lemeowlemew - whimsical mewsings of a felicitous gal

Valentino Couture Spring 2012//Part 1

2012-02-16T21:01:00.010+01:00

French Ephemera//Postcards

2012-02-16T20:55:00.004+01:00

Valentino Couture Spring 2012//Part 2

2012-02-16T20:23:00.013+01:00

Redouté//Roses

2012-02-16T20:18:00.004+01:00

Valentino Couture Spring 2012//Part 3

2012-02-16T19:20:00.022+01:00

Agatha Christie//Murder on the Orient Express

2012-02-15T15:54:00.003+01:00

Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Vanessa Redgrave, Sean Connery ~
why have i never seen this??!!

Just a Kitty Valentine...

2012-02-14T22:23:00.000+01:00

Animal Loves...

2012-02-14T20:24:00.002+01:00

today's animal love pics captured by National Geographic

Egon Schiele//Lovers

2012-02-14T17:15:00.002+01:00

Auguste Rodin//Kiss

2012-02-14T16:36:00.001+01:00

Henri Matisse//The Heart

2012-02-14T16:25:00.003+01:00

Emily Dickinson//Come Slowly - Eden (211)

2012-02-14T15:51:00.000+01:00

Come slowly—Eden
Lips unused to Thee—
Bashful—sip thy Jessamines
As the fainting Bee—

Reaching late his flower,
Round her chamber hums—
Counts his nectars—
Enters—and is lost in Balms.

May Swenson//Little Lion Face

2012-02-14T15:48:00.002+01:00

Little lion face
I stopped to pick
among the mass of thick
succulent blooms, the twice

streaked flanges of your silk
sunwheel relaxed in wide
dilation, I brought inside,
placed in a vase. Milk

of your shaggy stem
sticky on my fingers, and
your barbs hooked to my hand,
sudden stings from them

were sweet. Now I'm bold
to touch your swollen neck,
put careful lips to slick
petals, snuff up gold

pollen in your navel cup.
Still fresh before night
I leave you, dawn's appetite
to renew our glide and suck.

An hour ahead of sun
I come to find you. You're
twisted shut as a burr,
neck drooped unconscious,

an inert, limp bundle,
a furled cocoon, your
sun-streaked aureole
eclipsed and dun.

Strange feral flower asleep
with flame-ruff wilted,
all magic halted,
a drink I pour, steep

in the glass for your
undulant stem to suck.
Oh, lift your young neck,
open and expand to your

lover, hot light.
Gold corona, widen to sky.
I hold you lion in my eye
sunup until night.

Maureen McLane//syntax

2012-02-14T15:36:00.000+01:00

and if
I were to say
I love you and
I do love you
and I say it
now and again
and again
would you say
parataxis
would you see
the world revolves
anew
its axis
you

ee cummings//somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond

2012-02-14T15:33:00.000+01:00

somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
any experience,your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near
your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully,mysteriously)her first rose
or if your wish be to close me, i and
my life will shut very beautifully ,suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;
nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility:whose texture
compels me with the color of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing
(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens;only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody,not even the rain,has such small hands

Elizabeth Barrett Browning//Sonnet 43

2012-02-14T15:24:00.001+01:00

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace.
I love thee to the level of every day's
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for right.
I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.

Whitney Houston...

2012-02-13T15:52:00.005+01:00

Model Moment//Liu Wen

2012-02-10T15:36:00.026+01:00

Julia Holter//In The Same Room

2012-02-10T15:30:00.000+01:00

Deborah Turbeville//Haunting Romanticism

2012-02-10T15:15:00.006+01:00

see the slideshow with commentary from the artist, here...

Pearls of Wisdom

2012-02-10T14:49:00.005+01:00

Brigitte Bardot//Original Sex Kitten

2012-02-09T21:59:00.023+01:00

"They may call me a sinner, but I am at peace with myself."

"I was just a cheap little starlet hardly acting at all in a very mediocre film."

"When you're thirty you're old enough to know better, but still young enough to go ahead and do it."

“A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.”

"what does it mean, being a woman..."

"I`m a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a bohemian."

“I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful much adulated, very famous and very unhappy”

"Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it."

"I have always adored beautiful young men. Just because I grow older, my taste doesn`t change. So if I can still have them, why not?"

