Lucy Hamblin

I stumbled upon Lucy Hamblin's works via notebookism -- I was delighted to see diversity in her works, from sketches to hearses, including Polaroids & fashion. Very inspiring.




Lucy Hamblin was born in England and is currently living in NYC.

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Aubrey Beardsley

The other day as I was driving north on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley, my eyes took a sharp look on my left (no worries, my driving skills were intact). I saw junk. Several junk scattered across the front yard of a Victorian house. This type of sighting is highly common for the Bay area. It always trigger my artistic passion. The potential in finding a holy grail in the remnants of unwanted items-- oh my, exceed than what I could have expect. All that savaging, searching, and browsing! Yes, I do sometimes get overexcited (like that time when a dear friend and I dove in a bookshelves full of folklore and all of the books fell on us) and therefore, I must try to be gentle.

I love to see what creativity lies in such a place like this. A red mannequin holding a microphone while flaunting a Viking hat seems to be nodding at me. "Fantastic," we silently agreed. I lurked under a spider's stringy masterpiece, toe-tipped around the unorganized bulky papers, and sneezed near the dusty asymmetrical, broken scraps. I suddenly felt like that girl who found the secret garden. Magnificent!
My heart fluttered while I tried to take everything in with my nearsighted glasses. My brain is questioning too much, "Who, what, how did those items got here? And from where?"

I frequently made up stories for each item I studied. Did the old owner lost the lovely mirror? Did the previous sad keeper had to gave up that typewriter because it reminds her too much of the torrid affair she had with her best friend's boyfriend? What if that antler trophy was just a lie and it was actually the deer he struck with his Lands Rover but he just was trying to win the approval of his fiancée’s dad?

All the thoughts went out back of my head the second I found a specific, rare book. A biography book titled, 'Beardsley'. I gasped, shuddered a bit, hands tightened on the edges of this very book. Is it the Aubrey Beardsley biography I have been searching for a long time? I silently prayed to the spiritual energy around me to bestow upon me the inspiring gift possible...

"John Keats," were the first few words I saw when I opened the book. Those two words ensured it was the Aubrey Beardsley biography I have been looking for.

I exploded right there. Bits of my brain and my heart all out over the dusty items. Some skin pieces fell through the masterpiece, destroying weeks of work by a devoted spider. My collarbone landed on the rejected typewriter. My left arm joined the red mannequin. The antlers caught my torso. The old lady who lives in the Victorian house slowly waddled and arrived to the source of explosion and sighed, "Oh, not again."

Alexi Lubomirski

I decided to look up on Alexi, seeing he's taken on third spot of GQ's most stylist men. After browsing his portfolio, I realized I have seen some of his works and just didn't made the connection. I notice he tends to do multiply shots of a person then place the poses in one photo (much like Gwen photo one). That's a fun method ♥


this is a favorite picture of mine, oozing sexiness in the simplistic act of walking.










this reminds me of those shonen manga (Banya?) and i absolutely love it.










And here's Alexi, himself. Needless to say, he looks good in front of the camera.

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Michael Parkes

When I found out Michael Parkes himself was coming to a small town south of San Francisco -- it shocked me. He rarely made an appearance in the U.S. Last one was in NYC and I had missed that one.

When I arrived at the gallery, I can't tell you anything about it -- my emotions were just unexplainable. I couldn't believe that I was standing by his works.
I froze when I saw Michael Parkes himself. His aura was magnificently overwhelming.

The second I took my eyes off him, I stood there thinking about what the hell to say -- he swooshed away in the back & got in a car for the airport (his home is in Spain).

Imagine if I meet David Mack! Jesus, I think I need more time meeting my inspirational idols. ;_;

Franklin Booth

"An artist for the ages, Franklin Booth, born 1874, was a product of his time. Isolated on an Indiana farm and determined to be an artist, he studied what he saw on the pages of Scribner's, Harpers and the other illustrated magazines of the day." -- source



"His two great qualities are his dexterity with his pen and his imagination. His work appeals to the spirit. It has an uplifting effect. It suggests something just beyond, an ideal almost realized." --Ernest Elmo Calkins, the Appreciation to Franklin Booth: 60 Drawings




Too beautiful, the details. I must get the book.

kate lanphear -- Elle fashion editor

Kate have been popping up in Sartorialist, Le Fashion and at the fashionspot. Yes, her fashion sense captured my eyes, but her signature look lies in her amazing elaborately-arranged hairdo. That had me looking up on her-- apparently, I wasn't the only one who marvel on her voracious energy. Full of inspiration. She is striking, eminent lady who now have our awareness.


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pamela

a photographer tribute: william claxton

"I didn't want to stage my pictures," noted jazz photographer William Claxton once said.




His work appeared in Interview, Time, Life and Vogue and he teamed up with his wife, model Peggy Moffitt, to work in the field of fashion with designer Rudi Gernreich. Claxton also took many candid snaps of legendary film stars, including Marlene Dietrich and, most notably, his friend Steve McQueen, often shown posing behind the wheel of his beloved automobiles. A collection of Claxton's photographs of comedians, including Robin Williams and Billy Crystal, was published in 1999.




Claxton died on Saturday from complications stemming from congestive heart failure. He is survived by his wife Peggy Moffitt Claxton and his son, Christopher.
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Rest in peace.