Casa Brutale. When You Want To Live Life On The Edge...

Casa Brutale is an amazing minimalist concept created by Greek architects Laertis Antonius Ando Vassiliou and Pantelis Kampouropoulos and when completed, the structure just might sit on a cliff face overlooking the Aegean Sea.
The roof of the yet to be built modernist home is an infinity pool lined thankfully, with reinforced glass. Steel and concrete also feature.
In much abundance.
It's life on the edge...

My True Love Was There...

The smear on the footpath
The blot on the floor
The stain on the table
The scratch on the door
The smudge on the ceiling
The splotch on the chair
The marks that remind me
My true love was there...
Leunig

The Troubled Boy Brando Yelavich. The Epic 600 Day 8,000 Kilometer Walk Around The Entire New Zealand Coastline. And Now The Book, Wildboy...

As many of you who've followed this blog for some time, know that I met young, troubled Brando Yelavich a couple of days into what was going to be a six hundred day, epic eight thousand kilometer walk around the entire New Zealand coastline.
I was there the day he finished, at the same place he started, by the lighthouse at Cape Reinga. He had on that Saturday, 23 August 2014 become the first person to complete that amazing and difficult journey.
And he had become a wonderfully impressive and inspirational young man.
He did ask me to help him write the book
and I'm delighted to say that Nicola McCloy has filled that role wonderfully well.
It's a great read...

Fun Fashions For Foodies...

Gretchen Roehrs is a young artist with a delightful quirky sense of humour and a wonderful talent. She knows that less is more.
Her illustrations combine simplistic image making with elements of food to create fabulous flowing and suggestive pieces of fashion.
Edible fashion...

Obscene Profits...

New Zealand's five major trading banks posted
a combined net profit of $1.69 billion,
yes that's right, one point six nine billion dollars
for the first three months of this year.
There's money in money...

I'm A Homosexual...

"I'm a homosexual and I'm afraid about what my future will be and that people won't like me".
Photographer Brendon Stanton has, for the last five years, been making images featuring
Humans Of New York.
This photo of a beautiful brave and sad young man has got to be one of the most poignant...

The Toybox. A Tiny Contemporary Home Or A Piece Of Mondrian Art On Wheels...

The Toybox Home say the designers, combines modern designed compositional forms with a simple material palette to express a whimsical concept. A home that is a place of peace, simplicity, happiness and recreation.
Piet Mondrian might well approve...