INSPIRATION: INTERIORS / TRAVEL

INSPIRATION: INTERIORS / TRAVEL

Look at these holiday spaces – the tiles, the bedding, the light, the windows, the hammocks! – I want to go to there…

INSPIRATION: INTERIORS / TRAVEL

INSPIRATION: INTERIORS / TRAVEL

Look at the colour of those wardrobes and that bathroom…!

Menorca Experimental
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Menorca

FILM 1980: BURNING

FILM 1980: BURNING 

TRIVIA: The scene in which the main characters talk at Jong-su's house was filmed for about a month. They were only able to shoot for a few minutes every day to capture the twilight on camera.

Paju, the hometown of Jong-su, is famous for its fog. According to cinematographer Kyung-pyo Hong, there were many foggy scenes at dawn, but some were deleted because they came out so beautifully. Many of the scenes where Jong-su runs to search greenhouses at dawn were also deleted because the foggy landscapes were too beautifully shown.

Official submission of South Korea for the 'Best Foreign Language Film' category of the 91st Academy Awards in 2019.

My favourite stories are those when someone takes a problem and overcomes it so creatively that everyone else stands back in awe…

https://readcereal.com/city-guides/hong-kong/

I’m a big Wes Anderson fan and so is Alberto Favaretto who created these leather travel goods…

FILM 1825: FORCES OF NATURE

FILM 1825: FORCES OF NATURE

TRIVIA: About a year after the release of the movie, Sandra Bullock actually did survive a plane crash when the corporate jet she was a passenger in skidded off the runway at the Jackson Hole, Wyoming airport. She was not injured in the crash.

David Strickland's last film.

http://lichipan.com/blog/photojournal-tokyo-japan

http://www.monalogue.co.uk/2018/05/15/the-best-cherry-blossom-in-the-uk/

https://honestlywtf.com/travel/a-guide-to-hong-kong/

BOOK 183: A CURIOUS MAN: THE STRANGE AND BRILLIANT LIFE OF ROBERT "BELIEVE IT OR NOT!" RIPLEY: NEAL THOMPSON

BOOK 183: A CURIOUS MAN: THE STRANGE AND BRILLIANT LIFE OF ROBERT "BELIEVE IT OR NOT!" RIPLEY: NEAL THOMPSON

A Curious Man is the marvelously compelling biography of Robert "Believe It or Not" Ripley, the enigmatic cartoonist turned globetrotting millionaire who won international fame by celebrating the world's strangest oddities, and whose outrageous showmanship taught us to believe in the unbelievable. 

As portrayed by acclaimed biographer Neal Thompson, Ripley's life is the stuff of a classic American fairy tale. Buck-toothed and cursed by shyness, Ripley turned his sense of being an outsider into an appreciation for the strangeness of the world. After selling his first cartoon to Time magazine at age eighteen, more cartooning triumphs followed, but it was his "Believe It or Not" conceit and the wildly popular radio shows it birthed that would make him one of the most successful entertainment figures of his time and spur him to search the globe's farthest corners for bizarre facts, exotic human curiosities, and shocking phenomena. 

Ripley delighted in making outrageous declarations that somehow always turned out to be true--such as that Charles Lindbergh was only the sixty-seventh man to fly across the Atlantic or that "The Star Spangled Banner" was not the national anthem. Assisted by an exotic harem of female admirers and by ex-banker Norbert Pearlroth, a devoted researcher who spoke eleven languages, Ripley simultaneously embodied the spirit of Peter Pan, the fearlessness of Marco Polo and the marketing savvy of P. T. Barnum. 

In a very real sense, Ripley sought to remake the world's aesthetic. He demanded respect for those who were labeled "eccentrics" or "freaks"--whether it be E. L. Blystone, who wrote 1,615 alphabet letters on a grain of rice, or the man who could swallow his own nose. 

By the 1930s Ripley possessed a vast fortune, a private yacht, and a twenty-eight room mansion stocked with such "oddities" as shrunken heads and medieval torture devices, and his pioneering firsts in print, radio, and television were tapping into something deep in the American consciousness--a taste for the titillating and exotic, and a fascination with the fastest, biggest, dumbest and most weird. Today, that legacy continues and can be seen in reality TV, YouTube, America's Funniest Home Videos, Jackass, MythBusters and a host of other pop-culture phenomena. 

In the end Robert L. Ripley changed everything. The supreme irony of his life, which was dedicated to exalting the strange and unusual, is that he may have been the most amazing oddity of all.

(From the Hardcover edition.)

MY VERDICT: Despite that fact that I was eager to know the story behind Ripley, of Believe it or Not fame, and I have been wanting to read this book for ages, I was disappointed with this book. It dragged quite a bit and although there are some interesting facts, especially when you relate things to specific people and events from the past, the book is just too long. I would also have liked to see a few more of Ripley’s cartoons in the middle.

http://honestlywtf.com/travel/casa-cook-kos/

https://www.notjessfashion.com/travel-carryall-ectu/

Three of my very talented friends have started a kickstarter for their newest book Sweet Dreams | Love, life & death in Mexico.

It looks amazing – of course I will be buying a copy as I already have their other excellent photobooks (previously they went to China and Ghana)

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1988779039/sweet-dreams-love-life-and-death-in-mexico?ref=project_link

FILM 1680: WILD

TRIVIA: The young Cheryl is portrayed by the actual Cheryl Strayed's daughter Bobbi Strayed Lindstrom.

Jean-Marc Vallée would not let Reese Witherspoon read the instruction manual to the tent, or the stove. All of the frustration showed on screen was genuine.

Reese Witherspoon saw an advanced copy of the book in October 2011, 5 months before its release. The galley-form book was mailed personally by Cheryl Strayed herself, believing that if there is an actress who could portray her, it is Witherspoon and no one else. Witherspoon saw potential in that, immediately acquired the rights as it was a perfect launchpad for her production label. The book became much hyped when it listed as a select book for the Oprah Book Club after its release.

There is a scene where Cheryl is reading Gone Girl (an anachronism). This is because Reese Witherspoon is one of the producers of Gone Girl (2014).

Shot almost completely with natural light.

Cheryl Strayed told the Times she made efforts to locate her half-sister and half-brother over the years with no success. When her half-sister started reading Wild, she "knew just enough about me and my siblings that she put it together. She read the rest of the book and then she wrote to me. She was stunned. I was, too, and yet I always knew our paths would cross. Life is like that. There's always more, always a reveal."