Virgil Finlay

Stumbled-upon during various Internet surfing this week, the awesome illustrations of Virgil Finlay really caught my eye. His creepy illustration of a vampire looking at himself in the mirror (below) you may recognise from the Oneohtrix Point Never album artwork - the rest of Virgil Finlay's work is just as striking.

(Mondays, amirite??)

Flickr Find: Faces

Catharine Ross by Parker Fitzgerald

Christmas Tree

Nice Shirt has a Christmas tree...

...that's not your average Christmas "tree". And yes, that is old used storage boxes. 

A tidy-up of Nice Shirt left us with a lot of old boxes we needed to get rid of- particularly these rather nice pine-coloured boxes. The festive time was upon us and we wanted to get a tree, so we thought we'd get a bit creative (and environmentally friendly, naturally).

Everything is handmade & recycled (except the lights- we're not that ingenious), from the paper chains to the rather fetching black shiny "tinsel", which is in fact tape from old Digis that we were also getting rid of: 

Eco-mental! We still have a sh*t-tonne of these tapes we're trying to get rid of if you're interested. 

Adam made the star a-top the wondrous tree.

Paper chains! So retro. It's just so poetic that that which was once a tree is now a tree again. Or something. 

And behold, our festive tree. The more we look at it, the more it starts to resemble some kind of Christmas robot, but hey. 

Flickr Finds : h ope

13_9A by h ope [link to photostream]

Ettinger x Saira by Tareq

Following on from Tareq's last look at close-up leather handiwork, comes another film again featuring the talents of tattooist Saira Hunjan. Her intricate designs (inspired by "death, beauty and goddesses") now finds its way onto Ettinger's range of luxury leather wares. Tareq's delicately self-shot film looks at the precise work that goes into making their pieces. How great must it be to work in a leather factory?? The smell must be amazing.