The Wonderlust Journal

Must See >> The Power of Music

“A 90-year old man recounts a remarkable experience in WWII.”

Don’t quit in the middle of this one, you need to get to the end.

September 16, 2010

Curated by:
Eliza Coleman

Section:
Must See

Labels:
must see, sentimentalism, video

Pretty People + Pretty Bikes

1: Sally Singer (editor in chief of T Mag) via Paper Mag
2: Jim and Kim Mimran of Joe Fresh and Pink Tartan via Common Elite
3 & 5: The Sartorialist
4 & 6: unknown (Garance?)

September 16, 2010

Curated by:
Eliza Coleman

Section:
Style Files

Labels:
Photography, style files

I would love to hang out here. In addition to being a stationery/gift store, the Regional Assembly of Text has a monthly letter writing club. !!! How brilliant. I love hand-written letters (who doesn’t), but other than thank-you notes, it’s rare that I actually take the time to sit down and write a letter. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a monthly time set aside to write a few letters and gather with friends?

And, they have a reading room of rare magazines and self-published books! I love that they not only sell them, but that they call it a reading room– implying that they won’t be annoyed if you want to spend an hour or two just browsing and hanging out.

Considering the Regional Assembly of Text is located in Vancouver, meaning not available to me (or most of the readers of this blog) (although there are some in Vancouver! Hi!), I’m inspired to start my own letter-writing club with friends. Wouldn’t that be fun?

[PS - now seems an appropriate time to publicly thank

my awesome brother-in-law, from whom I received a

mix cd in the mail last night! An old playlist of duets

he and my sister love that he'd burned for me once before

when I was younger and had since lost.]

[Regional Assembly of Text website]

September 15, 2010

Curated by:
Eliza Coleman

Section:
LustList

Labels:
paper stuff, store

Andy Warhol-Illustrated Blue Note Covers

Did you know that Andy Warhol did illustrations for a few of the Blue Note covers in the late 1950s when he was still working as a commercial artist and had not yet achieved any acclaim? I am loving the one above.

Are you surprised to see something by Warhol in this expressionistic (and non-pop) style? Doesn’t the drawing of the woman look very much like a Matisse drawing??

I’ve just dived head-long into what might be aptly described as an obsession with Blue Note and especially the 1500 and early 4000 series covers art directed by Reid Miles and commonly featuring photography by Francis Wolff.

Many more to come, they are a rich visual history of graphic design, typography, photography, illustration, and the hard bop era of New York jazz…

[More info on Blue Note here]
[Catalog of covers here]

September 15, 2010

Curated by:
Eliza Coleman

Section:
LustList

Labels:
Graphic Design, illustration, jazz

"A Love Story"

“A Love Story,” a video for Spring/Summer ’11 by GANT by Michael Bastian.

Love Michael Bastian, LOVE the styling of this video. All the class and elegance of an old movie plus the hazy warmth of a wonderful dream.

I’ve watched this about five times now, maybe hoping my dreams tonight will look like this.

Directed by Carl Axel-Wahlstrom.

September 14, 2010

Curated by:
Eliza Coleman

Section:
Must See

Labels:
fashion, menswear, must see, retro, video

Hedi Slimane

Just came across these on Hedi Slimane’s photo diary (profiled with some of my fave pics of his back here)…

September 14, 2010

Curated by:
Eliza Coleman

Section:
Style Files

Labels:
Photography

This is real.

Photos by Alain Delorme, shot in Shanghai.

Maybe the US could cut emissions if we started shipping commodities this way…

Move Green moving company has got nothing on this guy… Who needs to plant a tree for every move when you can move a whole house full of furniture on a wheelbarrow?

[Alain Delorme]
[TrendLand]

September 14, 2010

Curated by:
Eliza Coleman

Section:
Arts Visuels

Labels:
Arts Visuels

SpY >> Looks like Fall

By Spanish street artist SpY

September 13, 2010

Curated by:
Eliza Coleman

Section:
Arts Visuels

Labels:
Arts Visuels, Street Art

Beyond Pen & Ink >> Fashion Week’s Most Original Invitations

A feather for your cap was included with Candela’s invite.

Alice + Olivia’s invite came in a faux-croc passport case you can actually use for your passport!

Leifsdottir’s chic ribbon-esque invite is actually a slap-bracelet. A little more sophisticated than the (Lisa Frank) ones I had back in the day…

Who wouldn’t want to get a box of macarons in the mail? Clever move by Honor.

Inside the Tommy Hilfiger box, under the glass, is a boxwood!

[Refinery29]

September 13, 2010

Curated by:
Eliza Coleman

Section:
Graphic Fix

Labels:

Tastemakers >> Badgley Mischka

Still seriously loving the Kentucky home of Mark Badgley and James Mischka, as photographed for Elle Decor.

This photo above always gets me, I like pretty much every element… the color-coordinated cookbooks + hanging pots and pans + white subway tile + high-contrast countertop + brass drawer hardware.

Lots of my favorite things for a dining room– built-in bookshelves, cozy size, dark walls… Interesting that the books on the bookshelves provide almost the only color throughout the house.

Notice that the house has almost no color (other than the books on the bookshelves)– they make great use of contrasting whites and black and warm it up with lots of wood tones and shades of leather. Also no patterns other than plaid! Sounds like it would be severe but it’s not!

Love this bedroom.

The walls of most of the rooms Sherwin Williams Modern Gray, according to the article in Elle Decor.

Badgley is actually a serious horse-person, so they fully refurbished the barn and riding ring for his two show-horses, Brando and Cooper, so named “because they are so good-looking.” Ha!