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“Designer Gas Masks

We are in a state of perpetual war - with ourselves and with the eco-system that sustains us. Perpetual war breeds perpetual fear. In this present context, our fear stems from our extreme desire for authenticity and and manifests itself in our collectively insatiable culture of consumption

Deep down, we are afraid we may never be satisfied.
An extending branded myths and icons feed this fear.
Designer Gask Masks is an attempt to visualise this state of mind
Because it is only first by acknowledging
then challenging that we will be able to breathe a little easier.”

Pictures and text from diddovelema.com via sucker4clothes.wordpress.com

I know this is art, for commentary’s sake.. and I love it for that.

I can kinda understand the branded mobile phones, tennis rackets and bicycles, but can you imagine if these gas masks were to really materialise and go on sale?!

Gasp.

These are A FEW? of my favourite things?

I was looking up some photographs when I found Jeong Mee Yoon’s “The Pink Project”. Yoon was inspired by her 5-year-old daughter’s love for pink and decided to photograph all of her daughter’s favourite pink objects - be it toys, books or stationery. She went on to photograph other parents’ daughters and sons together with their favourite items.

Photos from artnet.com

W. O. W. these kids sureee are lucky. They boys even have a hint of smug on their faces! I like spending money and shopping for myself, but I love buying/making gifts too. But having a kid is like, buying stuff for one whole other person! How will I bear to spend thattt much! I can’t imagine.

But why the pink for girls and blue for boys? What about all the colours in between! You know how infants have their photographs taken right after they’ve popped out, the girls are always in pink and the boys are always in blue, and all the gifts from friends and relatives are all colour coded.

When I have my own kids, I want colours like magenta, plum, lime green, canary yellow and all the other yummy colours.

Actually, I need all these colours in my cupboard now.

I put all my clothes into to cupboard, one consists of all the clothes with black and dark colours, the other with white and light colours.

You will see that I am in dire need of a wardrobe detox when I put up pictures, haha.

I think if I laid out all my favourites they’d form a very depressing grayscale. When I have an option of colour/print v black/white, I usually opt for the latter thinking it’ll be easier to match. Hell yea, now I have a lot of things in the same colour to match.

But it’s okay, I will stock up on PRINTS and BRIGHT HAPPY COLOURS on my trip to Hong Kong, in EXACTLY A WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!

WOOOOOOOOOO.

Picture from facehunter

Check out her necklace yo!

How cool is that! Dish out those doilies and do something funky with it! hahas.

Anyway, I remember seeing an asymmetrical lace necklace for sale on someone’s website, but i cant remember the link and photo )):

But after doing some searching (Google, basically) I came across Rosie Buck’s portfolio. designer jeweller silversmith, her designs are ornate and delicate. Delish!

Pictures from rosiebuck.com

(isn’t the necklace STUNNING?!)

It also got me thinking about chain mail jewelry. If images of men of medieval times in armour wielding swords, hold onto your horses there sister! ;D turns out, chain mail CAN be very delicate too. it took awhile to find presentable pictures… but

Pictures from Silverweaver.com

check out the extensive collection at the silverweaver site!!

who knew you could do so many things!! and its very interesting when the designer uses different coloured chains to create different patterns as well. But i think the variations in sizes of the chains creates the most interesting effects. <3