Happythought printables: Day of the Dead
Mexico’s Day of the Dead, or Dia de los Muertos, is distinctly different from Halloween. It’s a festive, up-beat, family-centred celebration of friends and relatives no longer with us, full of rich and colourful imagery and also paper craft traditions and that’s what inspired paper printables experts Happythought to put together this party kit. The kit includes party invites and envelopes, coffin favor boxes, cupcake toppers and wrappers, sugar skull masks and bow ties, paper
Sonica, Glasgow first sonic arts ‘festival’ might be both flattered and bemused by Grazia magazine’s ‘brilliant but bonkers’ tag. But it does serves as a warning to those who are fairly traditional when it comes to visual art and sound. The brilliant bit is the radical nature and the theatricality of the performances. Lithuanian composer Juste Janulyte presents the Scottish premiere of her work Sandglasses (8 & 9 Nov, Tramway),
Odd sort Coco Chanel. For some the epitome of the self made, independent working woman who released women from the tyranny of the corset, for others an amoral, rabidly anti semitic social aspirant prepared to dance with the devil, or at least the Nazis, to achieve her ends. What nobody disputes however is her absolute genius for design and the enduring influence she had on her contemporaries and everyone after.
Watch the clip below of Lisa Marie Presley performing a track from her latest album Storm and Grace on American Idol recently and it’s clear this is the genuine version of the ersatz look and sound Lana del Rey’s Svengalis are trying to peddle. Sultry, grown up lady music – excellent stuff. The whole album, which Presley worked on with T Bone Burnett and Richard Hawley, is good and seems
The great John Hegley will be reading from his new collection Peace, Love and Potatoes this evening at the Scottish Poetry Library in Crichton’s Close Edinburgh. Tickets are £7. Hegley has long been a favourite with us at Avocado Sweet and this latest collection has all the whip smart-yet-vulnerable, simple-but-meaningful charm of his previous work: An Alien Address Do you have bendy buses or are you jet propelled? Do you
The people behind Basecamp Hotel in Lake Takoe California have grasped the idea that great style doesn’t cost much. Inspired use of design, colour and concept has resulted in a witty yet highly functional hotel which prefectly suits its lakeside, outdoorsy environment. Of course it has impeccable green credentials but it also offers deluxe bedding, high speed wi fi, flat screen tvs and XBoxes. There is orginal art on the
How gorgeous is the bright and breezy work of illustrator Heather Gatley? She achieves this wonderfully airy yet dynamic effect with a mix of handmade and digital processes, using pencil, ink, collage and paint. Among her impressive client list – which includes Louis Vuitton, The Times, Conde Nast, the BBC and Virgin – are Penguin Books who commissioned the beautiful book jackets (above and below) for a series of Paul
Fancy a Foxy Blonde or a Dark Dunter this weekend? These are just two of the 60 beers, ales and ciders up for tasting at the Dunfermline Beer Festival, one of Fife’s liveliest and most enjoyable events. The Festival, which also features live bands and a beer fuelled disco, is hosted jointly by the local Rotary and rugby club at the Glen Pavilion. Local beers on offer this year include
We met under a shower of bird notes. Fifty years passed, love’s moment in a world in servitude to time. She was young; I kissed with my eyes closed and opened them on her wrinkles. ‘Come,’ said death, choosing her as his partner for the last dance. And she, Who in life had done everything with a bird’s grace, opened her bill now for the shedding of one sigh no
Both destructive and restorative, the work of Korean born artist Jukhee Kwon sees books shredded and manipulated until they become something whole and monumental – they sometimes even become trees. Her work is inspired by artist John Latham who also used ideas of disintegration and the book, once changing the form of Greenberg’s Art and Culture by getting his students to chew the pages into a liquid. Jukhee Kwon studied Fine Art
