This Saturday the Spring Reggae Festival is happening at O'Malleys. Featured on the day are the awesome Lions of Puxi, a Shanghai-based reggae soul band composed of talented musicians hailing from all corners of the globe.  For an afternoon of sweet sounds and feel good vibes this is not to be missed!

lzf

My cousin Sandro and his wife make lights out of Valencia.  They recently presented at the HD show in Vegas, receiving two awards along the way ^___~

Congrats Sandro and Marivi!!  Much love xxx

Check out Lzf Lamps here // More of their videos here

Tina Kalivas is a luminary Australian designer I've been observing from afar for a few years.  Her designs border on couture and her attention to detail is totally OCD. One really must laud her in her craft - girlfriend's so obviously born to design. Of course, the late great McQueen must have rubbed off on her just a little when she worked under him in London.

My fave collection of hers is Polyrhythm from 2009.

I'm so happy to see that she's kept the title page on her website all these years - such a simple, timeless, yet wonderful example of flash done right.

If your house was burning, what would you take with you?

This single image interview project, The Burning House, asks submitters to choose between what's practical, valuable and sentimental.  Each photo tells a one-of-a-kind story~

Bought me a new lappy~

This is, amazingly, only the second computer I've ever bought.  Asus is so trusty that the first laptop I bought in 2001 lasted me four years before it was stolen from my flat.  Insurance paid me out a new one, which then lasted me over five years before I outgrew its capabilities.  It still works perfectly, except that I've finally woken from XP SP2 and 512MB RAM (shame).  Hello modern technology!

Whilst cruising ASOS for some inspiration I browsed through their Marketplace and only just now discovered the independent vintage boutiques housed there...

What an awesome outlet for independent e-boutiques!

There are some pretty stylin' ladies and killer wares~

Circular Inspiration

Images via Laura Nelke, Dull Tool Dim Bulb, Nikon Fisheye, Sacred Mandala, Philisophical Disquisitions and Universe Today.

Two-tone

I'm a slob and I've let my hair go off the rails for nine months...  So I've got some pretty hardcore two-tone going on, which certainly makes for an interesting braid.

I needa grow me a crystal garden right about now...

Images via here and here - this blog post even took time lapse photos of the crystals growing ^___^

Paper Theaters

Before the availability of children’s periodicals and mass-produced toys, small tabletop theaters constructed out of printed or drawn paper, adhered to cardboard and mounted on a wooden frame were enjoyed in many cultures. 

Some Dutch paper theaters from the 1890's.

Via 50 Watts

Ohhh-lalaaa

Loving everything about this label...  some air in my face, please?  I'm sweatin'~

Anntian hails from Berlin.  You can buy from the amazing e-boutique Pour Porter which, incidentally, stocks A'N'D as well  ^__^

So...what if you could, say, combine two obsessions into one?

Like, shoes + bags?

Cue these shoebag hybrids from A'N'D. Hilarious and awesomely practical.

This could well be the only instance I find kitten heels acceptable.

Finding these images of whimsical origami money compels me to pop-art them with spring colours I'm feeling right now~


Via 灵感日报微博

I had a picnic recently...

Sorry Photoshop, you know I love you, but Poladroid is just too much fun right now!

Danielle Scutt for Topshop jewellery collection.  TOO CUTE!!

Too bad it's sold out already...