Brigitte Bardot//... And God Created Woman

2012-02-09T21:02:00.003+01:00

Neil Krug//Pulp Modern

2012-02-09T19:39:00.006+01:00

Random Assortment//Hot Pinks & Yellows

2012-02-08T15:31:00.005+01:00

Amy King//The Darling Heart of Winter

2012-02-07T22:35:00.004+01:00

I see you from faraway,almost from
noon. You walk through the studies
of literary history as a stand in for worn-out
clouds that never shed footnotes. They
were burnt by the sun's black chalk
approach and dollar bills gazing on a land
of characters fast asleep. We may still
cleanse them with a figment
of our primal indifference. Staples pages
hold greatness in trajectory. You suggest
with open mouth we leave the faculty party
to prevent a thumping rain where under down
pour, dried ink on hands softens and masks
words in talk white bubbles through which
we speak to recount our mutated birthrights.
Not all time forgives discursive acts.
Even within, we pray sequins reflect
the weather in tints. Later we see a key,
and enter home, at least, a sepia photo
of a front door opening. Nothing reflected
we left in it. We stayed up all night coloring
winter in. Before us, someone will come
to adjust in treasure map lines a planet
this day furthest away, departure taxi.

Bouchra Jarrar//Spring Couture 2012

2012-02-07T22:12:00.000+01:00

more about the designer, here...

Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi Black ft. Norah Jones

2012-02-06T22:46:00.001+01:00

Gnarls Barkley//Crazy

2012-02-06T22:21:00.002+01:00

Cee Lo//Sparkle Frock//My Favorite Part of the Super Bowl

2012-02-06T22:13:00.002+01:00

Anoushka Shankar//Your Eyes

2012-02-03T14:46:00.002+01:00

Norah Jones//Come Away With Me//Live @ Ancienne

2012-02-02T16:47:00.000+01:00

Norah Jones & Matt Ward//Blue Bayou

2012-02-02T16:34:00.000+01:00

M. Ward//The First Time I Ran Away

2012-02-02T16:29:00.002+01:00

Dear Martha Stewert//Teacup Lights How-To

2012-01-31T17:10:00.005+01:00

What a wonderful way to make use of the wedding china from my failed marriage!

Tools and Materials
Nested pans
Partially burned candles
Candy or candle thermometer
Tongs
New wicking
Teacups
Wick sustainers
Wooden skewers

Teacup Lights How-To

1. In a small pan set over a larger pan of simmering water, melt down old candles; clip the thermometer to the upper pot, and keep temperature at about 185 degrees. Remove old wicks with tongs.

2. Cut a piece of wicking to the cup's height plus 2 inches. Clamp one end to a wick sustainer; tie the other end around a skewer. Dip wicking and sustainer into melted wax to coat them. Remove and stick sustainer to cup's bottom.

3. Pour in the wax, stopping 1/2 inch below the cup's rim. Allow wax to set, about 1 hour. The candle will harden with a well in the center. To even it out, use another skewer to prick a circle of holes about 1/16 inch deep around the wick. Pour in melted wax until surface is 1/4 inch below rim. Cut wick.

Thanks Martha!

Elie Saab//Fun Flirty Frocks, 2012

2012-01-30T21:25:00.011+01:00

Wolf Kahn//Destroyed Woodland, 2009

2012-01-30T21:05:00.001+01:00

Wolf Kahn//Broad Side of a Barn, 2009

2012-01-30T21:03:00.001+01:00

Jane Taylor//The Violet

2012-01-30T16:20:00.000+01:00

Down in a green and shady bed
A modest violet grew;
Its stalk was bent, it hung its head,
As if to hide from view.

And yet it was a lovely flower,
Its colors bright and fair;
It might have graced a rosy bower,
Instead of hiding there.

Yet there it was content to bloom,
In modest tints arrayed;
And there diffused a sweet perfume,
Within the silent shade.

Then let me to the valley go,
This pretty flower to see;
That I may also learn to grow
In sweet humility.

