roman
by Le Fist
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Monks
by Le Fist
The monastery of S. Francesco, Fiesole, Provincia di Firenze, Italy A weekend in Florence to visit a friend. A city that never ranked as one of my favourites but I saw a different side to it this time. Staying in an apartment on the other side of the river, away from the year round hordes of tourists hoping to glance at David’s penis, sardining themselves onto the Ponte Vecchio, or just blocking your way on a narrow pavement whilst you […]
Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: architecture, colour studies, italy, phot, religion
November’s Bouquet
by Le Fist
Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: autumn, colour studies, flowers
The Wall
by Le Fist
Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: africa, colour studies, travel
Linear
by Le Fist
Cathedral, Pantelleria town centre, Pantelleria Island , Sicily
Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: architecture, colour studies, italy, travel
Med Bangs: Red on Green
by Le Fist
I really like the tone of red — a weird kind of terracotta — coming through the washed out aqua. It’s quite unexpected but works. The dirty greeny-yellow of the window blind in the second picture makes the mix even more interesting. Its just one of many unusual colour combinations that I came across on my recent trip to the Motherland. Every corner you turned down held a new surprise. Beautiful.
Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: colour studies, texture, travel
Homecoming/Safe Con
by Le Fist
I apologize, once again! No excuses this time. The Lazy Blogger has sunk further into languor’s apathetic embrace. Well, new year, new beginnings, and all that. It so happens that I’ve been home. Real home, the Motherland, so to speak. I’ll keep the name of this country anonymous – let’s just say that its somewhere in West Africa. It’d been so long since I last went that I got scared of going – a vicious cycle that kept on spiralling […]
Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: colour studies, Lazy Blogger, photography, travel
Celine: Little Girl Pink
by Le Fist
The show season’s nearly over, not without a whiff of scandal, drunken proclamations and talk of ominous place-shiftings at a high level… The clothes almost seem like an afterthought. Anyway, zees eez not zee playhss for shameless gossip. Its been an odd season. I’m not sure how I feel about most of the shows. A lot of them inspired a feeling of blahhhh, more than anything else. I think to myself, how would that look all in black? Or will the world […]
Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: celine, colour studies, fashion critique, pink
Light Play
by Le Fist
Some photographs I took back in the summer. I liked the shadows cast on the stairs. The sort of zig zag. And the intense red of the door. RED. One of my favourite colours. Strong, intense and bloody. I guess its an ode to Kertesz, the great photographer, on whom I shall do a post shortly. Been meaning to do that for ages. As you’ve noticed tweaked things a bit. New background colour. Deep, slate GREY. Another of my favourites. […]
Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: architecture, colour studies, photography, texture
Rare
by Le Fist
Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: colour studies, flowers, pink
Torn
by Le Fist
Reading Renzo Rosso‘s, founder of the Diesel brand, interview in last week’s the Observer Fashion Special got me thinking about designer denim. In particular, the pre-aged, pre-ripped type. Rosso waxes lyrical about how he kickstarted the destroyed denim trend over 30 years ago. He “made holes, imperfections, variations, idiosyncrasies that suggested history, character, past lives.” Natch. Over 30 years of really terrible denim ensued. You know, the kind with bleached track marks over the back leg that ladies of a […]
Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: blue, colour studies, designer denim, diesel jeans, g-star raw, meswear
Domestic Bliss: marigold yellow, ivy, chintz
by Le Fist
Came across some old photographs whilst packing. The ones here are photographs of the house I shared with two friends while we were at university. Very quaint. A lot of chintz. But a lot of fond memories. Like our eccentric neighbour, the middle-aged music teacher, who used to water the flowers in his speedo-style briefs. The combination of sagging, liver-spotted flesh and water fanning out from crotch level was funny-disturbing… Or the hedgehog that decided to set up home in […]
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Sonic Geometry: Alva Noto Pt/.1
by Le Fist
A friend played me a piece from Alva Noto and Riyuichi Sakamoto’s joint album, Insen, the other night. It’s an incredible piece of music that requires a proper sound system to do it justice. The subtle glitches, the forlorn piano loops, the intense bass that’s quiet and menacing at the same time. Its the sort of contemplative piece that was recorded to be heard in the darkest recesses of the night or on one of those grey, rainy days when […]
Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Alva Noto, Carsten Nicolai, colour studies, cymatics, electronic, music, Riyuichi Sakamoto
Keep Off The Grass!
by Le Fist
A rather obvious trail of thought between the previous post and this. Grass. Farm machinery. Yada, yada, yada. Took them last year outside a knitwear factory I was visiting in Italy_
Categories: random, travel • Tags: colour studies
Peeping Tom
by Le Fist
A screen shot from Claire Denis’ 2008 slow burner, 35 Rhums [35 Shots of Rum]. Again, this idea of colour blocking and geometry. Perhaps my sudden interest in this harks back to the post where I related the Louis Vuitton menswear show to the Bauhaus movement a few weeks ago. Whatever the reason I’m obviously feeling graphic_ Grid Pictures: Josef Albers, 1922 [stained glass] – Bauhaus School of Stained Glass
Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: 35 Rhums, Bauhaus, Claire Denis, colour studies, josef albers
Opposites Subtract: Piet Mondrian Redux
by Le Fist
A simple conceit: negative versions of Piet Mondrian’s canvases. What would they look like?
Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: colour studies, geometry, graphic design, piet mondrian, print
Cut Price: Makeshift Geometry
by Le Fist
A doorway I came across today. Love the retro typeface, how the different blues contrast with each other, the colour of door and the yellow of the text. Also love the graphic quality the metal grid lends and the dynamic between the resulting rectilinear forms, the yellow dots and curviness of the typeface. Its almost as if the whole thing was plotted on graph paper_ Doesn’t that deep blue scream Yves Klein? Yves Klein: Blue Cup, 2006 And all those […]
Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: blue, colour studies, graphic design, london, photography, typography
Tin Can Lips
by Le Fist
One used tea light crushed in half, ready for the bin. One Eureka moment_
Categories: idle hands & the devil, le fist bored • Tags: colour studies
Role Call
by Le Fist
A ghostly casting of sorts_
Categories: mannequin love • Tags: colour studies, fashion, photography
Turkish Delights: Behind the scenes at a factory
by Le Fist
Through a glass darkly… I thought I’d post some pics I took last year at the factory of one of my clients. I’d never been to Turkey before then and I loved it. I was surprised by how incredibly cosmopolitan it was and also by how liberal it felt. I’ll be doing some posts about the process of fashion, following from the earlier mannequin post. The shows seem o take precedent above all things and there is so much more […]
Categories: Uncategorized, workin' day and night • Tags: colour studies, fashion, photography
