HAROLD EDGERTON & GJON MILI

While researching the new collection (that time again. Once on the roller coaster there is no getting off. I love it!) I looked into stroboscopic photography. Purely by accident, as I was eager to see as many pictures as I could of bullets going through apples and the explosion at different stages. Hence I stumbled across Harold Edgerton, who was a pioneer of using stroboscopic photography while working with photographer Gjon Mili who used this type of photography also. This type of photography used strobe lighting that could flash up to 120 times a second, therefore could capture fast motion photography like bursting balloons etc. This was way back in the 1930's and its still amazing photography. Below are amazing photographs Mili took for Life magazine of Picasso, and iconic images from Edgerton. 

DALI, PICASSO, VAN GOGH

Continuing on my love of advertising, I came across this campaign for an art school. Using famous artists as autopsy's. It is super amazing. But I have a request...Frida Kahlo! Keep up the good work MASP.

LEGO GENIUS

I love a great campaign. A great campaign gives immediate insight into a brand. It captures the market in a single image, it tells you what the brand stands for, it makes you love or abhor the brand, it shows creative genius or sales orientated marketing.
This lego campaign to me is absolutely genius. Everyone knows lego, its been around forever, so needs no introduction. For this campaign they take famous cartoon characters and mould them down into crude form using the basic block of lego. It engages the audience as you take the challenge of identifying who's who. Its simple, smart, engaging and all these years on - lures me back in to my lego days.
Who's who? My favourite is Ernie and Bert.

SOMETHINGS ARE A LITTLE BIT WRONG

The STD helmut

The woman who eats shit

Soup for sluts

Potato, Cheese and Chocolate bread

It is these things that make life full of giggles....

ON-AIRSTREAMING w/ TWIN SHADOW - "WHEN WE'RE DANCING"

On a trip to London in February, my music guru, who introduced me to M.I.A, Santo Gold and the Hermitude, many years ago, introduced me to Twin Shadow. And now I am obsessed, as she guaranteed I would be...very happy when listening to this. Recommended purchase.

SO...MOVING ON....

As one chapter ends one more begins...Final steps of my move to Bandung where we now have our factory. Amazing shoe makers, access to some of the worlds best leather and a brain full of new ground breaking ideas...Summer will hit stores before you know it in the southern hemisphere and for the first time we have tailored our Winter collection to co-incide with the northern hemisphere....so fans of Michael Hockey with have 24 styles available to them at the same time! Not to mention the colourways!

We start selling Winter in NYC in July so spread the word! This is our first foray into the US market, but after a successful dip in the pool in February New Yorkers are yelling "ITS ABOUT TIME MTHR FKERS!" And we are SUPER excited.

Were keeping the styles close to our chest for now, but jump onto www.michaelhockey.com.au for the moment to check out and purchase our current winter range....you will not be disappointed.
Infact this month we have a competition running in Australia with www.styletread.com.au email the longest list of songs with the word "shoe" in the lyrics for your chance to win a free pairs of shoes. There are five pairs up for grabs, so send your entries now to music@styletread.com.au.

Check out our awesome shoe makers below. Loves it!

MORE TO LIFE THAN THIS

Something about art always makes me think more about what I am designing.

Art is so broad. It incorporates photography, sculpture, drawing, painting, performance, collage, instillation...the list goes on.

Fashion is clothing. Shoes are shoe, bags are bags, Jewellery is jewllery, hats are hats. Yes they fit into the fashion category - and dont get me wrong - I'm in fashion, i live for fashion. But art forces me to think in a different direction and not just reinterpret what exists.

I trawl through www.butdoesitfloat.com because there is such a vast array of artists, ideas and concepts. These are a few I found recently that I thought were amazing....