Escape

Too much snow outside is making these photographs by NOEMIE GOUDAL look even better. 
I really love the sense of surrealism mixed with images that we recognize.
A nice way to start my day.... I'm going on a long walk!


Work # 1 - "Les Amants (Cascade)"
Work # 2 - "Island"


Found here.

Swedes Do It Best.

I was having a conversation with a friend earlier today. We were discussing a package of tealights. The tealights are Canadian-made, with food-grade parrafin and cotton wicks. They burn for four to five hours. My thoughts were that they were pretty good. I mean, isn't four hours enough to ask from a tiny tealights? Apparently not.

My friend told me that you can get Swedish-made tealights that burn for, like, eight hours. 

Well, that really sounds exceptional doesn't it?

I laughed and said "Of course, they had to be Swedish!"

Is it just me or doesn't it seam like every time something is clever, well-designed and beautiful, it HAS to be Swedish? Are the Swedes really that much better at everything when it comes to design? I find this especially in the furniture world. 

Every time I find something I want to buy (but can't afford to) it's by a Swedish designer...

It's pretty impressive that Sweden has such a wonderful track-record.

Please see above for some more proof. 

These images by American-Swedish photographer Anne Moller... of what else? SWEDEN. 

I've got some serious nationalistic envy.

Find the beautiful prints here.

Other World Beauty

I am totally enraptured by the feel of these images from the Inca Trail in Bolivia and Peru. They were taken by photographer, Matt Shelley and then tweaked by artist Tim Green. It's incredible how the images have such strength while being so soft. Very lovely and almost haunting.

You can buy the prints here and I first saw them here.