As you might know, I’m taking a kind of mini-break from the blog – but not disappearing completely. For the next little while, instead of full interviews with artists, I will be sharing a bunch of beautiful craft, surface design and photography, themed around songs with colour in the title.
I hope you enjoy my selections.
Julie x
Purple Haze : Jimi Hendrix
There’s no question – Jimi Hendrix is a legend. Despite his brief career (dying in 1970 at 27 from barbituate overdose), he is still considered one of the greatest guitarists of all time.
In fashion and surface design, the late 60s was a time of luminous and psychedelic colour and pattern. Glorious paisleys and flower power abounded (with a big nod to the influence of ethnic cultures… and hallucinogenic drugs? perhaps; Purple Haze is supposed to be about LSD, but who would know?).
This clip is of Hendrix when he headlined at Woodstock in 1969, so the picture and sound quality is a bit chunky, but you get the idea.
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jennaca davies – paper bracelet
{via jennaca.com}
kociara – underwater
{Kociara – via Spoonflower}
maud traon – ring – silver, glass
{via maudtraon.net}
Roberto Porto – milky way over tajinaste
{via 500px}
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