Use Your Illusion

It’s just a “plain” image of a Tiger

But here is when it gets interesting…

Red Light Revolution

Great stuff!

Weekend movie tip

Chungking Express [1994] is my favourite film from the great Wong Kar Wai. It’s hard to pinpoint what I find so fascinating about this movie. First off I really like Wong Kar Wai’s artistic photo in hos film, and Chungking Express is no exception. The sheer colors, high contrast and angles he uses makes it worth watching. Combine it wit a pop soundtrack, some excellent acting and an intriguing story about loneliness, loosing someone and starting over again, and you have one of the absolute best movies from the 90’s.

As always I let someone else write the review.

If Happy Together and In the Mood for Love are director Wong Kar Wai’s Hong Kong art house ballads, Chungking Express is his smash-hit pop song — light and fun with a hint of truth. While the two former films explore relationships to their innermost depths, Ex press flirts with the nostalgic grief and forlorn desperation in finding and losing love through its individual characters. But what it lacks in thematic depth it makes up for in charisma and honesty.
Chungking Express offers two parallel stories of love and loss brought together by a dine-and-dash eatery. In the first half of the film, a detective (Takeshi Kaneshiro) stops in at the local greasy food dive while pining over his lost love. And in the second half, a beat street cop (Tony Leung) stops in while also pining over his lost love. Although Kaneshiro’s desperation and tragic romanticism sparks our interest in the first story of the film, it’s the second story that really captures our attention. The power of that second story line comes from Faye Wong, who invades the screen (and Tony Leung’s) apartment with childish charm and an obsession with the Mama’s and Papa’s “California Dreaming.”

While Wong is the stand-out star, as her infatuation with Leung sends her sneaking into his apartment to redecorate, Chungking Express truly succeeds because it romanticizes post-relationship pain. We see Kaneshiro calling old girlfriends in an act of lonely desperation and Leung’s assumption that his ex-girlfriend is redecorating his apartment, and we can relate to the futility of holding out hope that there’s still a chance. Yet the depressing weight of the melodramatic is kept at bay by Wong Kar Wai’s humor — such as when Kaneshiro is buying and eating expired cans of pineapple or Leung is personifying his household items such as a crying dish rag or thinning bar of soap.

Where Wong Kar Wai’s later works have a steady hand and clear vision, Chungking Express rushes by with Wong’s hand-held camera in tow. The slow-motion shots flash, chasing Kaneshiro through crowded Hong Kong streets, and the free-roaming camera follows Faye Wong through the cramped corners of Leung’s apartment. Shot and edited in two months during a break in the filming of Ashes of Time, Express was a way of clearing the cobwebs while he edited the martial arts epic, and its guerilla shooting style shows. But its rapid pace keeps the stories from wearing out their welcome.

Like the Faye Wong cover of The Cranberries “Dreams,” the poppy Chungking Express offers enough to relate to without letting the plot lines linger. Showing a person’s loneliness in the relationship aftermath lets us connect on a superficial level, without having to plunder the depths of that relationship pain. And Express is better for it. Although it lacks the depth of Wong’s other works, Chungking Express prefers a smile to a frown.” – Contactmusic.com

Drkshdw shorts

I swung by Fever this week and couldn’t resist copping these incredible soft shorts from Drkshdw (Rick Owens label).

Hard to show with pictures but they are extremely comfortable to wear, and I can see these becoming a future favourite during the summer months. They are made out of the softest jersey. Have two double pockets in front and two pockets at the back, as well as slits on the side of the legs.

Asger Juel Larsen AW10/11

Danish designer Asger Juel Larsen is perhaps one of the more creative up and coming designers. I don’t believe his fall collection is as good as his previous spring, but its still pretty interesting!

The Soloist

The creative mind of former label Number (N)ine, Takahiro Miyashita has announced he will launch a new label titled TAKAHIROMIYASHITATheSoloIst. The first collection of the coming F/W will be presented in the near future.

Bloody furniture

Not exactly the stuff you find at IKEA

More than a bed?

Hi-Can bed has been titled the “Ferrari of beds” and not without a reason. This bed comes with a fully installed TV and all the connectivity you could ever ask for such as videogames, iphone etc etc

Unfortunately for you and me, the chances of ever owning one are slim to say the least. The price for this monster is…well, its the Ferrari of beds right? So you can start looking at the more expensive range of Ferraris to get the picture.

Ceramic Speakers

Oki-Ni is having a competition for these ceramic speakers

check it out here.

Survive Style 5+

Watched this japanese flick the other day called “Survive Style 5+”. Japanese movie at its best with all its weirdness and crazy style.

If you want a movie where everything comes together in a logic storyline…this movie is not for you. Its all about the vision of the images and the fates of the people in it.