preservationist's united society

Before I obliterate myself into obscurity tomorrow, I promised myself to post at least three installations of events from my Melbourne trip (as I maintain to mention each time).
This outing was one of my most treasured. The store is titled Wunderkammer specializing in "scientific curiosities, artefacts and ephemera". AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING.
We spent close to two hours within one confined store, examining the taxidermy, scientific instruments and and scientific books. I have planned to purchase my very first pigeon skull when new stock is installed, however I could have nearly walked out with a framed skeleton of a bat specie! When the skull arrives into the clutches of my hands and pinned upon my bodily form, I promise to share the excitement!
But for now, I wish you good evening and best wishes for the holiday season. Further installations will be shared in time.

shadowplay

Extended exposures, still movements, prolonged moments.
Shadowplay serves as my second installation of my Melbourne adventures.
Images were taken at the Collingwood Convent and Children's Farm. A truly remarkable establishment, juxtaposed with wholesome and pure intentions within the walls and beyond the artifice of the dark featured church and its wings. They host nightly banquets which attract a diverse array of crowds. You enter the eating rooms with a table of loud punks seated next to a young family and an elderly couple, it was amazing to witness that one space could leave predisposed and presumed conflicts at the gates to create an environment rich in warmth and appreciation.
On a more random note, a stranger asked to sit with us who went by the name of Aladdin. Need I say more?

new air

New environment, new air.
This is the first installation of my images from my Melbourne visit. From a morning of sun's rays entering delicately through the white window. Sleeping below the windowsill, turned to the side and laying with the lense open. Nothing too exciting to see just yet, but there are many installations to preview. It will take time, scanning in film produced images is time consuming.

the new faces for men

The ideal of beauty for both men and women have continued to shift over the course of history in fashion and most recently modeling agency , Nine daughters and a Stereo, has executed in making the unusual come to be desirable. The above models are a part of the fresh faces acquired and labelled 'The Wild Boys'. But it brings me to question whether this fresh ideal of masculinity and it's beauty is more attainable than the previous or is it a matter of diversification in ideals?

Regardless of this argument, seeing the piercings and looped chains from such confirms my desire and plan to further the amount of metal within and throughout my head/headspace.

images: dazeddigital

he is warrior

Sculpturally encapsulated and extended upon the male form, a contrived protection based on the predisposed limitations of their mythical inhabitants and the comfort only this can bring as pursued by their shadows.

The "blank mind and instinctual following" by Spanish designer and artist Manuel Albarran is what has led to this balanced work that presents a tie between art and fashion, a tie that is again becoming popular to the masses. As if a relic dug from beneath the past it features a layering of thin delicacy in brass metal that is raw and stands outside of the ever evolving trend in sculptural design in fashion with it's outlook sighted towards the future.

absence withheld

Stories can be created and shared, all to the eventuated and expected climax and all of which are followed through with a rapid decline that results as a plateau of resolute. Long-winded boredom, unrelated repetition and predictable halts.

I tend to turn away from any preaching on life and it's expected unexpected, but it's all that has been occurring to myself in the past three weeks- the expected unexpected that is.

A holiday became a permanent residency this December when I decided to arrange a one-way ticket to Melbourne for a presumed three-week period. Flash forward and I find myself sharing roofs and shelter with friends and relatives of theirs, searching for establishment in a city where unfamiliarity is constant and culture is paramount. To avoid becoming a narrative of happenings that are not that frivolous or outrageously youthful and exciting, I merely ask for you to wait until I grasp of sense of individual subsistence and singular survival practices.

A documentation of occurrences in places with people has been undertaken and when the rolls are developed and thereafter scanned, imagery will appear of this outdated experience.

Sincerely Yours.

perpetual leisure

PERPETUAL LEISURE from JASON LAST on Vimeo.

Montreal based fashion label, Complex Geometries brings us their spring summer 2010 range, perpetual leisure. This is a label that is purely and simply renowned for their dedication to the aesthetic of swoosh and drama. the clothing seems to present a never ending ability to recreate upon itself, through the manipulation of the the cuts and fabrics. a very simple illusion of forever fluidity and structurally rolling forms.

male embellishment

the male embellishment. once was represented as armor is now the representation of feminisation upon the masculine form. a softer touch to the raw aesthetic of the male; is this stereotypical gender isolation or is this the natural truth?

titled 'We can be heroes', this shoot explores such masculine heroic figures as sailors and soldiers among others who evoke the rebellious spirit of 1950's film stars.

source: dazed digital

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one morning

one morning, the documentation of what once occurred. coffee cup to coffee cup, a day of task procrastination and frivolous youth in the way we like it.