Wednesday 27 April 2011

"Florals, for Spring. Groundbreaking(!)"*

...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

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!

via here

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.



all grabs from the Salzburg: Sight and Sound documentary
on The Sound of Music additional DVD
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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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!