15 Thursday Sep 2011
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© Lauren DiMarco
Elle ne pas prude, mais ne se dévoile jamais tout de suite. Elle est célébrale, tout en étant sexy. Elle est chic, avec une pointe d’irrévérence. C’est ce twist permanent qui la fait pétiller aux yeux du monde entier.
Tom Pecheux
And she has a heart of gold.
12 Friday Aug 2011
Posted in Art, Crafts, Design, Photography, Reflections
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© Joan Currie
And what is my true nature?… Is mine idealism, spirituality, poetry, imagination, sense of beauty, a need of beauty, a fundamental Rimbaud innocence, a certain purity? I need to create. – Anaïs Nin
I love the sensual biomorphic lines of the vessels in the foreground.
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17 Sunday Jul 2011
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© Rummy Makmur - detail
I‘ve never quite believed that one chance is all I get. – Anne Tyler
No mulligans, no dress rehearsals – this is your life, the green flash before the sun sets. Make the most of it!
Model – Lauren DiMarco
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13 Monday Jun 2011
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© Rummy Makmur
An artist is the sum of his own risks.- Zowie Broach & Brian Kirby
The trend in high fashion photography is to capture a video of the shoot and turn it into a short film – especially if the shoot has a fantasy theme. Here is a beautiful example directed by Rummy Makmur and Anya Zuyeva:
Models – Lauren DiMarco & Aaron Mann
Designer/Stylist – Anya Zuyeva
Hair – Lana Orca
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© Miri Ekshtein
18 Wednesday May 2011
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© Hong An Doan
Fashion fades, only style remains the same. – Coco Chanel
My maternal aunt was a fashionista in the best sense – she wore what suited her regardless of the trends. She had a penchant for couture clothes and became a great fan of the I. Magnin & Company label when she lived in San Francisco beginning in the late 1950s. Being an accomplished seamstress, she often copied the store’s designer gowns right down to the smallest details of construction, fastening, and underskirting.
She never received guests or left the house without being perfectly attired, coiffed, and made-up. Consequently, all the photographs of her portray a beautifully turned out woman – even as an octogenarian.
Model: Lauren DiMarco
13 Friday May 2011
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© Joan Currie = Woodside, California at the Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct's terminus.
I give waters in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people . – Temple inscription from Isaiah 43:20
Architect William Merchant designed this Beaux Arts temple in the 1930s with a classical circle of corinthian columns and an ornate masonry ring. It is located in Woodside, California at the Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct’s terminus. A reflecting pool lies beyond the temple.
The setting is reminiscent of those depicted in high romance novels – the hero and heroine’s secret meeting place.
03 Tuesday May 2011
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© Lauren DiMarco on Oakland Bay Bridge near the Island
Within the portion of San Francisco Bay lying inside the city limits are the natural islands of Alcatraz and Yerba Buena and man-made Treasure Island, created for a world’s fair in 1939 and later turned into a naval base (1941–93). – Encyclopedia Britannica
1. Best location to view San Francisco’s nightscape and holiday fireworks!
2. Spectacular views of San Francisco Bay, especially during Fleet Week in October.
3. Easy access to the city of San Francisco via the Oakland Bay Bridge (no toll required).
4. Former military barracks have been converted to affordable rental housing.
5. Event facilities are available for corporate and private events (such as weddings, concerts).
6. It is home to a feral cat community.
7. Sea lions frequent the waters nearby.
8. Halibut, stripers, rockfish, and shark have been caught from along its western shore.
9. Clipper Cove is home to the Treasure Island Yacht Club.
10. Great spot to view the construction of the eastern span of the Oakland Bay Bridge.
Joan Currie
Model – Lauren DiMarco
21 Thursday Apr 2011
Posted in Garden, Photography, Reflections
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© Joan Currie
…thy roses came to me,
My sense with their deliciousness was spelled.
John Keats
These sumptuous Elsa Peretti-pink tea roses are from an ardent admirer’s garden.
15 Friday Apr 2011
Posted in America's Next Top Model, Fashion, Photography, Reflections
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© Laura Tillinghast
Anne Shirley: You know something, Diana? We are rich. We have sixteen years to our credit, and we both have wonderful imaginations. We should be as happy as queens.
[gestures to the setting sun]
Anne Shirley: Look at that. You couldn’t enjoy its loveliness more if you had ropes of diamonds.
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery, screenplay by Kevin Sullivan and
Joe Wiesenfeld
We are temporary stewards to all that surrounds us.
Model: Khrystyana Kazakova
14 Thursday Apr 2011
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© Joan Currie
Je ne fais pas la mode, je suis la mode.
I don’t do fashion, I am fashion.
Coco Chanel
I spied these elegant silk evening clutches in a Copenhagen shop window.
Satin & Sand 