...But so pretty.
My mother has been sprucing up her garden, and in the fabulous weather we've had the last couple of weeks it's looking beautiful. Not one of green fingers myself I can only appreciate the amalgamation of colour from a naive aesthetic POV. And make a mini movie montage out of it.
Untitled from Beth Harwood on Vimeo.
* Dialogue from: The Devil Wears Prada
Wednesday, 27 April 2011
Friday, 8 April 2011
Dies sind einige meiner Lieblings-Dinge ... *
* Disclaimer: I don't speak German.
** Disclaimer: I am in a codependent relationship with Google Translate.
*** Disclaimer: It's supposed to read, "These are a few of my favourite things..." because, people... (person?) ...I'm very likely to be going to Salzburg in the summer for a coupla days of full-on Sound of Music immersion, Mozart appreciation, and Austrian coffee. YAY! Expect to see me doing this on a mountaintop!
Odd decision given Salzburg didn't even make my list but... spurred on by my Swedish friend Caroline's suggestion that we meet there, and my propensity to jump on a bandwagon and make attempts to be more spontaneous, it looks like a PLAN. And I'm excited! I dug out my Sound of Music DVD and found a couple of documentaries on the second disk including Salzburg: Sight and Sound, presented by the then 22-year-old Charmian Carr, "Liesl" in SoM. It's fabulously dated (filmed in between Carr's days on set, in 1965 or thereabouts) but the city looks beautiful and inviting even now in shots.
And in other news: I'm developing a music-crush on Doris Day. Having found some tracks on Jazz Online I'm absolutely hooked. Have taken to dancing spontaneously in the style of old musicals on my way to work to the likes of Que Sera Sera and A Bushel and a Peck. Full, full appreciation.
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** Disclaimer: I am in a codependent relationship with Google Translate.
*** Disclaimer: It's supposed to read, "These are a few of my favourite things..." because, people... (person?) ...I'm very likely to be going to Salzburg in the summer for a coupla days of full-on Sound of Music immersion, Mozart appreciation, and Austrian coffee. YAY! Expect to see me doing this on a mountaintop!
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Odd decision given Salzburg didn't even make my list but... spurred on by my Swedish friend Caroline's suggestion that we meet there, and my propensity to jump on a bandwagon and make attempts to be more spontaneous, it looks like a PLAN. And I'm excited! I dug out my Sound of Music DVD and found a couple of documentaries on the second disk including Salzburg: Sight and Sound, presented by the then 22-year-old Charmian Carr, "Liesl" in SoM. It's fabulously dated (filmed in between Carr's days on set, in 1965 or thereabouts) but the city looks beautiful and inviting even now in shots.
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| all grabs from the Salzburg: Sight and Sound documentary on The Sound of Music additional DVD |
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Saturday, 2 April 2011
Choses que j'aime
Things I currently love:
(* aside from pretentiously giving my blog posts titles in French)
(** and aside from typography)
1. Kinder Surprises
Image (originally posted by Fla/bloody solution) found at we heart it via tumblr
2. Crackly jazz recordings of musical greats from the 1920s-50s from the Open Music Archive and Jazz Online
Image of Ella Fitzgerald found here at last.fm
3. Moleskines
Image from the official Moleskine® UK site
4. Hats – cloche hats have a special place in my heart
Image from US Vogue, September 2007, styled by Grace Coddington, shot by Steven Meisel, via Pink Patent Mary Janes
5. (Re)discovering Hitchcock films – see my previous post
Image: still from DVD, Rebecca (1940)
6. Animating little stop-motion/stills movies
Image: from Boogie Shoes, a little film I made... of dancing shoes. As you do.
7. Chalkboards
Image from IKEA UK
8. Stationery
Image of Sydney in Staples Stationery via pedestrian.tv
9. Geek chic
Image from elle.com via The Fashion Worshiper
...Just read on IMDB that the new release of The Great Gatsby (2012), featuring Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan, will be directed by Baz Luhrmann! Hurrah!
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