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Tokidoki

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 18:46:47 GMT

Tokidoki started as the online portfolio of Italian artist Simone Legno. Tokidoki means "sometimes" in Japanese. Simone chose "sometimes" because everyone waits for moments that change one's destiny. In 2003, Simone received a very tokidoki email. The co-founder of Hard Candy Cosmetics had fallen in love with his website. Only hours after Simone landed in LA they made him an amazing offer: move to LA and build tokidoki into a brand to share with the world. Simone is now in LA living his dream of making the world a bit more colorful and positive through tokidoki.

Dreams do come true for some people...

"Body art" by Alberto Seveso

Sat, 04 Apr 2009 11:13:09 GMT

Alberto Seveso is young, but already famous Italian artist ( illustrator / graphic designer ) who takes the human body and uses it as a canvas for his abstract designs, but since his work is digital, he is freed from the restraints of a tangible human form. He uses colors but also plays with lines, spirals and volutes. His works manipulates transparency effects in order to the body vanishes and disappears.

Michael Phelps on cover of Dec 08 ESPN, designer Alberto Seveso:

Seveso is able to disassemble like a puzzle, make translucent like a silk scarf held up to the sun, or replace like a Mr. Potato Head, parts of the bodies that he works with as the basis for his designs. In addition, more than being creative in his choice of canvas, Alberto creates finely intricate designs that would be gorgeous on their own.

" Maurice "

Sat, 21 Feb 2009 19:43:10 GMT

Strange thing. I visited one LJ today for one particular reason and I ended up reading that person's post about "Maurice" film. I've had that Merchant-Ivory DVD for years and I made a promise to myself to read E.M.Forster's novel, but I didn't do that. I totally forgot about it. Boo me.

It's a gay love story so if that puts you off, well...your loss. :)

I will also say that Hugh Grant is one of the most underrated actors that I know of. I think he's an awesome actor.

Emmanuel Santarromana

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 21:13:41 GMT

Emmanuel Santarromana - Métropolitain
Hotel Costes, Vol. 6, mixed by Stéphane Pompougnac

Oh Alex...

Sun, 24 Jun 2007 14:55:24 GMT

Jackie McKeown from 1990s and ex-Yummy Fur tells The Independent about being a rock star...

"I don't think any of us are really going rock star crazy. I don't think you can be a rock star in Glasgow – nobody lets you. When you're in Glasgow you'd just get the piss ripped right out of you if you started acting slightly rock starry.

There are too many bands about and everybody's conscious of not appearing like a compleType your cut contents here.te arsehole." It's a trait McGaughrin glimpsed in friend Kapranos when the pair were standing on the street and Kapranos assumed that a limo full of girls on a birthday party were waving at him. "Alex was, like, 'hi'. They completely didn't even see him."

Jackie ( John ) McKeown and Alex Kapranos ( Huntley ) when they were Yummy Fur...

1990s

Franz Ferdinand

Sunday Herald about Franz Ferdinand

Sun, 05 Nov 2006 10:20:32 GMT

Songwriting for Kapranos is essentially a process of editing, or perhaps a kind of sauce reduction; he’s aiming for a richness that will not come overnight. The third Franz Ferdinand album is likely to be released in 2008. Kapranos is at a loss to say how it will sound, though he thinks Outsiders, the mantra-like closing track from You Could Have It So Much Better, may offer a clue to the new work. “All I can say is that rhythm and bass seem to be at the heart of everything I am thinking about just now.”