coffee and pie

Last weekend I went back to Greenman festival in the Brecon Beacons. I went last year and fell in love with the atmosphere, music and setting. This year despite a lot of rain and mud it absolutely did not disappoint.

One of the best things about the festival is how small and relaxed it is. There isn’t always a band you have to go and see so you can spend a lot of time discovering new music. This years absolute find were a band called Islet. Islet are a four piece from Cardiff who until very recently shunned the Web and didn’t even have their own website. I will definitely be looking for London dates.

Flaming Lips were the Saturday night headliners. I’ve never been a flaming lips fan but was excited about the visuals. The set was a little boring if I’m being entirety honest but Yoshimi battles the pink robot was amazing.

Probably my favourite act of the weekend had to be James Blake. I had been listening to his ep on repeat coming up to the festival and he managed to get B.O.B by Outkast into his set as well as Destiny Child Bills, Bills Bills. Amazing. You cant beat dancing around in your wellies.

Already excited about next year.

Could the blue sky come back please…

Underfull is a tablecloth that turns spills into poetry. Designed by Kristine Bjaadal, each spill will create a new pattern on the cloth giving each cloth a story and some sentimental value. The cloths are only a prototype at the moment but hopefully they will be available for commercial purchase soon. Below is a bit about the cloths patterns.

The butterfly pattern resembles the tablecloth itself; butterflies always come as a surprise, they are soundless and suddenly come into view, as if out of out of thin air. They go through a tremendous metamorphosis; starting out as rather dull caterpillars, changing into beautiful, colourful, playful butterflies.

To find out more visit Kristine’s site

I want one of these prints. Mico Toledo takes lyrics from songs and produces an illustration centred around typography. You can submit your own song as a suggestion for him to create. Lovely stuff

Via Creative Review

FrogMob is an excellent site that taps into how people come up with solutions and adapt products to fit into their needs. Using social media they run research studies, about a particular topic and gather photography and stories to describe how products are used globally.

As more brands enter the social media space and it becomes a more sophisticated channel for advertising and branding I like seeing projects like this that highlight how much these tools facilitate communication for so many different types of things.

I love the past Mob Work Bikes where they uncovered insights about bike design by closely examining bikes that people use to make a living.

Everyone who knows me is aware of how many photos I take and that I like to record my day with pictures. So when I read about Sascha Pohflepp project and camera Buttons I instantly loved it. At the beginning of the video Pohflepp talks about the process of photography and how sharing photographs is part of that process.

We already know that people like to share information more than ever but there is something interesting about the rise in how many people want to not only tell you what they are doing but show you. The fact that the most popular camera on flickr is the iphone highlights this trend as well as the rise in sites such as Foodspotting and Lookbook.

Pohflepp’s plays on the notion of the camera as a networked object. Her camera has no analog or digital camera and will only capture the time the button is pressed, it will then search on the net for other photos that have been taken at that very same moment and will display those on your screen.

I love that the photograph you receive back despite being somewhere else entirely and not framed and shot by you is still linked back to you through this process.

I managed to get tickets for Bompass and Parr The Complete History of Food last week at Belgravia square. The event curated by Courvoisier Future 500 is the first part of their summer of punch programme.

The evening took us on a culinary adventure through time. The menu stretched from mediaeval, renaissance, victorian eras and the more modern and up to date food trends.

If only every Thursday could start here. There was quite a lot of liquid involved on the tour but I took some pictures to remember the details…

It was sponsored by Courvoisier

We got some tasty roof top cocktails

Full of Courvoisier

They made the grapes fizzy!

and we ate Foie gras surrounding a port reduction and covered in crunchy almonds and gold leaf.

Followed by duck confit on puy lentls and beetroot.

I admired the gingerbread gherkin but decided agaisnt trying any

Instead I ate some whale vomit (ambergris) Very tasty times!

California is a Place, is a collaboration between filmmaker Drea Cooper and photographer Zackary Canepari. The videos are beautifully shot, each telling a California story. There are five in the series so far and cover topics as diverse as Scraper Bikes, The Mexican Border and Pool Skating.

The project stems from the all the groups, stories and ideas that exisit in the Golden State put simply California is loaded. The project is ongoing and worth keeping an eye on.

I love this project from artist Jan Vormann. Vormann spent three years travelling the world repairing walls and monuments with Lego. This is the kind of content most brands dream of!

Since the project began theree years ago more and more people have asked how they can get involved, so Vormann has set up a new section on his site for all the crowdsourced entries.

I wonder if Lego have seen this? How about offering a Lego set with the url on the side of the bricks for anyone wanting to get involved in the dispatchers project.

So I’ve signed up for a little experiment, over the next month I will strip my wardrobe down to only six key items (excluding undergarments, swim wear, work-out clothes, work uniforms, rain/outdoor jackets, shoes and accessories).

As soon as I read uberblond’s post about the experiment I wanted to get involved I’ve been thinking about a sort of capsule wardrobe for a while now and about spending a bit more on a few amazing pieces instead of buying multiple fast fashion fixes. I love how Grace Kelly used the same handbag over and over again as well as treasuring all of her dresses and I want that quality over quantity in my wardrobe. There is a bit more about why I wanted to take part over here.

So I’ve picked my six items below. One of the six is a dress to wear for a wedding so its down to five really. I’ve gone for jeans, two tshirts a leather jacket and a dress that can be worn when hot/cold dressed up or dressed down.

And so it begins. You can follow our progres over on sixitemsorless or @sixitemsorless.