Looks a-mah-zing
Stay Golden
17 MayLove Gold? Me too. I used to be a silver person, but I just love how warm gold is and how it looks good against every skin colour (my opinion). Check out some gold beauties I scouted:
Love this gold camera! My only concern is that the gold would reflect and make you look squinty in pictures?
Oh. So squinty is ok.
This hair mist promises a sun-kissed shimmer, on a blonde? Gold.
Holy Grail Glorious Gold nailpolish by A England, why should the base of your fingers get all the bling?
A chunky statement watch at a fool’s gold price. $38 from Urban Outfitters.
I LOVE metallic sandals. People seem to shy away from flashy sandals, but they look so amazing on a tanned foot. By Diane Von Furstenberg.
Lastly the beautiful Beatles song Golden Slumbers, Enjoy:
Battle Royale – Watch It!
15 MaySo here is a movie that I kept thinking was a Jame Bond movie (Casino Royale, they are 2 different movies). I first became aware of this movie while wandering through HMV seeing the cover of the DVD and thinking it looked neat:
I guess the story goes that this movie was made in 2000, but this year was re-released due to the fact that it is basically a Japanese Hunger Games. It is a really good movie. Totally interesting from the first couple of minutes. It’s a little gory, so if you’re not into violence and stuff like that then it’s maybe not for you. I found it to be less intense then Hunger Games. I was on the edge of my seat the entire movie, but for Battle Royale, it was slightly less scary for some reason. There were actually some semi-funny parts. I’m not going to explain the premise of the movie, but it’s literally the same as Hunger Games, the only difference is that it’s a class of kids instead of a district. The kids are being punished because they started being the jerks of society and grown ups have had enough.
I definitely recommend this movie if you can get your hands on it!
Tags: battle royale, hunger games, movie review
Melancholia – Skip It?
13 MaySo Melancholia the movie. Have you seen it? Have you heard of it? I remember hearing about it around Golden Globe times I think and I heard what it was about and I was like, hey that sounds cool. I finally saw it a couple of weeks ago and it was WEIRD. Like, really weird. I didn’t dislike the movie, I think the acting was good, there was a lot of atmosphere, it was beautifully filmed and the characters were interesting. Having said that I spent a lot of the film being really confused and slightly bored. Also I spent a lot of the film saying “Why’d they do that” “Why would he do that?” “Why is she doing that?!” I guess I didn’t understand the characters.
Basically the movie is about a depressed woman played by Kirsten Dunst, who I like. Also it’s about the end of the world. It’s a weird balance. It’s really weird because the wedding in the beginning of the movie goes on for a substantial amount of time, but then towards the end of the movie you wonder why it was so long, it really has nothing to do with how the movie ends. I think it’s just one of those movies where you have to be really smart to figure out what’s going down. Like, her sadness represents something, and this represents something, yadda yadda etc. I didn’t get it. I also didn’t get Mullholland Drive, but I know people who liked that movie, so if you’re into really confusing possibly deep movies that don’t make a lot of sense to average folk like me I say Go For It! If you like movies that you can sort of figure out, or you have a bad attention span, or you like when movies have a plot that you can follow I say Skip It! What say Ye?
Kirsten gettin her cray-cray on
Tags: kirsten dunst, melancholia, movie review
Many Many New Paintings
7 MayHello! I managed to accomplish things last week for once! Hooray! Check out these paintings, if you like them, buy them, then I can buy new glasses or get my bike painted!
Cat Face, Acrylic on canvas 7″ square, $50
Jumping Fox – 7″ square acrylic on canvas – $50
Gold Feathers – Acrylic on canvas – 16″x20″ – $60
Blue Green Call It Topaz – 6″ x 36″ – $130
Topaz – 8″ square acrylic on canvas – $50
Tags: cat face painting, feather painting, Fox painting, geomeric painting, kristen lourie painting, topaz painting, Winnipeg art, winnipeg painting
Alvaro Tapia Hidalgo @ Society 6
4 MayI think I’ve posted about Society 6 before, the amazing resource of affordable art prints that you could spend a life time sifting through. I wanted to post some prints from one of my favourites on the site, Alvaro Tapia Hidalgo:
Catwoman
Untitled
Vampire
I don;’t know how he does it, it almost looks like it’s done digitally? Who knows, all I know is it’s brilliant.
I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead – Skip it
2 MayThis weekend we watched a Clive Owen movie called “I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead”. We hadn’t heard anything about it, but it did have Clive Own in it which usually means it’s going to be good. It’s from 2003 and is available to watch on NetFlix.
I imagine most people probably have a subscription to NetFlix? We unfortunately have a subscription to the Canadian NetFlix which means an extremely limited number of titles to pick from. We’ve watch some good movies, but there is seriously a lot of crap that I’m pretty sure only the parents of the people who made the movies have watched. It’s a sincere hope that someday the Candian Netflix rivals the American version in selection. Sigh.
Anyways, so we see I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead, it’s about a retired mobster whose brother is found dead in a bathtub and then he gets revenge. Sounds like a recipe for awesome. But it’s actually really really slow moving. There was a scene where I swear Clive Owen was reading paperwork for like a minute and it was just a shot of the other guy watching Clive Owen read. I was like C’mon!!!! Also really confusing is that Clive Owen is like 30 something in the movie and his ex-girlfriend is literally 60. I thought for half the movie she was his mom, it was very confusing. I’m sure England had a 30 something year old woman who could have said like 10 lines the actress had and it would have been a lot less confusing. So Basically 90% of the movie is Clive Owen basically doing nothing with this other guy who is always yelling and 5% is a really weird rape scene and the other 5% is revenge. Not a good combo, I do not recommend. If you want though, here is the IMDB page with the trailer.
