R.I.P. beauty

Happy Pi-Day

Today is Pi-Day, actually it was at 3/14, 1:59 am. I suppose all the geeks and nerds of the world are standing outside, holding each others hands in reverence. Sorry for being so sarcastic, but I'm always very surprised about all the weird kinds of more or less important "holidays" that exist in the world. I also learned today that there is an orgasm-day, which is on December 22nd. Uhm. Here is a nice song about Pi, at least. I'm pretty sure most music videos about orgasms are also very interesting - not for my blog, though.

Playing tourist in my home town

Berlin didn't become prettier since I moved away. But it is still so much home and such a neverending fascination, my city.

Who needs supermodels?

This was long before supermodels and fashion photographers were the symbiosis of fashion magazines. This wonderful illustration is from French designer Madeleine de Rauch from 1949.

Spiegel Online has a wonderful article about 100 years of fashion illustration in magazines with a lot more of these pictures from various designers. It even contains a few early Vogue pictures from 1910 - long before Prada and the devil, impersonated by Anna Wintour.

Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree

Goldfrapp's Seventh Tree popped up by chance in my Itunes and reminded me that I totally forgot to write a review about it. It's such a beautiful record and one of my last years highlights. They are definitely back to their roots and the spheric beauty of their first album, Felt Mountain. Even though their electro pop albums had their great moments, too, I actually always like the first one the most. Allison Goldfrapp seems to be totally somewhere in space and what she does with her voice is just extraordinary (no, all these noises are no computer stuff - its her). 

From Seventh Tree comes this great music video, too. And don't get confused, Happiness is probably the most poppy track on the record. The scene in the video I like the most is the one when he meets the kids on their jumping balls. Haha. So good.