Leica and Hermès come together to bring us the retardedly expensive, but lovely M7 Hermès edition. A leather clad snip at $14000

Haunting landscapes by Ville Varumo

Trailer for Bending space, a documentary about Georges Rousse, a french artist/photographer and his amazing trompe l'oeil. via

Freja Beha Erichsen by Boo George

More Sølve Sundsbø, this time a collaboration with surface to air, a limited edition collection of three dresses, three tops, and three bags. HERE

Big fan of these italian volta classics from voltafootwear. Available at quartershop

Edita Vilkeviciute for Numéro by Sølve Sundsbø. via fashiongonerogue

absolutely loving this shoot by Chris Searl, amazing light, crisp colours, nice.

interesting work from Jenkins

Bio Diversity, charming leafy creations by Christoph Niemann, in the nytimes blog

A place to bury strangers, awesome gig, brutal, relentless wall of sound.

check out IN YOUR HEART from the new album "exploding head" for some new order flavoured brilliance.

Alexa Chung project page up on the swanky new Telegramme site here. also check out Chris and Bobby's lovely work on the new arctic monkeys single. and tasty day of the dead prints

The bittersweet story of an undiscovered talent, Vivian Maier, a street photographer from the 1950s - 1970s. whose unseen work was recently discovered at an auction in Chicago.
she had lived there for 50 years after emigrating from France. Her discovered work includes between 30-40,000 mostly medium format negatives. Born February 1, 1926 and deceased on Tuesday, April 21, 2009.

from the site

I have some information to share about Vivian Maier. I met with two of the people Vivian was a nanny for in the 1950's and early 1960's today. They gave me some information that contradicts what I heard from other sources (this source is accurate). But, all in all, she is still somewhat of a mystery, even to them.

Vivian came here from France in the early 1930's and worked in a sweat shop in New York when she was about 11 or 12. She was not Jewish but a Catholic, or as they said, an anti-Catholic. She was a Socialist, a Feminist, a movie critic, and a tell-it-like-it-is type of person. She learned English by going to theaters, which she loved. She wore a men's jacket, men's shoes and a large hat most of the time. She was constantly taking pictures, which she didn't show anyone.

I have many very interesting stories and peculiar facts about Vivian but, I'll wait to share them in the book. If all goes well, I'll share the specifics shortly.