Johnny Depp//Cry Baby//Kissing

2012-01-27T20:36:00.000+01:00

Random Assortment//Black & White

2012-01-27T17:49:00.006+01:00

Model Moment//Joan Smalls 2012

2012-01-26T22:23:00.026+01:00

Lenny Kravitz//Are You Gonna Go My Way

2012-01-26T21:08:00.001+01:00

Lenny Kravitz//Fly Away

2012-01-26T21:08:00.000+01:00

Fionna Apple//Criminal

2012-01-26T20:59:00.001+01:00

Flickr Vintage Covers//Naughty Naughty Girls

2012-01-26T20:53:00.006+01:00

Etsy Find//Scarlet Tentacle

2012-01-26T20:17:00.021+01:00

DIY sex positive/whimsical tongue-in-... you get the idea... more here

Maurizio Anzeri//Embroidered Evolution

2012-01-25T17:10:00.008+01:00

"I see portraits as landscapes. And I explore them in order to layer them with my own maps of orientation. I have always been fascinated by Darwin's ideas of evolution. With my embroidery I invent other possible evolutionary dimension for the people pictured. I re-invent them and enmesh them into new forms of visual kinship, another way to capture reality."~~ Maurizio Anzeri

Random Assortment

2012-01-25T16:46:00.004+01:00

Amy King//Slightly Parted Thighs

2012-01-25T16:19:00.004+01:00

The bourbon won't let me sleep,
my pedagogical rose.

I touch you and leave you
alone like white pepper.

As though to come right up
against that which is not you.

Abut or adrift, dovetail moonshine:
I enjoy the burning eyes in somber words.

Likewise beside me, the knitting missionary
on the subway train forgives my bag against him.

M. Ward//Chinese Translation

2012-01-25T15:05:00.002+01:00

Alphonse Mucha//Precious Stones, 1900

2012-01-25T15:00:00.005+01:00

amethyst

ruby

topaz

emerald

Me

2012-01-24T21:44:00.002+01:00

Tara Dougans//Like a Moth...//2011

2012-01-24T20:10:00.004+01:00

more about the lovely Tara, here...

Arctic Hare//Tundra Ball o' Pouf

2012-01-24T17:15:00.010+01:00

Brilliant white winter
coat, so thick and dense
snuggling/sharing
warmth in the cold night.

more about this beauty, here...

Karolina Kurkova//Willy Venderperre//Vogue China February 2012

2012-01-24T17:12:00.004+01:00

Lollia Candle//The Air I'm Breathing No. 50

2012-01-24T17:01:00.004+01:00

Brisk air
Leaves you breathless.
Orange Blossom & Fresh Petals
Fresh with possibility.

Key Ingredients:
Top Notes: Orange Blossom, Bergamot
Middle Notes: White Tea, Bamboo, Pressed Petals
Bottom Notes: Nutmeg, Ginger Root, Thyme

Modern English//I Melt With You

2012-01-24T15:06:00.000+01:00

She&Him//You Really Gotta Hold on Me

2012-01-24T15:05:00.000+01:00

Maggie Estep//Stalk Me

2012-01-23T19:53:00.003+01:00

Liner Notes - (from Love Is A Dog From Hell)

My friend Jenny is really
worried that people are going to follow me around and send me dead animal
parts and doll heads as a result of this song but please, if you feel inclined
to send me dead animal parts, think it through. Thanks.

Stalk me
I once wrote a poem called FUCK ME
So stalk me
I'm asking for it
Don't take your medication
Stalk ME

Write to me and say
Dear Maggie I love what you do
You've got a really big mouth
Actually your mouth is a little too big
Anyone ever tell you what a big-mouthed bitch you are
God, you know I'm kinda sick of you
I mean, what's so great about you
How come you got on TV
I could do that
You ain't shit
You suck
I hate you
but I love you
I love you because I hate you
Can I have your children?
Will you shack up with me?

Oh sure
I'll shack up with you
I love stalkers
Especially when they hate me
But you knew that
That's why you stalk me
You're not fooled by my clever ruse
Bitch goddess? I think not
I'm just a sucker for punishment
So punish me
Spank me
Dominate my sock drawer
And stalk me

Don't stalk Jodie Foster, David Letterman or John S. Hall
Don't go through their trash
Their trash is boring
play with my trash
Hurry, I'm waiting
I'm pleading
Just come on and do it
Chew me choke me and stalk me
That'll teach me to write all that goddamned poetry

