Vintage Cola

If only adverts could still be so aesthetically pleasing: artwork in itsself.

Classic Christmas Cards

Sending holiday cheer with a vintage touch....

A Winter's Day in Summer

It's the middle of summer in South Africa, but that doesn't mean we don't have to throw on the odd jersey and tights... This is an outfit experiment for a chilly winter's day in summer - I stole the shoes from my mom's closet (her 80's pieces are perfect for 2010!)

Paolo Roversi and the Meaning of Magic

Paolo Roversi was born in Ravenna in 1947 and started out in a cellar for a darkroom. Some of his first jobs included photographing a funeral and celebrities, but he moved to Paris in 1973 and after working as a journalist for the Huppert Agency, he turned to fashion photography. He has worked for a large variety of fahion magazined, including Elle, Depeche Mode and Marie Claire (who gave him his first big break.)

I love how he makes his subjects seem mysterious, intriguing, maybe even out of this world.

 "Photography goes beyond the limits of reality and illusion. It brushes up against another life, another dimension, revealing not only what is there but was is no there. Every photograph is an encounter, an intimate, reciprocal confession."

- Paolo Roversi 

Photography is art, but in his photos, there is a romantic meeting between fine art and photography.

"Like any art worthy of the name, the most brazen lie can evolve into surprising and seductive truth."

- Paolo Roversi

For more: http://www.paoloroversi.com/

Ghost Bakery

You find this little, abandoned bakery or "Backerei" in the ghost town, Luderitz, in Namibia. However, instead of freshly baked bread and cakes, it is filled to the brim with desert sand and you never know if the baker will make himself visible when you visit...

Grandmother

I love history. I love what it teaches us. I love how beautiful it looks in today's commercial world and finding photos like these makes me wish I could also experience it first hand. This is a photograph of my grandmother at age 20, so that makes the year 1945 (when World War II ended). Note the exquisite clock-radio (reminds me of the movie Titanic).