Monthly Archives: August 2008

Today

By Alice | Published: August 15, 2008

7:30am. Morning sun: Noon. On a walk in the sun with a friend: 6pm. A murder of crows watching me at my desk: I have been wearing Birkenstocks every single day of the summer. But today I put on some normal shoes and ow ow, so uncomfortable in comparison. But they don't do pink silk [...]

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Ices & Earl Grey Sorbet

By Alice | Published: August 14, 2008

At the moment I am reading Ices by Caroline Liddell and Robin Weir, now this is one intelligent cookery book. It had been on my wish list for a while as I had heard it praised highly elsewhere. Well, they were not wrong, I love the historical notes and interesting explanations of how the processes [...]

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This is awesome… Denis Darzacq behind the scenes

By Alice | Published: August 13, 2008

Have you seen The Fall project of photographer Denis Darzacq? Unforgettable! The project is so arresting. Here is a video of behind the scenes: (via swiss miss) Interesting to see how it was done. Made me think about some of the stop motion video projects. Like human snake.Human snake from √Öke Brattberg on Vimeo. You [...]

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On my desk… embroidery

By Alice | Published: August 13, 2008

I haven't done an on my desk in a while! The embroidery is for the cushions for my father. A bit of the ol' chainstitch there. The illustration that I am embroidering is the smiley face that I usually add after signing my name on cards and notes and things. My dad requested it as [...]

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messing

By Alice | Published: August 12, 2008

Just doodling around :)

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