25 June 2010

Shopping | Etsy finds

Meet Etsy.  This vintage online store is going to chew up so much of my time...

{ 100 year old deck of playing cards - $45 }

{ Frankenstein Portrait Plate - Altered Antique Plate $59 }

{ Cream and Strawberry skirt - $65 }

 { Orange Cassette Tape iPhone Case - $18 }

{ Steampunk Goggles - Vintage AMBER TINT Steampunk Goggles Glasses with MESH Side Shields - TOTALLY COOL 1800s SPECTACLES STYLE - $165 }

{ French Sugar Black and White Organza Stripe Wrap - $39 }

 { MID CENTURY BRASS DUCK MALLARD BOOK ENDS 1960s RETRO PERFECT BEACH COTTAGE CABIN HUNTING DESIGN - $12 }

{ Small vintage Russian turquoise colour mechanical alarm clock Raketa from Soviet Union period - $35 }

Prices in US dollars.

Many thanks to work collegues @OPTIKO for letting me know about this store!

16 June 2010

Music | Kitchen at parties


Current favourite

03 June 2010

A brief film review: Antonioni's La Notte


I'm finding Antonioni's films excessively tedious of late.  La Notte is by far his worst, apart from the beautiful geometric precision of Antonioni and cinematographer Gianni De Venanzo's compositions. Antonioni consistently overplays the themes of modern malaise. Pauline Kael called La Notte, Last Year at Marienbad and La Dolce Vita "The Come-Dressed-As-The-Sick-Soul-of-Europe Parties," and as far as La Notte is concerned she has a point.