I came across this cool idea everyone’s got a few spare pairs of shorts laying around, so why dont you try this yourself.
How to: Leopard Print Short Shorts
You will need: Shorts
X-Acto knife Leopard print stencil, you can print one here Fabric pen
1. Print and cut out leopard stencil with an X-Acto knife.
2. Place a piece of cardboard inside your shorts to prevent them from moving/keep them on a flat surface. Trace the outlines of the leopard print with your fabric pen.
3. Fill in each traced leopard spot.
There you are, you have yourself brand new pair of shorts, well at least they look different!
The Tea House, located in the backyard of Archi-Union’s J-office, is constructed from the salvaged parts of the original warehouse’s collapsed roof. The site was extremely constricted with walls on three sides, and with only one side facing towards a nopen space that contains a pool. The space was further restricted by a mature tree.The design tries to embody harmony by integrating enclosure and openness, delightful space and logical construction and other complicated relations.
Concrete casting after the reinforced bar was completed by manual labor and the final physical effect was achieved. The traces of the timber formwork remained imprinted on the poured concrete after construction, with quality defects such as bubbles, adhesive failures and re-bar exposure present due to the manual construction – defects, however, that are obscured by the unique curved shape. Although there are errorsofin the formwork, planning and manual casting the combination of digital design and low-tech manual construction provided a great opportunity to study the possibilities of digital architecture.
Architect Barry Berkus talks in detail about the design process he used for a client. Spontaneous early design process, as featured in the video below, led to creation of the custom contemporary Padaro Residence, in Carpinteria, California; a fantastic composition of clean modern architecture that prominently features large expanses of glass to maximise wide stretching perspective of the beach and gardens.
The architecture rises around a central courtyard, which is screened from the sea breeze, providing a private outdoor space away from the neighbours and passing traffic. The surrounding daylight filled structure is cleverly divided into spacious wings, so that diverse inhabitants may enter and leave independently without disturbing others.
The interior is spacious and bright, yet it remains warm and welcoming thanks to the installation of wood panelling over ceilings, and in the finish of kitchen and bathroom units; the continuity of material successfully conjures a sense of unity throughout the space, and nods to regional traditions.
Appropriate to an informal beach lifestyle, the design incorporates a number of durable, sustainable materials, and the surrounding landscape balances the modernistic approach, with water features celebrating the nearby ocean, and trees to feather out the hard geometric line.
Here are another couple of videos from the same architect:
Happy Easter to all celebrating today. I wanted to share some of my coloured eggs with you. Some were done like my previous post on friday, others were done using rubber bands and stencil tattoos imprinted on eggs which I must say are my favorite this year.
There are many Easter customs in Serbia, the main ones are to go to church at midnight and bring coloured eggs, which were dyed on Good Friday. The first coloured egg is called “ČUVARKUĆA” which means “a housekeeper” and it is kept in the house until the next Easter. Just be careful not to crack the egg – or you could be surprised by the odour.
All the rest hard-boiled dyed eggs are used in a traditional game, known as egg dumping, where each player hits the other players’ egg with their own. The winner is the holder of the last intact egg. The losers get to eat their eggs. This is a common practice in all Christian Orthodox countries on Easter Sunday.
Dyeing Eggs during Easter is a tradition in practically all of the countries in the Balkans on the Friday before Easter Sunday. With Serbian Easter coming up this Sunday, that is what I will be doing tonight trying some creative new ideas I have been blogging about. Common process is shown on the image below. Collecting little leaves sticking it to eggs; and wrapping it with a stocking, egg’s are usually in red or in onion skin giving it brownish colour, once boiled we remove the “masks,” so the leave design stand out.
I will be sharing my finished product with you in this sunday’s, expect many colourful & designer eggs. To check out my last years Easter eggs look at the previous post here.
French fashion model Julia Frauche and American fashion model Ruby Aldridge appear in ‘Les Années Gitanes’ (The Gypsy Years) for Vogue Australia April 2012 as photographed by Kai Z Feng and styled by Naomi Smith.
With fashion editing/styling looks from Dolce & Gabbana, Miu Miu, Missoni, Valentino, Roberto Cavalli and Yves Saint Laurent. Hair by Roberto Di Cuia and make-up by Jessica Nedza. Great editorial for spring from our perspective – lots of color and breezy, aired out silhouettes.
The tree house restaurant, which is located near Warkworth, north of Auckland, has attracted a lot of attention since its opening. Peter Eising and Lucy Gauntlett of Pacific Environment Architects, the commission was a dream come true – being paid to design and build a tree house was the stuff of childhood fantasies. “The easiest part was coming up with the concept,” says Eising. “The trickiest part was to make it hang there.”
“We were inspired by the hanging ‘organic’ form of the butterfly’s chrysalis. This worked well in creating a memorable image during the day as well as a ‘lantern’ effect at night where the skin becomes transparent and the interior glows. It attaches itself to the tree and becomes part of the tree,” says Eising.
The restaurant’s dining room is inside the tree house, while the kitchen and other facilities are located on the ground. Access to the treehouse is provided by an elevated 60 metre tree-top walkway.
A striking pod-shaped structure built ten metres off the ground and claiming to be New Zealand’s only tree house restaurant has become a hit. While the tree house restaurant is open for a limited season – 9 January to 9 February – an extended opening period is under consideration.
Keep on Truckin’ – My favorite 90′s ICON Supermodel Cindy Crawford glams it up at a truck stop look glam with the tenth anniversary cover shoot of French Revue de Modes styled by Marcell Rocha. At 46, supermodel Cindy Crawford definitely ‘keeps on truckin,’ and for good reason. That face and those gams belong to a 20 year old don’t you agree. Shes a machine
