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DJ Stripe

Following on from the last post (Grandmaster Kitten), we have another v.famous nightclub identity: DJ Stripe. DJ Stripe does not do spoken rhyming very much. Instead he likes mixing his favourite discs together in a melange of dance floor wonderfulness. Below are a list of his top five tunes he likes to spin:

1) Eye of the Tiger - Survivor

2) Tiger - Abba

3) What's new Pussycat? - Tom Jones

4) Taming the Tiger - Joni Mitchell

5) Tiger in the Spotlight - Emerson, Lake and Palmer  

And in an aside, the Grandmaster Kitten was featured on the delightful The Pet Museum blog a day or two ago! How nice is that?

Architectural Digest Garden Design Inspiration

Architectural Digest isn't just about buildings and interiors! They have a section where they showcase photos of gardens from around the world. There are all sorts of gardens shown from very trad topiaried gardens with box hedges to wild and scruffy grass gardens. I think my favourites are somewhere in between. I am also very partial to an avenue of trees or a walkway surrounded with foliage. What about you? What are your favourite garden designs?  

All images form Architectural Digest Design files.

Homestead Seattle

Homestead Seattle is a showroom for desirable second hand furniture and pre-loved household items. When new arrivals come into the showroom they are lovingly arranged and photographed for the store's site. It's an absolute pleasure to peruse! 

Book/Shop

 

All this and more at Book/Shop!

Vogue Living

I have been perusing Vogue Living, and I've discovered that it has some great images! See more here ---> Vogue Living.

Miami

Jungle Hues

Cost de la Luz, Spain

Zarathustra - Art Cat

Russian artist Svetlana Petrova likes to photograph and then photoshop her favourite muse, a ginger tom named Zarathustra, into famous artworks. Zarathustra himself explains:

”Our name is Zarathustra. We are a cat. According to our assistant (named by
ignoramuses as our 'owner') we are the best cat in the world...”

Ahem...Zarathustra has his own website---> FatCatArt AND! his own Facebook page---> Zarathustra. What more could one ask for? Entertainment wise, that's my entire weekend taken care of.

Images form Mikapoka and fatcatart.

Floating by Andrea De Santis

I love this image by Andrea De Santis. It's called Floating and it is part of From up North's 40+ of the Best Illustrations of 2014.

Anthropology necklaces X 2

Two big beaded necklaces from Anthropology (here and here). The colour and texture of both, and the way they've been assembled, caught my eye. 

Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns

This delicate book cover is from The National Media Museum's website. It is the front page of a 1843 photography book on ferns by Anna Atkins. 

Wikipedia informs me that there are over 12,000 species of fern. They are the world's most ancient plants having been found as fossils in 400 million year old rocks. Coal is largely made up of fossilised ferns and finally, some ferns are edible (although I'm not sure which ferns are the ones you can eat or where you can find them!).

All images from here.

Vintage New York

A stylish Times Square and below that The Rockefeller Center, Brooklyn Bridge and the Empire State Building as depicted in two very fine vintage postcards  courtesy of blog A Walk in New York. I'm not sure exactly when they were published, but my guess is the 20s or 30s.