julia galdo and ophelia chong's work
white hair by julia galdo. her love by ophelia chong.
these girls are both extremely talented. that’s about all I need to say.
behind the scenes lily allen photoshoot
thanks to a new HD camera I’ll be able to share a few behind the scenes videos from some promo shots of a new bumblesea line. I was planning on doing this way before I found the behind the scenes lily allen footage from a photoshoot for an album cover, and it’s exactly what I have in mind. gorgeous..
the upcoming jewelry line is being finished up and I can’t wait to get everything put together finally.
purple reign
I’m diggin’ purple things lately. I turned a pair of purple corduroys into cutoff shorts which I’ve been wearing all the time, I bought a purple laptop yesterday and all these purple things on the internet are screaming my name. I think my obsession with the color green has subsided. purple heels photo by vanilla monkey + purple amethyst crystals photo by cobalt123.
purple heels by vanilla monkey and amethyst crystals by cobalt123 via flickr
daul kim commits suicide, sadness ensues
the hilarious and misanthropic korean model daul kim has passed away. the title “daul kim checks into a motel in nowheresville, USA” given to a recent editorial of daul in russh magazine now seems to be an unfortunate foreshadowing of later events. though I’m sure PETA activists are rejoicing in her demise due to her statements about fur, “I’m usually very miserable, so I reward myself with a fur coat every year. ” as much as I love gisele, cintia dicker, and gemma ward for being adorable I doubt I could stand having a conversation with any of them. after seeing her model diary “sometimes daul kim feels like a stripper” for new york magazine’s the cut fashion section, I think daul seems like the kind of girl I’d want to be BFFs with.
daul kim in her fur coat
how to disappear completely
I need to stop going MIA. did an interview since I’ve been gone, been working on new products and generally ignoring the blog to get bumblesea back on track from my break.
life’s been good, I chopped off all my hair. not looking forward to winter. fashion goodies tomorrow.
awesomely messy new hair
olivia bee and a lace tote by cottonblue
cottonblue lace and linen tote and olivia bee photography
I took a few days to figure out what I’d like to start focusing on with the bumblesea blog. my decision: more fashion designers, accessories, fashion photography, and DIY projects of course. in keeping with my new theme here are two of my favorite flickr photos! a girly and simple lace and linen tote by cottonblue, aka wan, a japanese fabric addict. and a photograph entitled “away” by the very talented and very young olivia bee.
nick knight, the reason I got into photography
I can’t blame it all on nick knight. there’s guy bourdin and juergen teller (whom nick mentored) as well. I got a subscription to W magazine in highschool and these three men gave me something to daydream about in chemistry class: fashion photography. (mr. miller, there was a perfectly good reason for me to write “no” as my answer to the question “find the molarity of this solution” on our chemistry final.)
I can safely say that I’m not jealous of the models that have to work with him, though. they’re constantly jumping, dancing, being thrown around like dolls (I wonder if any of them have been injured?) but they’re being tortured for a good cause, in my opinion.
bumblesea inspiration: fashion photographer nick knight
bumblesea inspiration: nick knight fashion editorial
bumblesea art prints?
I’m pretty handy with photoshop, I’ve been interested in hyperrealism for a few years now. I’m toying around with the idea of selling some prints of hyperrealistic digital paintings/illustrations. all the tests projects I’ve done have been paintings of original photographs so this could be a way for me to get more involved in photography again.
I’ve been pretty busy keeping up with bumblesea and working on bigger projects so this art print idea is reserved for me to work on in the wee hours of the morning when I find it impossible to fall asleep. I’m currently working on an illustration of the hatched necklace (the egg only- I’d go crazy trying to paint the chain), and it’s about half way done. the photoshop file size is already up to nearly 2 gigs. luckily I have a few extra hard drives laying around that can be dedicated to holding all the original files.
bumblesea indie jewelry silver hatched egg necklace
right now I’m focusing on launching the much anticipated (and more affordable!) acrylic line. (I know I’ve been promising the new line forever..) the jewelry studio will be able to cruise on autopilot once it’s launched. I’ll still be on twitter and of course I’ll still update the blog- but it’ll give me more time to spend with friends and family.
dragonfruit + flickr photography by femme de manille
nets photograph by femme de manille via flickr
dragon fruit photograph by femme de manille via flickr
I obsessed over dragon fruit (enough to name a bumblesea necklace after them) after seeing some photos of them on flickr. I got my hopes up about how they’d taste, spent five bucks on a single fruit, and it ended up reminding me of a mediocre kiwi. maybe it wasn’t ripe. what can you do?
at least they’re pretty.
bumblesea vs lightning heart vs honeybears polaroid
bumblesea photoshopped polaroid with honeybears
original polaroid - lightning heart challenge
I finally cracked open photoshop to work on the lightning heart polaroid design challenge (mentioned here) and I also ended up using one of the free les brumes textures (mentioned here) to layer on top of the illustration. I love honeybears.