Naive//Elegant//Restless//Passionate

2012-01-23T19:30:00.003+01:00

Leanne Shapton//Pattern Paintings

2012-01-23T14:53:00.002+01:00

Lollia Candles//Tomorrow No. 77

2012-01-23T14:50:00.006+01:00

Moment to moment
Willing the day ever closer.
Eager anticipation
wrapped in the warmth of
Crusched Fig & Walnut

Key Ingredients:
Top: White Orchid
Middle: Crushed Fig, Cypress, WalnutBottom: Cardamom, Amber, White Pepper

Purl Soho//Fabric Assortment

2012-01-23T14:44:00.003+01:00

www.purlsoho.com

Lollia Candles//In The Morning Light #05

2012-01-23T09:18:00.007+01:00

Daybreak
Melts away the night.
Traces of
Sweet Mandarin & Linden Blossom
Kissing sun-flecked waking lids.
Key Ingredients:Top Notes: Meyer Lemon, Clementine, Mandarin, Nerol Middle Notes: Jasmine, Fresh Cut Greens, Linden
Bottom Notes: Lilac, Bois de Rose, Exotic Woods

Imogene Heap//Let Go

2012-01-20T20:51:00.000+01:00

Going Out/Of/Side//GIA Magazine #8

2012-01-19T21:06:00.003+01:00

Grimes//Vanessa

2012-01-19T16:06:00.003+01:00

Chromatics//Lady

2012-01-19T16:04:00.000+01:00

Lykke Li//Dance Dance Dance

2012-01-19T15:56:00.000+01:00

Santigold//Lights Out

2012-01-19T15:54:00.002+01:00

Leanne Shapton// Night Portrait Series

2012-01-18T16:22:00.004+01:00

more about the artist, here...

I Like Oysters...

2012-01-13T16:34:00.014+01:00

1. Hog Island Sweetwater, CA
“From Northern California—these Pacific oysters are sweet and creamy, with a mineral finish.”

2. Mermaid Strait, PEI
“Canadian Atlantic oysters with a briny smoothness, and hint of cucumber.”

3. Fishing Creek James River, VA
“From the famed Chesapeake Bay, these larger oysters are salty and succulent.”

4. Island Creek, MA
“Buttery and briny, these cold-water oysters have a wonderful clean taste.”

5. Peconic Bay, Long Island
“Plump, savory, with a trace of buttery finish.”

6. Kusshi, BC
“Small in size, big in flavor. Originating in Japan, these Canadian gems are sweet, clean and creamy.”

7. Belon, ME
“A distinctly different species, originally from Northern France, these flat-shelled oysters are mild with a pleasing metallic tang.”

A Festive Selection from Chef April Bloomfield's Latest Restaurant
Swallow Magazine editor James Casey has provided tasting notes

excerpt borrowed from Nowness.com

Random Assortment//Black & White

2012-01-13T15:54:00.006+01:00

Egon Schiele//Desire & Decay

2012-01-12T21:01:00.003+01:00

more about the artist, here...

Air//Moon Rock

2012-01-12T20:14:00.005+01:00

Air: Moon Rock on Nowness.com.
French ambient electronica band Air impart a cosmic touch to the newly restored color edition of George Méliès’ iconic 1902 film Le Voyage dans la Lune (A Trip to the Moon). Technically innovative at the time, Méliès’ masterpiece pioneered the use of trompe l’oeil objects, papier-mâché props and double-exposure to tell the first science fiction tale in cinema. The story sees astronomer Professeur Barbenfouillis, played by Méliès, fire himself and six colleagues to the moon, explore caverns beneath the surface and escape from the indigenous insectoid Selenites. The color reel, hand-painted by Méliès, was discovered in 1993 by the Spanish film archive La Filmoteca de Catalunya and took almost two decades to restore. Unveiled at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and due for release on DVD this coming February, the new print’s kaleidoscopic palette highlights the movie’s hallucinatory aspects—something Air wanted to match with their soundtrack. “We wanted to give a very surrealistic touch to the movie,” says the group’s Jean-Benoît Dunckel. “Music has to make you leave the Earth.” The Versailles-born musicians, who previously soundtracked Sofia Coppola’s directorial debut The Virgin Suicides, composed an entire album inspired by the film, eliciting vocal contributions from Au Revoir Simone and Victoria Legrand of Beach House. “When the people talk [in the film] we decided to use animal sounds,” explains bandmate Nicolas Godin. “We wanted to do the opposite of Walt Disney. He takes animals and makes them speak with human voices. We have farm noises and elephants.”

