The Most Intriguing Part of The King's Speech...

...was this damn room. I am obsessed with the wall, for one thing, it's almost as if the wall is decaying. As soon as we saw this in the film, the fiancé and I knew we wanted to do this whenever we decide to buy a house. How to reproduce layers and layers of wallpaper and years of distress will be another issue altogether, but I'm sure our collective artistic minds will figure it out.

This room and its décor, at the historical 33 Portland Place, was not built for the film, and (as I'm sure most people know by now) it has been used for various other projects, including the gay porn film Snookered which was released in 2008. I'm pretty sure this is what makes me love this room even more, given my love of all things gay and pornographic.

Wouldn't it have been hysterical if The King's Speech had beat out Alice in Wonderland for art direction at this year's Academy Awards?

Alexander McQueen at The Met

On May 4 the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art will be unveiling its "Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty" exhibit to the public. I have not been to NYC in a while, and it has definitely been too long since I've been to the Met so I'm hoping I will be able to see this!

The collection will be broken up into five separate showcases, each with recurring themes; "The Savage Mind," "Romantic Gothic," "Romantic Nationalism," Romantic Exoticism," and "Romantic Primitivism." I'm so excited!

Images: Haute Macabre

Here's a scale, weigh it out and you'll find easily

More than sufficient doubt that these colors you see

Were picked in advance, by some careful hand

With an absolute concept of beauty.

Christian Louboutin's FW '09/10 campaign couldn't be more ingenious.  Shot by photographer Peter Lippman, they combine Louboutin's collection with fruit, flowers and fine tablewares, reminiscent of the classic still-life paintings of the 18th century.  What could possibly go wrong when you mix art with shoes?  Nothing!  These are stunning.

lyrics: Bright Eyes

Jeremy Geddes

Some paintings by Jeremy Geddes.  I am completely amazed by this man's work, all of these are paintings (yes, paintings!) NOT photographs.  You need to click on them to get the whole effect, otherwise you won't be able to appreciate the detail and time that must have went into these pieces.

Most (if not all) of his work has a downright creepy vibe to them, which I love.  I can't stop scrolling through his site.  I love the color palette he has chosen, there is a definite starkness to the blacks and greys, but a sort of brightness too.  It's rather jarring, which is probably the effect he is going for.  I like how the compositions aren't too complicated, so you get the entire effect of the figures.  It's very solitary and kinda scary. 

For some reason I can't stop thinking about the Janitor from Scrubs when I see this.  It's just as disturbing a piece as the other ones but I almost find something comical about it.  Then again, I don't know how many people have told me what a sick sense of humor I have =/

I love the sinister overtone of this one- the grinning man in the back, how you can only make out his face in the shadows.  Such a simple composition, yet effective.

I wanted to post some of his other work, but they are really wide and I'd rather not distort or crop the image.  So I would just check out his website and scroll through the amazingness!

P.S. You may also want to check out his blog: http://jeremygeddesart.blogspot.com