAnd there's nothing I can do 

Space travel is a lot different now than when David Bowie released Space Oddity. It was 1969 and the man had just landed on the moon and here on earth people didn't know much about the Hows and Whys but it was all very marvellous. 

Now we have developed technology and the internet at a point that everything in this world is at a close reach to us and even out of space.

Canadian Space Agency have their super charismatic astronaut Commander Chris Hadfield at the International Space Station (ISS) and had this brilliant idea of recording youtube videos of their day-to-day lives and how they manage to do ordinary things with NO gravity.

Its super interesting to learn how exactly it is to be an astronaut in space and really share the experience with them, Chris Hadfield speaks from space to a conference at the Canadian Space Agency and answers questions from the select audience. Other than that he records the hows to things like sleeping in space, shaving, excersizing, wringing out water from a clothes and even crying! It is a great ideas to make people get curious about science.

Here are some videos that definitely need to be shared!

AN INSPIRATION

Tim Flach is certainly an amazing photographer, not only for the quality of his images or how amazingly detailed they are, but for how he show us the animals he shots.
His latest published work is "More Than Human" which gave me a new view on these animals, a more profound understanding and I could really see how much more than humans they are.

Tim Flach gave them a voice but without sound or words, in these images they are like us ... It made me wonder how we can possibly not respect them.

"More Than Human"

Cheers!

IDEAS I LIKE

Doesn't matter if is on trend or past trend or some designer already used it. Long boots are awesome and Waders are in that category.

Here are some examples of awesomeness and people exploring the idea of waders.

WHY NOT?

DAVID BOWIE IS...

I had the pleasure to go to the "David Bowie Is..." exhibition and was really delighted.  I guess, initially, I thought that everyone was going there to find inspiration from him, in a kind of way, to study David Bowie's history on visual creativity (as I expected to get inspired the same way).

However I learned something else - I saw what inspired him and how he reacted to what happens in the world around him. He is indeed a big visual sponge but he transformed, evolved. 

Summarising: It was refreshing to see him get influenced! 

"David Bowie Is..."  

Up until 11th August 2013, at the Victoria & Albert Museum. London.

Cheers!

STARTING RIGHT (2013 issue)

Let's start the year in the best way we can - with a truly beautiful editorial. This shoot represents one of the things I admire in good styling, simpleness. In this case the model and the photographer don't need anything else that could be a distraction.

Amazing shapes, great sensibility and all the right things (and great model!)

Photographer Cliff Watts

Fashion Editor Matthew Edelstein

Model Kone at Red

Published at The Contributing Editor

Great way to start 2013,
Cheers!

KILLING ME SOFTLY

Oh no! They are back. The super-pointy shoes are back. These images are from the Louis Vuitton SS13 show and let the trendsetters begin their fashionising wave on the killer shoes.

Aesthetically, they are very cool but my feet wouldn't agree with me.