Just found this rather dashing illustrator, Jiwinaia, courtesy of the wonderful Bip Ling.

They are rather lovely wouldn't you agree?

I miss you Tahoe.

Just won this megaphone in a raffle at uni...

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Below are some very dreamy prints, photos, campaigns etc from the amazing duo Maurice Scheltens + Lisebeth Abbenes.

Here are a selection of my favourite images from their website.

They collaborate with some of my favourite companies and magazines like Fantastic Man and Cos. 

They are pretty FAB so check them out. 

My brother took me to the exhibition in Berkeley at the Berkeley Art Museum.

It was for a street artist called Barry McGee.

At first I was a wee bit skeptical as I do not really like street art in general but with this exhibition I was pleasantly surprised.

Trained in painting and printmaking you can definitely see those skills come through in the precision of his work.

For example, his use of line in block colours was so confident they reminded me of the lines created when print making...

This use of line also was apparent in his typography...

A lot of his work reminded of the street art I had seen in the Mission in San Francisco which is Where McGee grew up. 

You can definitely see the influences of what was around him whilst he was growing up in his work and the Mexican influences. 

A lot of the typography in the exhibition reminded me of the Mexican Restaurant we had been to in Sanoma.

My favorite thing in the exhibition was this huge column of TVs he had made with each screen showing something different, like a piece of his animation, or just some interesting footage which was personal or random. 

There were a lot of personally touches in his show as well as seeing his Mission roots show through in his work he also had pictures and illustrations relating to family and friends...

He also displayed works by his late wife Margaret Kilgallen also a street artist, whose work I had seen some of at the SFMOMA.

I think you can tell the influences 

they had on each others work. 

They both appeared in this lovely documentary I watched after called Beautiful Losers.

What I liked about the exhibition was there was SO much to see and I actually ended up spending a lots of time in there despite not really wanting to have gone. 

The space could not of been more perfect for the sporadic and bold nature of his work. 

SELFIE.

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I wish I got to see Destiny's Child live.

I went to this AWESOME ice cream parlor in Hayes Valley in San Francisco called Smitten Ice Cream which was made from an empty container shell.

They made the ice cream in front of me which was pretty cooool.

I got salted caramel flavour. It was good.

I went to the Cindy Sherman exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of modern art. 

I have never really known much about her as an artist but was intrigued so went along. 

Cindy is a photographer and film maker from New York whose main subject of her work is to portray the role of women in society and the media. 

She uses herself in many of her photographs dresssed up with makeup an prosthetics to alter how she looks and become a new character. 

One of the first things I saw of her work were some collages she had done in 1976 which would show her transforming from her normal self into a new character. It was a lovely way, I thought, to show movement. I couldn't take photos inside the exhibition, nor could I find any examples of her collages on the internet, but below is a still from her short film 'Doll House' which sort of demonstrates her collage medium. 

In 1981 she did a collection of photographs called 'Centerfolds', in which she tried to encapsulate both photographer [stereotypically male] and the female model.

The images were rather uncomfortable to look at and presented the antithesis of a conventional center fold. 
A lot of the images reminded of female protaganists in horror films.

Horror and disturbing scenes seemed to be a common theme in many of her works including those from the 1980s to the 1990s, where make up, props and clothing were used to create a facade for the underlying emotions that lay beneath.

Despite all the of the 'get-up' in each photo that she puts herself in, little elements of Cindy still show through. I thought that perhaps the portraits each had bits of what she wants/wanted to be (eg. social status, youthfulness etc.)

Many of her works are pretty amusing but all contain serious connotations within. 

I am not how much I like her work visually I did not find it that pleasing with the exception of her collages and a couple of her short films. All in all it was a bit to over the top for me and a bit to uncomfortable to look at but I admire her for the messages she tries to convey through her art.