DIGITAL TRAVELER

Summer Imprints - NATURAL SCENERY

2011-11-06T14:45:00.000-08:00

recap of summer 2011 wildlife and landscapes

HOT SHOTS!

2011-09-14T14:44:00.000-07:00

New one I made .... Digitaly painted illustration- hand drawn from my sketchbook!

Folkdance

2011-07-16T03:48:00.000-07:00

Traditional dances, songs, music and instruments varies by the cultural characteristics of a particular region in Croatia. Dances usually had some ritual significance on annual customs like marriage. Kolo (weel) is the most common form of folk dance. Today folklore is kept by variety of local and international festival like this one in small town Pirovac.

see my video..

KOLO on Vimeo.

ALICE IN MUSHROOM LAND

2011-07-10T04:20:00.000-07:00

My new sketch! So detailed.....So much going on I had to live it in black&white....

fly me to the red moon....

2011-06-20T04:05:00.000-07:00

Don't worry if you missed it... The next one is expected in 30 years!

BEFORE THE STORM...

2011-05-27T02:37:00.000-07:00

go to:INTRO
model: Bojan

INTRO

2011-05-24T04:37:00.000-07:00

COMING SOON!!!!!

my new photoshoot with Bojan....

PHOTO-SHOOT INTRO...BEFORE THE STORM from Spela88 on Vimeo.
MODEL: BOJAN
PHOTOGRAPHY: ŠPELA O.
HPPT://SPELA-DIGITALTRAVELER.BLOGSPOT.COM

Buried treasures

2011-05-20T14:31:00.000-07:00

Painting inspired by vintage poster/postcard of the idyllic Japan I made 5 years ago!.It's detailed till last millimeter using oil colors and paint brush on 35 cm long old chipboard. First time I used this kind of medium and it took me ages to complete it! It's a bit dirty from laying around but still one of my favourite works.

The Zoo

2011-03-29T05:16:00.000-07:00

Thanks to my friend I was able to smuggle in to Skansen (Stockholm zoo). But I had to pay the Aquarium 100SEK (cir.10 euro). After an hour I only got to photograph snakes... like luck goes it was closing time! Sometimes you gain, sometimes you blow!

BRITT EKLAND

2011-03-24T03:38:00.000-07:00

Just like Eva Aulin, Britt Marie Eklund is another Swedish blond blue eyed actress famous for her role as a Bond girl in The Man with the Golden Gun. Starting her career in low-budget action and sex comedies, this eye candy build her career more or less based on her looks and was more famous for her off-screen life. It's no wonder!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzt6zAj7XUM

Earth, Wind, Water and Fire

2011-03-18T07:20:00.000-07:00

My sketch pencil & digital color

Rest in paradise

2011-03-08T06:58:00.000-08:00

This is Kimba. Friends rottweiler Kimba was put to sleep due to her hart defect.
R.I.P! We shall miss you Kimba!

Pets are gods gifts ...here to teach us how to love and respect..

see video about Oden:

pret-a-porter fall 2011

2011-03-06T14:31:00.000-08:00

Ready to wear fall 2011 trend report

Denim blue! Leather Loves Colours! Printed patterns! Smooth like satin! Tweed(er)!

The true story behind the film

2011-02-28T08:03:00.000-08:00

The true story behind the Golden Globe nominated film "Everlasting Moments".- Maria Larssons eviga ögonblick

Sweden, early 1900s - A working class woman, Maria, wins a Contessa camera in a lottery. Holding on to it, she could never imagined to use it, but sell it when the times get even tougher for her poor family. She raised a family of seven children with her husband Sigfrid Larsson an alcoholic, womanizer and abuser.

She tries to sell her folding camera to a camera dealer in Malmo-photographer Sebastian Petersson. He found a sheet of undeveloped film in the camera and tries to persuade her to keep it and see the beauty behind the picture. 

She pawns it, but still could use it and in return she got chemicals and paper to make pictures on her own-photographing everything from neighbors, children, potted plants and all kinds of pets.

Stooped in time - these moments - joys of life, while living was hard, filled with poverty and suffering. Maybe for that time she was just a working class woman, not important to society, but little  did she and the world knew- that   she captured one bitter-sweet moment in time.

The DRESS-CODE

2011-02-18T08:59:00.000-08:00

If you are a bit like me and hates to bend to any kind of stupid social rules (especially about what to wear!) you got to have at least one clothing that sends a massage! All of us have.... If it’s a Prada bag or Nike shoes... you are sending a message about your status, beliefs, ethnicity, etc...

Here is an example of my obvious and direct statement in my punk days,year 2000:

Have you ever bought something that it was amazing until someone raised a brow or turned around when you passed by? Have you been asked: are you really going out in this?!?

and so... things are ending up in the department so called " special occasions"!