Georges Fouquet//Art Nouveau Jewels

2012-01-12T16:12:00.011+01:00

Alphonse Mucha//The Arts Series, 1898

2012-01-12T15:56:00.006+01:00

Florence & The Machine//Cosmic Love

2012-01-11T17:37:00.000+01:00

Kevin Cooley//Iceland

2012-01-11T16:27:00.004+01:00

http://www.kevincooley.net/

Kevin Cooley//Devil's Churn

2012-01-11T16:18:00.001+01:00

Devil's Churn from KC+BB on Vimeo. more on the artist, here...

Brad Pitt's Characters

2012-01-10T22:35:00.004+01:00

i don't know where i found this gem... can you name them all? (without using imdb?)

Hair Styles of the 1st Ladies

2012-01-10T22:12:00.004+01:00

can you name them all? more info, here...

Etsy Find//Earth Sea Warrior

2012-01-10T19:10:00.016+01:00

EarthSeaWarrior by ursula is a unique boutique specializing in the reconstruction of paleontological artifacts and industrial relics. ursula seriously fancies the use of specimens left behind by nature and/or machine and uses these curiosities to redesign whatchamacallits for the neo-nostalgic collector.

visit her etsy store, here...

Cecilia Borromeo//Restless

2012-01-10T15:43:00.003+01:00

It is that perennial immateriality dwelling between living and dying
crouched in the corners and grappling by the hinges
only to remain unseen;
We weave our web of what we believe we understand
of the relationship of our acts and events
only to remain misunderstood;
From that odd wisp of steam of heated discussions
to the urgent hiss of a new page calling;
I teeter on that thin ice --
That single space of uncertainty --
And I ask
"What am I doing here?"

Céleste Boursier-Mougenot//Sound Artist

2012-01-10T14:22:00.002+01:00

Two sound installations untitled (series #3) and index (v.4) by French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot create a special sonic atmosphere in EMPAC’s lobby spaces. The first involves floating bowls and glasses in several pools of moving water. As these objects touch, the space is filled with their fleeting, floating music. The other sounds moving through the lobby come from two computer-played pianos. The music is an articulation of EMPAC staff's typing activity. Software written by the artist maps linguistic properties to musical properties, translating letters, phrases, and punctuation into aspects of musical language like pitch, dynamics, repetitions, and chords. More here...

Céleste Boursier-Mougenot//Barbican Centre, London

2012-01-10T14:11:00.002+01:00

Trained as a musician and composer, French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot creates works by drawing on the rhythms of daily life to produce sound in unexpected ways. His installation for The Curve will take the form of a walk-though aviary for a flock of zebra finches, furnished with electric guitars and other instruments and objects. As the birds go about their routine activities, perching on or feeding from the various pieces of equipment, they create a captivating, live soundscape. more about the venue, here...

Fred Lebain//Flavoured Series

2012-01-09T21:27:00.004+01:00

RandomAssortment

2012-01-06T17:38:00.009+01:00

ArcticFox//CovertCuddlyCuteness

2012-01-05T21:30:00.008+01:00

more about this super soft creature, here...

ItsBeenAwhile...

2012-01-03T18:55:00.002+01:00

Christmas vacation with trips to VT and Montreal gave me a break from daily life. I'll be back soon with more postings!

TheLittlestClydesdale...

2011-12-22T17:26:00.000+01:00

Elvis//BlueChristmas

2011-12-22T17:08:00.000+01:00

Elvis//SantasBackInTown

2011-12-22T17:07:00.003+01:00

TheDrifters//WhiteChristmas

2011-12-21T17:21:00.001+01:00

TheDrifters//SweetsForMySweet

2011-12-21T16:32:00.000+01:00

WayneThiebaud//ZenSweetness

2011-12-21T15:03:00.007+01:00

Olivia Frolich//SugarySweetness

2011-12-20T23:09:00.005+01:00

Look@Me//Video by Lullu Brandt & Olivia Frølich

2011-12-20T23:05:00.002+01:00

Look at Me from Frederik Säll on Vimeo.

AlexanderStraulino//

2011-12-20T21:31:00.005+01:00

http://www.studiostraulino.com/