Day to Night

Check out these photos from Stephen Wilkes, an American photographer, who's captured iconic New York landmarks in both night and day. In one picture...

Coney Island

The Flatiron

The Highline

Central Park

Park Avenue

Washington Square Park

Times Square

Gramercy Park

Bethesda Fountain, Central Park

Check out all Wilkes' Day to Night photographs and other work on his website.

Lalage Snow

Lalage Snow is a photographer, journalist, and film maker whose latest project We Are Not The Dead caught my attention. Snow photographed and interviewed members of the 1st Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland at 3 stages: before they left for Afghanistan, 3 months into service, and the first few days after they returned home. The progression shows the toll of war not only physically but mentally.

Private Chris MacGregor, 24

11th March, Edinburgh: “Obviously I’ll miss family but other than that I am going to miss my dogs more than anything. They are my de-stressers and keep me sane. I think I’ll miss TV too though. I try not to think about the worst case scenario.”

19th June, Compound 19, Nad Ali, after an IED incident: “Most people get used to being away from home but I find it hard. It’s your fear that keeps you alive here. But I believe if it’s going to happen, it’s going to happen and theres nothing you can do about it. If the big man upstairs could do anything, there’d be no dead soldiers. They’d all be alive. It still hurts when you hear about a soldier dying. You think about what their families are going through. You ask what they died for and what we are achieving here. I am not sure any more. That Afghan soldier losing his legs just now… I don’t know….”

28th August, Edinburgh, after being evacuated due to sustained knee injury from Iraq: “My legs just gave up. I think it was the weight – 135 pounds or something. I just had to accept, my body was telling me to give up as I had pushed it. I was telling it to go, it was telling me to stop. When squaddies come back they still have a lot of adrenaline and anger in them. I had to have anger management after Iraq. If I get like that now, I just go for a walk with the dogs. It is the best way to deal with it, instead of being all tense and ready to snap at folk. The first thing I did when I came back, appart from kissing and cuddling the misses and my bairn, was go for a massive walk with the dogs. I walked for miles and miles not caring where I stepped.”

For the whole series check out this Telegraph article.

Kerry Washington

So much love for her and her red carpet looks of late...

Peter Pilotto, Rome photocall

Rochas, Paris premiere

Prada, Rome premiere

Louis Vuitton, Berlin photocall

J. Mendel, Berlin premiere

Giles, London premiere

Miu Miu, Golden Globes

Marchesa, Producers Guild Award

Rodarte, SAG Awards

Giambattista Valli, Independent
Spirit Awards

Miu Miu, Oscars

It's official, she's my new girl crush.

Chicago

I spent Presidents Day weekend in Chicago with a couple of friends. Sometimes you just need to take a break from New York and Chicago was the perfect escape. We filled our days with good food and wine, visits to the Bean and constant admiration of the amazing architecture. While nights were spent with great company, the occasional jazz bar and a gay club.

Firstly let me talk about the Bean or Cloud Gate as it is officially known. We were staying a literal 5 minutes away and although it is the ultimate tourist trap we visited it about 3 times. It's pretty mesmerising, especially as it's surrounded by stunning architecture of which Chicago is renowned for. 

So more on the architecture - Chicago is the birthplace of the skyscraper - and if you pay attention and look up you see the most beautiful buildings. We even took a train ride out to visit Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House in Hyde Park, which was well worth the visit. 

On to the food which kind of defined our trip! We whiled away mornings with brunch and mimosas at Atwood Cafe and Sable. Had Mexican food in Old Town at Adobo Grill, had wine and cheese at The Purple Pig, and Italian tapas at Quartino. We danced the night away at Berlin and listened to jazz at Buddy Guy's Legends.

Another must see is the Art Institute of Chicago Museum, filled to the brim with paintings, sculptures and photography. As well as a fantastic restuarant Terzo Piano.

All in all a pretty great weekend! 

All photographs are my own, for more check out my photography blog.

Anna Schuleit

I stubbled across Anna Schuleit's work while browsing Tumblr one evening - specifically Bloom - in which Schuleit filled Massachusetts Mental Health Centre with 28,000 flowers. After 91 years the Centre was closing and in order to give it proper send off and highlight the lack of flowers in psychiatric hospitals, floors were filled, wall-to-wall with flowers. After the 4 day installation, the flowers were distributed between shelters, half-way houses, and psychiatric hospitals throughout the New England area.

(http://www.annaschuleit.com/)

Inside Chanel: Chapter 3

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Solange Knowles

Loving the new song. Loving the music video. Loving every single outfit...