So what is a wardrobe risk?

Where is the line between what is socially accepted and "fashion"?

Can someone make your self esteem go way down low? We would go mad if we asked for everyone’s opinion!!!

My weakness - my glasses. I figured I need couple of them, crazy ass ones! Hey !!! They got to fit my personality! Convincing myself: I know I can pull this off!

Until the words came:

"Honey you need some classical glasses!" Which is nice way to say: Weirdoooooo!!!!!!!

You are wearing your grandfathers glasses!!

I needed long long time to get back to the mentally, I like it - I wear it! We all listen and respect our loved ones opinion, but sometimes they can hit the right spot! We are so vulnerable, especially women - when the society draws a picture what a woman should be! For me there is no lines were we should listen to our selves and follow the rule of "normal". I do what I feel is good! Even small things that are expected: ironed shirt, crystal clean shoes, proper work clothes, etc…

So next time when you see a freak on the street, yap turn around! Imagine yourself careless and not defined by rules! Unique! Yourself!!

Because we got the balls to do it! And you? Do you?

...between the shadows...

2011-01-28T04:55:00.000-08:00

Reminiscence to what it was and to what is coming...

SPRING!

Coming Soon !?!!

Ha! not in Sweden

Music: Florence And The Machine - My Boy Builds Coffins

it can be tiring listening to someone nagging about neverendless winter. i needed some happy colorful pics to cheer me up..

Kids and high fashion?

2011-01-21T05:31:00.000-08:00

I have a hard time imagine myself as a fashion photographer.  Not that I don't want to be one, I always see fashion as something beautiful, but it can be so shallow! As we know today's fashion is a product of mass-media, marketing, etc... Sell, sell, sell, buy, buy, buy...

I always dreamed to be something like a National geographic photographer, a reporter where I could bring to the people not just pretty images, but images with meaning - a message, a story behind it.

Editorials can be very artistic and they can have a deep meaningful massage, but face it... how many of them do you see in your magazines?  While I’m turning the pages it makes me even dumber, ready to spent whole lot of money for some trendy jacket. Yap… don’t worry you are not alone...I buy stuff like crazy too!

  
Torn apart between what’s right/wrong? It’s not only about 

fashion, but things in general... when we know the world is turned upside down, but somehow we still go with the flow...

December’s editorial in Paris Vogue with its legendary editor in chief Carine Roitfeld, raised a huge dust.  It’s a scandal, but only for some people. There was a lot of blogs where they even wrote that it’s cute! Imagine this! Young teenage girls that write all kinds of stupid blogs are so empty headed and brain washed that they think this is fashion! Hurray for the pedophiles?

There are no children here, only puppets.  Do they look happy to you?

             Are you looking forward to your children’s future?

and so it began

2010-12-11T17:09:00.000-08:00

....the winter. Now is the time to sit around and do stuff that you didn't do for a along time. Its waste of time if you spent to much time behind the PC especially during the summer- Swedish short summer. So now is the time...

I made video with my first recordings from this fall and winter, but you can see also last years video-pictures here.

Finally i draw something after a long long time and digitally color it. Which you like the best?

Probably i will spend the rest of the winter hibernating....

video music: The album leaf: Red eye, pic and video in the video: me! :D

The Jezebel of Jazz: Anita O´Day

2010-11-19T10:45:00.000-08:00

... Anita Belle Colton was not only a singing legend, but a trend setter and fashion rebel. She broke through the crowd wearing band jacket and skirt when the ideal of a girl singer was elegant and dressy.

1941 she joined Gene Krupa’s band and recorded her first hit "Let Me Off Uptown". Soon after leaving the bend she was arrested for possession of marijuana. Later, O’Day joined Stan Kenton’s band, but soon rejoined Krupa's band.

While trying to establish her solo career she got arrested again for possession of marijuana and sentenced to 90 days in jail. Heroin was introduced to her by drummer John Poole with whom she played for the next 32 years. O'Day was sentenced to six months in jail, after her release she began to work on her second album. In 1956, she was signed by Verve records and recorded nearly 20 successful albums. She become international star performing on 1958 Newport Jazz Festival in documentary called “Jazz on a Summer Day”.

When she nearly died from an overdose in 1969 she decided to go clean. She returned next year but struggled many years more with an alcohol problem. In 1981 O'Day published a memoir, High Times, Hard Time. She came back in 2006 with a new album "Indestructible!” recorded the previous two years, but passed away same year.

see documentary: Anita O'Day Life of A Jazz Singer

Got snow?

2010-10-22T13:39:00.000-07:00

Free snow! Shovel all you want!

Stockholm have enough for all you crazy people excited about winter!

Let it snow. . . somewhere else!

