Afternoon Tea
I think this sums up my personality pretty well.
Rediscovering the quirky and experimental Icelandic beauty, Björk.
Hyperballad is one of my all-time favourite Björk tracks from her 1995 album, Post. A mix of a sweet (yet highly structured) melody and insidiously haunting lyrics, the accompanying film-clip was again directed by music video powerhouse Michel Gondry.
Never one to produce things ordinarily, the entire Hyperballad video and all the effects were shot on a single 400 ft roll of film, by multiple exposure and frame-accurate backwinding of the film strip. The graphics were shot as a series of secondary exposures using a TV monitor, and the flashing lights were created with an LED strip board, also exposed on the same piece of film. Extraordinarily, there was no post production or editing at all on this video, except the colour correction transfer to video. This was at the insistence, and under the technical direction of Gondry.
Described in 2007 by The New York Observer as “Still weird after all these years”, it’s a beautiful marriage for such a genre-transcendent musician who’s famously eccentric style and commitment to her artistry is reflected in that of Gondry.
…
I’m back at my cliff
Still throwing things off
I listen to the sounds they make
On their way down
I follow with my eyes ’til they crash
Imagine what my body would sound like
Slamming against those rocks
.
When it lands
Will my eyes
Be closed or open?
Self taught in pattern cutting and tailoring, London-based designer Rachel Freire has never studied fashion. Her influences stem from her love of historical costume combined with futuristic imagery. Behind the dramatic silhouettes and decadent embellishments, the pieces are designed to be wearable, durable, feminine and flattering. Freire and her team also undertake specialist commissioned projects ranging from bespoke couture pieces to entire show creation.
