July 2008 - Style Of Eye

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I love my shlock’n’trash, and I love mixing it with my art culture. I get a perverse sense of pleasure slumming with the high brow, lying in the gutter and gazing at the stars. Cinema brings that kind of dynamic and diverse thrill.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, time moves pretty fast, if you don't stop and look around you might just miss it. Hang on, that's a movie quote. I meant to say I've said it before and I'll say it again, I especially love graphic design. Movies provide such wide range of styles when it comes to movie poster art work. So here, fourth time around, I’ve selected foreign designs for English-language films as well as foreign films and the proverbial exploitation and the arthouse. I little indulgence for everyone.

Now I’ll shut up and let you do the “Oooo”-ing, “Aahh”-ing, and "Isn't that clever?" and "Oh, so provocative!"

Wow, there's some seriously good art work in this selection. I don't know how to choose favourites (although obviously I love them all). But I gotta say, reaching for the stars it's the Red Sonja and the G-Force poster art which just scream out sensational. The sleaze in me smiles wickedly at the Boarding Gate poster, while the Nude for Satan (the title alone) is pure erotic-nightmare allure. And then The Birds just says, wahey, I bet Saul Bass never thought of that! Oh, but I really, really like the Boris poster art for The Sword and the Sorcerer and Southern Comfort has a great 70s feel (even though the movie was released in 1981). But I can't forget the original Spanish poster for Tacones Lejanos (High Heels). Like I said, very hard to pick favourites.

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... my favourite things

July 22nd 2008 04:30

It was my Orble first birthday last month and I plumb forgot to celebrate! How absent-minded of me indeed! It happens a lot in this ridiculously fast-moving society we live in; important events pass us by simply because we’re too caught up in the unnecessary stress of the day-to-day grind.

So I thought I’d indulge in a little belated Orble birthday present to myself (since no one else is likely to come to the party!), and compile a list of some of my favourite things. Of course, it’s hard limiting a birthday wish list just to twenty-four “items”, so I’ve taken the liberty of breaking my own Rule of 24. I’ve made a list of twenty-five. Ha-hah!

Swarovski amythest-encrusted DJ headphones

I’m surprised I’ve lasted a year with Orble, being the frisky, impulsive creature that I am. But Señor Duke is still cranking out posts, albeit irregularly and far less frequently than when I started just over a year ago. I’m hanging in there, and having pushed the Orble boundaries a few times it feels gratifying that I haven’t had a tight leash put on me.

Freedom of artistic expression is part of my blog’s manifesto (and indulging in all things sexy as often as possible). But ultimately it’s been about selecting the most visually alluring and aesthetically pleasing images I can find under the given theme. Of course this is all subjective; they are images that I find attractive, not always what others might find appealing. But blogs are meant to be about personal opinion, isn’t that the whole point?

Here amidst my so-called editorial you can see images that time and time again I come back to. These are pictures of my pleasure, and if I were to combine them into a fantasy scenario I’d construct them as such: reclining on a sun-chair on the balcony of my Santorini villa in the warm morning sunshine, enjoying a strong, smooth espresso, with two crystal flutes and a bottle of champagne in an ice bucket beside me, my amethyst-encrusted headphones on, listening to deep, jazzy house music, while nearby my Mediterranean lover in her slinky teddy plays with our pet polar bear, occasionally flashing me her sensual smiles …

Yes, well, as Julie Andrews once sang; these are just a few of my favourite things. I'm not about to single out any, because that would be creating favourites among favourites, and I simply can't be that judicious. These are my simple pleasures, my luxury toys, my hedonistic pursuits, the beautiful creatures that are as gorgeous as they are gratifying. Happy belated birthday to me!

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