some cool stranger #3

DraculaClothing design contest - win a corset of your own design!

My friends at DraculaClothing are having the most amazing and well thought out contest ever, and so I thought I'd spread the word about it.

What you have to do is to design a corset for them. They are especially looking for steampunk corsets, burlesque corsets and creatively designed corsets.

You need to use this template as a backdrop for your design (click picture for full size):You don't have to figure out how the corset is actually constructed, you just need to draw how it will look like.

Post your design to http://www.facebook.com/photo_search.php?oid=10418434039&view=all and click add photo, they will keep the best pictures in the folder.

If they like your corset enough to make it, you will win the corset you designed!

There will be as many or few winners as there's designs that they like enough to use, and there will also not be an end date for the contest since they are always looking for new designs. A no-stress contest. I like the sound of that.

This is the entry they posted in their blog about the contest: http://draculaclothing.com/blog/design-contest
And this is their shop, if you'd like to take a look at what they're already selling: http://draculaclothing.com/
There's also lots more photos on their Facebook profile: http://www.facebook.com/#!/DraculaClothing?ref=sgm

So, are you going to give it a go?

some cool stranger #2

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FOXYMAN

I'm not into fashion blogs all that much, but I like a lot of the stuff from the blog FOXYMAN (now moved to DI$COUNT). I can't be bothered to read all the text as there's too much of it, but I think it's by a couple of girls who does fashion design stuff.

a good reason to start jogging

More is definitely more.. I mean, the silver ones are cool, but these are more fun:
These are Jeremy Scott shoes by Adidas - it's strange to think that I actually want a pair of Adidas shoes, but maybe it's a sign, and I'm meant to be more sporty?

some cool stranger

I love the tattoo on her back. And her fluffy white hair and her style in general.

JoJo Baby ftw!

"Ftw" is nerd speak, and translates to "for the win". I bet all you nerds already knew that, but I only learned it recently. Anyway. This guy's make-up and outfits are fantastic!

I love this photo of him, it's so crazy yet elegant as well:

I'm so impressed with the third eye in his forehead ,it's gorgeously done and so mad and glittery and basically the best thing ever:

http://www.myspace.com/jojo_chicago

photography by David Hindley

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www.davidhindley.com

gothic fairytale photography by Viona-Art

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This is the singer in Aural Vampire:
I started listening to Aural Vampire after seeing this picture! I love discovering new fun music, I might have to start posting music I like in this blog. I've got a weird taste in music sometimes, so I've been thinking that there's no point in sharing my musical obsessions.. but then this blog attracts weird people so maybe I've got the right audience ;)








My favourite :



How pretty is this outfit?? It's heaven in a bit of clothing.


www.viona-art.com


Ps. Ida and Truls; all these pretty pictures of fashionable people made me think of the two of you;)

pretty pictures of girls in dresses

After all, I'm a painter and not a writer, so this is mostly a look-at-the-pictures type of blog.



If I was a man, I would have been a transvestite.

strange hats by Dreamwoven

I knit a lot at the moment, so I like to look at pictures of knitted stuff. Sadly, most pictures of knitted stuff are really mundane. People knit a lot of boring stuff! Not Dreamwoven, though, she knits crazy, strange stuff:



See more of Dreamwoven:
www.dreamwoven.com
www.dreamwoven.blogspot.com
She's also on Flickr and Twitter and probably elsewhere.

Or buy a Dreamwoven hat:
www.1000markets.com/users/dreamwoven/

human dolls

Miquette posted these massive Blythe heads being worn by models in her Strawberry Anarchy blog,and they were so freaky and weird that I had to re-post them.

I think it's interesting to see models with doll heads, as models are kind of like dolls anyway. They're meant to be moving mannequins showing off an image, a style. Seeing them wearing doll heads just exaggerates this unreality. An unreality more perfect than the real, an ideal. I'm reading a book at the moment(Uro by Finn Skårderud -it's in Norwegian) where a psychiatrist says we don't talk about personality any longer, we talk about image. Surface.


Blythe dolls are so cute, like little perfect and fashionable people. They have no soul, but it doesn't matter as long as they have image.

I'm sure it doesn't come as a big surprise that my favourite doll is the goth doll.. :





Here's a video of the human dolls in action. It's weird to see them move:







There's more pictures of the models wearing the doll heads and info on how the doll heads were made and worn in Miquette's blog Strawberry Anarchy.



The doll heads are made by Pink Cactus Props.

life in pink

I discovered this lady on Flick, and it was love at first sight when I discovered her photostream. I have a slight suspicion that she *might* like pink. As I've said before, more is more, don't let anyone trick you into thinking otherwise. I can't get enough of people who go to extremes.









I think I love my art supplies more than I love anything I could make with them.. so I obviously also love seeing other people's studios work spaces and crafty stuff:


She makes sock creatures, they come in more colours than pink, like this goth sock creature:

But I guess it doesn't come as a big shock that she makes her sock creatures in pink as well:

You can find her sock creatures along with other sugary cute stuff she makes in her Etsy shop: kittypinkstars.etsy.com
And you can also find her on Flickr, blogger, myspace and facebook.