treasure

I got two beautiful little, smaller than A5, magazines from the car boot sale.
'London Life' from May 1955. 

'SPAN', May 1955

need to keep this safe, from James

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Natsko Seki

This guy amongst the guy below and many other wonderful designers are exhibiting at Pick Me Up starting this weekend at Somerset House...major fail that I didn't book train tickets when they weren't £80...

www.natsko.com

this is wonderful

Job Wouters/Letman HAND DRAWN

This guy does all his type by hand.
Praise the lord.

Perfect shelf...

lily m

http://open.spotify.com/track/4vEgAECU7lpIoUrksbfIDy

Calypso Blues

I adore Calypso Rose' version...

music, old tapes, old records found by james

Whilst in London with James I've been lucky enough to have been listening to some great music from found tapes with old John Peel radio sessions on and some hip hop reggae mixes on some tapes given to James by a friend, to numerous records from his collection. It's so lovely for people to share their interests and fascination in music through mixtapes and record collections etc.
I've since found some dodgey mini disc tapes I made and listened to when I was younger, I'm sure they will provide some nice nostalgia and embarassment. Also found my mini disc player, cassette player and gameboy colour with two Pokemon games and Worms hahah. Joy.

Also today James showed me this ace little stall near Old Street that sells amazing magazines often a few months old for £1 each...got some beauties.

I reckon I'll need some nice boxes for hoarding things. Theres some gorgeous painted fruit boxes being chucked out on brick lane all the time...mmmmmm.

Aint no time like the present.

mmm illustration

I really want to draw after looking at this :

http://www.higginsonhurst.com

Walked past a building site and the boards surrounding it had artwork from the HigginsonHurst Illustration Agency.

Wunderbar.

studio music time

thanks to the person who was playing a good playlist this afternoon in the studio, with this song on it. Not heard it in tiiiiime, and it happened to fit perfectly for a typography project I'm trying to do.

Video quality isn't that great but its nice.

some more M.I.A loving, found on Cockburn Street

Tomer Hanuka

In love with these prints for Some Young Punks wine...shame I hadn't heard he was selling limited edition prints in feb..

http://www.thanuka.com/

and...

mmmmm posters http://omgposters.com

hahaha so good

Americans just don't get it

...

comfy comfy

yes please

y'know like my face on a sneaker is a trip y'know

sooo, I've been doing my research portfolio on collaborations between street art and streetwear.
Along my way I came across this cringey video of Slick trying to string a sentence together and sound cool but failing...

"Like my FACE on a sneaker is a trip y'know? Like my boys from Hawaii are gonna trip out y'know like daaaaaaaaammmmnnn y'know? I'm the first boy from Hawaii to have their face on an Adidas sneaker."



Shut upppp. Nowadays it's not really that cool to be associated with the giants like Adidas if you're bothered about quality of the product and the ethos behind the product...
(you should see the Adidas Originals Girls S/S 10 collection promo video, its even has that girl from The City in it AAAAHHH HOW AMAZING....)

Instead check out (if you haven't already) these exciting brands and distributors. They are much cooler, much better and yeah just go look.

Patta http://www.patta.nl/index2.php

Norse Projects http://www.norseprojects.com/ 
(I looove)

Supreme http://www.supremenewyork.com/

Stussy http://www.stussy.com

oki-ni http://www.oki-ni.com/

mmm hello

freaky

"James Gilroy right...u probs know that this song was number one when you where born...but the scary thing is she's kinda like you...the dancing! and the opening line about her friends thinking she's crazy... and look at fatboy slim on the bass. xxx"

handmade

Aww thank you to me buddies who have made my 20th a real good birthday :)

Here's some sweet handmade cards I was given!

Made by my sister Alison http://alison-hayes.co.uk/

Made by my James :) http://1netrickpony.blogspot.com/

by Robbie

and a beautiful card from Mother and Father Hayes, made and bought in Venice!

from brother George :), Ge Feng

Also thank you to Amy for my pot of mallow fluff and baking book :) and to brother George for an amazing photography book, 'Photo-Wisdom., Master Photographers on Their Art'. 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/photography/6780947/Photo-wisdom-master-photographers-on-their-art.html 

And to Aunty Susan & Co, Grandpa and Grandma and anyone I've missed!

Thank you James for a wonderful weekend! Everyone should go here once in their life...http://www.thewitchery.com/, unforgettable.