My pics LAST WINTER;

music : Fever ray-Coconut

______________________

He came back one day and, Told me stories that I now dream of
Open atmosphere, Take me anywhere
Take me there, We have water mouth
Sand in pockets and a strained household, When the night falls
There is fire in the bungalow, Lay back with a big cigar
Lay back we are where we are, Lay back with a big cigar
Lay back this is where we are

________________________

October

2010-10-16T13:32:00.000-07:00

Time to sit and watch the leaves turn. So Swedish of me- trying to catch last sunny days. As much I try not to think about upcoming winter- will be coldest in the last 1000 years! Last year was hell, coldest Swedish winter in the last 100 years! Pure suffer, being used to warmer climate. I don’t mind if there is a lot of snow, we had cold winters too, but -20¤C!?! Plus: Absence of light, endless darkness and depression is slow torture! I'm hopping it won't be soon ...

White and the city

2010-09-12T13:21:00.000-07:00

Fall  2010 was all about the 50s hourglass figure and pencil skirts. Fur  didn't seem to disappear from runways and gold was everywhere. 

My post is about new trend- white, as seen in New York. Fashion week was not defined by a common trend, still between so many different collections few trends manage to emerge out:

Total white out from head to toe(1), splash of orange, red, yellow and blue (2).  

 Minimalistic, simple, clean, warble clothes with  reminiscence of 90s turned elegant and chic. American sports wear have prevailed!

 Beige, camels and pastels remain here from previous season, becoming     earthier, darker, and more organic (3) .   High waist line, fringes and prints are clear signatures of  60s. (4).

Plane whites?!?

From left:

Derek Lam, Alberta Ferretti, Nicole Miller, Organic by John Patrick, Rachel Comey, Steven Alan, Phillip Lim

ACNE, Francesco Scognamiglio, Doo.ri, Celine, Antonio Berardi

Cacharel, Nicholas K, Ports 1961

STREET STYLE

2010-09-01T12:49:00.000-07:00

A last glimpse of summer...

EWA AULIN SWEDISH CANDY

2010-08-15T10:55:00.000-07:00

From miss teen Sweden to the cult film Candy (1968) ...searching for the meaning of life, she ends up in some kind of sexual scenes with men that she meets... Crazy movie even for today,so I`m sure you gonna love the links..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfjjlrtGtQY

BACK TO THE FUTURE....

FLOWER POWER

( .....Floral prints, long dresses, hair flowers..... )

from left:1. ETRO; 2. ANA SUI; 3. ROBERTO CAVALLI; 4. CHANEL; 5. NINA RICCI; 6. DIANE VON FURSTENBERG; 7. STELLA McCARTNEY; 8. ANA SUI; 9. CHANEL; 10. ANA SUI; 11. BLUMARINE

GO GIOMETRIC!

( .....Stripes, zig-zag, plaids..... )

FROM LEFT: 1. Etro, 2.Kenzo, 3. Jaeger London, 4.Louise Gray, 5. Derek Lam, 6. Zac Posen, 7. Chanel, 8. Louise Gray, 9. Carolina Herrera, 10. Kenzo, 11. Carolina Herrera

WATERCOLOR MASTERPIECE

( .......Pastels, mini dresses, pleats, ruffles, circle cut...... )

From the left: 1.CHANEL, 2. STELLA McCARTNEY, 3. FENDI, 4. CRISTOPHER KANE, 5. BURBERRY PRORSUM, 6. GIANFRANCO FERRE, 7. FENDI, 8. DEREK LAM, 9. STELLA McCARTNEY, 10. CHANEL, 11.CRISTOPHER KANE, 12. BURBERRY PRORSUM

Before the knife: JANICE DICKINSON

2010-08-13T12:14:00.000-07:00

In the early 1970s, Dickinson moved to New York City and began to pursue work as a model. Self described "Polish-mutt niggerlips" had hard times making it in a world of fashion where the ideal was the blond girl-next-door. Her "exotic looks" made her a huge success in Europe, and by 1978 she returned to New York City- where she indulge in high class party's with famous people like Andy Warhol.

By the 1980s she appeared on covers of magazines such as Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue and Playboy, and worked with some of fashion's best-known names, including Giorgio Armani, Gianni Versace, Valentino, Azzedine Alaïa, Pino Lancetti, Halston, and Calvin Klein. Appearing on the cover of Elle seven times in a row and the cover of Vogue 37 times . Also been the face of ad campaigns for products like Revlon cosmetics, Alberto VO5, Obao, and Orbit Gum.

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Debbie began modeling in 1975 with Elite Model Management in Paris, joining her sister Janice.Her first fashion show was for Louis Féraud , also was modeling for Versace, Giorgio Armani, Ralph Lauren, Karl Lagerfeld, and Yves Saint Laurent.

And today silicon valley....