My friend Gunvor just opened up her new gallery at Bryggen in Bergen a couple of weeks back, so I decided to go down there and take some pictures. You should all go visit her gallery and buy all of her amazing illustrations. Just follow the white rabbit which is located right outside the gallery door.
Gunvor is the queen of small rude monsters and drunk ladies.
Old-school serving-tray with buttons, candy and cards. I just want to eat it all up, including the illustrations.
Monsters and cookies and women in jars! How cool isn’t that?
Apart from the illustrations up on the walls, there are also catalogs with lots of other drawings, so make sure you look through the catalog when you visit as well.
And I laughed myself silly over this zine. Not to mention, a suitcase with glowing flowers! Just because. This little room will make you smile!
So! Go visit Gunvor! Her opening hours: Wednesday, Friday and Saturday from 11-16. The address is Jacobsfjorden, Bryggen Bergen. (Up the stairs over Café Sakristiet). Gunvor also has a website, a blog, and an online shop for those of you who can not visit her gallery in person.
When I went to the Mori Tower a couple of weeks ago to take pictures of the view, I also saw a great exhibition by Lee Bul, “From me, belongs to you only”. I wish it was allowed to take pictures of the exhibition, I could spend hours taking pictures of her beautiful creations, but no pictures were allowed, so I only found these two to show here on the blog. If you are in Tokyo and like contemporary art and design, you should check out the exhibition. Really gorgeous work!
If I ever feel a bit lost on the internet, I pop over to Zefrank and play with the little games. So much fun, and slightly useless, but none the less, very fun, eh… stuff!
From the weekly wiki-binge-pile: In geography, the antipodes of any place on Earth is the point on the Earth’s surface which is diametrically opposite to it.
Ahh, tumblr has so many gorgeous themes, I just updated my two tumblrs with new pretty suits. (You can click the pictures above to visit them.) They are so pretty I almost want to use it as my main blogging platform (apart from the fact that it lacks stuff in other areas which would drive me crazy). I wish there was blogging platforms like this 11 years ago when I didn’t have my own domains and just wanted to experiment, tumblr looks gorgeous – especially compared to the old livejournal themes from 10 years ago. Sigh. Memories. Anyhow – drop your tumblr adress if you have one, I want to see them all 🙂
I was browsing modcloth (all items above are from modcloth.com) just to look around, try to get some inspiration, try to see if anything tickled my fancy. I encountered two problems.
1. I see things I think are cute, but the styles of the things are all over the place (as you can see from the above collection). It is like I have lost any kind of direction in personal style, and mix and matching stuff like this doesn’t always work. It is hard to wear a classy mad-men type of dress and combine it with a pug-party-ring. I don’t know what happened to my sense of taste (or lack thereof), but god, I can not seem to settle for any sort of style. And I have been feeling, maybe for the past two years or so, that I am getting to old for quite a few styles, and I feel that I need to grow up and not dress like a teenager anymore. And I am kind of stumped, because I still come across things that glitters like god and go “ooo! I want that!” even though the item does not match a single thing in my mostly black closet. So – how do you guys solve this? Settle for a style and keep to it?
2. The second “problem” I encountered is not really a problem; I do not feel inclined to actually buy things anymore. I look at things, think they are cute, but I don’t feel that yearning or longing for all sorts of items like I did when I was younger. I can easily walk into several clothing stores now, look through their collections, conclude that yes, certain garments are pretty, but I don’t feel like they are pretty enough to spend my money on them. After I have moved back and forth to Japan, I do not want to carry a shitload of clothes and whatnot with me, and right now I am living in a 5 square meter room, and I simply do not have enough space to keep a huge wardrobe. And it feels strangely liberating. Owning fewer things, getting by fine with fewer things. When I was younger I would keep closet upon closet filled to the brim, but going through old clothes now, I realize that most of the items are unnecessary, so I have thrown most of them away. And you can do it as well! Clean out your closet, and just throw out all the old junk you are never going to wear again. There is no point in letting things clutter up your life. That being said – I miss that feeling of really falling head over heels in love with items. The only thing I have truly been wanting to buy all year was a pair of JC shoes. What do you do to get excited over items? Winter is coming, and I lack a couple of base garments, but I can not bring myself to go out and look for them, because most things are just so utterly uniteresting to me.
