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One day at work i could faintly hear a guitar solo that i recognised… initially thinking it was the Frank Ocean song ‘American Wedding’ I ran upstairs, only to discover it wasnt and that i had stumbled across the original which was by the American band The Eagles titled ‘Hotel California’
I love happy accidents x
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The Eagles – ‘Hotel California’
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Frank Ocean – ‘American Wedding’
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Like many late comers I first heard of Kimbra on the Gotye song ‘Somebody That I Used To Know’ since then ive come to really like her style and her voice
this song is one of my faves
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Kimbra Settle Down Video
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Kimbra Settle Down Live
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After rain filled weeks, i was pleasantly suprised on route to work this morning 🙂
i love this advert … its like a replay of my life 😀
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March 18th – ‘Mothers day’   Mothers day dinner with my mum and at….. at Satay Bar BrixtonÂ
March 19th – ‘Pretty Little City’   Journeys home… London West EndÂ
March 20th – ‘goodnight’   usually the best part of my day… i love this place
March 21st – ‘dinner for 1’   late night cooking.
March 22nd – ‘ovo &  xo’   Late night shopping ….London West End…. with Monique & SeemaÂ
March 23rd – ‘silver surfer’   Flashy chrome sports car outside Bonhams…. at Lunch with Seema
March 24th – ‘New Car’   Back from Portsmouth with my new car…. with Mum & TonyÂ
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I thought id give her a listen after hearing her name and seeing her face everywherer… i wont lie, she scares me a little… she has this whole intense yet subtle, sexual emo thing going on (i hope that makes sense :-S) …
I sifted through her album at work it didnt make much of an impression… that being said i am prone to changing my mind. This song somehow stayed with me… enjoy
p.s i really like her face
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Lana Del Rey – Blue Jeans
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‘James Dean… For sure.
    you fit me better than my favourite sweater’
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March 11th – ‘Hillsong London’   Praise and worship at Hillsong Church… with Josephine
March 12th – ‘Double Trouble’   My mums two favourite people… 🙂
March 13th – ‘Street walker’   Cinema with Pandy…. ‘Ozwald Boateng a Mans Story’
March 14th – ‘Freebies’   Lunchtime treats… With Monique
March 15th – ‘Fair weathered friends’   So long Facebook…. for now :-S
March 16th – ‘Breakfast buddies’   Morning Coffee with Stefan… its a shame he cant spell his own name :-p
March 17th – ‘Car Journeys’   On route to Portsmouth to check out a new car for moi!! 🙂
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Easily one of my favourite songs… such a honest and beautiful song with amazing vocals from Miss Monaé and the unnamed male feature…..
i wish i knew whom the male vocalist was :-S
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‘See my father knew best when he said a man should fight for me..’
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Ahh the ways i loved this song!!
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‘something you said made me dream of you to
but am i dreaming cause it feels like im with you <3…’
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Photo shoot with my boss’s newborn baby .. Baby Aria
March 4th – ‘Pancakes’   my favourite kind of breakfast
March 5th – ‘Red Light District’   Journeys home…. Westminster bridge
March 6th – ‘Favourite Things’   love my worker boots.
March 7th – ‘Black Beauty’   at home… working with jet
March 8th – ‘Just the beginning’   an important design meeting with a member of Lambeth Council
March 9th – ‘Employee of the month’   a gift from my boss.. after photographing his new born 🙂
March 10th – ‘Ladies Lunching’   out with miss Seema 🙂
So for this week i couldnt bare not editing my pictures anymore… ive learnt how to not rely on editing, but my goodness i cant bare my life without it :-S… so enjoy the next few series of my diary with a few tweaks 🙂 x
February 26th – ‘chilling’   at home bumming around… loves it
February 27th – ‘Baking’   baking a cake for dad’s birthday
February 28th – ‘We like to partaayy’   Dads surprise birthday gathering…. with Mum, Aunty p, Bells, Sim & Stef
February 29th – ‘after work… we work’   working with a slice of lemon cake… bitter sweet
March 1st – ‘The Spot’   at lunch with Monique at our new fave place!!
March 2nd – ‘Birds of a Feather’   Origami installation… Brixton
March 4th – ‘crap curls’   a failed attempt at curly hair 😦
So ive recently become obsessed with capturing elements of light in engulfed by darkness… on my way to the Design Ventura awards i snapped these pics…
After taking in part in the Design Museum Design Ventura project in which i volunteered to help schools across London design products to be sold in the Design Museum; I was invited to the recent awards ceremony held at the Design Museum in which the prototypes of all the finalists were showcased.
Well done to all the schools that took part and all the lovely design Museum staff i got to meet.
DESIGN VENTURA WINNERS
Walworth Academy – Slick Shooter
An Oyster card sized portable game, designed to encourage young teenagers to play as a group.
i snapped some pics of the winning school and the prototypes of the finalists…. check em out x
February 19th – ‘Late lunching’   at Starbucks…. with Stefan
February 20th – N/A … i forgot to take a pic 😦
February 21st – ‘Design Ventura Awards’   at the Design Museum with Stefan
February 22nd – ‘All of The Lights’   Journeys home on the 159… London Regent Street
February 23rd – ‘Journeys to Work’  Â
February 24th – ‘Home’   at home with Jet
February 25th – ‘Park’   Park walks with Mum and Jet
With my ever growing interest in Art and currently the artist Lucian Freud, I recently watched a documentary about the artist entitled ‘Lucian Freud: Painted Life’. The documentary traced the life and muses of Freud with his written quotes and thoughts  evident throughout and cleverly used to punctuate  the documentary. One quote in particular stood out to me.
‘The promise of happiness is felt in the act of creation but disappears towards the completion of work.‘
For me Freud has pin pointed what it often feels like to be a creative, whether a writer, Musician, Dancer or Designer there is always an element of disappointment when a work in progress nears completion.
As a creative I find that the most rewarding part is the process. The coming up with ideas….the settling on just one idea and then getting really enthusiastic about the possibilities of it. I love the points where i can explore those possibilities and just ‘swim in research’ drafting and redrafting. i love thinking about what ‘it’ could be and ultimately what that might look like.
The whole  process of creation brings a new: new skills to gain, new ways to generate ideas, new people to meet and a new goal to reach vs a new problem to solve. But…. I find as you nearer the goal and have the solution often there is that hesitation and a desire to hold on a little bit longer simply because you dont want it to mean the end…  and for some reason, regardless of all the hard work… the end is unsatisfying.
Instead i am more than happy to  swim in research discover new possibilities i want to have the solution and know its right but never really have to call it the end… id rather keep drafting and redrafting and rewriting the end but never really reaching it.
But then in that instance im sure id have something new to be unsatisfied with.
It was my boss’s birthday… And so we have a collection of lovely little cakes in our kitchen at work … 🙂
Looks like lunch will be a gooden
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The lovely lady at the Mac Make-Up counter in selfrdiges attemps to make me beautiful :-S .
Random lunches with Monique.. Â Photography by Monique x
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